Cheshire Matrix Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Matrix 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 Matrix Management over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Barnsley Berkshire Bicester Bournemouth Bracknell Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hertfordshire Hounslow Knutsford Lancashire Leeds London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Norwich Oxfordshire Scotland Shropshire Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Staines Stevenage Surrey Sussex Swansea Telford UK Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	65
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	9	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	1.978 %	0.794 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£364	-
Average daily rate	£364	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£364	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£450	£403
% change on same period last year	+11.54 %
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	£27.50	£36.40
% change on same period last year	-24.45 %
Processes & Methodologies Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	455	504
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.641 %	0.509 %
Daily rates quoted	124	132
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£309
Average daily rate	£356	£323
% change on same period last year	+10.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	50	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.02	£24.85
Average hourly rate	£22.05	£26.27
% change on same period last year	-16.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.09	£27.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
Matrix 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 Matrix 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 Matrix 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 Matrix Management across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Matrix Management within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Chester	-	6	£364	-
Knutsford	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Matrix 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 Matrix Management.

1 12 (75.00 %) Project Management 2 9 (56.25 %) Finance 3 7 (43.75 %) Banking 4 6 (37.50 %) PMI 5 5 (31.25 %) PRINCE 5 5 (31.25 %) Project Planning 6 3 (18.75 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 3 (18.75 %) PRINCE2 6 3 (18.75 %) International Banking 7 2 (12.50 %) Mainframe 7 2 (12.50 %) Change Management 7 2 (12.50 %) UNIX 7 2 (12.50 %) Windows 7 2 (12.50 %) MS Excel 7 2 (12.50 %) MS Project

7 2 (12.50 %) MS Visio 7 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft 7 2 (12.50 %) ITIL 7 2 (12.50 %) Middleware 7 2 (12.50 %) MS PowerPoint 8 1 (6.250 %) Direct Marketing 8 1 (6.250 %) QA 8 1 (6.250 %) Release Management 8 1 (6.250 %) SAP SM 8 1 (6.250 %) PMP 8 1 (6.250 %) PMI Certification 8 1 (6.250 %) SAN 8 1 (6.250 %) SAP 8 1 (6.250 %) E-Commerce 8 1 (6.250 %) Marketing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Matrix 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 Matrix Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (12.50 %) Middleware	Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) MS Project 1 2 (12.50 %) MS Excel 1 2 (12.50 %) MS Visio 1 2 (12.50 %) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) SAP SM	Communications & Networking 1 1 (6.250 %) SAN
General 1 9 (56.25 %) Finance 2 7 (43.75 %) Banking 3 3 (18.75 %) International Banking 4 1 (6.250 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 14 (87.50 %) Project Manager 2 3 (18.75 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 2 3 (18.75 %) Infrastructure Manager 3 2 (12.50 %) Change Consultant 3 2 (12.50 %) Consultant 4 1 (6.250 %) Technical Project Manager 4 1 (6.250 %) Change Manager 4 1 (6.250 %) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous 1 6 (37.50 %) PMI 2 2 (12.50 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 2 (12.50 %) UNIX 1 2 (12.50 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (75.00 %) Project Management 2 5 (31.25 %) PRINCE 2 5 (31.25 %) Project Planning 3 3 (18.75 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (12.50 %) ITIL 4 2 (12.50 %) Change Management 5 1 (6.250 %) Stakeholder Management 5 1 (6.250 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis 5 1 (6.250 %) Service Management 5 1 (6.250 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (6.250 %) Direct Marketing 5 1 (6.250 %) Release Management	Qualifications 1 3 (18.75 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (6.250 %) PMP 2 1 (6.250 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (6.250 %) QA	Vendors 1 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft 2 1 (6.250 %) SAP