The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Improvement skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Nottingham 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Continual Improvement
Rank 30 30 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 5 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 1.645% 0.448% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.242% 0.610% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £330 £400
% change year-on-year
+13.63% -17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.66 £19.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year
-33.36% -33.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
223 164 160
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 73.36% 73.54% 65.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 78 75
Average daily rate £350 £323 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.52% -7.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £220 £232
10% offered a daily rate of more than £478 £478 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 6
Average hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+114.28% -46.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £8.50 £10.04
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £94.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Continuous Improvement
Nottinghamshire

Continuous Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham Continuous Improvement Daily Rate Trend

Continuous Improvement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum
2 2 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (25.00%) jQuery
2 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) CruiseControl
3 1 (12.50%) Subversion
3 1 (12.50%) Supplier Management
3 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) Service Management
3 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
3 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (12.50%) MVS
3 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
3 1 (12.50%) Internet
3 1 (12.50%) MS Project
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL

Continuous Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 2 (25.00%) jQuery
1 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Project
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
1 1 (12.50%) FTP
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (12.50%) CruiseControl
2 1 (12.50%) Subversion
2 1 (12.50%) StyleCop
2 1 (12.50%) MbUnit
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Test Leader
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Portfolio Manager
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Commercial Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Service Transition Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (12.50%) PMO Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) MVS
1 1 (12.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Scrum
1 2 (25.00%) Project Management
1 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (12.50%) Supplier Management
2 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Service Management
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
2 1 (12.50%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint