E-business Contracts

Electronic Business (eBusiness)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for E-business skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited E-business over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 553 686 820
Rank change year-on-year +133 +134 -169
Contract jobs citing E-business 36 34 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.055% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.095% 0.062% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 26 29
10th Percentile £509 £456 £416
25th Percentile £544 £513 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £520
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +10.58% -0.48%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £625
90th Percentile £688 £728 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £619 £600 £470
% change year-on-year +3.13% +27.66% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £18.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

E-business is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,881 55,208 81,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.36% 89.86% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,533 38,169 57,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,409 1,808 1,952
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.85 £16.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £33.07 £36.00 £24.87
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +44.78% -0.54%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £73.98 £63.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.07 £35.80 £19.91
% change year-on-year -7.64% +79.81% -8.42%

E-business
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing E-business as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for E-business in the UK

E-business
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing E-business.

Daily rate trend for E-business in the UK

E-business
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-business over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for E-business in the UK

E-business
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing E-business.

Hourly rate trend for E-business in the UK

E-business
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-business within the UK over the 6 months to 16 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +117 23 £625 +3.73% 3
UK excluding London +60 21 £619 +3.13% 5
Work from Home +128 18 £613 +22.50% 7
South East +27 16 £625 +3.73%
Wales - 5 £550 - 3
London +103 2 £686 +0.70% 1

E-business
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 20 (55.56%) Oracle EBS R12
2 13 (36.11%) Maximo
2 13 (36.11%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (25.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (2.78%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 15 (41.67%) Azure
2 9 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (19.44%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) Oracle ODI
2 6 (16.67%) Oracle Database
2 6 (16.67%) PowerCenter
3 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) JIRA
2 6 (16.67%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (2.78%) GitLab
General
1 29 (80.56%) Social Skills
2 22 (61.11%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (47.22%) Finance
4 7 (19.44%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.78%) Front Office
6 1 (2.78%) Legal
6 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (55.56%) Consultant
1 20 (55.56%) Functional Consultant
1 20 (55.56%) Oracle Consultant
1 20 (55.56%) Oracle Functional Consultant
2 9 (25.00%) DBA
2 9 (25.00%) HR Consultant
2 9 (25.00%) Oracle HRMS Consultant
2 9 (25.00%) Oracle HRMS Functional Consultant
3 8 (22.22%) Oracle DBA
4 7 (19.44%) Oracle P2P Consultant
5 3 (8.33%) Logistics Consultant
5 3 (8.33%) Procurement Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Administrator
6 2 (5.56%) Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Oracle Applications DBA
6 2 (5.56%) QA Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) QA Test Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Test Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (2.78%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.78%) Ultra Messaging
2 1 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.78%) Clustering
1 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (2.78%) HP Storage
1 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (2.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.78%) Linux
2 9 (25.00%) AIX
3 1 (2.78%) Windows
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (41.67%) DevOps
3 12 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 9 (25.00%) Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (22.22%) Agile
5 8 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (19.44%) High Availability
7 5 (13.89%) Migration
8 4 (11.11%) Database Security
8 4 (11.11%) Logistics
9 2 (5.56%) Electronic Trading
9 2 (5.56%) Knowledge Transfer
9 2 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (5.56%) Test Scripting
10 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 1 (2.78%) Platform Engineering
10 1 (2.78%) Proactive Monitoring
10 1 (2.78%) Storage Management
10 1 (2.78%) Task Automation
10 1 (2.78%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.56%) Python
3 1 (2.78%) Bash
3 1 (2.78%) Perl
3 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.78%) CCNA
1 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (25.00%) Data Guard
2 6 (16.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (2.78%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (94.44%) Oracle
2 6 (16.67%) Informatica
3 2 (5.56%) VMware
4 1 (2.78%) Cisco
4 1 (2.78%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.78%) Dell
4 1 (2.78%) HP
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.78%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.78%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) Solace
4 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.78%) Sun
4 1 (2.78%) TIBCO