Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for E-business skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited E-business over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the London region.

 Electronic Business (eBusiness)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank292277328
Rank change year-on-year
Down-15Up+51
Matching contract IT job ads712299
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London0.274 %0.133 %0.270 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category0.446 %0.235 %0.514 %
Daily rates quoted36542
Average daily rate£525£450£355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66 %+26.76 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£338£296£302
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£490£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£320£410£400
% change year-on-year
-21.95 %+2.500 %
Hourly rates quoted020
Average hourly rate-£11.50-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£40.00£30.00£12.50
% change year-on-year
+33.33 %+140.00 %
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
15919935419257
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London61.46 %56.67 %52.55 %
Daily rates quoted875038898026
Average daily rate£450£410£438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.750 %-6.280 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£288£250£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£575£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£360£375
% change year-on-year
-2.770 %-4.000 %
Hourly rates quoted287293718
Average hourly rate£30.00£26.00£27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.38 %-5.450 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£13.00£15.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£44.00£46.76£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£27.50£30.00
% change year-on-year
-10.90 %-8.330 %
E-business EnglandE-business
England

Daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

E-business
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing E-business across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

London E-business Demand Trend

E-business
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing E-business across the London region.

London E-business Daily Rate Trend

E-business
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing E-business across the London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

London E-business Daily Rate Histogram

E-business
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing E-business across the London region.

London E-business Hourly Rate Trend

E-business
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-business within the London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of LondonDown-4529£600+29.72 %
E-business EnglandE-business
England

E-business
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing E-business also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited E-business.

167 (63.21 %)Oracle
235 (33.02 %)UNIX
235 (33.02 %)Finance
328 (26.42 %)SQL
427 (25.47 %)E-Commerce
525 (23.58 %)Java
525 (23.58 %)Oracle EBS R12
619 (17.92 %)SQL Server
619 (17.92 %)Perl
619 (17.92 %)PL/SQL
619 (17.92 %)Electronic Trading
717 (16.04 %)JUnit
717 (16.04 %)Business Intelligence
717 (16.04 %)Swing
717 (16.04 %)Fixed Income
717 (16.04 %)TDD
717 (16.04 %)Banking
816 (15.09 %)Workflow
816 (15.09 %)Oracle Workflow
816 (15.09 %)Oracle BI EE
914 (13.21 %)TIBCO
914 (13.21 %)Rendezvous
914 (13.21 %)Oracle iProcurement
1013 (12.26 %)IBM
1112 (11.32 %)Shell Script
1211 (10.38 %)Oracle Forms
1211 (10.38 %)Oracle Reports
1310 (9.434 %)SAP
1310 (9.434 %)HP
1310 (9.434 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)

E-business
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing E-business also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited E-business. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
117 (16.04 %)Swing
25 (4.717 %)WebSphere
33 (2.830 %)XML
33 (2.830 %)J2EE
42 (1.887 %)XSLT
42 (1.887 %)Adobe Flex
51 (0.943 %)Spring
51 (0.943 %)Hibernate
51 (0.943 %).NET
51 (0.943 %)COM
51 (0.943 %)WebCenter
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
116 (15.09 %)Oracle Workflow
214 (13.21 %)Rendezvous
37 (6.604 %)MQSeries
46 (5.660 %)Apache
54 (3.774 %)IIS
63 (2.830 %)SharePoint
72 (1.887 %)SharePoint Server 2007
81 (0.943 %)Oracle Application Server
81 (0.943 %)ESB
81 (0.943 %)CMS
81 (0.943 %)WebLogic
81 (0.943 %)Lotus Domino
London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12 (1.887 %)MS Excel
21 (0.943 %)MS Office
21 (0.943 %)MS Visio
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
125 (23.58 %)Oracle EBS R12
214 (13.21 %)Oracle iProcurement
37 (6.604 %)Oracle Applications
46 (5.660 %)PeopleSoft Financials
55 (4.717 %)Oracle 11i
63 (2.830 %)Siebel Analytics
63 (2.830 %)Oracle EBS
72 (1.887 %)SAP R/3
72 (1.887 %)SAP HR
72 (1.887 %)ProfileStage
72 (1.887 %)Oracle ERP
81 (0.943 %)SAP Oil and Gas
81 (0.943 %)RMDS
81 (0.943 %)Oracle Financials
81 (0.943 %)Oracle iStore
London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
19 (8.491 %)TCP/IP
26 (5.660 %)LDAP
26 (5.660 %)SSL
35 (4.717 %)SSH
35 (4.717 %)SAN
44 (3.774 %)Internet
52 (1.887 %)Firewall
52 (1.887 %)DNS
61 (0.943 %)Extranet
61 (0.943 %)Intranet
61 (0.943 %)LAN
61 (0.943 %)SMTP
61 (0.943 %)Ethernet
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
119 (17.92 %)SQL Server
216 (15.09 %)Oracle BI EE
311 (10.38 %)Oracle Reports
45 (4.717 %)ETL
45 (4.717 %)Oracle Discoverer
54 (3.774 %)Datawarehouse
54 (3.774 %)SQL Server 2005
63 (2.830 %)SQL Server 2000
63 (2.830 %)DataStage
63 (2.830 %)Oracle 10g
63 (2.830 %)RDBMS
72 (1.887 %)Oracle OLAP
72 (1.887 %)Oracle 8/8i
72 (1.887 %)OLAP
72 (1.887 %)QualityStage
72 (1.887 %)Oracle 11g
81 (0.943 %)Data Cleansing
81 (0.943 %)BusinessObjects
81 (0.943 %)Crystal Reports
81 (0.943 %)TOAD
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
117 (16.04 %)JUnit
211 (10.38 %)Oracle Forms
32 (1.887 %)Visual Studio
32 (1.887 %)VSS/SourceSafe
41 (0.943 %)Maven
41 (0.943 %)ProC
41 (0.943 %)TestDirector
41 (0.943 %)Ant
London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
135 (33.02 %)Finance
217 (16.04 %)Banking
38 (7.547 %)Investment Banking
46 (5.660 %)Front Office
55 (4.717 %)General Ledger
63 (2.830 %)Retail
63 (2.830 %)Government
72 (1.887 %)Back Office
72 (1.887 %)Retail Banking
72 (1.887 %)Corporate Banking
72 (1.887 %)Billing
81 (0.943 %)Insurance
81 (0.943 %)Pensions
81 (0.943 %)Wholesale Banking
81 (0.943 %)Construction
81 (0.943 %)Financial Institution
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
139 (36.79 %)Developer
221 (19.81 %)Analyst
319 (17.92 %)Java Developer
418 (16.98 %)Architect
418 (16.98 %)Senior Developer
517 (16.04 %)Senior Java Developer
612 (11.32 %)Business Analyst
711 (10.38 %)Oracle Developer
810 (9.434 %)Consultant
99 (8.491 %)Business Developer
108 (7.547 %)Oracle Consultant
116 (5.660 %)Functional Consultant
116 (5.660 %)Oracle Functional Consultant
116 (5.660 %)UNIX Engineer
116 (5.660 %)Oracle Analyst
125 (4.717 %)E-Business Consultant
125 (4.717 %)Business Consultant
125 (4.717 %)Project Manager
125 (4.717 %)Systems Engineer
134 (3.774 %)Applications Developer
London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
117 (16.04 %)Fixed Income
210 (9.434 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
37 (6.604 %)HACMP
45 (4.717 %)PKI
53 (2.830 %)Clustering
62 (1.887 %)Data Extraction
62 (1.887 %)Credit Risk
62 (1.887 %)Derivative
71 (0.943 %)Data Conversion
71 (0.943 %)N-Tier
71 (0.943 %)Visualisation
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
135 (33.02 %)UNIX
29 (8.491 %)Solaris
38 (7.547 %)Linux
47 (6.604 %)Red Hat Linux
47 (6.604 %)AIX
54 (3.774 %)Windows
62 (1.887 %)Windows Server 2003
71 (0.943 %)Windows Server 2008
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
127 (25.47 %)E-Commerce
219 (17.92 %)Electronic Trading
317 (16.04 %)Business Intelligence
317 (16.04 %)TDD
416 (15.09 %)Workflow
58 (7.547 %)Project Management
58 (7.547 %)Business Analysis
67 (6.604 %)Performance Management
67 (6.604 %)Migration
75 (4.717 %)E-Procurement
75 (4.717 %)ERP
75 (4.717 %)SOA
84 (3.774 %)BPEL
93 (2.830 %)Knowledge Management
93 (2.830 %)Risk Management
93 (2.830 %)Change Management
93 (2.830 %)PRINCE2
93 (2.830 %)CRM
102 (1.887 %)Data Modelling
102 (1.887 %)Stakeholder Management
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
128 (26.42 %)SQL
225 (23.58 %)Java
319 (17.92 %)Perl
319 (17.92 %)PL/SQL
412 (11.32 %)Shell Script
52 (1.887 %)JavaScript
52 (1.887 %)C#
52 (1.887 %)XPath
61 (0.943 %)C
61 (0.943 %)T-SQL
61 (0.943 %)VB.NET
London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11 (0.943 %)SC Cleared
11 (0.943 %)Security Cleared
11 (0.943 %)Citrix Certification
11 (0.943 %)Microsoft Certification
11 (0.943 %)PRINCE2 Certification
11 (0.943 %)MCSE
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (0.943 %)COBIT
11 (0.943 %)QA
11 (0.943 %)Basel II
London IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14 (3.774 %)VMware Infrastructure
23 (2.830 %)VMware ESX
31 (0.943 %)Oracle RAC
31 (0.943 %)Active Directory
London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
14 (3.774 %)Tivoli
14 (3.774 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
23 (2.830 %)YUM
32 (1.887 %)WSUS
41 (0.943 %)ARCserve
41 (0.943 %)McAfee ePO
London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
167 (63.21 %)Oracle
214 (13.21 %)TIBCO
313 (12.26 %)IBM
410 (9.434 %)SAP
410 (9.434 %)HP
58 (7.547 %)Hyperion
67 (6.604 %)Red Hat
67 (6.604 %)NetIQ
67 (6.604 %)Siebel
76 (5.660 %)PeopleSoft
76 (5.660 %)Agresso
85 (4.717 %)CODA
85 (4.717 %)Microsoft
94 (3.774 %)Informatica
94 (3.774 %)VMware
103 (2.830 %)Salesforce.com
103 (2.830 %)Reuters
103 (2.830 %)Sun
112 (1.887 %)Cognos
121 (0.943 %)Onyx