The first table below looks at the demand for Performance Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Performance Management over the 3 months to 17 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 Yorkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Management
Rank 107 97 97
Rank change year-on-year
-10 0
Contract jobs citing Performance Management 6 15 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.316% 0.654% 0.220%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.457% 0.919% 0.349%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 2
Average daily rate £400 £325 £329
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -1.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £458
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -18.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £17.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.39 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-3.05% -27.27%
All Processes & Methodologies
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1312 1633 1145
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 69.13% 71.25% 63.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 717 903 538
Average daily rate £325 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.79% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 34 55
Average hourly rate £25.00 £17.86 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+39.97% -20.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.45 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £110.00 £32.50 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Performance Management
England

Performance Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Performance Management Jobs Demand Trend

Performance Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Performance Management across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Performance Management Daily Rate Trend

Performance Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Performance Management Hourly Rate Trend

Performance Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Management within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
South Yorkshire +1 3 £400 -
West Yorkshire -7 3 - -
Performance Management
England

Performance Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Performance 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 Performance Management.

1 9 (37.50%) Windows
2 8 (33.33%) NHS
3 7 (29.17%) UNIX
3 7 (29.17%) Information Management
4 6 (25.00%) LAN
5 4 (16.67%) Middleware
5 4 (16.67%) Finance
5 4 (16.67%) WAN
5 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 4 (16.67%) Linux
5 4 (16.67%) MS Office
6 3 (12.50%) Windows 7
6 3 (12.50%) Banking
6 3 (12.50%) Windows Vista
6 3 (12.50%) MCP
6 3 (12.50%) HNC
6 3 (12.50%) Oracle
6 3 (12.50%) Windows 2000
6 3 (12.50%) Windows XP
6 3 (12.50%) MCSE
6 3 (12.50%) MCSA
6 3 (12.50%) Cisco
6 3 (12.50%) Internet
6 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
6 3 (12.50%) Firewall
7 2 (8.333%) Mainframe
7 2 (8.333%) CheckPoint
7 2 (8.333%) DataStage
7 2 (8.333%) Introscope

Performance Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Performance 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 Performance Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (16.67%) Middleware
2 2 (8.333%) WebSphere
2 2 (8.333%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.333%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (8.333%) Apache
1 2 (8.333%) GlassFish
2 1 (4.167%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) MS Office
2 1 (4.167%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) LAN
2 4 (16.67%) WAN
3 3 (12.50%) Internet
3 3 (12.50%) Firewall
4 2 (8.333%) WAAS
4 2 (8.333%) VPN
4 2 (8.333%) SSL
5 1 (4.167%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.333%) SQL Server
1 2 (8.333%) DataStage
2 1 (4.167%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (8.333%) Introscope
General
1 4 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (4.167%) Retail
3 1 (4.167%) Retail Banking
3 1 (4.167%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Business Manager
2 4 (16.67%) NHS Performance Manager
2 4 (16.67%) Performance Manager
3 3 (12.50%) MI Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Technical Support Officer
3 3 (12.50%) Technical Support
4 2 (8.333%) Administrator
4 2 (8.333%) Design Engineer
4 2 (8.333%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Information Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Network Manager
5 1 (4.167%) Senior Oracle DBA
5 1 (4.167%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (4.167%) Senior DBA
5 1 (4.167%) Web Administrator
5 1 (4.167%) Server Administrator
5 1 (4.167%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) NHS
2 2 (8.333%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.167%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.167%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Windows
2 7 (29.17%) UNIX
3 4 (16.67%) Linux
4 3 (12.50%) Windows 2000
4 3 (12.50%) Windows XP
4 3 (12.50%) Windows Vista
4 3 (12.50%) Windows 7
5 2 (8.333%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Information Management
2 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 2 (8.333%) ITIL
3 2 (8.333%) Load Balancing
4 1 (4.167%) Capacity Management
4 1 (4.167%) PRINCE2
4 1 (4.167%) Project Management
4 1 (4.167%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (4.167%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (4.167%) Security Management
4 1 (4.167%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (4.167%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.333%) Java
1 2 (8.333%) VBA
2 1 (4.167%) Perl
2 1 (4.167%) SQL
2 1 (4.167%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) MCP
1 3 (12.50%) HNC
1 3 (12.50%) MCSE
1 3 (12.50%) MCSA
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (8.333%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.167%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.167%) Degree
3 1 (4.167%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.167%) CCNP
3 1 (4.167%) CCNA
3 1 (4.167%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (4.167%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (8.333%) CA Wily
1 2 (8.333%) Splunk
2 1 (4.167%) SCCM
2 1 (4.167%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle
2 3 (12.50%) Cisco
3 2 (8.333%) JBoss
3 2 (8.333%) Sun
3 2 (8.333%) CheckPoint
3 2 (8.333%) Terracotta
3 2 (8.333%) F5
4 1 (4.167%) Aruba
4 1 (4.167%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.167%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.167%) Business Objects