Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for E-business 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 E-business over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the South East region.

 Electronic Business (eBusiness)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank171174201
Rank change year-on-year
Up+3Up+27
Matching contract IT job ads211666
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East0.282 %0.214 %0.439 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category0.494 %0.428 %0.938 %
Daily rates quoted81023
Average daily rate£338£400£424
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.62 %-5.660 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£298£333
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£415£610£678
UK excluding London average daily rate£320£410£400
% change year-on-year
-21.95 %+2.500 %
Hourly rates quoted103
Average hourly rate£40.00-£12.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£40.00£30.00£12.50
% change year-on-year
+33.33 %+140.00 %
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
425237387034
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East57.00 %49.97 %46.83 %
Daily rates quoted158810651812
Average daily rate£360£375£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.000 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£245£245
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£510£513
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£360£375
% change year-on-year
-2.770 %-4.000 %
Hourly rates quoted289311610
Average hourly rate£28.50£30.00£32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.000 %-7.690 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.00£12.50£14.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£45.00£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£27.50£30.00
% change year-on-year
-10.90 %-8.330 %
E-business EnglandE-business
England

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.

E-business
Demand Trend

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

South East E-business Demand Trend

E-business
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East E-business Daily Rate Trend

E-business
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing E-business across the South East region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

South East E-business Daily Rate Histogram

E-business
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East E-business Hourly Rate Trend

E-business
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-business within the South East region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
BuckinghamshireDown-16--
SurreyDown-105£400+45.45 %
OxfordshireNew entry-3--
West SussexNew entry-2£250-
Home CountiesNew entry-2--
BerkshireUp+61--
MiddlesexNew entry-1£350-
SussexNew entry-1--
E-business EnglandE-business
England

E-business
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing E-business 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 E-business.

118 (50.00 %)Oracle
213 (36.11 %)Finance
38 (22.22 %)WebSphere
47 (19.44 %)E-Commerce
56 (16.67 %)C
56 (16.67 %)Java
56 (16.67 %)Education
65 (13.89 %)Insurance
65 (13.89 %)UNIX
65 (13.89 %)Windows
65 (13.89 %)IBM
74 (11.11 %)Microsoft
74 (11.11 %)SAN
74 (11.11 %)PRINCE2
74 (11.11 %).NET
74 (11.11 %)ESB
74 (11.11 %)Oracle RAC
74 (11.11 %)WebSphere Message Broker
74 (11.11 %)Financial Institution
83 (8.333 %)Migration
83 (8.333 %)Oracle 11g
83 (8.333 %)SC Cleared
83 (8.333 %)Security Cleared
83 (8.333 %)Data Analysis
83 (8.333 %).NET Framework
83 (8.333 %)Marketing
83 (8.333 %)WebSphere Application Server
83 (8.333 %)IIS
83 (8.333 %)SOAP
83 (8.333 %)Web Services

E-business
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing E-business 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 E-business. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

South East IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
18 (22.22 %)WebSphere
24 (11.11 %).NET
33 (8.333 %).NET Framework
33 (8.333 %)SOAP
33 (8.333 %)Web Services
33 (8.333 %)XML
33 (8.333 %)WSDL
33 (8.333 %)Oracle Fusion
42 (5.556 %)Spring
42 (5.556 %)WBIMB
51 (2.778 %)J2EE
51 (2.778 %)ASP
51 (2.778 %)ASP.NET
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
14 (11.11 %)ESB
14 (11.11 %)WebSphere Message Broker
23 (8.333 %)WebSphere Application Server
23 (8.333 %)IIS
23 (8.333 %)Documentum
23 (8.333 %)BizTalk Server
32 (5.556 %)WebSphere Portal
32 (5.556 %)WebSphere MQ
32 (5.556 %)WebSphere Process Server
41 (2.778 %)Oracle Application Server
41 (2.778 %)WebLogic
41 (2.778 %)Apache
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
13 (8.333 %)Oracle Financials
13 (8.333 %)Oracle EBS R12
21 (2.778 %)Oracle ASCP
21 (2.778 %)Oracle General Ledger
21 (2.778 %)Oracle iStore
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
14 (11.11 %)SAN
22 (5.556 %)HTTPS
22 (5.556 %)SSL
31 (2.778 %)SSH
31 (2.778 %)Firewall
31 (2.778 %)Internet
31 (2.778 %)NAS
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
13 (8.333 %)Oracle 11g
22 (5.556 %)Oracle 10g
22 (5.556 %)Oracle 8/8i
22 (5.556 %)SQL Server
31 (2.778 %)UniData
31 (2.778 %)SQL Server 2005
31 (2.778 %)DB2
31 (2.778 %)Oracle 9i
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11 (2.778 %)Team Foundation Server
South East IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
113 (36.11 %)Finance
26 (16.67 %)Education
35 (13.89 %)Insurance
44 (11.11 %)Financial Institution
53 (8.333 %)Marketing
62 (5.556 %)Auditing
62 (5.556 %)General Ledger
62 (5.556 %)Government
71 (2.778 %)Publishing
71 (2.778 %)Front Office
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
19 (25.00 %)Consultant
27 (19.44 %)Developer
36 (16.67 %)Oracle Consultant
45 (13.89 %)Analyst
54 (11.11 %)Project Manager
63 (8.333 %)Applications Developer
63 (8.333 %)Oracle Financials Consultant
63 (8.333 %)Business Analyst
63 (8.333 %)Test Manager
63 (8.333 %)Senior Consultant
72 (5.556 %)Architect
72 (5.556 %)Tester
72 (5.556 %)Senior WebSphere Consultant
72 (5.556 %)WebSphere Developer
72 (5.556 %)Infrastructure Analyst
72 (5.556 %)Delivery Manager
72 (5.556 %)WebSphere Consultant
81 (2.778 %)Test Team Leader
81 (2.778 %)Oracle Developer
81 (2.778 %)Team Leader
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (5.556 %)PMI
12 (5.556 %)Data Integration
21 (2.778 %)Clustering
21 (2.778 %)Data Extraction
21 (2.778 %)FMCG
21 (2.778 %)Firmware
21 (2.778 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
15 (13.89 %)UNIX
15 (13.89 %)Windows
23 (8.333 %)AIX
23 (8.333 %)Windows Server 2003
32 (5.556 %)zOS
32 (5.556 %)Solaris
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
17 (19.44 %)E-Commerce
24 (11.11 %)PRINCE2
33 (8.333 %)Migration
33 (8.333 %)Data Analysis
33 (8.333 %)CRM
33 (8.333 %)Project Management
42 (5.556 %)Cash Management
42 (5.556 %)SOA
42 (5.556 %)Test Management
42 (5.556 %)Web Design
51 (2.778 %)Service Management
51 (2.778 %)SEO
51 (2.778 %)Test Scripting
51 (2.778 %)Electronic Trading
51 (2.778 %)Use Case
51 (2.778 %)Release Management
51 (2.778 %)Resource Management
51 (2.778 %)Project Planning
51 (2.778 %)Technical Architecture
51 (2.778 %)Web Analytics
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
16 (16.67 %)C
16 (16.67 %)Java
23 (8.333 %)SQL
31 (2.778 %)Perl
31 (2.778 %)PL/SQL
31 (2.778 %)Shell Script
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13 (8.333 %)SC Cleared
13 (8.333 %)Security Cleared
22 (5.556 %)PMI Certification
22 (5.556 %)Degree
31 (2.778 %)ISEB Practitioner
31 (2.778 %)IBM Certification
31 (2.778 %)ISEB
31 (2.778 %)PRINCE2 Certification
South East IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14 (11.11 %)Oracle RAC
22 (5.556 %)VMware Infrastructure
31 (2.778 %)Samba
31 (2.778 %)Active Directory
31 (2.778 %)Veritas Volume Manager
31 (2.778 %)Veritas Cluster Server
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (8.333 %)Data Guard
22 (5.556 %)Tivoli
22 (5.556 %)Tivoli Monitoring
31 (2.778 %)NetBackup
31 (2.778 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
31 (2.778 %)HP Quality Center
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
118 (50.00 %)Oracle
25 (13.89 %)IBM
34 (11.11 %)Microsoft
43 (8.333 %)Siebel
52 (5.556 %)Hitachi
52 (5.556 %)Veritas
52 (5.556 %)VMware
61 (2.778 %)Reuters
61 (2.778 %)Sun