South East B2B Contracts

This section looks at the demand for B2B (Business-to-Business) skills within the South East region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited B2B over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

B2B (Business-to-Business)
Location Aylesbury Basingstoke Berkshire Bournemouth Bracknell Bromley Buckinghamshire Cheshire City of London Coventry Derby Derbyshire Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Newbury North West Northamptonshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland South East South West Staffordshire Staines Stockport Surrey Sussex Swindon UK Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	215	266
Rank change on same period last year	+51
Matching contract IT job ads	51	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.067 %	0.034 %
As % of the category below	0.703 %	0.370 %
Daily rates quoted	10	12
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£364
Average daily rate	£355	£382
% change on same period last year	-7.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£399
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£479
% change on same period last year	-18.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£101.67
Average hourly rate	-	£102.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£103.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£10.00	£71.21
% change on same period last year	-85.95 %
Processes & Methodologies South East
Matching contract IT job ads	7255	8637
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	9.567 %	9.162 %
Daily rates quoted	2031	2360
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£354
Average daily rate	£379	£374
% change on same period last year	+1.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	737	794
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.44	£30.99
Average hourly rate	£30.23	£32.68
% change on same period last year	-7.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.01	£34.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
B2B 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.

B2B
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing B2B across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

B2B
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing B2B across the South East region.

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing B2B across the South East region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

B2B
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing B2B across the South East region.

B2B
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing B2B within the South East region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Berkshire	+47	22	£398	+15.60 %
Hampshire	+23	8	£278	-7.50 %
Surrey	-2	7	£275	-34.52 %
Buckinghamshire	+11	6	£325	-48.00 %
Kent	-	2	-	-
East Sussex	-	1	£400	-
Sussex	+13	1	-	-
Oxfordshire	-	1	-	-
Middlesex	-	1	-	-

B2B England

B2B
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing B2B 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 B2B.

1 17 (22.37 %) B2C 2 16 (21.05 %) .NET 2 16 (21.05 %) Telecoms 3 12 (15.79 %) E-Commerce 4 11 (14.47 %) C# 4 11 (14.47 %) XML 4 11 (14.47 %) Finance 5 9 (11.84 %) ASP.NET 5 9 (11.84 %) JavaScript 5 9 (11.84 %) SQL 5 9 (11.84 %) SQL Server 5 9 (11.84 %) EDI 6 8 (10.53 %) CSS 6 8 (10.53 %) Oracle 6 8 (10.53 %) Project Management

6 8 (10.53 %) Marketing 7 7 (9.211 %) Internet 7 7 (9.211 %) Stakeholder Management 7 7 (9.211 %) MySQL 7 7 (9.211 %) PHP 7 7 (9.211 %) WebServices 8 6 (7.895 %) ERP 8 6 (7.895 %) Baan 8 6 (7.895 %) VB.NET 8 6 (7.895 %) EDIFACT 8 6 (7.895 %) Movex 8 6 (7.895 %) AS400 8 6 (7.895 %) Logistics 8 6 (7.895 %) Degree 9 5 (6.579 %) SQL Server 2005

B2B
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing B2B 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 B2B. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 16 (21.05 %) .NET 2 11 (14.47 %) XML 3 9 (11.84 %) ASP.NET 3 9 (11.84 %) EDI 4 8 (10.53 %) CSS 5 7 (9.211 %) WebServices 6 6 (7.895 %) EDIFACT 7 5 (6.579 %) J2EE 8 4 (5.263 %) SOAP 8 4 (5.263 %) HTML 8 4 (5.263 %) Middleware 9 3 (3.947 %) Spring 9 3 (3.947 %) AJAX 9 3 (3.947 %) Hibernate 9 3 (3.947 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 2 (2.632 %) XHTML 10 2 (2.632 %) ASP 11 1 (1.316 %) XSD 11 1 (1.316 %) UDDI 11 1 (1.316 %) Ruby on Rails	Application Platforms 1 3 (3.947 %) IIS 1 3 (3.947 %) CICS 1 3 (3.947 %) Gentran 2 2 (2.632 %) CMS 2 2 (2.632 %) BizTalk Server 2 2 (2.632 %) Apache 3 1 (1.316 %) SAS 3 1 (1.316 %) ColdFusion 3 1 (1.316 %) WebLogic Portal 3 1 (1.316 %) ArcGIS 3 1 (1.316 %) WebLogic 3 1 (1.316 %) Oracle Application Server 3 1 (1.316 %) ESB
Applications 1 5 (6.579 %) MS Project 2 3 (3.947 %) MS Office 3 2 (2.632 %) SPSS 3 2 (2.632 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 6 (7.895 %) Movex 2 1 (1.316 %) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking 1 7 (9.211 %) Internet 2 4 (5.263 %) DSL 2 4 (5.263 %) BSS 2 4 (5.263 %) Nortel Meridian 2 4 (5.263 %) VoIP 3 3 (3.947 %) Broadband 3 3 (3.947 %) FTP 3 3 (3.947 %) Intranet 3 3 (3.947 %) Wireless 4 2 (2.632 %) Extranet 4 2 (2.632 %) HTTP 5 1 (1.316 %) SSL 5 1 (1.316 %) CTI 5 1 (1.316 %) LAN 5 1 (1.316 %) PBX 5 1 (1.316 %) WAN 5 1 (1.316 %) IP Telephony	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (11.84 %) SQL Server 2 7 (9.211 %) MySQL 3 5 (6.579 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (2.632 %) GIS 5 1 (1.316 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (1.316 %) Base SAS
Development Applications 1 3 (3.947 %) JUnit 2 1 (1.316 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (1.316 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (1.316 %) Flash 2 1 (1.316 %) WinRunner 2 1 (1.316 %) QuickTest Pro 2 1 (1.316 %) LoadRunner	General 1 16 (21.05 %) Telecoms 2 11 (14.47 %) Finance 3 8 (10.53 %) Marketing 4 5 (6.579 %) Banking 5 4 (5.263 %) Multimedia 6 3 (3.947 %) Government 7 2 (2.632 %) Publishing 7 2 (2.632 %) Retail 7 2 (2.632 %) Pensions 7 2 (2.632 %) Telemarketing 8 1 (1.316 %) International Banking 8 1 (1.316 %) Financial Institution 8 1 (1.316 %) Investment Banking 8 1 (1.316 %) Education
Job Titles 1 24 (31.58 %) Developer 2 14 (18.42 %) Analyst 3 10 (13.16 %) Project Manager 4 9 (11.84 %) .NET Developer 5 7 (9.211 %) Product Manager 6 6 (7.895 %) EDI Analyst 6 6 (7.895 %) PHP Developer 7 5 (6.579 %) Business Analyst 8 4 (5.263 %) Web Developer 8 4 (5.263 %) Marketing Manager 9 3 (3.947 %) Marketing Campaign Manager 9 3 (3.947 %) Team Leader 9 3 (3.947 %) C# Developer 10 2 (2.632 %) Solutions Designer 10 2 (2.632 %) Network Manager 10 2 (2.632 %) VB.NET Developer 10 2 (2.632 %) ASP.NET Developer 10 2 (2.632 %) Senior Developer 10 2 (2.632 %) Architect 10 2 (2.632 %) Senior .NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (7.895 %) AS400 2 3 (3.947 %) Replication 2 3 (3.947 %) French Language 2 3 (3.947 %) German Language 2 3 (3.947 %) Mainframe 3 2 (2.632 %) Clustering 3 2 (2.632 %) Derivative 3 2 (2.632 %) Computer Science 3 2 (2.632 %) Handset 3 2 (2.632 %) Client/Server 3 2 (2.632 %) N-Tier 4 1 (1.316 %) Blackberry 4 1 (1.316 %) Blog 4 1 (1.316 %) Social Network
Operating Systems 1 3 (3.947 %) MVS 2 2 (2.632 %) Unix 2 2 (2.632 %) Windows 2 2 (2.632 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (22.37 %) B2C 2 12 (15.79 %) E-Commerce 3 8 (10.53 %) Project Management 4 7 (9.211 %) Stakeholder Management 5 6 (7.895 %) ERP 5 6 (7.895 %) Logistics 6 5 (6.579 %) CRM 7 4 (5.263 %) Project Planning 8 3 (3.947 %) Technical Architecture 8 3 (3.947 %) Direct Marketing 8 3 (3.947 %) Migration 8 3 (3.947 %) PRINCE2 9 2 (2.632 %) UML 9 2 (2.632 %) OOP 9 2 (2.632 %) OO 9 2 (2.632 %) SOA 9 2 (2.632 %) GAP Analysis 9 2 (2.632 %) Search Engine Marketing 9 2 (2.632 %) Email Marketing 9 2 (2.632 %) Internet Marketing
Programming Languages 1 11 (14.47 %) C# 2 9 (11.84 %) JavaScript 2 9 (11.84 %) SQL 3 7 (9.211 %) PHP 4 6 (7.895 %) VB.NET 5 3 (3.947 %) JCL 6 2 (2.632 %) PHP5 7 1 (1.316 %) Ruby 7 1 (1.316 %) VBScript 7 1 (1.316 %) VB 7 1 (1.316 %) Java	Qualifications 1 6 (7.895 %) Degree 2 1 (1.316 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (1.316 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.947 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (1.316 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (1.316 %) MSMQ
Vendors 1 8 (10.53 %) Oracle 2 6 (7.895 %) Baan 3 5 (6.579 %) Cisco 3 5 (6.579 %) Microsoft 4 4 (5.263 %) Nortel 4 4 (5.263 %) Lucent 5 2 (2.632 %) SAP 5 2 (2.632 %) Google 6 1 (1.316 %) SEEBURGER 6 1 (1.316 %) Mapinfo 6 1 (1.316 %) RedDot