The first table below looks at the demand for Workflow 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 Workflow 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Workflow
Rank 62 59 50
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -9
Contract jobs citing Workflow 11 22 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.250% 1.911% 2.767%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.868% 2.918% 4.118%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 15
Average daily rate £400 £235 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+70.21% -37.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £113 £304
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £347 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £18.25
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -9.58%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
589 754 680
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 66.93% 65.51% 67.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 288 313
Average daily rate £413 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.48% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £235 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 15
Average hourly rate £30.00 £14.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+106.89% -27.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.50 £24.80 £24.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Workflow
Berkshire

Workflow
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Workflow Jobs Demand Trend

Workflow
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Workflow Daily Rate Trend

Workflow
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Workflow Hourly Rate Trend

Workflow
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Workflow 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 Workflow.

1 17 (51.52%) .NET
2 16 (48.48%) Windows
3 15 (45.45%) Web Services
4 13 (39.39%) SQL Server
5 10 (30.30%) IIS
5 10 (30.30%) C#
5 10 (30.30%) SharePoint
6 9 (27.27%) Microsoft
6 9 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
6 9 (27.27%) SQL
6 9 (27.27%) XML
7 8 (24.24%) ITIL
7 8 (24.24%) SAP
7 8 (24.24%) Finance
7 8 (24.24%) .NET Framework
7 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
8 7 (21.21%) Content Management
8 7 (21.21%) Migration
8 7 (21.21%) Visual Studio
8 7 (21.21%) MS Excel
8 7 (21.21%) J2EE
9 6 (18.18%) Middleware
9 6 (18.18%) IBM
9 6 (18.18%) LAN
9 6 (18.18%) HTTP
9 6 (18.18%) TCP/IP
9 6 (18.18%) Oracle
9 6 (18.18%) Tomcat
9 6 (18.18%) Apache
9 6 (18.18%) VMware

Workflow
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Workflow 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 Workflow. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (51.52%) .NET
2 15 (45.45%) Web Services
3 9 (27.27%) XML
4 8 (24.24%) .NET Framework
5 7 (21.21%) J2EE
6 6 (18.18%) Middleware
6 6 (18.18%) WCF
7 5 (15.15%) SAP ALE
7 5 (15.15%) WebSphere
7 5 (15.15%) SAP Smart Forms
7 5 (15.15%) BAPI
8 4 (12.12%) HTML
8 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET
8 4 (12.12%) Web Dynpro
8 4 (12.12%) Silverlight
9 3 (9.091%) Windows SharePoint Services
10 2 (6.061%) WF
Application Platforms
1 10 (30.30%) IIS
1 10 (30.30%) SharePoint
2 6 (18.18%) Tomcat
2 6 (18.18%) Apache
2 6 (18.18%) IBM HTTP Server
2 6 (18.18%) SharePoint Server
3 5 (15.15%) WebLogic
4 4 (12.12%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 4 (12.12%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (12.12%) BizTalk Server
4 4 (12.12%) Windows Azure
5 3 (9.091%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (3.030%) FileNet
Applications
1 7 (21.21%) MS Excel
2 4 (12.12%) MS Office
3 1 (3.030%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (12.12%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (9.091%) SAP HR
3 1 (3.030%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (3.030%) SAP PM
3 1 (3.030%) SAP MM
3 1 (3.030%) Agresso
3 1 (3.030%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.18%) LAN
1 6 (18.18%) HTTP
1 6 (18.18%) TCP/IP
2 4 (12.12%) SAN
3 3 (9.091%) LDAP
4 2 (6.061%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (39.39%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.12%) IDOL
2 4 (12.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (12.12%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (12.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (9.091%) OLAP
3 3 (9.091%) DTS
4 1 (3.030%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (24.24%) Finance
2 3 (9.091%) Banking
2 3 (9.091%) Retail
3 2 (6.061%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.030%) Retail Banking
4 1 (3.030%) Marketing
4 1 (3.030%) Electronics
4 1 (3.030%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (45.45%) Consultant
2 7 (21.21%) Developer
3 5 (15.15%) SharePoint Developer
3 5 (15.15%) SAP Consultant
4 4 (12.12%) ABAP Consultant
4 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Consultant
4 4 (12.12%) CRM Consultant
4 4 (12.12%) WebSphere Consultant
4 4 (12.12%) Microsoft CRM Consultant
5 3 (9.091%) Analyst
6 2 (6.061%) Administrator
6 2 (6.061%) Architect
6 2 (6.061%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.061%) Applications Support
7 1 (3.030%) SharePoint Architect
7 1 (3.030%) C# Application Developer
7 1 (3.030%) Software Manager
7 1 (3.030%) Applications Consultant
7 1 (3.030%) Functional Consultant
7 1 (3.030%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Clustering
2 1 (3.030%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (48.48%) Windows
2 9 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (18.18%) Windows 7
3 6 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (24.24%) ITIL
2 7 (21.21%) Content Management
2 7 (21.21%) Migration
3 5 (15.15%) Data Migration
4 4 (12.12%) EAI
4 4 (12.12%) Project Management
4 4 (12.12%) CRM
5 3 (9.091%) Web Development
5 3 (9.091%) Document Management
6 2 (6.061%) Service Delivery
6 2 (6.061%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (6.061%) Problem Management
6 2 (6.061%) Product Management
7 1 (3.030%) Use Case
7 1 (3.030%) Fault Management
7 1 (3.030%) Time Management
7 1 (3.030%) ITIL V3
7 1 (3.030%) Mobile Application Development
7 1 (3.030%) Information Management
7 1 (3.030%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) C#
2 9 (27.27%) SQL
3 5 (15.15%) ABAP
4 3 (9.091%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.030%) VB.NET
5 1 (3.030%) VBA
5 1 (3.030%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.030%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.030%) Degree
3 1 (3.030%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.091%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Foglight
1 4 (12.12%) HP SIM
2 1 (3.030%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 8 (24.24%) SAP
3 6 (18.18%) IBM
3 6 (18.18%) Oracle
3 6 (18.18%) VMware
4 5 (15.15%) JBoss
5 4 (12.12%) HP
5 4 (12.12%) Meridio
6 1 (3.030%) Syclo
6 1 (3.030%) ReadSoft
6 1 (3.030%) Remedy
6 1 (3.030%) Adobe
6 1 (3.030%) Sybase