The first table below looks at the demand for Migration skills in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Migration over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Suffolk 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Migration
Rank 15 28 26
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -2
Contract jobs citing Migration 11 12 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 7.857% 4.743% 4.673%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.10% 7.453% 7.463%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 5
Average daily rate £425 £250 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+70.00% -33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £197 £311
10% offered a daily rate of more than £503 £293 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £363 £350
% change year-on-year
-3.44% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 2
Average hourly rate £13.00 £25.75 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-49.51% +90.74%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £24.99 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-29.96% -13.83%
All Processes & Methodologies
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
84 161 134
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 60.00% 63.64% 62.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 82 65
Average daily rate £350 £325 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -38.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 6
Average hourly rate £35.00 £29.50 £16.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.64% +81.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.30 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £35.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Migration
East of England

Migration
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk Migration Jobs Demand Trend

Migration
Daily Rate Trend

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

Suffolk Migration Daily Rate Trend

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Suffolk Migration Hourly Rate Trend

Migration
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Ipswich +5 5 £400 +60.00%
Bury St Edmunds - - - -
Migration
East of England

Migration
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk region citing Migration 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 Migration.

1 17 (43.59%) Data Migration
2 11 (28.21%) System Testing
3 10 (25.64%) Test Scripting
4 8 (20.51%) MS Office
5 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
5 7 (17.95%) Windows
5 7 (17.95%) Finance
6 6 (15.38%) Windows XP
6 6 (15.38%) Active Directory
6 6 (15.38%) Project Management
6 6 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (12.82%) Windows 7
7 5 (12.82%) MS Exchange
7 5 (12.82%) Data Mining
7 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (10.26%) MS Visio
8 4 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (10.26%) HP
8 4 (10.26%) DNS
8 4 (10.26%) HP Quality Center
8 4 (10.26%) QA
9 3 (7.692%) MCITP
9 3 (7.692%) Degree
9 3 (7.692%) Use Case
9 3 (7.692%) Change Control
9 3 (7.692%) Windows 8
9 3 (7.692%) DHCP
9 3 (7.692%) TCP/IP
9 3 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (7.692%) UML

Migration
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk region citing Migration 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 Migration. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.564%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (12.82%) MS Exchange
2 1 (2.564%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (2.564%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (2.564%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 8 (20.51%) MS Office
2 4 (10.26%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) DNS
2 3 (7.692%) DHCP
2 3 (7.692%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.128%) VoIP
4 1 (2.564%) MPLS
4 1 (2.564%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) Data Mining
2 4 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
General
1 7 (17.95%) Finance
2 2 (5.128%) German Language
3 1 (2.564%) Retail
3 1 (2.564%) Billing
Job Titles
1 21 (53.85%) Analyst
2 17 (43.59%) Business Analyst
3 8 (20.51%) Project Manager
4 4 (10.26%) Support Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 3 (7.692%) QA Analyst
5 3 (7.692%) IT Support
5 3 (7.692%) Consultant
5 3 (7.692%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (7.692%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (7.692%) Technical Business Analyst
5 3 (7.692%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (5.128%) QA Tester
6 2 (5.128%) Technical Manager
6 2 (5.128%) Rollout Engineer
6 2 (5.128%) Technical Project Manager
6 2 (5.128%) Tester
6 2 (5.128%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (5.128%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (5.128%) IT Project Manager
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.95%) Windows
2 6 (15.38%) Windows XP
3 5 (12.82%) Windows 7
4 3 (7.692%) Windows 8
5 1 (2.564%) Windows Vista
5 1 (2.564%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.564%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.564%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.564%) UNIX
5 1 (2.564%) Solaris
5 1 (2.564%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Data Migration
2 11 (28.21%) System Testing
3 10 (25.64%) Test Scripting
4 6 (15.38%) Project Management
4 6 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (7.692%) Use Case
6 3 (7.692%) Change Control
6 3 (7.692%) UML
7 2 (5.128%) ETL
8 1 (2.564%) Test Management
8 1 (2.564%) Data Analysis
8 1 (2.564%) Systems Analysis
8 1 (2.564%) Business Intelligence
8 1 (2.564%) PRINCE2
8 1 (2.564%) Change Management
8 1 (2.564%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (2.564%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.564%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (7.692%) MCITP
1 3 (7.692%) Degree
1 3 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (7.692%) MCSE
2 2 (5.128%) MCP
3 1 (2.564%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) QA
2 2 (5.128%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.564%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.564%) Ionix
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) HP
3 2 (5.128%) Cisco
4 1 (2.564%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.564%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (2.564%) EMC
4 1 (2.564%) VMware