Berkshire Business Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Business Manager role in IT contracts within the Berkshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Isle of Wight Jersey Lancashire Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Rugby Scotland Shropshire Solihull South East South Wales South West Southampton Staffordshire Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	107	151
Rank change on same period last year	+44
Matching contract IT job ads	22	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.708 %	0.222 %
Daily rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum daily rate	£404	£375
Average daily rate	£422	£398
% change on same period last year	+6.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£440	£420
UK excluding London average daily rate	£452	£442
% change on same period last year	+2.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£33.33
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	3109	4496
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.138 %	4.558 %
Daily rates quoted	773	1364
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£342
Average daily rate	£354	£359
% change on same period last year	-1.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£352
% change on same period last year	+1.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	230	420
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.56	£29.61
Average hourly rate	£25.26	£30.84
% change on same period last year	-18.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.95	£32.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.50	£25.85
% change on same period last year	-9.09 %
Business Manager South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Manager across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Business Manager across the Berkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Manager across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Manager within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bracknell	-	3	£385	-
Newbury	+17	3	-	-
Reading	+1	2	-	-
Maidenhead	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Business Manager in their job title 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 with Business Manager in their job title.

1 10 (40.00 %) Telecoms 2 7 (28.00 %) Project Management 3 6 (24.00 %) PRINCE2 4 5 (20.00 %) Business Continuity 5 3 (12.00 %) Business Intelligence 5 3 (12.00 %) Microsoft 5 3 (12.00 %) Active Directory 5 3 (12.00 %) ISO27001 5 3 (12.00 %) Content Management 5 3 (12.00 %) BS25999 6 2 (8.000 %) Matrix Management 6 2 (8.000 %) BPR 6 2 (8.000 %) Billing 6 2 (8.000 %) ISO9001 6 2 (8.000 %) Datawarehouse

6 2 (8.000 %) Broadband 6 2 (8.000 %) Finance 6 2 (8.000 %) Disaster Recovery 6 2 (8.000 %) Management Information System 7 1 (4.000 %) Back Office 7 1 (4.000 %) Data Security 7 1 (4.000 %) Construction 7 1 (4.000 %) Stakeholder Management 7 1 (4.000 %) Handset 7 1 (4.000 %) Change Management 7 1 (4.000 %) GPRS 7 1 (4.000 %) UMTS 7 1 (4.000 %) WLAN 7 1 (4.000 %) SQL 7 1 (4.000 %) Oracle

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Business Manager in their job title 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 with Business Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (4.000 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (8.000 %) Broadband 2 1 (4.000 %) GPRS 2 1 (4.000 %) UMTS 2 1 (4.000 %) WLAN 2 1 (4.000 %) Ethernet 2 1 (4.000 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (8.000 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (4.000 %) EDMS 2 1 (4.000 %) Oracle OLAP 2 1 (4.000 %) OLAP	General 1 10 (40.00 %) Telecoms 2 2 (8.000 %) Finance 2 2 (8.000 %) Billing 3 1 (4.000 %) Insurance 3 1 (4.000 %) Pensions 3 1 (4.000 %) Marketing 3 1 (4.000 %) Construction 3 1 (4.000 %) Banking 3 1 (4.000 %) Back Office
Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.000 %) Management Information System 2 1 (4.000 %) Handset 2 1 (4.000 %) IVR	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (28.00 %) Project Management 2 6 (24.00 %) PRINCE2 3 5 (20.00 %) Business Continuity 4 3 (12.00 %) Content Management 4 3 (12.00 %) Business Intelligence 5 2 (8.000 %) BPR 5 2 (8.000 %) Matrix Management 5 2 (8.000 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (4.000 %) Data Security 6 1 (4.000 %) Stakeholder Management 6 1 (4.000 %) Information Security 6 1 (4.000 %) Programme Management 6 1 (4.000 %) Document Management 6 1 (4.000 %) Business Analysis 6 1 (4.000 %) ITIL 6 1 (4.000 %) Change Management 6 1 (4.000 %) BCP 6 1 (4.000 %) CRM
Programming Languages 1 1 (4.000 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (4.000 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (12.00 %) ISO27001 1 3 (12.00 %) BS25999 2 2 (8.000 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 3 (12.00 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 3 (12.00 %) Microsoft 2 1 (4.000 %) Oracle