The first table below looks at the demand for AWD skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AWD 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 Business Applications category for the South East 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
DST Systems Automated Work Distributor (AWD)
Rank 221 234 236
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +2
Contract jobs citing AWD 8 12 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.101% 0.116% 0.058%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.290% 1.303% 0.670%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 4
Average daily rate £225 £400 £369
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-43.75% +8.47%
UK excluding London average daily rate £235 £400 £369
% change year-on-year
-41.25% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Business Applications
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
620 921 895
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 7.826% 8.904% 8.720%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 479 371
Average daily rate £435 £445 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.24% +11.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £549
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £433 £420
% change year-on-year
-1.73% +2.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 14
Average hourly rate £23.00 £16.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+39.39% -17.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £8.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £62.50 £53.00 £35.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+68.00% -10.00%
AWD
England

AWD
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing AWD across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

South East AWD Jobs Demand Trend

AWD
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East AWD Daily Rate Trend

AWD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East AWD Hourly Rate Trend

AWD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWD within the South East 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
Buckinghamshire - 8 £225 -
AWD
England

AWD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing AWD 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 AWD.

1 10 (100.00%) IBM
2 9 (90.00%) Kofax
3 8 (80.00%) Linux
4 7 (70.00%) AIX
5 5 (50.00%) FileNet
6 3 (30.00%) Finance
6 3 (30.00%) Oracle
6 3 (30.00%) DB2
7 2 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 2 (20.00%) Content Management
8 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
8 1 (10.00%) ESB
8 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (10.00%) DataPower
8 1 (10.00%) iSeries
8 1 (10.00%) vSphere
8 1 (10.00%) Software Architecture
8 1 (10.00%) High Availability
8 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (10.00%) Remedy
8 1 (10.00%) Project Management
8 1 (10.00%) Business Objects
8 1 (10.00%) IIS
8 1 (10.00%) UNIX
8 1 (10.00%) Windows
8 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
8 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
8 1 (10.00%) Ab Initio
8 1 (10.00%) VMware

AWD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing AWD 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 AWD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 5 (50.00%) FileNet
2 1 (10.00%) ESB
2 1 (10.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (10.00%) MQSeries
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) WebSphere MQ
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) DB2
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) WinRunner
1 1 (10.00%) TestDirector
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Administrator
2 6 (60.00%) Content Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) DataPower
1 1 (10.00%) iSeries
1 1 (10.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (10.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 7 (70.00%) AIX
3 1 (10.00%) UNIX
3 1 (10.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) OS/400
3 1 (10.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Content Management
2 1 (10.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (10.00%) High Availability
2 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (10.00%) Project Management
2 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (10.00%) SOA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (10.00%) vSphere
1 1 (10.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) IBM
2 9 (90.00%) Kofax
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) Remedy
4 1 (10.00%) Business Objects
4 1 (10.00%) Ab Initio
4 1 (10.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) BMC
4 1 (10.00%) NetApp