Birmingham Change Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Change Management skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Change Management over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aldershot Amersham Avon Aylesbury Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Billingham Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Huntingdon Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Stevenage Stourbridge Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	46
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	15	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	3.704 %	3.133 %
Daily rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum daily rate	£458	£500
Average daily rate	£496	£550
% change on same period last year	-9.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£533	£600
UK excluding London average daily rate	£405	£392
% change on same period last year	+3.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	7
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£28.09
Average hourly rate	-	£29.63
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£31.16
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.03	£26.82
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
Processes & Methodologies Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	405	415
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.520 %	0.466 %
Daily rates quoted	115	82
Average minimum daily rate	£344	£349
Average daily rate	£369	£370
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	46
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.41	£23.91
Average hourly rate	£21.02	£25.13
% change on same period last year	-16.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.63	£26.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.72	£29.49
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Change Management West Midlands

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Change Management across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Change Management across the Birmingham region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Change Management across the Birmingham region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Change Management also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Change Management.

1 12 (37.50 %) ITIL 2 11 (34.38 %) Project Management 3 10 (31.25 %) Remedy 4 9 (28.13 %) Oracle 4 9 (28.13 %) Finance 5 8 (25.00 %) Service Management 5 8 (25.00 %) Asset Management 5 8 (25.00 %) SQL 6 7 (21.88 %) CRM 7 6 (18.75 %) Service Delivery 7 6 (18.75 %) Web Design 7 6 (18.75 %) SQL Server 7 6 (18.75 %) Sybase 7 6 (18.75 %) Apache 7 6 (18.75 %) Tomcat

7 6 (18.75 %) Windows 7 6 (18.75 %) Solaris 7 6 (18.75 %) Linux 7 6 (18.75 %) Remedy AR System 7 6 (18.75 %) Oracle RAC 8 5 (15.63 %) Banking 8 5 (15.63 %) Stakeholder Management 9 4 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 10 3 (9.375 %) Pensions 10 3 (9.375 %) Insurance 10 3 (9.375 %) Government 10 3 (9.375 %) Release Management 11 2 (6.250 %) Unit Testing 11 2 (6.250 %) Wealth Management 11 2 (6.250 %) Billing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Change Management also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Change Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 6 (18.75 %) Apache 1 6 (18.75 %) Tomcat 2 2 (6.250 %) Tuxedo	Applications 1 2 (6.250 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 6 (18.75 %) Remedy AR System 2 1 (3.125 %) assyst	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2 1 (3.125 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 2 (6.250 %) PVCS 1 2 (6.250 %) ChangeMan 2 1 (3.125 %) PowerBuilder	General 1 9 (28.13 %) Finance 2 5 (15.63 %) Banking 3 3 (9.375 %) Government 3 3 (9.375 %) Insurance 3 3 (9.375 %) Pensions 4 2 (6.250 %) Billing 5 1 (3.125 %) Auditing 5 1 (3.125 %) Retail 5 1 (3.125 %) Education
Job Titles 1 8 (25.00 %) Developer 2 7 (21.88 %) Project Manager 3 6 (18.75 %) Remedy Developer 3 6 (18.75 %) Change Manager 4 5 (15.63 %) Analyst 5 4 (12.50 %) Programme Office Manager 5 4 (12.50 %) Business Analyst 5 4 (12.50 %) Programme Manager 6 2 (6.250 %) PMO Manager 6 2 (6.250 %) Project Office Manager 7 1 (3.125 %) Change Consultant 7 1 (3.125 %) PowerBuilder Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) COBOL Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) Coordinator 7 1 (3.125 %) Business Consultant 7 1 (3.125 %) Project Analyst 7 1 (3.125 %) Consultant 7 1 (3.125 %) Applications Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) Solutions Designer	Miscellaneous 1 8 (25.00 %) Asset Management 2 2 (6.250 %) Client/Server 3 1 (3.125 %) NHS 3 1 (3.125 %) Management Information System 3 1 (3.125 %) Statistics 3 1 (3.125 %) CMDB
Operating Systems 1 6 (18.75 %) Windows 1 6 (18.75 %) Solaris 1 6 (18.75 %) Linux 2 2 (6.250 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (37.50 %) ITIL 2 11 (34.38 %) Project Management 3 8 (25.00 %) Service Management 4 7 (21.88 %) CRM 5 6 (18.75 %) Service Delivery 5 6 (18.75 %) Web Design 6 5 (15.63 %) Stakeholder Management 7 4 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 8 3 (9.375 %) Release Management 9 2 (6.250 %) Unit Testing 9 2 (6.250 %) Wealth Management 9 2 (6.250 %) Data Modelling 9 2 (6.250 %) Six Sigma 9 2 (6.250 %) Configuration Management 9 2 (6.250 %) Risk Management 10 1 (3.125 %) Information Management 10 1 (3.125 %) Disaster Recovery 10 1 (3.125 %) PRINCE 10 1 (3.125 %) ERP 10 1 (3.125 %) Performance Management
Programming Languages 1 8 (25.00 %) SQL 2 2 (6.250 %) COBOL 3 1 (3.125 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (3.125 %) C	Qualifications 1 1 (3.125 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (6.250 %) SLA 2 1 (3.125 %) Basel II 2 1 (3.125 %) QA	System Software 1 6 (18.75 %) Oracle RAC
Vendors 1 10 (31.25 %) Remedy 2 9 (28.13 %) Oracle 3 6 (18.75 %) Sybase 4 2 (6.250 %) BEA 4 2 (6.250 %) Serena 5 1 (3.125 %) SAP 5 1 (3.125 %) Micro Focus