The first table below looks at the demand for Change Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Change 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 Bedford 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
Change Management
Rank - 5 14
Contract jobs citing Change Management 0 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford - 10.53% 4.762%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 16.67% 7.143%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £306
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £360
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £15.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+152.00% -34.78%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bedford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16 12 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 80.00% 63.16% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 12
Average daily rate £325 £575 £193
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-43.47% +198.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £278 £130 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £575 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £19.39 - £10.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Change Management
Bedfordshire

Change Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford Change Management Jobs Demand Trend

Change Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bedford Change Management Daily Rate Trend

Change Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bedford Change Management Hourly Rate Trend

Change Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (75.00%) Project Management
1 3 (75.00%) Citrix
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) WhatsUp Gold
2 2 (50.00%) Forefront TMG
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Local Government
2 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) TickIT
2 2 (50.00%) Back Office
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) DMZ
2 2 (50.00%) PRINCE
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) Symantec
2 2 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) IIS
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (50.00%) ISO 9001
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP

Change Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) IIS
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
1 2 (50.00%) DMZ
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) IP Telephony
General
1 2 (50.00%) Back Office
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Local Government
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Change Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (50.00%) PRINCE
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Information Governance
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO 9001
1 2 (50.00%) TickIT
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (50.00%) WhatsUp Gold
2 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Citrix
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Symantec
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft