Cheshire Data Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Data 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 Data Management over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Alderley Edge Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clapham Coventry Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Driffield Dunfermline Dunstable East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Farnborough Fife Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Horsham Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Preston Reading Redcar Rugby Salisbury Scotland Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	57
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	19	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	3.333 %	1.013 %
Daily rates quoted	11	0
Average minimum daily rate	£415	-
Average daily rate	£416	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£418	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£392	£331
% change on same period last year	+18.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£34.38
Average hourly rate	£20.00	£34.38
% change on same period last year	-41.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£34.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.99	£29.93
% change on same period last year	-3.14 %
Processes & Methodologies Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	570	395
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.760 %	0.400 %
Daily rates quoted	183	124
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£313
Average daily rate	£352	£328
% change on same period last year	+7.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	57	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.87	£20.99
Average hourly rate	£26.69	£22.40
% change on same period last year	+19.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.51	£23.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Data 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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Data 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 Data 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 Data Management across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Management within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Macclesfield	-	7	£470	-
Warrington	-	3	-	-
Alderley Edge	-	1	£170	-
Chester	0	1	£300	-

Data Management North West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Data 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 Data Management.

1 13 (54.17 %) Finance 2 10 (41.67 %) Pharmaceutical 2 10 (41.67 %) Hyperion 3 8 (33.33 %) Marketing 3 8 (33.33 %) Hyperion Planning 4 5 (20.83 %) Data Migration 4 5 (20.83 %) Change Management 4 5 (20.83 %) Migration 4 5 (20.83 %) SQL 5 4 (16.67 %) Business Objects 5 4 (16.67 %) BusinessObjects 5 4 (16.67 %) Hyperion Enterprise 6 3 (12.50 %) Stakeholder Management 6 3 (12.50 %) UMTS 6 3 (12.50 %) Nokia

7 2 (8.333 %) Mapinfo 7 2 (8.333 %) HNC 7 2 (8.333 %) Cramer 7 2 (8.333 %) Banking 7 2 (8.333 %) Retail 8 1 (4.167 %) Data Protection 8 1 (4.167 %) Degree 8 1 (4.167 %) MDX 8 1 (4.167 %) Life Science 8 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 1 (4.167 %) Information Management 8 1 (4.167 %) Network Planning 8 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2005

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Data 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 Data Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (4.167 %) MDX	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.167 %) SAS
Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 8 (33.33 %) Hyperion Planning 2 4 (16.67 %) Hyperion Enterprise
Communications & Networking 1 3 (12.50 %) UMTS 2 1 (4.167 %) 3G	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (16.67 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 2 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server Integration Services 2 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 2 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2 1 (4.167 %) MS Access 2 1 (4.167 %) Datawarehouse
General 1 13 (54.17 %) Finance 2 10 (41.67 %) Pharmaceutical 3 8 (33.33 %) Marketing 4 2 (8.333 %) Banking 4 2 (8.333 %) Retail 5 1 (4.167 %) Retail Banking 5 1 (4.167 %) Telecoms 5 1 (4.167 %) Health	Job Titles 1 9 (37.50 %) Analyst 2 6 (25.00 %) Data Analyst 3 4 (16.67 %) Project Manager 4 3 (12.50 %) Implementation Manager 5 2 (8.333 %) Business Manager 5 2 (8.333 %) Programmer 5 2 (8.333 %) Business Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Analyst Programmer 6 1 (4.167 %) Analyst Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Datawarehouse Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Team Leader 6 1 (4.167 %) Project Implementation Manager 6 1 (4.167 %) Capacity Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.167 %) Life Science	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (20.83 %) Change Management 1 5 (20.83 %) Migration 1 5 (20.83 %) Data Migration 2 3 (12.50 %) Stakeholder Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Programme Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Information Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Network Planning 3 1 (4.167 %) Data Protection 3 1 (4.167 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 5 (20.83 %) SQL 2 1 (4.167 %) VB 2 1 (4.167 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 2 (8.333 %) HNC 2 1 (4.167 %) Degree
Vendors 1 10 (41.67 %) Hyperion 2 4 (16.67 %) Business Objects 3 3 (12.50 %) Nokia 4 2 (8.333 %) Mapinfo 4 2 (8.333 %) Cramer 5 1 (4.167 %) ProClarity 5 1 (4.167 %) SAP 5 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft 5 1 (4.167 %) BMC