The first table below looks at the demand for Business Transformation skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Business Transformation over the 3 months to 21 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 Reading 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Transformation
Rank 71 78 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs citing Business Transformation 2 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.234% 0.271% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.348% 0.433% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £413 £425 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £464 £438
% change year-on-year
-8.46% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £27.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+37.45% -17.91%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
574 693 681
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 67.06% 62.71% 66.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 267 304
Average daily rate £390 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.40% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 16
Average hourly rate £16.00 £14.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -47.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £11.00 £13.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £23.80 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Business Transformation
Berkshire

Business Transformation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Business Transformation Jobs Demand Trend

Business Transformation
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Business Transformation Daily Rate Trend

Business Transformation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Business Transformation 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 Business Transformation.

1 3 (60.00%) CDMA
1 3 (60.00%) GPRS
1 3 (60.00%) GSM
1 3 (60.00%) UMTS
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
1 3 (60.00%) BSS
1 3 (60.00%) Release Management
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (40.00%) Stress Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (40.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) B2B
2 2 (40.00%) J2EE
2 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) PMP
3 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (20.00%) BMC
3 1 (20.00%) Netcool
3 1 (20.00%) Remedy

Business Transformation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Business Transformation 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 Business Transformation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) J2EE
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS PowerPoint
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) CDMA
1 3 (60.00%) GPRS
1 3 (60.00%) GSM
1 3 (60.00%) UMTS
1 3 (60.00%) BSS
General
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Solutions Architect
1 3 (60.00%) OSS Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Release Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Release Management Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (40.00%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (60.00%) Release Management
2 2 (40.00%) Stress Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) B2B
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Netcool
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) BMC
2 1 (20.00%) Remedy
2 1 (20.00%) OPNET
2 1 (20.00%) Cramer
2 1 (20.00%) NetCracker
2 1 (20.00%) Greenplum