North West E-business Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Electronic Business (eBusiness) skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited E-business over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Electronic Business (eBusiness)
Location Belfast Berkshire Blackpool Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Colchester County Antrim Croydon Derbyshire East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Midlands Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Shrewsbury Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Suffolk Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	120	128
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	10	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	0.530 %	0.876 %
Daily rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£342
Average daily rate	£384	£367
% change on same period last year	+4.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£444	£391
UK excluding London average daily rate	£464	£349
% change on same period last year	+33.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£60.00
Average hourly rate	-	£62.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.00	£39.70
% change on same period last year	-59.69 %
Processes & Methodologies North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1888	1940
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.637 %	1.949 %
Daily rates quoted	482	483
Average minimum daily rate	£354	£332
Average daily rate	£376	£350
% change on same period last year	+7.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£398	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£372
% change on same period last year	+1.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	185	151
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.85	£26.93
Average hourly rate	£26.35	£29.10
% change on same period last year	-9.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.84	£31.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.30	£30.27
% change on same period last year	-3.20 %
E-business England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing E-business across the North West region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 North West region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Merseyside	+5	4	£363	-
Cheshire	+1	2	-	-
Manchester	-3	2	£413	-
Lancashire	-	1	£400	-

E-business England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

1 10 (55.56 %) Oracle 2 6 (33.33 %) SQL 3 5 (27.78 %) Oracle Applications 4 4 (22.22 %) SQL Server 2005 4 4 (22.22 %) Performance Management 4 4 (22.22 %) Finance 4 4 (22.22 %) NHS 4 4 (22.22 %) .NET 4 4 (22.22 %) SQL Server 4 4 (22.22 %) ASP 4 4 (22.22 %) ASP.NET 4 4 (22.22 %) Solaris 5 3 (16.67 %) E-Commerce 5 3 (16.67 %) EAI 5 3 (16.67 %) SOA

5 3 (16.67 %) HP 5 3 (16.67 %) Retail 6 2 (11.11 %) NetBackup 6 2 (11.11 %) Oracle Fusion 6 2 (11.11 %) System Testing 6 2 (11.11 %) Time Management 6 2 (11.11 %) PL/SQL 6 2 (11.11 %) Logistics 6 2 (11.11 %) VERITAS 6 2 (11.11 %) ETL 6 2 (11.11 %) Oracle Financials 6 2 (11.11 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 2 (11.11 %) Oracle 9i 6 2 (11.11 %) XML 6 2 (11.11 %) UNIX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

Application Development 1 4 (22.22 %) .NET 1 4 (22.22 %) ASP 1 4 (22.22 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (11.11 %) XML 2 2 (11.11 %) Oracle Fusion 3 1 (5.556 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 1 (5.556 %) WebLogic
Business Applications 1 5 (27.78 %) Oracle Applications 2 2 (11.11 %) Oracle Financials 3 1 (5.556 %) Oracle 11i 3 1 (5.556 %) Oracle HRMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (22.22 %) SQL Server 1 4 (22.22 %) SQL Server 2005 2 2 (11.11 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 2 (11.11 %) Oracle 9i 2 2 (11.11 %) ETL 3 1 (5.556 %) Oracle Discoverer
General 1 4 (22.22 %) Finance 2 3 (16.67 %) Retail 3 1 (5.556 %) Government	Job Titles 1 6 (33.33 %) Developer 2 5 (27.78 %) DBA 2 5 (27.78 %) Oracle DBA 3 3 (16.67 %) Project Manager 4 2 (11.11 %) Senior Consultant 4 2 (11.11 %) Consultant 4 2 (11.11 %) Analyst 4 2 (11.11 %) E-Commerce Project Manager 4 2 (11.11 %) Senior DBA 4 2 (11.11 %) E-Commerce Manager 4 2 (11.11 %) Oracle Developer 4 2 (11.11 %) SQL Developer 4 2 (11.11 %) Senior Oracle DBA 5 1 (5.556 %) Oracle Consultant 5 1 (5.556 %) Architect 5 1 (5.556 %) .NET Developer 5 1 (5.556 %) Oracle Applications DBA 5 1 (5.556 %) Functional Analyst 5 1 (5.556 %) E-Business Analyst 5 1 (5.556 %) Lead Test Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 4 (22.22 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 4 (22.22 %) Solaris 2 2 (11.11 %) UNIX 2 2 (11.11 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (22.22 %) Performance Management 2 3 (16.67 %) E-Commerce 2 3 (16.67 %) EAI 2 3 (16.67 %) SOA 3 2 (11.11 %) Logistics 3 2 (11.11 %) System Testing 3 2 (11.11 %) Time Management 4 1 (5.556 %) CRM 4 1 (5.556 %) Systems Analysis 4 1 (5.556 %) Business Analysis 4 1 (5.556 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (5.556 %) Test Scripting 4 1 (5.556 %) Project Management 4 1 (5.556 %) Zachman Framework 4 1 (5.556 %) TOGAF	Programming Languages 1 6 (33.33 %) SQL 2 2 (11.11 %) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (5.556 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 2 (11.11 %) NetBackup
Vendors 1 10 (55.56 %) Oracle 2 3 (16.67 %) HP 3 2 (11.11 %) VERITAS