The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Improvement skills in IT contracts advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Continuous Improvement 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 for the Watford 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Continual Improvement
Rank 12 - 15
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 5 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 6.410% - 6.522%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.00% - 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £330 £394
% change year-on-year
+13.63% -16.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.66 £21.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-39.71% -27.58%
All Processes & Methodologies
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
50 77 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 64.10% 81.91% 57.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 23
Average daily rate £450 £350 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% -15.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £290 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £12.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Continuous Improvement
Hertfordshire

Continuous Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford Continuous Improvement Jobs Demand Trend

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend

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

Watford Continuous Improvement Daily Rate Trend

Continuous Improvement
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing Continuous Improvement 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 Continuous Improvement.

1 12 (100.00%) Java
1 12 (100.00%) J2EE
1 12 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 12 (100.00%) IBM
1 12 (100.00%) Project Management
1 12 (100.00%) Finance
1 12 (100.00%) Retail
1 12 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 12 (100.00%) Time Management
1 12 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 12 (100.00%) Change Control
2 7 (58.33%) Games
3 5 (41.67%) Manufacturing

Continuous Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing Continuous Improvement 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 Continuous Improvement. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (100.00%) J2EE
1 12 (100.00%) WebSphere
General
1 12 (100.00%) Finance
1 12 (100.00%) Retail
2 7 (58.33%) Games
3 5 (41.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Project Manager
1 12 (100.00%) E-Commerce Project Manager
1 12 (100.00%) E-Commerce Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 12 (100.00%) Project Management
1 12 (100.00%) Time Management
1 12 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 12 (100.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) IBM