Continuous Improvement Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Improvement skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 3 months to 22 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 North West 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Continual Improvement
Rank 95 112 101
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -11
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 28 18 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 1.189% 0.567% 0.830%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.683% 0.917% 1.272%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 17
Average daily rate £325 £208 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+56.62% -20.19%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £114 £83
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £302 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £394
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -17.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
Average hourly rate - £14.00 £53.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -73.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.01 £25.00 £31.15
% change year-on-year
-19.98% -19.74%
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1664 1963 1966
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 70.69% 61.81% 65.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 818 1011 1024
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 87 97
Average hourly rate £21.00 £18.25 £20.30
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.06% -10.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 £13.28 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £53.92 £37.50 £37.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Continuous Improvement Jobs Demand Trend

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Continuous Improvement Daily Rate Trend

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement across the North West region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

North West Continuous Improvement Daily Rate Histogram

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Continuous Improvement Hourly Rate Trend

Continuous Improvement
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the North West region over the 3 months to 22 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
Manchester +18 15 £320 -1.53%
Cheshire +4 7 - -
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Continuous 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 Continuous Improvement.

1 21 (40.38%) Project Management
2 20 (38.46%) Finance
3 12 (23.08%) Management Information System
3 12 (23.08%) ITIL
3 12 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 10 (19.23%) PRINCE2
4 10 (19.23%) Data Management
5 8 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (15.38%) Service Management
5 8 (15.38%) Windows
5 8 (15.38%) SQL Server
5 8 (15.38%) Data Modelling
5 8 (15.38%) Business Analysis
6 7 (13.46%) Degree
6 7 (13.46%) Oracle
6 7 (13.46%) Java
6 7 (13.46%) SQL
6 7 (13.46%) SAP
6 7 (13.46%) Change Management
6 7 (13.46%) Risk Management
7 6 (11.54%) Data Security
7 6 (11.54%) MS Excel
7 6 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (11.54%) Data Integration
7 6 (11.54%) Master Data Management
8 5 (9.615%) SQL Server 2008
8 5 (9.615%) SQL Server 2005
8 5 (9.615%) Banking
8 5 (9.615%) Retail
8 5 (9.615%) SLA

Continuous Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Continuous 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 Continuous Improvement. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (7.692%) .NET
1 4 (7.692%) ASP.NET
2 3 (5.769%) WCF
2 3 (5.769%) WPF
2 3 (5.769%) .NET Framework
2 3 (5.769%) Java EE
2 3 (5.769%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 3 (5.769%) WebSphere
2 3 (5.769%) SAP Basis
3 2 (3.846%) CSS
3 2 (3.846%) jQuery
4 1 (1.923%) HTML5
4 1 (1.923%) OpenRasta
4 1 (1.923%) Castle Windsor
4 1 (1.923%) DWR
4 1 (1.923%) RESTful
4 1 (1.923%) Stripes Framework
4 1 (1.923%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (1.923%) Ajax
4 1 (1.923%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 5 (9.615%) MS Exchange
1 5 (9.615%) SharePoint
2 4 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (5.769%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (5.769%) NetWeaver
4 2 (3.846%) SAS
5 1 (1.923%) Orchard CMS
5 1 (1.923%) MS Project Server
5 1 (1.923%) Apache
5 1 (1.923%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (1.923%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (11.54%) MS Excel
2 5 (9.615%) MS Visio
2 5 (9.615%) MS Project
3 2 (3.846%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.769%) Maximo
2 1 (1.923%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.692%) SAN
2 3 (5.769%) LAN
2 3 (5.769%) WAN
3 1 (1.923%) HTTP
3 1 (1.923%) VPN
3 1 (1.923%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.615%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (9.615%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (5.769%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (3.846%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.846%) DTS
4 2 (3.846%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (3.846%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.846%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.923%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.923%) RavenDB
5 1 (1.923%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.923%) EDMS
5 1 (1.923%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.923%) DB2
5 1 (1.923%) GIS
Development Applications
1 3 (5.769%) Visual Studio
2 2 (3.846%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (1.923%) MSBuild
3 1 (1.923%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.923%) Git (software)
3 1 (1.923%) JUnit
General
1 20 (38.46%) Finance
2 5 (9.615%) Banking
2 5 (9.615%) Retail
3 4 (7.692%) Retail Banking
4 3 (5.769%) Legal
5 2 (3.846%) Advertising
6 1 (1.923%) German Language
6 1 (1.923%) Welsh Language
6 1 (1.923%) Local Government
6 1 (1.923%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (13.46%) Analyst
2 6 (11.54%) Solutions Architect
2 6 (11.54%) Architect
2 6 (11.54%) Project Manager
3 4 (7.692%) Integration Architect
3 4 (7.692%) Information Architect
4 3 (5.769%) Software Engineer
4 3 (5.769%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (3.846%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (3.846%) Change Analyst
5 2 (3.846%) Developer
5 2 (3.846%) IT Manager
5 2 (3.846%) Business Analyst
5 2 (3.846%) Senior Developer
5 2 (3.846%) Database Specialist
5 2 (3.846%) SAP Manager
5 2 (3.846%) Release Manager
5 2 (3.846%) Supply Chain Manager
5 2 (3.846%) SAP Release Manager
6 1 (1.923%) Virtualisation Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Management Information System
2 6 (11.54%) Data Integration
3 3 (5.769%) NHS
3 3 (5.769%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.846%) Replication
4 2 (3.846%) Statistics
4 2 (3.846%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.923%) iPad
5 1 (1.923%) PMI
5 1 (1.923%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.923%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.38%) Windows
2 4 (7.692%) UNIX
2 4 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (5.769%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (5.769%) Solaris
4 1 (1.923%) Windows Vista
4 1 (1.923%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (40.38%) Project Management
2 12 (23.08%) ITIL
3 10 (19.23%) PRINCE2
3 10 (19.23%) Data Management
4 8 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (15.38%) Service Management
4 8 (15.38%) Data Modelling
4 8 (15.38%) Business Analysis
5 7 (13.46%) Change Management
5 7 (13.46%) Risk Management
6 6 (11.54%) Data Security
6 6 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (11.54%) Master Data Management
7 5 (9.615%) CRM
7 5 (9.615%) Scrum
8 4 (7.692%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (7.692%) Service Delivery
8 4 (7.692%) Asset Management
8 4 (7.692%) Data Protection
9 3 (5.769%) Feature Driven Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.46%) Java
1 7 (13.46%) SQL
2 3 (5.769%) ABAP
2 3 (5.769%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.769%) C#
3 2 (3.846%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.923%) CoffeeScript
4 1 (1.923%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (13.46%) Degree
2 4 (7.692%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (3.846%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (1.923%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.615%) SLA
2 4 (7.692%) COBIT
3 2 (3.846%) GMP
3 2 (3.846%) QA
4 1 (1.923%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.923%) BS7799
System Software
1 5 (9.615%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.846%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.923%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (7.692%) SCOM
2 1 (1.923%) SCCM
2 1 (1.923%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 12 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.46%) Oracle
2 7 (13.46%) SAP
3 3 (5.769%) IBM
4 2 (3.846%) VMware
4 2 (3.846%) Citrix
5 1 (1.923%) Avaya
5 1 (1.923%) Dell
5 1 (1.923%) EMC
5 1 (1.923%) Sun
5 1 (1.923%) Cisco
5 1 (1.923%) JBoss
5 1 (1.923%) Sybase
5 1 (1.923%) Business Objects
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