The first table below looks at the demand for Workflow Management skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Workflow Management over the 3 months to 24 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.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Workflow Management
Rank 489 549 558
Rank change year-on-year
+60 +9
Contract jobs citing Workflow Management 40 35 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.086% 0.060% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.121% 0.088% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 15 17
Average daily rate £410 £300 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.66% -40.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £164 £123 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £565 £570
UK excluding London average daily rate £410 £375 £289
% change year-on-year
+9.33% +29.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
Average hourly rate £9.25 £9.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -74.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £9.25 £9.50 -
% change year-on-year
-2.63% -
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
32941 39581 41270
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.01% 67.87% 67.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19678 22705 23413
Average daily rate £413 £403 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.48% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 1282 1475
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 £13.50 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%

Workflow Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Workflow Management Jobs Demand Trend

Workflow Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Workflow Management Daily Rate Trend

Workflow Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Workflow Management within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Workflow Management Daily Rate Histogram

Workflow Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Workflow Management Hourly Rate Trend

Workflow Management
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Workflow Management within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 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
England +53 37 £410 +64.00%
London +49 26 £425 +112.50%
City of London +22 10 £425 -19.04%
South East +15 6 £399 -0.31%
Surrey +15 3 £110 -
East Midlands -1 3 £438 -
Crawley - 3 £410 -
West Sussex - 3 £410 -
Northamptonshire +14 2 £438 -
North West +14 2 £273 +65.15%
Scotland -10 2 - -
Glasgow -16 2 - -
Croydon - 2 - -
Nottinghamshire - 1 - -
Manchester - 1 £425 -

Workflow Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Workflow Management 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 Management.

1 61 (100.00%) Workflow
2 16 (26.23%) Banking
3 14 (22.95%) UML
4 13 (21.31%) .NET
4 13 (21.31%) TDD
5 12 (19.67%) Scrum
5 12 (19.67%) Business Analysis
5 12 (19.67%) Microsoft
5 12 (19.67%) Java
5 12 (19.67%) PRINCE2
6 11 (18.03%) C#
6 11 (18.03%) IBM
6 11 (18.03%) Finance
7 10 (16.39%) SQL
8 9 (14.75%) XML
8 9 (14.75%) ITIL
8 9 (14.75%) SOA
8 9 (14.75%) Telecoms
8 9 (14.75%) Investment Banking
9 8 (13.11%) Systems Analysis
9 8 (13.11%) Agile Software Development
9 8 (13.11%) Security Cleared
9 8 (13.11%) SSADM
9 8 (13.11%) Oracle
10 7 (11.48%) MS Office
10 7 (11.48%) RAD
10 7 (11.48%) Project Management
10 7 (11.48%) Spring
10 7 (11.48%) Subversion
11 6 (9.836%) Java EE

Workflow Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Workflow Management 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 Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (21.31%) .NET
2 9 (14.75%) XML
3 7 (11.48%) Spring
4 6 (9.836%) Java EE
5 5 (8.197%) J2EE
5 5 (8.197%) CSS
6 4 (6.557%) Ajax
6 4 (6.557%) WebSphere
6 4 (6.557%) WCF
6 4 (6.557%) JRules
6 4 (6.557%) Hibernate
6 4 (6.557%) XSL
6 4 (6.557%) XSLT
6 4 (6.557%) HTML
7 3 (4.918%) ASP.NET
7 3 (4.918%) EJB
7 3 (4.918%) JMS
7 3 (4.918%) Dojo
7 3 (4.918%) jBPM
7 3 (4.918%) REST
Application Platforms
1 5 (8.197%) TIBCO EMS
2 4 (6.557%) CMS
2 4 (6.557%) Tomcat
2 4 (6.557%) WebLogic
3 3 (4.918%) FileNet
3 3 (4.918%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (4.918%) ArcGIS
4 2 (3.279%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.639%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (1.639%) IIS
5 1 (1.639%) Apache
5 1 (1.639%) MQSeries
5 1 (1.639%) MS Exchange
5 1 (1.639%) WebSphere Process Server
5 1 (1.639%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (1.639%) AquaLogic
5 1 (1.639%) ESB
5 1 (1.639%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (11.48%) MS Office
2 6 (9.836%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.639%) MS Project
3 1 (1.639%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.639%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (8.197%) BusinessWorks
2 3 (4.918%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.639%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.639%) PBX
1 1 (1.639%) HTTP
1 1 (1.639%) Nortel Meridian
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.557%) Oracle 11g
1 4 (6.557%) GIS
1 4 (6.557%) Essbase
2 3 (4.918%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.279%) MySQL
4 1 (1.639%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.639%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.639%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.639%) QlikView
4 1 (1.639%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (1.639%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.639%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.639%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Subversion
2 6 (9.836%) JUnit
3 5 (8.197%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (6.557%) TeamCity
4 4 (6.557%) Ant
5 2 (3.279%) Axure RP
6 1 (1.639%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (1.639%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.639%) ClearCase
6 1 (1.639%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.639%) ClearQuest
6 1 (1.639%) Maven
6 1 (1.639%) JIRA
6 1 (1.639%) Hudson
6 1 (1.639%) PHPUnit
General
1 16 (26.23%) Banking
2 11 (18.03%) Finance
3 9 (14.75%) Telecoms
3 9 (14.75%) Investment Banking
4 4 (6.557%) Front Office
5 3 (4.918%) Dutch Language
5 3 (4.918%) French Language
5 3 (4.918%) German Language
5 3 (4.918%) Spanish Language
6 2 (3.279%) Retail
6 2 (3.279%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.279%) Publishing
7 1 (1.639%) Back Office
7 1 (1.639%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.639%) Billing
7 1 (1.639%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (26.23%) Developer
1 16 (26.23%) Analyst
2 13 (21.31%) Business Analyst
3 8 (13.11%) .NET Developer
4 5 (8.197%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (8.197%) Senior Business Analyst
5 4 (6.557%) Agile .NET Developer
5 4 (6.557%) GIS Technician
5 4 (6.557%) Java Developer
5 4 (6.557%) Architect
5 4 (6.557%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.918%) Consultant
6 3 (4.918%) C# Developer
6 3 (4.918%) FileNet Consultant
6 3 (4.918%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (4.918%) Agile C# Developer
6 3 (4.918%) Build Engineer
7 2 (3.279%) Agile Business Analyst
7 2 (3.279%) Payments Business Analyst
7 2 (3.279%) Senior Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.918%) N-Tier
1 3 (4.918%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (4.918%) Blog
1 3 (4.918%) New Media
1 3 (4.918%) Social Media
2 1 (1.639%) Computer Science
2 1 (1.639%) Wiki
2 1 (1.639%) Data Integration
2 1 (1.639%) Open Source
2 1 (1.639%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.557%) Windows
2 2 (3.279%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (3.279%) UNIX
3 1 (1.639%) AIX
3 1 (1.639%) Linux
3 1 (1.639%) Windows XP
3 1 (1.639%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.639%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.639%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (100.00%) Workflow
2 14 (22.95%) UML
3 13 (21.31%) TDD
4 12 (19.67%) Scrum
4 12 (19.67%) Business Analysis
4 12 (19.67%) PRINCE2
5 9 (14.75%) ITIL
5 9 (14.75%) SOA
6 8 (13.11%) Systems Analysis
6 8 (13.11%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (13.11%) SSADM
7 7 (11.48%) RAD
7 7 (11.48%) Project Management
8 6 (9.836%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (8.197%) OO
9 5 (8.197%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (8.197%) MVC
9 5 (8.197%) Unit Testing
9 5 (8.197%) Software Architecture
10 4 (6.557%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.67%) Java
2 11 (18.03%) C#
3 10 (16.39%) SQL
4 5 (8.197%) T-SQL
4 5 (8.197%) Python
5 4 (6.557%) PowerShell
5 4 (6.557%) XPath
5 4 (6.557%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.279%) VB
7 1 (1.639%) PHP
7 1 (1.639%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.639%) C
7 1 (1.639%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.197%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.557%) HND
4 2 (3.279%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.639%) Degree
5 1 (1.639%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.557%) SLA
2 2 (3.279%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.639%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.639%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 12 (19.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.03%) IBM
3 8 (13.11%) Oracle
4 6 (9.836%) TIBCO
5 4 (6.557%) ION Trading
5 4 (6.557%) VMware
6 3 (4.918%) Cramer
6 3 (4.918%) Facebook
6 3 (4.918%) Twitter
7 2 (3.279%) LogiXML
7 2 (3.279%) Murex
7 2 (3.279%) Calypso
7 2 (3.279%) Thunderhead
7 2 (3.279%) Hummingbird
7 2 (3.279%) Open Text
7 2 (3.279%) JBoss
7 2 (3.279%) Vignette
7 2 (3.279%) SAP
8 1 (1.639%) Sybase
8 1 (1.639%) Business Objects