The first table below looks at the demand for Benchmarking skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Benchmarking over the 3 months to 21 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 Surrey 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Benchmarking
Rank - 95 96
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 0 2 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey - 0.123% 0.384%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.180% 0.530%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £240 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £264 £245 £283
% change year-on-year
+7.65% -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% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
836 1109 1321
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 71.94% 68.33% 72.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 621 683
Average daily rate £415 £350 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% -15.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £525 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 56 36
Average hourly rate £37.50 £31.50 £33.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.04% -6.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £15.55 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.12 £41.35 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Benchmarking
South East

Benchmarking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Benchmarking Daily Rate Trend

Benchmarking
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey Benchmarking Hourly Rate Trend

Benchmarking
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) HPUX
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) OLTP
1 2 (100.00%) VLDB
1 2 (100.00%) Sun
1 2 (100.00%) Sun Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) BMC
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas
1 2 (100.00%) BMC PATROL
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) AWK
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Korn
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas File System
1 2 (100.00%) Bourne shell
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning

Benchmarking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) OLTP
1 2 (100.00%) VLDB
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) HPUX
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) AWK
1 2 (100.00%) Korn
1 2 (100.00%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Sun Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas File System
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) BMC PATROL
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Sun
1 2 (100.00%) BMC
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas