South West Workflow Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Workflow skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Workflow over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Andover Barnsley Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Corby Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Scotland Shropshire Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	93	125
Rank change on same period last year	+32
Matching contract IT job ads	51	46
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.069 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	1.808 %	1.323 %
Daily rates quoted	9	17
Average minimum daily rate	£260	£346
Average daily rate	£279	£374
% change on same period last year	-25.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£299	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£403
% change on same period last year	-6.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.33	£36.25
Average hourly rate	£32.33	£38.75
% change on same period last year	-16.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.33	£41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.37	£36.69
% change on same period last year	-22.67 %
Processes & Methodologies South West
Matching contract IT job ads	2821	3478
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.813 %	3.430 %
Daily rates quoted	953	1125
Average minimum daily rate	£368	£363
Average daily rate	£391	£383
% change on same period last year	+2.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£415	£402
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	323	405
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.43	£29.31
Average hourly rate	£32.97	£31.19
% change on same period last year	+5.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.52	£33.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.41
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Workflow 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Workflow across the South West region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Workflow across the South West region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Workflow within the South West region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Wiltshire	+15	20	£242	-36.60 %
Bristol	+1	11	£315	-11.65 %
Dorset	+7	7	£300	-27.27 %
Gloucestershire	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 22 (22.22 %) Finance 2 18 (18.18 %) CRM 2 18 (18.18 %) Pensions 3 17 (17.17 %) SharePoint 4 16 (16.16 %) Oracle 5 13 (13.13 %) InfoPath 6 12 (12.12 %) Telecoms 6 12 (12.12 %) .NET 7 11 (11.11 %) C# 7 11 (11.11 %) SQL 8 10 (10.10 %) XML 8 10 (10.10 %) Security Cleared 9 9 (9.091 %) SAP 9 9 (9.091 %) JavaScript 9 9 (9.091 %) WebLogic

9 9 (9.091 %) Microsoft 10 8 (8.081 %) Government 10 8 (8.081 %) AJAX 11 7 (7.071 %) SC Cleared 11 7 (7.071 %) Oracle Workflow 11 7 (7.071 %) Windows 12 6 (6.061 %) JBoss 12 6 (6.061 %) Linux 12 6 (6.061 %) B2C 12 6 (6.061 %) Red Hat 12 6 (6.061 %) ATG 12 6 (6.061 %) Device Driver 12 6 (6.061 %) Red Hat Linux 12 6 (6.061 %) Nucleus RTOS 13 5 (5.051 %) Business Analysis

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 12 (12.12 %) .NET 2 10 (10.10 %) XML 3 8 (8.081 %) AJAX 4 5 (5.051 %) SOAP 4 5 (5.051 %) JMS 5 3 (3.030 %) ODBC 5 3 (3.030 %) HTML 5 3 (3.030 %) CSS 5 3 (3.030 %) SAP Business Workflow 5 3 (3.030 %) Windows SharePoint Services 6 1 (1.010 %) .NET Framework 6 1 (1.010 %) jBPM 6 1 (1.010 %) J2EE 6 1 (1.010 %) SAP BSP	Application Platforms 1 17 (17.17 %) SharePoint 2 9 (9.091 %) WebLogic 3 7 (7.071 %) Oracle Workflow 4 6 (6.061 %) JBoss 5 4 (4.040 %) Lotus Notes 5 4 (4.040 %) Lotus Domino 5 4 (4.040 %) BizTalk Server 6 3 (3.030 %) QuickPlace 7 2 (2.020 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 1 (1.010 %) Alfresco 8 1 (1.010 %) MS Exchange 8 1 (1.010 %) Exchange Server 5.5 8 1 (1.010 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 13 (13.13 %) InfoPath 2 3 (3.030 %) MS Excel 2 3 (3.030 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 3 (3.030 %) SAP FI 2 2 (2.020 %) Oracle EBS 2 2 (2.020 %) Oracle Financials 2 2 (2.020 %) Oracle Payroll 2 2 (2.020 %) SAP SRM 3 1 (1.010 %) Microsoft CRM 3 1 (1.010 %) SAP R/3 3 1 (1.010 %) Staffware 3 1 (1.010 %) Oracle ERP 3 1 (1.010 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 2 (2.020 %) SAN 1 2 (2.020 %) Extranet 2 1 (1.010 %) LAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (5.051 %) SQL Server 2 4 (4.040 %) Oracle Reports 3 3 (3.030 %) RDBMS 3 3 (3.030 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (2.020 %) EDRMS
Development Applications 1 2 (2.020 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (1.010 %) JDeveloper 2 1 (1.010 %) Visual Studio	General 1 22 (22.22 %) Finance 2 18 (18.18 %) Pensions 3 12 (12.12 %) Telecoms 4 8 (8.081 %) Government 5 2 (2.020 %) Marketing 6 1 (1.010 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (1.010 %) Front Office 6 1 (1.010 %) Back Office 6 1 (1.010 %) Health 6 1 (1.010 %) Legal 6 1 (1.010 %) Retail 6 1 (1.010 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 29 (29.29 %) Developer 2 27 (27.27 %) Analyst 3 24 (24.24 %) Business Analyst 4 14 (14.14 %) Consultant 5 11 (11.11 %) Project Manager 6 7 (7.071 %) SharePoint Developer 7 6 (6.061 %) Administrator 8 5 (5.051 %) Senior Developer 9 4 (4.040 %) Technical Consultant 9 4 (4.040 %) Test Manager 9 4 (4.040 %) Lotus Notes Developer 9 4 (4.040 %) Oracle Consultant 9 4 (4.040 %) Oracle Technical Consultant 10 3 (3.030 %) VB6 Developer 10 3 (3.030 %) Sage Consultant 10 3 (3.030 %) VB Developer 10 3 (3.030 %) SAP Consultant 10 3 (3.030 %) C# Developer 10 3 (3.030 %) Software Engineer 11 2 (2.020 %) Architect	Miscellaneous 1 6 (6.061 %) Device Driver 2 3 (3.030 %) Client/Server 3 2 (2.020 %) Management Information System 4 1 (1.010 %) E-Learning
Operating Systems 1 7 (7.071 %) Windows 2 6 (6.061 %) Linux 2 6 (6.061 %) Nucleus RTOS 2 6 (6.061 %) Red Hat Linux 3 3 (3.030 %) Solaris 4 1 (1.010 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (18.18 %) CRM 2 10 (10.10 %) Security Cleared 3 7 (7.071 %) SC Cleared 4 6 (6.061 %) B2C 5 5 (5.051 %) Data Modelling 5 5 (5.051 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 5 (5.051 %) UML 5 5 (5.051 %) Business Analysis 6 4 (4.040 %) Project Planning 6 4 (4.040 %) Process Management 7 3 (3.030 %) Migration 7 3 (3.030 %) PRINCE2 7 3 (3.030 %) Test Management 7 3 (3.030 %) Data Migration 7 3 (3.030 %) Document Management 7 3 (3.030 %) Workflow Management 7 3 (3.030 %) Logistics 8 2 (2.020 %) Content Management 8 2 (2.020 %) Information Management 8 2 (2.020 %) Use Case
Programming Languages 1 11 (11.11 %) C# 1 11 (11.11 %) SQL 2 9 (9.091 %) JavaScript 3 5 (5.051 %) PL/SQL 3 5 (5.051 %) VB 3 5 (5.051 %) DHTML 3 5 (5.051 %) Java 4 4 (4.040 %) ABAP 4 4 (4.040 %) LotusScript 4 4 (4.040 %) VB6 5 1 (1.010 %) C++ 5 1 (1.010 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 1 (1.010 %) ISEB 1 1 (1.010 %) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.010 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 2 (2.020 %) NetBackup 2 1 (1.010 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 3 (3.030 %) Netcool 2 2 (2.020 %) EMC Navisphere	Vendors 1 16 (16.16 %) Oracle 2 9 (9.091 %) SAP 2 9 (9.091 %) Microsoft 3 6 (6.061 %) Red Hat 3 6 (6.061 %) ATG 4 5 (5.051 %) Sage 5 4 (4.040 %) Lotus 6 3 (3.030 %) VERITAS 6 3 (3.030 %) Agresso 6 3 (3.030 %) Cisco 6 3 (3.030 %) Remedy 7 2 (2.020 %) Meridio 7 2 (2.020 %) Lagan 7 2 (2.020 %) EMC