City of London Infrastructure Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Manager role in IT contracts within the City of London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Infrastructure Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Crawley Croydon Dagenham Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Staines Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	184	154
Rank change on same period last year	-30
Matching contract IT job ads	36	46
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.049 %
As % of the category below	0.452 %	0.702 %
Daily rates quoted	23	16
Average minimum daily rate	£488	£494
Average daily rate	£515	£510
% change on same period last year	+0.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£542	£527
UK excluding London average daily rate	£412	£385
% change on same period last year	+7.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£45.00
Average hourly rate	-	£50.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£46.25	£34.89
% change on same period last year	+32.55 %
Job Titles City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	7972	6551
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	10.51 %	6.949 %
Daily rates quoted	4185	2711
Average minimum daily rate	£425	£456
Average daily rate	£462	£490
% change on same period last year	-5.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£499	£524
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	320	221
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.41	£21.99
Average hourly rate	£26.12	£23.50
% change on same period last year	+11.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.83	£25.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
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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 Infrastructure Manager across the City of London 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 Infrastructure Manager across the City of London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Manager across the City of London region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Infrastructure Manager across the City of London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Manager in their job title.

1 39 (41.49 %) Banking 2 38 (40.43 %) Project Management 3 34 (36.17 %) Finance 4 26 (27.66 %) PRINCE2 5 24 (25.53 %) Windows 6 21 (22.34 %) Investment Banking 7 15 (15.96 %) Unix 8 11 (11.70 %) Insurance 9 10 (10.64 %) WAN 10 9 (9.574 %) ITIL 10 9 (9.574 %) LAN 10 9 (9.574 %) SAN 10 9 (9.574 %) Migration 11 8 (8.511 %) Microsoft 11 8 (8.511 %) MS Excel

12 7 (7.447 %) AIX 12 7 (7.447 %) Active Directory 12 7 (7.447 %) Stakeholder Management 12 7 (7.447 %) Project Planning 13 6 (6.383 %) Service Delivery 13 6 (6.383 %) IP Telephony 13 6 (6.383 %) SQL 13 6 (6.383 %) SharePoint 14 5 (5.319 %) Solaris 14 5 (5.319 %) Linux 14 5 (5.319 %) IIS 14 5 (5.319 %) MS Project 14 5 (5.319 %) Cisco 14 5 (5.319 %) Telecoms 15 4 (4.255 %) Programme Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (1.064 %) Middleware 1 1 (1.064 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 6 (6.383 %) SharePoint 2 5 (5.319 %) IIS 3 3 (3.191 %) MS Exchange 3 3 (3.191 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 3 (3.191 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 2 (2.128 %) Lotus Notes 5 1 (1.064 %) Apache 5 1 (1.064 %) Tomcat 5 1 (1.064 %) ESB
Applications 1 8 (8.511 %) MS Excel 2 5 (5.319 %) MS Project 3 3 (3.191 %) MS PowerPoint 4 2 (2.128 %) MS Office 5 1 (1.064 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (1.064 %) Oracle EBS 1 1 (1.064 %) SalesLogix
Communications & Networking 1 10 (10.64 %) WAN 2 9 (9.574 %) LAN 2 9 (9.574 %) SAN 3 6 (6.383 %) IP Telephony 4 3 (3.191 %) HTTP 4 3 (3.191 %) SMTP 5 1 (1.064 %) Ethernet 5 1 (1.064 %) DMZ 5 1 (1.064 %) Intranet 5 1 (1.064 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (3.191 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.064 %) Informix 2 1 (1.064 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (1.064 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (1.064 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 39 (41.49 %) Banking 2 34 (36.17 %) Finance 3 21 (22.34 %) Investment Banking 4 11 (11.70 %) Insurance 5 5 (5.319 %) Telecoms 6 3 (3.191 %) Government 6 3 (3.191 %) Retail 7 2 (2.128 %) Retail Banking 8 1 (1.064 %) Pensions 8 1 (1.064 %) Education 8 1 (1.064 %) Financial Institution 8 1 (1.064 %) Front Office	Miscellaneous 1 3 (3.191 %) PMI 1 3 (3.191 %) Clustering 1 3 (3.191 %) Asset Management 2 2 (2.128 %) Statistics 2 2 (2.128 %) Equities 2 2 (2.128 %) Mainframe 3 1 (1.064 %) Fixed Income 3 1 (1.064 %) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems 1 24 (25.53 %) Windows 2 15 (15.96 %) Unix 3 7 (7.447 %) AIX 4 5 (5.319 %) Solaris 4 5 (5.319 %) Linux 5 4 (4.255 %) Windows 2000 5 4 (4.255 %) Windows XP 6 3 (3.191 %) Windows NT 7 2 (2.128 %) NetWare 8 1 (1.064 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 38 (40.43 %) Project Management 2 26 (27.66 %) PRINCE2 3 9 (9.574 %) Migration 3 9 (9.574 %) ITIL 4 7 (7.447 %) Stakeholder Management 4 7 (7.447 %) Project Planning 5 6 (6.383 %) Service Delivery 6 4 (4.255 %) Programme Management 7 3 (3.191 %) PRINCE 7 3 (3.191 %) Service Management 7 3 (3.191 %) Resource Management 8 2 (2.128 %) Test Management 8 2 (2.128 %) Investment Management 8 2 (2.128 %) Time Management 8 2 (2.128 %) Security Cleared 8 2 (2.128 %) BCP 8 2 (2.128 %) Change Management 9 1 (1.064 %) Disaster Recovery 9 1 (1.064 %) GAP Analysis 9 1 (1.064 %) Workflow
Programming Languages 1 6 (6.383 %) SQL 2 2 (2.128 %) JCL 2 2 (2.128 %) Java 3 1 (1.064 %) Perl 3 1 (1.064 %) Euclid 3 1 (1.064 %) C	Qualifications 1 4 (4.255 %) MCSE 1 4 (4.255 %) Microsoft Certification 1 4 (4.255 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (2.128 %) Degree 2 2 (2.128 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (1.064 %) ITIL Certification 3 1 (1.064 %) PMP 3 1 (1.064 %) PMI Certification 3 1 (1.064 %) MCSA 3 1 (1.064 %) CCNP 3 1 (1.064 %) CCNA 3 1 (1.064 %) CCDA 3 1 (1.064 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.191 %) SLA 2 1 (1.064 %) QA	System Software 1 7 (7.447 %) Active Directory 2 3 (3.191 %) ISA Server 2 3 (3.191 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (1.064 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (1.064 %) NFS
Vendors 1 8 (8.511 %) Microsoft 2 5 (5.319 %) Cisco 3 4 (4.255 %) Citrix 4 3 (3.191 %) Red Hat 4 3 (3.191 %) HP 4 3 (3.191 %) Remedy 5 2 (2.128 %) Lotus 5 2 (2.128 %) Oracle 5 2 (2.128 %) BMC 5 2 (2.128 %) Novell 6 1 (1.064 %) VERITAS 6 1 (1.064 %) Hyperion 6 1 (1.064 %) CheckPoint 6 1 (1.064 %) Reuters 6 1 (1.064 %) Bloomberg 6 1 (1.064 %) Sybase 6 1 (1.064 %) SAP 6 1 (1.064 %) IBM 6 1 (1.064 %) EMC 6 1 (1.064 %) Sun