The first table below looks at the demand for Logistics skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Logistics over the 3 months to 20 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 Milton Keynes 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Logistics
Rank 47 58 48
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -10
Contract jobs citing Logistics 7 7 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 1.349% 0.975% 1.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.867% 1.468% 1.724%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 2
Average daily rate £438 £330 £409
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.57% -19.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £293 £330
10% offered a daily rate of more than £608 £415 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £425
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £35.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.40 £32.13 £12.52
% change year-on-year
+13.28% +156.62%
All Processes & Methodologies
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
375 477 348
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 72.25% 66.43% 58.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 219 156
Average daily rate £345 £325 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.15% -4.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £210 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £413 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 28 34
Average hourly rate £18.45 £15.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.96% -40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.58 £10.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £17.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Logistics
Buckinghamshire

Logistics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes Logistics Jobs Demand Trend

Logistics
Daily Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes Logistics Daily Rate Trend

Logistics
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Logistics across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Milton Keynes Logistics Daily Rate Histogram

Logistics
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Logistics across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Logistics Hourly Rate Trend

Logistics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Logistics 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 Logistics.

1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 5 (25.00%) SAP
3 5 (25.00%) SQL
3 5 (25.00%) VBA
4 3 (15.00%) Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (10.00%) SAP BW
5 2 (10.00%) NetWeaver
5 2 (10.00%) SAP BI
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle
5 2 (10.00%) Sybase
5 2 (10.00%) Business Objects
5 2 (10.00%) MS Office
5 2 (10.00%) CRM
5 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (10.00%) ERP
5 2 (10.00%) ETL
5 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (10.00%) SLA
5 2 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (10.00%) SAP Certification
5 2 (10.00%) Supplier Management
5 2 (10.00%) Project Planning
5 2 (10.00%) Migration
5 2 (10.00%) Replication
5 2 (10.00%) E-Learning

Logistics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Logistics 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 Logistics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.000%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) SAP BPC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (10.00%) SAP BW
1 2 (10.00%) SAP BI
1 2 (10.00%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) SAP Data Services
1 2 (10.00%) SAP HANA
1 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.000%) Data Mining
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Spanish Language
3 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.000%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.000%) Retail
4 1 (5.000%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Process Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Development Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Training Manager
4 2 (10.00%) SAP BI Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) Designer
5 1 (5.000%) Buyer
5 1 (5.000%) Process Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Procurement Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Project Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Project Support Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Deployment Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Development Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Test Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.000%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (10.00%) Replication
1 2 (10.00%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.000%) Windows
1 1 (5.000%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (10.00%) CRM
1 2 (10.00%) ERP
1 2 (10.00%) ETL
1 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (10.00%) Migration
1 2 (10.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (10.00%) Data Management
1 2 (10.00%) Supplier Management
1 2 (10.00%) Project Planning
1 2 (10.00%) SAP Implementation
1 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (5.000%) Capacity Management
2 1 (5.000%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (5.000%) Test Scripting
2 1 (5.000%) Data Migration
2 1 (5.000%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (5.000%) Business Development
2 1 (5.000%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (5.000%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
1 5 (25.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) SAP
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) Sybase
3 2 (10.00%) Business Objects
4 1 (5.000%) i2
4 1 (5.000%) JDA
4 1 (5.000%) Lotus
4 1 (5.000%) RedPrairie