Chester Business Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Business Manager role in IT contracts within the Chester region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Manager
Location Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Kidlington Lancashire Lancaster Leeds London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rochdale Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	28
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	1	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.498 %	1.087 %
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	£430	£435
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
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	£23.67	£14.00
% change on same period last year	+69.07 %
Job Titles Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	201	184
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.326 %	0.201 %
Daily rates quoted	27	24
Average minimum daily rate	£266	£273
Average daily rate	£269	£281
% change on same period last year	-4.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£272	£288
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	56	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.35	£26.61
Average hourly rate	£23.83	£26.82
% change on same period last year	-11.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.30	£27.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.15	£23.97
% change on same period last year	-3.43 %
Business Manager Cheshire

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 Business Manager across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Business Manager across the Chester region.

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Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region that cited Business Manager in their job title 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 with Business Manager in their job title.

1 2 (66.67 %) MS Office 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance 1 2 (66.67 %) Project Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Risk Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Insurance 2 1 (33.33 %) Pensions 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) Government 2 1 (33.33 %) Business Continuity 2 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel 2 1 (33.33 %) ISEB

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region that cited Business Manager in their job title 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 with Business Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Office 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance 2 1 (33.33 %) Government 2 1 (33.33 %) Insurance 2 1 (33.33 %) Pensions
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Project Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Risk Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Business Continuity 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) ISEB