Cambridge Systems Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Systems Manager role in IT contracts within the Cambridge 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 Systems Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

System Manager
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Cambridge Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Essex Hackney Hampshire Hertfordshire Horsham Huddersfield Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Maidenhead Middlesex North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Scotland Sevenoaks South East South Wales South West Southampton Staines Surrey Teddington UK Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£364
% change on same period last year	+5.10 %
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	£37.50	£29.13
% change on same period last year	+28.75 %
Job Titles Cambridge
Matching contract IT job ads	364	596
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.512 %	0.602 %
Daily rates quoted	82	118
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£312
Average daily rate	£321	£329
% change on same period last year	-2.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	90	91
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.71	£29.99
Average hourly rate	£21.45	£32.18
% change on same period last year	-33.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.19	£34.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Systems Manager Cambridgeshire

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 Systems Manager across the Cambridge 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 Systems Manager across the Cambridge region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Systems Manager across the Cambridge region.

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Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Systems 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 Systems Manager in their job title.

1 2 (66.67 %) Wireless 2 1 (33.33 %) Wi-Fi 2 1 (33.33 %) Bugzilla 2 1 (33.33 %) Handset 2 1 (33.33 %) Subversion 2 1 (33.33 %) Use Case 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco PIX 2 1 (33.33 %) CentOS 2 1 (33.33 %) Red Hat Linux 2 1 (33.33 %) Perl 2 1 (33.33 %) MySQL 2 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) Linux 2 1 (33.33 %) Apache

2 1 (33.33 %) Python 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP 2 1 (33.33 %) DHCP 2 1 (33.33 %) NFS 2 1 (33.33 %) VPN 2 1 (33.33 %) DNS 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 1 (33.33 %) NetApp 2 1 (33.33 %) Red Hat 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) Blackberry

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Systems 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 Systems Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) Apache	Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) Wireless 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco PIX 2 1 (33.33 %) DHCP 2 1 (33.33 %) VPN 2 1 (33.33 %) DNS 2 1 (33.33 %) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Bugzilla 1 1 (33.33 %) Subversion
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Blackberry 1 1 (33.33 %) Handset	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 1 1 (33.33 %) CentOS 1 1 (33.33 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Use Case	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) Perl 1 1 (33.33 %) Python
System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) NFS 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) NetApp 1 1 (33.33 %) Red Hat