The first table below looks at the demand for Supplier Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Supplier Management over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Cheshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Supplier Management
Rank 48 55 61
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +6
Contract jobs citing Supplier Management 13 12 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.801% 1.485% 1.206%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.390% 2.444% 1.739%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 10
Average daily rate £425 £401 £286
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.91% +40.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £284 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £740 £517 £386
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £420 £401
% change year-on-year
+1.19% +4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £48.75 £25.21 £145.00
% change year-on-year
+93.41% -82.61%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
544 491 690
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 75.35% 60.77% 69.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 253 388
Average daily rate £375 £355 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.63% +9.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £270 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 25
Average hourly rate £40.00 £22.41 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+78.49% +17.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.95 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.83 £31.10 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Supplier Management
North West

Supplier Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Supplier Management across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Cheshire Supplier Management Jobs Demand Trend

Supplier Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Supplier Management across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Supplier Management Daily Rate Trend

Supplier Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Supplier Management across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cheshire Supplier Management Daily Rate Histogram

Supplier Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Supplier Management Hourly Rate Trend

Supplier Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Supplier Management within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester 0 6 £375 +3.44%
Warrington -9 1 - -
Supplier Management
North West

Supplier Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Supplier 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 Supplier Management.

1 11 (39.29%) Finance
2 9 (32.14%) Project Management
3 8 (28.57%) Service Delivery
4 6 (21.43%) Service Management
4 6 (21.43%) Change Management
4 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (17.86%) Risk Management
5 5 (17.86%) Middleware
6 4 (14.29%) ITIL
6 4 (14.29%) PRINCE2
7 3 (10.71%) Business Continuity
7 3 (10.71%) Information Security
7 3 (10.71%) Banking
7 3 (10.71%) BladeLogic
7 3 (10.71%) QA
7 3 (10.71%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
7 3 (10.71%) BT
7 3 (10.71%) LAN
7 3 (10.71%) WAN
7 3 (10.71%) BMC
7 3 (10.71%) Remedy
8 2 (7.143%) Microsoft
8 2 (7.143%) Workflow
8 2 (7.143%) Migration
8 2 (7.143%) Resource Management
8 2 (7.143%) Retail
9 1 (3.571%) Programme Management
9 1 (3.571%) Logistics
9 1 (3.571%) CRAMM

Supplier Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Supplier 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 Supplier Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (17.86%) Middleware
Applications
1 1 (3.571%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (3.571%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (3.571%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) LAN
1 3 (10.71%) WAN
2 1 (3.571%) Extranet
General
1 11 (39.29%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Banking
2 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
3 2 (7.143%) Retail
4 1 (3.571%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Project Manager
1 9 (32.14%) Delivery Manager
2 7 (25.00%) Services Delivery Manager
2 7 (25.00%) Service Manager
3 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Security Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Security Project Manager
5 2 (7.143%) Coordinator
5 2 (7.143%) Programme Manager
5 2 (7.143%) Change Manager
5 2 (7.143%) Project Coordinator
6 1 (3.571%) Business Consultant
6 1 (3.571%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 1 (3.571%) Information Manager
6 1 (3.571%) Information Security Manager
6 1 (3.571%) Services Delivery Analyst
6 1 (3.571%) Business Manager
6 1 (3.571%) E-Business Consultant
6 1 (3.571%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.571%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.571%) UNIX
1 1 (3.571%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Project Management
2 8 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 6 (21.43%) Change Management
3 6 (21.43%) Service Management
3 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (17.86%) Risk Management
5 4 (14.29%) ITIL
5 4 (14.29%) PRINCE2
6 3 (10.71%) Business Continuity
6 3 (10.71%) Information Security
7 2 (7.143%) Resource Management
7 2 (7.143%) Workflow
7 2 (7.143%) Migration
8 1 (3.571%) CRAMM
8 1 (3.571%) Financial Modelling
8 1 (3.571%) Change Control
8 1 (3.571%) Programme Management
8 1 (3.571%) Logistics
Qualifications
1 1 (3.571%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.571%) BC Cleared
1 1 (3.571%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) BMC
1 3 (10.71%) Remedy
1 3 (10.71%) BT
2 2 (7.143%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.571%) Oracle