Cheshire Change Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Change Manager role in IT contracts within the Cheshire 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 Change Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Benfleet Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Canterbury Cheshire Chichester City of London Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lothian Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Reading Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	58	52
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	2	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	0.286 %	0.803 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£500	£300
Average daily rate	£500	£300
% change on same period last year	+66.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£418	£403
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
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	£27.00	£32.52
% change on same period last year	-16.98 %
Job Titles Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	699	747
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.141 %	0.818 %
Daily rates quoted	177	144
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£306
Average daily rate	£312	£316
% change on same period last year	-1.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£326
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	103	74
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.85	£21.47
Average hourly rate	£23.21	£22.60
% change on same period last year	+2.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.57	£23.72
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.18	£23.82
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
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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 Change Manager across the Cheshire 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 Change Manager across the Cheshire region.

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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 Change Manager within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 5 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	-3	1	-	-

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Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Change 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 Change Manager in their job title.

1 1 (33.33 %) Change Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance 1 1 (33.33 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Planning 1 1 (33.33 %) Matrix Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Release Management 1 1 (33.33 %) PMI 1 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Sarbanes-Oxley

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Change 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 Change Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) PMI
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Change Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Planning 1 1 (33.33 %) Matrix Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Release Management	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) Sarbanes-Oxley