Benchmarking Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Benchmarking 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 Benchmarking over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Benchmarking
Rank 216 230 245
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +15
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 8 9 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.103% 0.089% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.151% 0.136% 0.120%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
Average daily rate £250 £240 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £245 £283
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -13.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £16.31 -
% change year-on-year
+160.53% -
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South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 5291 6603 6683
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 67.89% 65.08% 64.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2748 3170 3050
Average daily rate £375 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £514
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 323 365
Average hourly rate £26.98 £26.25 £34.41
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.76% -23.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.15 £13.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Benchmarking
England

Benchmarking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Benchmarking Jobs Demand Trend

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Benchmarking Daily Rate Trend

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Benchmarking across the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East Benchmarking Daily Rate Histogram

Benchmarking
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Benchmarking Hourly Rate Trend

Benchmarking
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Benchmarking within the South East region over the 3 months to 24 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
Oxfordshire - 4 £250 -
Kent - 2 £350 -
Berkshire +13 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £163 -
Benchmarking
England

Benchmarking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Benchmarking 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 Benchmarking.

1 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) Firewall
2 4 (22.22%) MySQL
2 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (22.22%) Broadband
2 4 (22.22%) VPN
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco
2 4 (22.22%) CCNA
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (22.22%) Test Scripting
2 4 (22.22%) Windows 7
3 3 (16.67%) DbUnit
3 3 (16.67%) Infobright
3 3 (16.67%) ITIL
3 3 (16.67%) Ant
3 3 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 3 (16.67%) Change Management
3 3 (16.67%) Wireshark
3 3 (16.67%) Mathematics
4 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 2 (11.11%) Law
4 2 (11.11%) Statistical Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Korn
4 2 (11.11%) Clustering
4 2 (11.11%) AWK
4 2 (11.11%) NetBackup
4 2 (11.11%) Business Continuity

Benchmarking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Benchmarking 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 Benchmarking. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.556%) COM
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Spreadsheet
1 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
1 1 (5.556%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
1 4 (22.22%) Broadband
1 4 (22.22%) VPN
2 3 (16.67%) Wireshark
3 2 (11.11%) SAN
4 1 (5.556%) HTTPS
4 1 (5.556%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 4 (22.22%) MySQL
2 4 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.11%) VLDB
3 2 (11.11%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) DbUnit
1 3 (16.67%) Ant
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Law
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.556%) Local Government
3 1 (5.556%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Architect
1 4 (22.22%) Database Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) UNIX Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Commercial Manager
4 1 (5.556%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Report Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Test Manager
4 1 (5.556%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Procurement Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
2 2 (11.11%) Clustering
3 1 (5.556%) Economics
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
1 4 (22.22%) Windows 7
2 2 (11.11%) UNIX
2 2 (11.11%) HPUX
2 2 (11.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) Test Scripting
2 3 (16.67%) ITIL
2 3 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 3 (16.67%) Change Management
3 2 (11.11%) Statistical Analysis
3 2 (11.11%) Business Continuity
3 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (11.11%) Validation
3 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2
3 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (5.556%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (5.556%) Performance Management
4 1 (5.556%) Performance Improvement
4 1 (5.556%) Test Strategy
4 1 (5.556%) Financial Analysis
4 1 (5.556%) Project Management
4 1 (5.556%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.556%) Scrum
4 1 (5.556%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Korn
1 2 (11.11%) AWK
1 2 (11.11%) Perl
1 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
1 2 (11.11%) Bourne shell
2 1 (5.556%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) CCNA
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (11.11%) Sun Certification
4 1 (5.556%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.556%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (5.556%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (5.556%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 2 (11.11%) Veritas File System
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) NetBackup
1 2 (11.11%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Cisco
2 3 (16.67%) Infobright
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) BMC
3 2 (11.11%) Veritas
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Sun
4 1 (5.556%) Twitter
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