Cheshire Risk Assessment Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Risk Assessment skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Risk Assessment over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Risk Assessment
Location Andover Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	75	57
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching contract IT job ads	4	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.646 %	0.789 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£650
Average daily rate	-	£650
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£650
UK excluding London average daily rate	£464	£395
% change on same period last year	+17.45 %
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	£30.63	£10.00
% change on same period last year	+206.25 %
Processes & Methodologies Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	619	380
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.822 %	0.390 %
Daily rates quoted	213	124
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£316
Average daily rate	£359	£332
% change on same period last year	+8.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£375
% change on same period last year	+1.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.67	£21.41
Average hourly rate	£27.52	£22.52
% change on same period last year	+22.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.36	£23.62
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.43	£30.35
% change on same period last year	-3.02 %
Risk Assessment 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.

Risk Assessment
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Risk Assessment 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 Risk Assessment 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 Risk Assessment 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 job ads citing Risk Assessment within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 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
Chester	-	2	-	-
Wilmslow	-	1	-	-
Warrington	-5	1	-	-

Risk Assessment North West

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Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Risk Assessment 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 Risk Assessment.

1 3 (50.00 %) Project Management 2 2 (33.33 %) Service Delivery 2 2 (33.33 %) GAP Analysis 2 2 (33.33 %) Finance 2 2 (33.33 %) ITIL 2 2 (33.33 %) ISO9000 2 2 (33.33 %) Critical Path Analysis 2 2 (33.33 %) Business Analysis 2 2 (33.33 %) Project Planning 2 2 (33.33 %) QMS 3 1 (16.67 %) Problem Management 3 1 (16.67 %) Performance Management 3 1 (16.67 %) SLA 3 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft 3 1 (16.67 %) ITIL Certification

3 1 (16.67 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (16.67 %) MS Excel 3 1 (16.67 %) MS Visio 3 1 (16.67 %) Government 3 1 (16.67 %) MS Project 3 1 (16.67 %) MS Office 3 1 (16.67 %) Risk Management

Risk Assessment
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Risk Assessment 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 Risk Assessment. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Project 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Office 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Excel 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Visio	General 1 2 (33.33 %) Finance 2 1 (16.67 %) Government
Job Titles 1 4 (66.67 %) Analyst 2 2 (33.33 %) Business Analyst 2 2 (33.33 %) Service Manager 2 2 (33.33 %) Service Analyst 3 1 (16.67 %) Services Delivery Manager 3 1 (16.67 %) Project Coordinator 3 1 (16.67 %) Delivery Manager 3 1 (16.67 %) Technical Project Coordinator 3 1 (16.67 %) Senior Service Manager 3 1 (16.67 %) Coordinator 3 1 (16.67 %) Senior Manager	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (50.00 %) Project Management 2 2 (33.33 %) Service Delivery 2 2 (33.33 %) GAP Analysis 2 2 (33.33 %) Critical Path Analysis 2 2 (33.33 %) Business Analysis 2 2 (33.33 %) Project Planning 2 2 (33.33 %) ITIL 2 2 (33.33 %) QMS 3 1 (16.67 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (16.67 %) Problem Management 3 1 (16.67 %) Performance Management 3 1 (16.67 %) Risk Management
Qualifications 1 1 (16.67 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (33.33 %) ISO9000 2 1 (16.67 %) SLA
Vendors 1 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft