E-business Contracts

Electronic Business (eBusiness)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring E-business skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited E-business over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 662 809
Rank change year-on-year +123 +147 -130
Contract jobs citing E-business 45 35 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.063% 0.045%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.070% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 26 21
10th Percentile £475 £513 £438
25th Percentile £512 £550 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £603 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% +15.87% -9.57%
75th Percentile £638 £711 £625
90th Percentile £703 £750 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £603 £600 £463
% change year-on-year +0.42% +29.73% +2.78%
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 falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 June 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 7 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 12 June 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 +89 30 £625 -4.94% 7
UK excluding London +34 26 £603 +0.42% 8
Work from Home +126 22 £550 -2.65% 6
South East +23 19 £625 +4.17% 1
London +75 5 £745 +5.49% 3
Wales +23 5 £550 +4.76% 2
Scotland +46 2 £463 -11.90% 2

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.44%) SAS
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 20 (44.44%) Oracle EBS R12
2 13 (28.89%) Maximo
2 13 (28.89%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (20.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (2.22%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 16 (35.56%) Azure
2 9 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (15.56%) GitHub
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.56%) Oracle ODI
2 6 (13.33%) Oracle Database
2 6 (13.33%) PowerCenter
3 1 (2.22%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.22%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 1 (2.22%) KDB
3 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.22%) Power BI
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.22%) Tableau
3 1 (2.22%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 8 (17.78%) JIRA
2 6 (13.33%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (4.44%) Eclipse
3 2 (4.44%) Git
3 2 (4.44%) Gradle
3 2 (4.44%) IntelliJ
3 2 (4.44%) Maven
4 1 (2.22%) GitLab
General
1 32 (71.11%) Social Skills
2 22 (48.89%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (40.00%) Finance
4 7 (15.56%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (11.11%) Legal
6 2 (4.44%) Banking
6 2 (4.44%) Front Office
6 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.44%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.22%) Back Office
7 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (44.44%) Consultant
1 20 (44.44%) Functional Consultant
1 20 (44.44%) Oracle Consultant
1 20 (44.44%) Oracle Functional Consultant
2 9 (20.00%) DBA
2 9 (20.00%) HR Consultant
2 9 (20.00%) Oracle HRMS Consultant
2 9 (20.00%) Oracle HRMS Functional Consultant
3 8 (17.78%) Oracle DBA
4 7 (15.56%) Oracle P2P Consultant
5 5 (11.11%) Procurement Officer
6 3 (6.67%) Logistics Consultant
6 3 (6.67%) Procurement Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Administrator
7 2 (4.44%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Oracle Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Oracle Applications DBA
7 2 (4.44%) QA Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) QA Test Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) Middleware
2 2 (4.44%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (2.22%) Ultra Messaging
3 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.44%) Algorithms
1 2 (4.44%) Equities
1 2 (4.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.22%) Clustering
2 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.22%) HP Storage
2 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.22%) Linux
2 9 (20.00%) AIX
3 1 (2.22%) Windows
3 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (33.33%) DevOps
3 12 (26.67%) Project Delivery
4 9 (20.00%) Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (17.78%) Agile
5 8 (17.78%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (15.56%) High Availability
7 6 (13.33%) Migration
8 4 (8.89%) Database Security
8 4 (8.89%) Logistics
8 4 (8.89%) Performance Management
9 3 (6.67%) Electronic Trading
9 3 (6.67%) Low Latency
9 3 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (4.44%) Data Analysis
10 2 (4.44%) OO
10 2 (4.44%) Software Engineering
10 2 (4.44%) TDD
10 2 (4.44%) Test Scripting
10 2 (4.44%) UML
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (4.44%) Java
2 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.44%) Python
3 1 (2.22%) Bash
3 1 (2.22%) Perl
3 1 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.22%) CCNA
1 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.44%) QA
System Software
1 6 (13.33%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (20.00%) Data Guard
2 6 (13.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (2.22%) Ansible
3 1 (2.22%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (88.89%) Oracle
2 6 (13.33%) Informatica
3 2 (4.44%) SAP
3 2 (4.44%) VMware
4 1 (2.22%) Cisco
4 1 (2.22%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.22%) Dell
4 1 (2.22%) HP
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.22%) Solace
4 1 (2.22%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.22%) Sun
4 1 (2.22%) TIBCO
4 1 (2.22%) Workday