The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Migration skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Migration over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 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.

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.

Migration
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank171928
Rank change year-on-year
Up+2Up+9
Matching contract IT job ads359338442612
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK6.071 %6.264 %4.744 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category9.087 %9.377 %7.541 %
Number of daily rates quoted214521761248
Average daily rate£380£400£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£238£250£235
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£525£550£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£365£375£345
% change year-on-year
-2.66 %+8.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted13211358
Average hourly rate£22.50£21.50£25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.65 %-14.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.00£11.00£14.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£55.00£45.00£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.00£27.50£27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.36 %-
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
395424099234637
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK66.81 %66.80 %62.91 %
Number of daily rates quoted227212330817347
Average daily rate£403£440£413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.52 %+6.66 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£275£275£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£585£600£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£365£375£350
% change year-on-year
-2.66 %+7.14 %
Number of hourly rates quoted127714631258
Average hourly rate£25.00£29.00£25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.79 %+16.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.00£13.50£13.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£45.00£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£30.00£25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.66 %+20.00 %

Migration
Demand Trend

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

Migration Demand Trend

Migration
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Migration within the UK.

Migration Daily Rate Trend

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Migration within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Migration Daily Rate Histogram

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Migration within the UK.

Migration Hourly Rate Trend

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Migration within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Migration Hourly Rate Histogram

Migration
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. 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
EnglandDown-23226£380-5.00 %
LondonUp+41606£415-7.77 %
South EastDown-1580£365-1.08 %
City of LondonUp+4445£425-10.52 %
ScotlandUp+1219£350-6.66 %
North WestDown-12213£340+0.74 %
South WestDown-13202£375-6.25 %
YorkshireDown-6173£350-
East of EnglandUp+12166£375+7.14 %
SurreyUp+5131£350-6.66 %
EdinburghUp+3125£350-6.66 %
East MidlandsUp+7122£350-14.63 %
BerkshireDown-23111£375-3.84 %
West YorkshireDown-9110£350-
HampshireUp+7109£400+20.30 %
West MidlandsDown-1108£350-10.25 %
CheshireDown-587£360+2.85 %
ManchesterDown-683£325+32.65 %
BuckinghamshireUp+475£300-9.77 %
BristolDown-974£375-9.09 %
Milton KeynesUp+566£300-9.77 %
GlasgowDown-357£325-7.14 %
ReadingDown-1357£388-3.12 %
LeedsDown-1446£375+18.11 %
HertfordshireDown-844£370-1.98 %
DerbyshireUp+1543£341-17.95 %
NorthamptonshireUp+342£420+1.81 %
OxfordshireUp+342£425+13.33 %
West SussexNo change040£316-25.58 %
DerbyUp+1839£350-17.64 %

Migration
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

11852 (27.00 %)Finance
21825 (26.60 %)Data Migration
31302 (18.98 %)Windows
41069 (15.58 %)SQL
5985 (14.36 %)Banking
6935 (13.63 %)Microsoft
7911 (13.28 %)Oracle
8774 (11.28 %)Project Management
9650 (9.475 %)SQL Server
10637 (9.286 %)Active Directory
11581 (8.469 %)SAP
12524 (7.638 %)UNIX
13472 (6.880 %)MS Excel
14457 (6.662 %)Windows 7
15452 (6.589 %)VMware
16413 (6.020 %)User Acceptance Testing
17393 (5.729 %)Stakeholder Management
18392 (5.714 %)Windows Server 2008
19388 (5.656 %)SharePoint
20381 (5.554 %)PRINCE2
20381 (5.554 %).NET
21378 (5.510 %)MS Exchange
21378 (5.510 %)Security Cleared
22376 (5.481 %)ETL
23353 (5.146 %)MS Office
24350 (5.102 %)Business Analysis
25334 (4.869 %)HP
26323 (4.708 %)ITIL
27319 (4.650 %)Retail
28311 (4.534 %)Linux

Migration
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1381 (5.554 %).NET
2185 (2.697 %)XML
3138 (2.012 %)Web Services
4131 (1.910 %)HTML
5120 (1.749 %)CSS
6113 (1.647 %)ASP.NET
799 (1.443 %)Middleware
875 (1.093 %)jQuery
970 (1.020 %)WebSphere
1067 (0.977 %)J2EE
1161 (0.889 %)Application Packaging
1252 (0.758 %).NET Framework
1343 (0.627 %)Ajax
1442 (0.612 %)ASP
1538 (0.554 %)XSLT
1636 (0.525 %)SAP Basis
1735 (0.510 %)Visualforce
1831 (0.452 %)COM
1928 (0.408 %)ASP.NET MVC
2027 (0.394 %)WCF
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1388 (5.656 %)SharePoint
2378 (5.510 %)MS Exchange
3254 (3.703 %)Exchange Server 2010
4184 (2.682 %)SharePoint 2010
5139 (2.026 %)IIS
6123 (1.793 %)Exchange Server 2003
7121 (1.764 %)Exchange Server 2007
8108 (1.574 %)Lync
9104 (1.516 %)Lotus Notes
1078 (1.137 %)CMS
1170 (1.020 %)WebLogic
1267 (0.977 %)SharePoint Server
1364 (0.933 %)SAS
1462 (0.904 %)Lotus Domino
1557 (0.831 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1642 (0.612 %)Tomcat
1736 (0.525 %)Apache
1736 (0.525 %)Documentum
1834 (0.496 %)BizTalk Server
1926 (0.379 %)WebSphere Application Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1472 (6.880 %)MS Excel
2353 (5.146 %)MS Office
3177 (2.580 %)MS Visio
4160 (2.332 %)MS Project
590 (1.312 %)MS PowerPoint
635 (0.510 %)Office 365
733 (0.481 %)Spreadsheet
825 (0.364 %)InfoPath
97 (0.102 %)Photoshop
105 (0.073 %)AutoCAD
114 (0.058 %)Acrobat
122 (0.029 %)FreeHand
122 (0.029 %)PowerPivot
122 (0.029 %)Google Apps
131 (0.015 %)Casewise Modeler
131 (0.015 %)Open Workbench
131 (0.015 %)MATLAB
131 (0.015 %)Fireworks
131 (0.015 %)ImageReady
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1119 (1.735 %)Oracle EBS R12
293 (1.356 %)Oracle EBS
366 (0.962 %)SAP IS-U
452 (0.758 %)Dynamics CRM
550 (0.729 %)SAP FI
648 (0.700 %)Oracle 11i
745 (0.656 %)SAP FI/CO
745 (0.656 %)SAP CO
843 (0.627 %)Dynamics AX
843 (0.627 %)Oracle Applications
939 (0.569 %)SAP CRM
1038 (0.554 %)SAP ERP
1136 (0.525 %)SAP Oil and Gas
1227 (0.394 %)Oracle Financials
1227 (0.394 %)HFM
1321 (0.306 %)SAP MM
1321 (0.306 %)Teamcenter
1420 (0.292 %)SAP BPC
1519 (0.277 %)SAP SRM
1617 (0.248 %)Algo Collateral
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1307 (4.475 %)SAN
2230 (3.353 %)Firewall
3179 (2.609 %)WAN
4172 (2.507 %)TCP/IP
5165 (2.405 %)LAN
6150 (2.187 %)DNS
7119 (1.735 %)Internet
8107 (1.560 %)NAS
9104 (1.516 %)DHCP
1079 (1.152 %)Intranet
1170 (1.020 %)LDAP
1266 (0.962 %)VoIP
1345 (0.656 %)MPLS
1443 (0.627 %)Ethernet
1541 (0.598 %)Fibre Channel
1638 (0.554 %)HTTP
1638 (0.554 %)SMTP
1737 (0.539 %)BGP
1833 (0.481 %)VPN
1930 (0.437 %)ATM
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1650 (9.475 %)SQL Server
2376 (5.481 %)ETL
3237 (3.455 %)Data Warehouse
4205 (2.988 %)SQL Server Integration Services
5182 (2.653 %)SQL Server 2008
6135 (1.968 %)SQL Server 2005
7126 (1.837 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
8122 (1.778 %)Oracle 11g
9121 (1.764 %)DB2
1089 (1.297 %)Oracle 10g
1178 (1.137 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1271 (1.035 %)MySQL
1370 (1.020 %)Oracle 8/8i
1465 (0.948 %)MS Access
1561 (0.889 %)RDBMS
1656 (0.816 %)Oracle BI EE
1752 (0.758 %)Oracle Reports
1846 (0.671 %)SQL Server 2000
1944 (0.641 %)BusinessObjects
2036 (0.525 %)TOAD
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
180 (1.166 %)LSMW
262 (0.904 %)MSI
262 (0.904 %)Subversion
347 (0.685 %)Visual Studio
437 (0.539 %)Team Foundation Server
536 (0.525 %)Oracle Forms
635 (0.510 %)JIRA
724 (0.350 %)LoadRunner
821 (0.306 %)TestDirector
821 (0.306 %)InstallShield
920 (0.292 %)ERwin
1017 (0.248 %)PVCS
1116 (0.233 %)Eclipse
1116 (0.233 %)ClearCase
1116 (0.233 %)QuickTest Pro
1215 (0.219 %)Git (software)
1215 (0.219 %)MorphX
1314 (0.204 %)Selenium
1413 (0.190 %)JUnit
1512 (0.175 %)Oracle APEX
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11852 (27.00 %)Finance
2985 (14.36 %)Banking
3319 (4.650 %)Retail
4256 (3.732 %)Telecoms
5229 (3.338 %)Investment Banking
6169 (2.464 %)Retail Banking
7122 (1.778 %)Financial Institution
8104 (1.516 %)Billing
8104 (1.516 %)Back Office
990 (1.312 %)Publishing
1078 (1.137 %)Marketing
1170 (1.020 %)Manufacturing
1268 (0.991 %)Front Office
1361 (0.889 %)General Ledger
1361 (0.889 %)Legal
1446 (0.671 %)Pharmaceutical
1538 (0.554 %)Law
1633 (0.481 %)Corporate Banking
1732 (0.466 %)French Language
1831 (0.452 %)Spanish Language
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11494 (21.78 %)Analyst
2864 (12.59 %)Project Manager
3824 (12.01 %)Consultant
4755 (11.01 %)Business Analyst
5728 (10.61 %)Developer
6435 (6.341 %)Architect
7247 (3.601 %)Administrator
8218 (3.178 %)Data Analyst
9185 (2.697 %)SAP Consultant
10183 (2.668 %)Test Analyst
11172 (2.507 %)DBA
12158 (2.303 %)Migration Consultant
13118 (1.720 %)Migration Engineer
14117 (1.706 %)Test Manager
15110 (1.603 %)Data Consultant
16107 (1.560 %)Data Manager
17106 (1.545 %)Infrastructure Manager
1898 (1.429 %)Senior Analyst
1898 (1.429 %)Designer
1996 (1.399 %)Infrastructure Project Manager
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1164 (2.391 %)Mainframe
2151 (2.201 %)Clustering
3125 (1.822 %)Replication
4115 (1.676 %)Management Information System
585 (1.239 %)Blackberry
670 (1.020 %)Credit Risk
768 (0.991 %)Client/Server
865 (0.948 %)Hedge funds
963 (0.918 %)Derivative
1061 (0.889 %)FMCG
1061 (0.889 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
1159 (0.860 %)Data Conversion
1253 (0.773 %)Data Extraction
1350 (0.729 %)Fixed Income
1447 (0.685 %)NHS
1542 (0.612 %)Reference Data
1542 (0.612 %)Symmetrix DMX
1639 (0.569 %)CLARiiON
1738 (0.554 %)IBM Mainframe
1836 (0.525 %)Market Risk
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11302 (18.98 %)Windows
2524 (7.638 %)UNIX
3457 (6.662 %)Windows 7
4392 (5.714 %)Windows Server 2008
5311 (4.534 %)Linux
6296 (4.315 %)Windows Server 2003
7195 (2.843 %)Windows XP
8154 (2.245 %)Solaris
977 (1.122 %)AIX
1056 (0.816 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1140 (0.583 %)HPUX
1233 (0.481 %)Windows 2000
1330 (0.437 %)Windows Vista
1427 (0.394 %)Windows 2000 Server
1523 (0.335 %)zOS
169 (0.131 %)NetWare
177 (0.102 %)MVS
186 (0.087 %)SUSE
195 (0.073 %)Windows NT
204 (0.058 %)Mac OS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11825 (26.60 %)Data Migration
2774 (11.28 %)Project Management
3413 (6.020 %)User Acceptance Testing
4393 (5.729 %)Stakeholder Management
5381 (5.554 %)PRINCE2
6350 (5.102 %)Business Analysis
7323 (4.708 %)ITIL
8294 (4.286 %)CRM
9289 (4.213 %)Data Analysis
10273 (3.980 %)Change Management
11215 (3.134 %)Data Modelling
12199 (2.901 %)Business Intelligence
13181 (2.638 %)Data Mapping
14176 (2.566 %)ERP
15171 (2.493 %)Validation
16161 (2.347 %)Test Scripting
17154 (2.245 %)Asset Management
18153 (2.230 %)Workflow
18153 (2.230 %)Data Cleansing
19129 (1.880 %)Agile Software Development
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11069 (15.58 %)SQL
2240 (3.499 %)C#
3239 (3.484 %)Java
4191 (2.784 %)PL/SQL
5126 (1.837 %)VB
6122 (1.778 %)JavaScript
7115 (1.676 %)T-SQL
8113 (1.647 %)PowerShell
997 (1.414 %)C
1082 (1.195 %)Perl
1175 (1.093 %)VBA
1273 (1.064 %)VB.NET
1370 (1.020 %)ABAP
1468 (0.991 %)Apex Code
1564 (0.933 %)VBScript
1663 (0.918 %)Shell Script
1758 (0.845 %)PHP
1846 (0.671 %)C++
1941 (0.598 %)COBOL
2028 (0.408 %)Korn
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1378 (5.510 %)Security Cleared
2262 (3.819 %)SC Cleared
3154 (2.245 %)Microsoft Certification
4151 (2.201 %)Degree
5119 (1.735 %)ISEB
6105 (1.531 %)Cisco Certification
794 (1.370 %)MCSE
873 (1.064 %)PRINCE2 Certification
963 (0.918 %)PMI Certification
1058 (0.845 %)CCNA
1154 (0.787 %)MCITP
1249 (0.714 %)PMP
1343 (0.627 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
1441 (0.598 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1535 (0.510 %)CCNP
1633 (0.481 %)ISEB Practitioner
1732 (0.466 %)ITIL Certification
1829 (0.423 %)ISTQB
1927 (0.394 %)CISSP
2022 (0.321 %)Citrix Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1218 (3.178 %)QA
274 (1.079 %)SLA
351 (0.743 %)Data Quality
424 (0.350 %)Solvency II
519 (0.277 %)PCI DSS
616 (0.233 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
714 (0.204 %)GxP
811 (0.160 %)ISO 9001
99 (0.131 %)Basel II
106 (0.087 %)WAI
115 (0.073 %)ISO/IEC 27001
124 (0.058 %)TickIT
133 (0.044 %)HL7
133 (0.044 %)COBIT
142 (0.029 %)FATCA
151 (0.015 %)Basel III
151 (0.015 %)ISO/IEC 20000
151 (0.015 %)WCAG
151 (0.015 %)GMP
151 (0.015 %)ISO 9000
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1637 (9.286 %)Active Directory
2268 (3.907 %)VMware Infrastructure
3113 (1.647 %)vSphere
499 (1.443 %)XenApp
571 (1.035 %)Hyper-V
667 (0.977 %)VMware ESX
749 (0.714 %)Oracle RAC
749 (0.714 %)NFS
840 (0.583 %)XenDesktop
937 (0.539 %)VMware ESXi
1032 (0.466 %)Oracle RMAN
1127 (0.394 %)SRDF
1221 (0.306 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1221 (0.306 %)ISA Server
1320 (0.292 %)XenServer
1419 (0.277 %)Terminal Services
1518 (0.262 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1616 (0.233 %)Terminal Server
1712 (0.175 %)Xen
1712 (0.175 %)EMC RecoverPoint
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1199 (2.901 %)SCCM
2143 (2.085 %)HP Quality Center
392 (1.341 %)SCOM
486 (1.254 %)NetBackup
556 (0.816 %)Tivoli
637 (0.539 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
731 (0.452 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
829 (0.423 %)EMC NetWorker
926 (0.379 %)OpenView Configuration Management
1022 (0.321 %)Backup Exec
1022 (0.321 %)Data Guard
1119 (0.277 %)CA SiteMinder
1218 (0.262 %)vCenter
1315 (0.219 %)EMC TimeFinder
1413 (0.190 %)Puppet
1413 (0.190 %)ARCserve
1512 (0.175 %)Cisco CUCM
1611 (0.160 %)BMC PATROL
1710 (0.146 %)Control-M
1710 (0.146 %)Nagios
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1935 (13.63 %)Microsoft
2911 (13.28 %)Oracle
3581 (8.469 %)SAP
4452 (6.589 %)VMware
5334 (4.869 %)HP
6296 (4.315 %)Citrix
7286 (4.169 %)Cisco
8222 (3.236 %)IBM
9215 (3.134 %)EMC
10141 (2.055 %)NetApp
11127 (1.851 %)Salesforce.com
12120 (1.749 %)Lotus
1398 (1.429 %)Business Objects
1482 (1.195 %)Siebel
1580 (1.166 %)Cognos
1673 (1.064 %)Symantec
1769 (1.006 %)Informatica
1864 (0.933 %)Red Hat
1962 (0.904 %)Sun
2050 (0.729 %)Teradata