Cheshire Change Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Change 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 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	24	47
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	68	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.087 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	12.85 %	1.857 %
Daily rates quoted	22	2
Average minimum daily rate	£405	£325
Average daily rate	£425	£355
% change on same period last year	+19.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£445	£385
UK excluding London average daily rate	£405	£392
% change on same period last year	+3.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.50	-
Average hourly rate	£16.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.03	£26.82
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
Processes & Methodologies Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	529	377
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.679 %	0.424 %
Daily rates quoted	185	132
Average minimum daily rate	£330	£317
Average daily rate	£344	£330
% change on same period last year	+4.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	49	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.11	£28.40
Average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.71	£31.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.72	£29.49
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Change 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.

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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 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Change Management across the Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Change Management within the Cheshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Knutsford	-	26	£453	-
2	Chester	+2	11	-	-
3	Macclesfield	-	2	£300	-
4	Warrington	-5	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 45 (56.96 %) Middleware 2 43 (54.43 %) Windows 3 41 (51.90 %) AIX 3 41 (51.90 %) Shell Script 4 39 (49.37 %) Tivoli 4 39 (49.37 %) Unix 5 37 (46.84 %) HPUX 5 37 (46.84 %) Solaris 5 37 (46.84 %) Mainframe 5 37 (46.84 %) OMEGAMON 6 36 (45.57 %) Tandem 7 24 (30.38 %) WebSphere 8 23 (29.11 %) WebSphere MQ 9 21 (26.58 %) SSL 10 20 (25.32 %) WBIMB

11 17 (21.52 %) Finance 12 15 (18.99 %) Cisco 13 14 (17.72 %) Project Management 14 13 (16.46 %) WebSphere Application Server 15 12 (15.19 %) ITIL 16 11 (13.92 %) HP 16 11 (13.92 %) Gentran 17 6 (7.595 %) IBM 18 5 (6.329 %) Service Delivery 19 4 (5.063 %) MQSeries 19 4 (5.063 %) PRINCE2 20 3 (3.797 %) MCSE 20 3 (3.797 %) SLA 20 3 (3.797 %) Active Directory 20 3 (3.797 %) Microsoft Certification

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 Development 1 45 (56.96 %) Middleware 2 24 (30.38 %) WebSphere 3 20 (25.32 %) WBIMB	Application Platforms 1 23 (29.11 %) WebSphere MQ 2 13 (16.46 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 11 (13.92 %) Gentran 4 4 (5.063 %) MQSeries 5 2 (2.532 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 2 (2.532 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 1 (1.266 %) Oracle 10gAS 6 1 (1.266 %) SharePoint 6 1 (1.266 %) Oracle Application Server
Applications 1 1 (1.266 %) MS Project 1 1 (1.266 %) MS Office 1 1 (1.266 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (1.266 %) e-Work
Communications & Networking 1 21 (26.58 %) SSL 2 2 (2.532 %) SAN 2 2 (2.532 %) LAN 2 2 (2.532 %) HTTP 3 1 (1.266 %) Firewall 3 1 (1.266 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (2.532 %) Crystal Reports 1 2 (2.532 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (1.266 %) Oracle 10g
General 1 17 (21.52 %) Finance 2 3 (3.797 %) Health 2 3 (3.797 %) Financial Institution 2 3 (3.797 %) Banking 3 2 (2.532 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (1.266 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (1.266 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 16 (20.25 %) Consultant 2 12 (15.19 %) Analyst 3 9 (11.39 %) WebSphere Consultant 4 7 (8.861 %) Infrastructure Specialist 4 7 (8.861 %) WebSphere Specialist 4 7 (8.861 %) Service Analyst 5 6 (7.595 %) Project Manager 5 6 (7.595 %) Administrator 6 5 (6.329 %) Services Delivery Analyst 7 4 (5.063 %) Change Analyst 8 2 (2.532 %) Service Desk Analyst 8 2 (2.532 %) WebSphere Administrator 8 2 (2.532 %) Service Manager 8 2 (2.532 %) Network Engineer 8 2 (2.532 %) Technical Services Manager 8 2 (2.532 %) Technical Manager 9 1 (1.266 %) Change Consultant 9 1 (1.266 %) UNIX Specialist 9 1 (1.266 %) Storage Administrator 9 1 (1.266 %) Communications Manager
Miscellaneous 1 37 (46.84 %) Mainframe 2 36 (45.57 %) Tandem 3 2 (2.532 %) Management Information System 3 2 (2.532 %) EPoS 3 2 (2.532 %) NHS 4 1 (1.266 %) PMI	Operating Systems 1 43 (54.43 %) Windows 2 41 (51.90 %) AIX 3 39 (49.37 %) Unix 4 37 (46.84 %) HPUX 4 37 (46.84 %) Solaris 5 3 (3.797 %) Windows Server 2003 6 2 (2.532 %) Linux 6 2 (2.532 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (2.532 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (17.72 %) Project Management 2 12 (15.19 %) ITIL 3 5 (6.329 %) Service Delivery 4 4 (5.063 %) PRINCE2 5 3 (3.797 %) Incident Management 6 2 (2.532 %) Technical Architecture 6 2 (2.532 %) Stakeholder Management 6 2 (2.532 %) CMMI 6 2 (2.532 %) Service Management 7 1 (1.266 %) Quality Management 7 1 (1.266 %) RUP 7 1 (1.266 %) GAP Analysis 7 1 (1.266 %) Information Security Management 7 1 (1.266 %) Security Management 7 1 (1.266 %) Migration 7 1 (1.266 %) Information Security 7 1 (1.266 %) Programme Management 7 1 (1.266 %) Load Balancing 7 1 (1.266 %) Risk Analysis 7 1 (1.266 %) ISMS	Programming Languages 1 41 (51.90 %) Shell Script 2 2 (2.532 %) Perl 2 2 (2.532 %) SQL 3 1 (1.266 %) C
Qualifications 1 3 (3.797 %) MCSE 1 3 (3.797 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (1.266 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (1.266 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.797 %) SLA 1 3 (3.797 %) QA 2 1 (1.266 %) ISO9000 2 1 (1.266 %) BS7799
System Software 1 3 (3.797 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 39 (49.37 %) Tivoli 2 37 (46.84 %) OMEGAMON 3 2 (2.532 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 1 (1.266 %) ServiceCenter 4 1 (1.266 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 15 (18.99 %) Cisco 2 11 (13.92 %) HP 3 6 (7.595 %) IBM 4 2 (2.532 %) Microsoft 4 2 (2.532 %) Sun 4 2 (2.532 %) Dell 4 2 (2.532 %) Intel 4 2 (2.532 %) Business Objects 4 2 (2.532 %) Remedy 5 1 (1.266 %) Altiris 5 1 (1.266 %) Oracle 5 1 (1.266 %) CA 5 1 (1.266 %) Peregrine