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 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 650 807
Rank change year-on-year +110 +157 -175
Contract jobs citing E-business 36 34 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.060% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.098% 0.066% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 26 24
10th Percentile £509 £513 £423
25th Percentile £544 £550 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £603 £523
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% +15.31% -9.13%
75th Percentile £638 £705 £625
90th Percentile £688 £734 £823
UK excluding London median daily rate £619 £600 £470
% change year-on-year +3.13% +27.66% +4.44%
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 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

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 May 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 May 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 +111 23 £625 -0.40% 6
UK excluding London +56 21 £619 +3.13% 7
Work from Home +129 18 £613 +16.67% 3
South East +17 16 £625 +4.17% 2
Wales +20 5 £550 +4.76% 1
London +93 2 £686 -2.87% 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%) Mentoring
10 1 (2.78%) Platform Engineering
10 1 (2.78%) Proactive Monitoring
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