Cheshire Six Sigma Contracts

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

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Location Andover Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Fife Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Huntingdon Isle of Man Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Melton Mowbray Middlesex Midlands Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Paisley Poole Reading Renfrewshire Scotland South Coast South East South West Stevenage Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	66	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	4	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.702 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£350	-
Average daily rate	£357	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£364	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£402	£395
% change on same period last year	+1.73 %
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	£29.36	£32.63
% change on same period last year	-10.03 %
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 %
Six Sigma 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.

Six Sigma
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Six Sigma 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 Six Sigma 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 Six Sigma 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 Six Sigma 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
Warrington	-	1	-	-
Chester	-	1	£357	-
Macclesfield	-	1	-	-

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Top 20 Related IT Skills

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

1 7 (87.50 %) Finance 2 4 (50.00 %) Project Management 3 3 (37.50 %) E-Commerce 3 3 (37.50 %) Lean Six Sigma 4 2 (25.00 %) BPR 4 2 (25.00 %) Banking 4 2 (25.00 %) PMI 5 1 (12.50 %) Process Management 5 1 (12.50 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 1 (12.50 %) Mainframe 5 1 (12.50 %) Education 5 1 (12.50 %) JD Edwards 5 1 (12.50 %) VBA 5 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 5 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2

5 1 (12.50 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (12.50 %) JDE EnterpriseOne 5 1 (12.50 %) Italian Language 5 1 (12.50 %) Spanish Language 5 1 (12.50 %) Spreadsheet

Six Sigma
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) JDE EnterpriseOne
General 1 7 (87.50 %) Finance 2 2 (25.00 %) Banking 3 1 (12.50 %) Education	Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Project Manager 2 2 (25.00 %) Senior Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Project Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Technical Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Financial Business Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Portfolio Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Process Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Process Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Business Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Programme Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (25.00 %) PMI 2 1 (12.50 %) Mainframe 2 1 (12.50 %) Italian Language 2 1 (12.50 %) Spanish Language	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (50.00 %) Project Management 2 3 (37.50 %) Lean Six Sigma 2 3 (37.50 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (25.00 %) BPR 4 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 4 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (12.50 %) Process Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) VBA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) JD Edwards