East Midlands Service Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Service 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 jobs that have cited Service Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire Birmingham Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Corsham Coventry Dartford Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ilford Ipswich Kent Kidlington Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	85	90
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	5	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.293 %	0.324 %
Daily rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£375
Average daily rate	£375	£419
% change on same period last year	-10.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£463
UK excluding London average daily rate	£388	£413
% change on same period last year	-6.06 %
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	£24.89	£31.14
% change on same period last year	-20.08 %
Job Titles East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1706	1854
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.274 %	1.876 %
Daily rates quoted	461	382
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£332
Average daily rate	£356	£349
% change on same period last year	+2.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£366
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	171	262
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.56	£22.30
Average hourly rate	£17.88	£23.47
% change on same period last year	-23.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.20	£24.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
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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 Service 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 Service 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 Service 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 jobs citing Service Manager within the East Midlands 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
Northamptonshire	-	2	£400	-
Leicestershire	+3	1	£350	-16.41 %
Nottinghamshire	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region that cited Service 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 Service Manager in their job title.

1 8 (72.73 %) Service Delivery 2 7 (63.64 %) ITIL 3 4 (36.36 %) Change Management 4 3 (27.27 %) SLA 4 3 (27.27 %) Service Management 5 2 (18.18 %) Risk Management 5 2 (18.18 %) Credit Risk 5 2 (18.18 %) Banking 6 1 (9.091 %) Supplier Management 6 1 (9.091 %) assyst 6 1 (9.091 %) Incident Management 6 1 (9.091 %) Operations Management 6 1 (9.091 %) Degree 6 1 (9.091 %) Resource Management 6 1 (9.091 %) Problem Management

6 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft 6 1 (9.091 %) Sun 6 1 (9.091 %) HP 6 1 (9.091 %) ITIL Certification 6 1 (9.091 %) SAN 6 1 (9.091 %) Peregrine 6 1 (9.091 %) NHS 6 1 (9.091 %) Remedy 6 1 (9.091 %) Benchmarking 6 1 (9.091 %) Mainframe 6 1 (9.091 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (9.091 %) UNIX 6 1 (9.091 %) Solaris 6 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region that cited Service 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 Service Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) assyst	Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) SAN
General 1 2 (18.18 %) Banking	Miscellaneous 1 2 (18.18 %) Credit Risk 2 1 (9.091 %) NHS 2 1 (9.091 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 1 (9.091 %) UNIX 1 1 (9.091 %) Solaris 1 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (72.73 %) Service Delivery 2 7 (63.64 %) ITIL 3 4 (36.36 %) Change Management 4 3 (27.27 %) Service Management 5 2 (18.18 %) Risk Management 6 1 (9.091 %) Supplier Management 6 1 (9.091 %) Incident Management 6 1 (9.091 %) Operations Management 6 1 (9.091 %) Resource Management 6 1 (9.091 %) Problem Management 6 1 (9.091 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (9.091 %) Benchmarking
Qualifications 1 1 (9.091 %) ITIL Certification 1 1 (9.091 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (27.27 %) SLA
Vendors 1 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft 1 1 (9.091 %) Sun 1 1 (9.091 %) HP 1 1 (9.091 %) Peregrine 1 1 (9.091 %) Remedy