The first table below looks at the demand for BPR skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BPR 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 Manchester 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
Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing BPR 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.429% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.604% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £338 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £400
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £18.75 -
% change year-on-year
+17.33% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
662 817 676
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 70.95% 63.24% 64.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 407 306
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 35 38
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.03 £12.01 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £77.50 £34.50 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
BPR
North West

BPR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester BPR Jobs Demand Trend

BPR
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester BPR Daily Rate Trend

BPR
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing BPR 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 BPR.

1 6 (85.71%) Business Analysis
2 4 (57.14%) Retail
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (57.14%) B2B
3 2 (28.57%) WAN
3 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Firewall
4 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
4 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 17799
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) IBM
4 1 (14.29%) Sun
4 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (14.29%) Perl
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
4 1 (14.29%) IIS
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) Windows
4 1 (14.29%) HPUX
4 1 (14.29%) Solaris
4 1 (14.29%) Linux
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports

BPR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
General
1 4 (57.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Business Analyst
1 6 (85.71%) Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Architect
2 4 (57.14%) Functional Architect
2 4 (57.14%) Functional Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Business Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Network Support
4 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) HPUX
1 1 (14.29%) Solaris
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Business Analysis
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (57.14%) B2B
3 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Perl
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 17799
1 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) IBM
1 1 (14.29%) Sun
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle