The first table below looks at the demand for Performance Improvement 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 Performance Improvement over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the London region.

Note that 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Improvement
Rank 358 383 414
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +31
Contract jobs citing Performance Improvement 19 32 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.088% 0.119% 0.090%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.117% 0.165% 0.127%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 18
Average daily rate £625 £430 £458
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.34% -6.01%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £378 £358 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £655 £710 £615
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £308
% change year-on-year
- +30.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £12.62 - £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16194 19350 22109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.77% 71.83% 71.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11076 12690 14542
Average daily rate £450 £450 £480
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 340 350
Average hourly rate £30.00 £26.23 £27.23
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.39% -3.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £102.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Performance Improvement
England

Performance Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Performance Improvement across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

London Performance Improvement Jobs Demand Trend

Performance Improvement
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Performance Improvement across the London region.

London Performance Improvement Daily Rate Trend

Performance Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Performance Improvement across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Performance Improvement Daily Rate Histogram

Performance Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Performance Improvement across the London region.

London Performance Improvement Hourly Rate Trend

Performance Improvement
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Improvement within the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank 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 London +17 6 £650 +75.67%
Brentford - 1 - -
Performance Improvement
England

Performance Improvement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Performance Improvement 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 Performance Improvement.

1 12 (41.38%) Finance
2 9 (31.03%) ITIL
3 8 (27.59%) Service Management
3 8 (27.59%) Degree
4 7 (24.14%) Retail
4 7 (24.14%) Analytics
4 7 (24.14%) Telecoms
5 6 (20.69%) Change Management
6 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (17.24%) Service Delivery
6 5 (17.24%) Project Management
6 5 (17.24%) Windows
6 5 (17.24%) CRM
6 5 (17.24%) Data Transformation
6 5 (17.24%) Business Transformation
6 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (17.24%) Customer Insight
6 5 (17.24%) FMCG
6 5 (17.24%) Legal
6 5 (17.24%) Data Management
6 5 (17.24%) Banking
6 5 (17.24%) Data Protection
7 4 (13.79%) DV Cleared
7 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
8 3 (10.34%) Performance Management
8 3 (10.34%) ITIL V3
8 3 (10.34%) vCloud
8 3 (10.34%) Migration
9 2 (6.897%) Shell Script
9 2 (6.897%) Microsoft Certification

Performance Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Performance Improvement 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 Performance Improvement. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (6.897%) WSH
1 2 (6.897%) Web Services
2 1 (3.448%) .NET
2 1 (3.448%) ASP
2 1 (3.448%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.448%) CloudStack
1 1 (3.448%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.448%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (3.448%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (3.448%) MS Office
1 1 (3.448%) MS Excel
1 1 (3.448%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.897%) Firewall
2 1 (3.448%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.448%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (3.448%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.448%) Data Mining
General
1 12 (41.38%) Finance
2 7 (24.14%) Retail
2 7 (24.14%) Telecoms
3 5 (17.24%) Legal
3 5 (17.24%) Banking
4 2 (6.897%) Games
4 2 (6.897%) Back Office
5 1 (3.448%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (10.34%) Windows Administrator
1 3 (10.34%) Windows Systems Administrator
1 3 (10.34%) Administrator
1 3 (10.34%) Developer
1 3 (10.34%) Consultant
1 3 (10.34%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (6.897%) Senior Developer
2 2 (6.897%) Project Manager
2 2 (6.897%) Calypso Developer
2 2 (6.897%) VMware Consultant
3 1 (3.448%) Customer Insight Manager
3 1 (3.448%) Head of Operations
3 1 (3.448%) Portfolio Manager
3 1 (3.448%) Excel Developer
3 1 (3.448%) Excel VBA Developer
3 1 (3.448%) Chief Information Officer
3 1 (3.448%) Data Manager
3 1 (3.448%) Risk Manager
3 1 (3.448%) VBA Developer
3 1 (3.448%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) FMCG
2 2 (6.897%) Reference Data
2 2 (6.897%) IaaS
2 2 (6.897%) PaaS
3 1 (3.448%) Hedge funds
3 1 (3.448%) Open Source
3 1 (3.448%) Informatics
3 1 (3.448%) CMDB
3 1 (3.448%) Exotic Derivative
3 1 (3.448%) Derivative
3 1 (3.448%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.448%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Windows
2 2 (6.897%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) ITIL
2 8 (27.59%) Service Management
3 7 (24.14%) Analytics
4 6 (20.69%) Change Management
5 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (17.24%) Service Delivery
5 5 (17.24%) Project Management
5 5 (17.24%) CRM
5 5 (17.24%) Data Transformation
5 5 (17.24%) Business Transformation
5 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (17.24%) Customer Insight
5 5 (17.24%) Data Management
5 5 (17.24%) Data Protection
6 3 (10.34%) Performance Management
6 3 (10.34%) ITIL V3
6 3 (10.34%) Migration
7 2 (6.897%) Workflow
7 2 (6.897%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (6.897%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.897%) Shell Script
1 2 (6.897%) SQL
1 2 (6.897%) VBScript
1 2 (6.897%) Bash shell
1 2 (6.897%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.448%) VBA
2 1 (3.448%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) DV Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.897%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.897%) PMP
3 2 (6.897%) PMI Certification
3 2 (6.897%) MCITP
4 1 (3.448%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.448%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) vCloud
2 2 (6.897%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (6.897%) vSphere
2 2 (6.897%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.448%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (3.448%) HP Operations Orchestration
1 1 (3.448%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 2 (6.897%) VMware
1 2 (6.897%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.897%) Murex
1 2 (6.897%) Calypso
1 2 (6.897%) Dell
1 2 (6.897%) Infoblox
2 1 (3.448%) Business Objects
2 1 (3.448%) SAP
2 1 (3.448%) Citrix
2 1 (3.448%) Cisco
2 1 (3.448%) HP
2 1 (3.448%) Minitab
2 1 (3.448%) BMC
2 1 (3.448%) Manugistics