East Midlands Infrastructure Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Manager role in IT contracts within the East Midlands 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	84	64
Rank change on same period last year	-20
Matching contract IT job ads	7	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	0.386 %	1.423 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£333
Average daily rate	£425	£372
% change on same period last year	+14.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£412
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	-	£35.00
Average hourly rate	-	£36.17
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£37.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£46.25	£34.89
% change on same period last year	+32.55 %
Job Titles East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1813	1757
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.391 %	1.864 %
Daily rates quoted	433	356
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£331
Average daily rate	£353	£348
% change on same period last year	+1.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£369	£366
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	195	239
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.88	£22.84
Average hourly rate	£17.20	£23.82
% change on same period last year	-27.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.52	£24.80
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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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 Infrastructure Manager across the East Midlands 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 Infrastructure Manager within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 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
Leicestershire	-	4	£425	-
Nottinghamshire	-19	1	-	-
Northamptonshire	-9	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 23 (57.50 %) PRINCE2 2 18 (45.00 %) Windows 3 14 (35.00 %) Project Management 4 13 (32.50 %) Health 5 11 (27.50 %) Cisco 6 10 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 7 9 (22.50 %) Citrix 7 9 (22.50 %) Finance 7 9 (22.50 %) SAN 7 9 (22.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 8 (20.00 %) CCNA 8 8 (20.00 %) Cisco Certification 8 8 (20.00 %) LAN 8 8 (20.00 %) WAN 9 7 (17.50 %) PACS

9 7 (17.50 %) Stakeholder Management 10 6 (15.00 %) Active Directory 10 6 (15.00 %) MCSE 10 6 (15.00 %) Microsoft Certification 10 6 (15.00 %) Microsoft 10 6 (15.00 %) MS Exchange 11 5 (12.50 %) SLA 11 5 (12.50 %) MCSA 11 5 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 11 5 (12.50 %) Clustering 11 5 (12.50 %) Change Management 12 4 (10.00 %) Wireless 12 4 (10.00 %) AS400 12 4 (10.00 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 12 4 (10.00 %) IBM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 Platforms 1 9 (22.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 6 (15.00 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (2.500 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (2.500 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 2 (5.000 %) MS Office 1 2 (5.000 %) MS Visio
Business Applications 1 2 (5.000 %) BPCS	Communications & Networking 1 9 (22.50 %) SAN 2 8 (20.00 %) LAN 2 8 (20.00 %) WAN 3 4 (10.00 %) Wireless 4 2 (5.000 %) VLAN 4 2 (5.000 %) Firewall 4 2 (5.000 %) DHCP 4 2 (5.000 %) VoIP 4 2 (5.000 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (5.000 %) VPN 4 2 (5.000 %) WINS 4 2 (5.000 %) DNS 5 1 (2.500 %) SMTP 5 1 (2.500 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (7.500 %) SQL Server 2 2 (5.000 %) SQL Server 7 3 1 (2.500 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 13 (32.50 %) Health 2 9 (22.50 %) Finance 3 2 (5.000 %) Manufacturing 3 2 (5.000 %) Banking 4 1 (2.500 %) Retail 4 1 (2.500 %) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous 1 7 (17.50 %) PACS 2 5 (12.50 %) Clustering 3 4 (10.00 %) AS400 4 2 (5.000 %) NHS 4 2 (5.000 %) Thin Client 4 2 (5.000 %) Fat Client 5 1 (2.500 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 18 (45.00 %) Windows 2 10 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 3 5 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (7.500 %) Windows NT 5 2 (5.000 %) OS/400 6 1 (2.500 %) Solaris 6 1 (2.500 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (57.50 %) PRINCE2 2 14 (35.00 %) Project Management 3 7 (17.50 %) Stakeholder Management 4 5 (12.50 %) Change Management 5 2 (5.000 %) ERP 6 1 (2.500 %) Benchmarking 6 1 (2.500 %) Service Delivery 6 1 (2.500 %) ITIL 6 1 (2.500 %) Resource Management	Qualifications 1 8 (20.00 %) CCNA 1 8 (20.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 6 (15.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (15.00 %) MCSE 3 5 (12.50 %) MCSA 4 2 (5.000 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 5 1 (2.500 %) PMP 5 1 (2.500 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (12.50 %) SLA	System Software 1 6 (15.00 %) Active Directory 2 3 (7.500 %) ISA Server 3 1 (2.500 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 4 (10.00 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 11 (27.50 %) Cisco 2 9 (22.50 %) Citrix 3 6 (15.00 %) Microsoft 4 4 (10.00 %) IBM 5 2 (5.000 %) CA 5 2 (5.000 %) CheckPoint 6 1 (2.500 %) Lotus 6 1 (2.500 %) Sun 6 1 (2.500 %) HP