Cheshire Asset Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Asset Management skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Asset Management over the 3 months to 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Ilford Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Scotland Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Templecombe UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville West Midlands West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	52
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	7	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	1.496 %	2.331 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£267
Average daily rate	£400	£287
% change on same period last year	+39.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£307
UK excluding London average daily rate	£419	£363
% change on same period last year	+15.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.40	-
Average hourly rate	£25.70	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.55	£21.01
% change on same period last year	-2.19 %
Processes & Methodologies Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	468	429
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.742 %	0.457 %
Daily rates quoted	131	100
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£323
Average daily rate	£346	£335
% change on same period last year	+3.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£371
% change on same period last year	+2.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	65	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.46	£28.54
Average hourly rate	£26.69	£29.15
% change on same period last year	-8.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.93	£29.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.11	£29.69
% change on same period last year	-5.31 %
Asset Management North West

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.

Asset Management
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Asset Management across the Cheshire 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 IT contract jobs citing Asset Management across the Cheshire 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 Asset Management across the Cheshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Asset Management across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 1 December 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Asset Management within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 1 December 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
Warrington	-2	2	£400	-
Chester	+4	1	-	-
Northwich	-	1	-	-

Asset Management North West

Asset Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Asset 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 Asset Management.

1 8 (28.57 %) Service Delivery 2 6 (21.43 %) ITIL 3 5 (17.86 %) Finance 4 4 (14.29 %) Security Cleared 4 4 (14.29 %) MS Excel 5 3 (10.71 %) PRINCE2 5 3 (10.71 %) SAP 5 3 (10.71 %) Release Management 6 2 (7.143 %) Service Management 6 2 (7.143 %) Statistics 6 2 (7.143 %) Risk Analysis 6 2 (7.143 %) Aerospace 6 2 (7.143 %) MS Office 6 2 (7.143 %) EAM 6 2 (7.143 %) ITIL Certification

6 2 (7.143 %) CRM 7 1 (3.571 %) ERP 7 1 (3.571 %) LAN 7 1 (3.571 %) VPN 7 1 (3.571 %) Microsoft 7 1 (3.571 %) HP 7 1 (3.571 %) ISEB 7 1 (3.571 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 1 (3.571 %) XSLT 7 1 (3.571 %) C# 7 1 (3.571 %) .NET 7 1 (3.571 %) SQL Server 7 1 (3.571 %) MS Access 7 1 (3.571 %) Navision 7 1 (3.571 %) Agresso

Asset Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Asset 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 Asset Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.571 %) .NET 1 1 (3.571 %) XSLT 1 1 (3.571 %) FpML	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.571 %) BizTalk Server 1 1 (3.571 %) OnBase
Applications 1 4 (14.29 %) MS Excel 2 2 (7.143 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (3.571 %) Navision
Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.571 %) LAN 1 1 (3.571 %) VPN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.571 %) SQL Server 1 1 (3.571 %) MS Access 1 1 (3.571 %) SQL Server Integration Services
General 1 5 (17.86 %) Finance 2 2 (7.143 %) Aerospace 3 1 (3.571 %) Education 3 1 (3.571 %) Advertising 3 1 (3.571 %) Publishing 3 1 (3.571 %) Banking 3 1 (3.571 %) Retail 3 1 (3.571 %) Retail Banking 3 1 (3.571 %) FMCG 3 1 (3.571 %) Front Office	Job Titles 1 7 (25.00 %) Project Manager 2 5 (17.86 %) Analyst 3 4 (14.29 %) Service Analyst 4 3 (10.71 %) Administrator 4 3 (10.71 %) Coordinator 5 1 (3.571 %) 1st Line Support 5 1 (3.571 %) Developer 5 1 (3.571 %) Project Coordinator 5 1 (3.571 %) Helpdesk Support 5 1 (3.571 %) Desktop Engineer 5 1 (3.571 %) IT Administrator 5 1 (3.571 %) Risk Analyst 5 1 (3.571 %) Service Management Analyst 5 1 (3.571 %) BizTalk Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (7.143 %) Statistics	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (28.57 %) Service Delivery 2 6 (21.43 %) ITIL 3 4 (14.29 %) Security Cleared 4 3 (10.71 %) Release Management 4 3 (10.71 %) PRINCE2 5 2 (7.143 %) CRM 5 2 (7.143 %) EAM 5 2 (7.143 %) Service Management 5 2 (7.143 %) Risk Analysis 6 1 (3.571 %) Project Management 6 1 (3.571 %) ERP 6 1 (3.571 %) Change Management 6 1 (3.571 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (3.571 %) Risk Management 6 1 (3.571 %) Migration 6 1 (3.571 %) Business Continuity 6 1 (3.571 %) Incident Management 6 1 (3.571 %) Problem Management 6 1 (3.571 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (3.571 %) BC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 1 (3.571 %) C#	Qualifications 1 2 (7.143 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (3.571 %) Degree 2 1 (3.571 %) ISEB 2 1 (3.571 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Systems Management 1 1 (3.571 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 3 (10.71 %) SAP 2 1 (3.571 %) Microsoft 2 1 (3.571 %) HP 2 1 (3.571 %) Agresso