Cheshire Remedy Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Remedy products and/or services in IT contracts within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Remedy over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West Norwich Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Preston Pudsey Reading Rotherham Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southwark St Albans Stockport Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windlesham Wirral Witham Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	62
Rank change on same period last year	+30
Matching contract IT job ads	25	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	6.983 %	0.957 %
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	£310	£302
% change on same period last year	+2.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.27	£17.50
Average hourly rate	£16.67	£17.75
% change on same period last year	-6.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.07	£18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.74	£13.71
% change on same period last year	+29.37 %
Vendors Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	358	418
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.509 %	0.422 %
Daily rates quoted	95	114
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£315
Average daily rate	£311	£327
% change on same period last year	-5.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£355
% change on same period last year	+1.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	66	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.83	£22.08
Average hourly rate	£22.87	£22.64
% change on same period last year	+1.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.91	£23.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.38	£24.36
% change on same period last year	+0.06 %
Remedy 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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within BMC Remedy.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Remedy across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors 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 Remedy across the Cheshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Remedy 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 Remedy across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 7 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 Remedy within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 7 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	+17	16	-	-
Macclesfield	+2	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Remedy 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 Remedy.

1 14 (42.42 %) ITIL 2 11 (33.33 %) Change Management 3 7 (21.21 %) SAP 4 6 (18.18 %) UNIX 4 6 (18.18 %) Oracle 5 5 (15.15 %) Active Directory 5 5 (15.15 %) OpenView 5 5 (15.15 %) Citrix 5 5 (15.15 %) ITIL Certification 6 4 (12.12 %) SAP BW 6 4 (12.12 %) SAP APO 6 4 (12.12 %) Service Management 7 3 (9.091 %) e-Work 7 3 (9.091 %) Finance 7 3 (9.091 %) Oracle EBS

7 3 (9.091 %) Incident Management 7 3 (9.091 %) Oracle Financials 8 2 (6.061 %) HP 8 2 (6.061 %) Legato 8 2 (6.061 %) PL/SQL 8 2 (6.061 %) SQL 8 2 (6.061 %) Windows 8 2 (6.061 %) MS Office 8 2 (6.061 %) Windows XP 8 2 (6.061 %) MS Exchange 8 2 (6.061 %) DHCP 8 2 (6.061 %) TOAD 8 2 (6.061 %) DNS 8 2 (6.061 %) Oracle Discoverer 8 2 (6.061 %) Exchange Server 2003

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Remedy 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 Remedy. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (6.061 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (6.061 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 2 (6.061 %) MS Office 2 1 (3.030 %) CA Clarity 2 1 (3.030 %) MS Project 2 1 (3.030 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 4 (12.12 %) SAP APO 2 3 (9.091 %) e-Work 2 3 (9.091 %) Oracle EBS 2 3 (9.091 %) Oracle Financials	Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.061 %) DHCP 1 2 (6.061 %) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (12.12 %) SAP BW 2 2 (6.061 %) TOAD 2 2 (6.061 %) Oracle Discoverer	General 1 3 (9.091 %) Finance 2 2 (6.061 %) Telecoms 2 2 (6.061 %) Government 2 2 (6.061 %) Manufacturing 2 2 (6.061 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 20 (60.61 %) Analyst 2 7 (21.21 %) Change Analyst 3 4 (12.12 %) Data Analyst 4 3 (9.091 %) Functional Analyst 4 3 (9.091 %) Remedy Administrator 4 3 (9.091 %) Oracle Analyst 4 3 (9.091 %) Oracle Support Analyst 4 3 (9.091 %) Remedy Analyst 4 3 (9.091 %) Administrator 4 3 (9.091 %) Release Analyst 4 3 (9.091 %) Support Analyst 4 3 (9.091 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 2 (6.061 %) Server Engineer 6 1 (3.030 %) UNIX Operator 6 1 (3.030 %) Project Engineer 6 1 (3.030 %) Wintel Engineer 6 1 (3.030 %) 1st Line Support 6 1 (3.030 %) Service Analyst	Operating Systems 1 6 (18.18 %) UNIX 2 2 (6.061 %) Windows 2 2 (6.061 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (42.42 %) ITIL 2 11 (33.33 %) Change Management 3 4 (12.12 %) Service Management 4 3 (9.091 %) Incident Management 5 1 (3.030 %) Migration 5 1 (3.030 %) Workflow 5 1 (3.030 %) Project Management 5 1 (3.030 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (3.030 %) Disaster Recovery	Programming Languages 1 2 (6.061 %) PL/SQL 1 2 (6.061 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 5 (15.15 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.030 %) SLA
System Software 1 5 (15.15 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 5 (15.15 %) OpenView 2 2 (6.061 %) Legato 3 1 (3.030 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 7 (21.21 %) SAP 2 6 (18.18 %) Oracle 3 5 (15.15 %) Citrix 4 2 (6.061 %) HP 5 1 (3.030 %) Microsoft