Cheshire Benchmarking Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Benchmarking 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 Benchmarking over the 3 months to 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Benchmarking
Location Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Coventry Docklands, London East Midlands East of England England Essex Hampshire Highlands Inverness Leeds Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands North East North West Salisbury Scotland Solihull South Coast South East South West Surrey UK West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 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	£341	£283
% change on same period last year	+20.22 %
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	£25.27	£43.42
% change on same period last year	-41.79 %
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 %
Benchmarking 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.

Benchmarking
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Benchmarking across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Trend

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

Benchmarking
Hourly Rate Trend

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