East of England Performance Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Performance Management skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Performance Management over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Barking Beccles Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Corby County Antrim Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Exeter Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Witham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	108	145
Rank change on same period last year	+37
Matching contract IT job ads	25	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	1.351 %	0.757 %
Daily rates quoted	11	5
Average minimum daily rate	£216	£430
Average daily rate	£282	£444
% change on same period last year	-36.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£458
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£432
% change on same period last year	-14.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.86	£32.86
Average hourly rate	£14.27	£33.64
% change on same period last year	-57.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.68	£34.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.64	£23.75
% change on same period last year	+16.40 %
Processes & Methodologies East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	1850	2378
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.629 %	2.402 %
Daily rates quoted	581	802
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£353
Average daily rate	£387	£373
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£412	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	216	305
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.13	£31.82
Average hourly rate	£29.61	£33.35
% change on same period last year	-11.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.09	£34.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.32	£30.04
% change on same period last year	-2.39 %
Performance Management England

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 Performance Management across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies 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 Performance Management across the East of England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Performance Management across the East of England region over the 3 months to 7 October 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 Performance Management across the East of England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Performance Management across the East of England region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Management within the East of England region over the 3 months to 7 October 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
Essex	+22	13	£244	+10.71 %
Hertfordshire	+19	4	£350	-7.89 %
Norfolk	-2	3	-	-
Suffolk	+11	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Performance 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 Performance Management.

1 9 (15.52 %) Project Management 1 9 (15.52 %) NHS 1 9 (15.52 %) Windows 2 8 (13.79 %) PRINCE2 2 8 (13.79 %) Finance 3 6 (10.34 %) Stakeholder Management 3 6 (10.34 %) Internet 3 6 (10.34 %) SQL 3 6 (10.34 %) Oracle 3 6 (10.34 %) Windows XP 4 5 (8.621 %) Microsoft 4 5 (8.621 %) HTML 4 5 (8.621 %) MS Office 5 4 (6.897 %) ASP 5 4 (6.897 %) UNIX

5 4 (6.897 %) VB 5 4 (6.897 %) DHCP 5 4 (6.897 %) Windows Server 2003 5 4 (6.897 %) DNS 5 4 (6.897 %) SLA 5 4 (6.897 %) Government 5 4 (6.897 %) Strategic Planning 5 4 (6.897 %) System Testing 6 3 (5.172 %) HP Data Protector 6 3 (5.172 %) Information Management 6 3 (5.172 %) Health 6 3 (5.172 %) Firewall 6 3 (5.172 %) Management Information System 6 3 (5.172 %) Telecoms 6 3 (5.172 %) SAN

Performance Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Performance 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 Performance Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (8.621 %) HTML 2 4 (6.897 %) ASP 3 3 (5.172 %) ASP.NET 3 3 (5.172 %) .NET 4 2 (3.448 %) XML 5 1 (1.724 %) XSL 5 1 (1.724 %) XHTML 5 1 (1.724 %) .NET Framework 5 1 (1.724 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 3 (5.172 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 5 (8.621 %) MS Office 2 2 (3.448 %) SPSS	Communications & Networking 1 6 (10.34 %) Internet 2 4 (6.897 %) DHCP 2 4 (6.897 %) DNS 3 3 (5.172 %) SAN 3 3 (5.172 %) Firewall 4 2 (3.448 %) SDH 5 1 (1.724 %) UMTS 5 1 (1.724 %) GSM 5 1 (1.724 %) BSS 5 1 (1.724 %) RNC 5 1 (1.724 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (3.448 %) SQL Server 1 2 (3.448 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (1.724 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 8 (13.79 %) Finance 2 4 (6.897 %) Government 3 3 (5.172 %) Health 3 3 (5.172 %) Telecoms 4 2 (3.448 %) Insurance 4 2 (3.448 %) Local Government 5 1 (1.724 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (1.724 %) Games
Job Titles 1 14 (24.14 %) Analyst 2 9 (15.52 %) Project Manager 2 9 (15.52 %) Information Analyst 3 6 (10.34 %) Senior Project Manager 3 6 (10.34 %) Senior Manager 4 4 (6.897 %) Business Analyst 4 4 (6.897 %) Administrator 4 4 (6.897 %) Server Engineer 4 4 (6.897 %) Performance Manager 5 3 (5.172 %) Service Manager 5 3 (5.172 %) Data Analyst 5 3 (5.172 %) Developer 6 2 (3.448 %) Coordinator 6 2 (3.448 %) Programme Manager 6 2 (3.448 %) Senior Analyst 6 2 (3.448 %) 1st Line Support 6 2 (3.448 %) UNIX Administrator 6 2 (3.448 %) Systems Administrator 6 2 (3.448 %) Team Leader 6 2 (3.448 %) .NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 9 (15.52 %) NHS 2 3 (5.172 %) Management Information System 3 2 (3.448 %) Mathematics
Operating Systems 1 9 (15.52 %) Windows 2 6 (10.34 %) Windows XP 3 4 (6.897 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (6.897 %) UNIX 4 3 (5.172 %) NetWare 4 3 (5.172 %) HPUX 5 2 (3.448 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (1.724 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (1.724 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (15.52 %) Project Management 2 8 (13.79 %) PRINCE2 3 6 (10.34 %) Stakeholder Management 4 4 (6.897 %) System Testing 4 4 (6.897 %) Strategic Planning 5 3 (5.172 %) Information Management 6 2 (3.448 %) Business Performance Management 6 2 (3.448 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 2 (3.448 %) Software Testing 6 2 (3.448 %) ITIL 6 2 (3.448 %) Service Delivery 7 1 (1.724 %) Change Management 7 1 (1.724 %) Requirements Analysis 7 1 (1.724 %) Project Planning 7 1 (1.724 %) Web Development 7 1 (1.724 %) Data Analysis 7 1 (1.724 %) SC Cleared 7 1 (1.724 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 6 (10.34 %) SQL 2 4 (6.897 %) VB 3 2 (3.448 %) C# 3 2 (3.448 %) Progress 4GL 4 1 (1.724 %) VB6 4 1 (1.724 %) C 4 1 (1.724 %) JavaScript 4 1 (1.724 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 2 (3.448 %) Degree 2 1 (1.724 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (6.897 %) SLA	System Software 1 3 (5.172 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 3 (5.172 %) HP Data Protector	Vendors 1 6 (10.34 %) Oracle 2 5 (8.621 %) Microsoft 3 3 (5.172 %) HP 3 3 (5.172 %) Novell 4 2 (3.448 %) Nortel 5 1 (1.724 %) Ericsson 5 1 (1.724 %) Nokia