The first table below looks at the demand for PDCA skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PDCA over the 3 months to 18 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.

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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act)
Rank 551 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing PDCA 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
34628 39600 41874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.14% 68.19% 67.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 20769 22604 23882
Average daily rate £413 £400 £430
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -6.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 996 1271 1448
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.11 £13.00 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%

PDCA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

PDCA Jobs Demand Trend

PDCA
Daily Rate Trend

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

PDCA Daily Rate Trend

PDCA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PDCA within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

PDCA Daily Rate Histogram

PDCA
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing PDCA 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 PDCA.

1 5 (71.43%) Six Sigma
2 4 (57.14%) Project Management
3 3 (42.86%) Degree
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL V3
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (42.86%) MS Office
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2
3 3 (42.86%) VoIP
3 3 (42.86%) VPN
3 3 (42.86%) SAN
3 3 (42.86%) Service Management
3 3 (42.86%) Firewall
4 2 (28.57%) Electronics
4 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Handset
4 2 (28.57%) HND
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) QA
4 2 (28.57%) CAPA
5 1 (14.29%) BPR

PDCA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing PDCA 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 PDCA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) VoIP
1 3 (42.86%) VPN
1 3 (42.86%) SAN
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
General
1 2 (28.57%) Electronics
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) IT Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Head of IT
2 2 (28.57%) QA Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Process Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Process Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Insurance Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Business Process Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Quality Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (28.57%) Handset
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Six Sigma
2 4 (57.14%) Project Management
3 3 (42.86%) Service Management
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL V3
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) CAPA
5 1 (14.29%) BPR
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA