England Management Information System Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Management Information Systems skills within the England region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Management Information System over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Management Information Systems
Location Aberdeen Amersham Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guernsey Guildford Hackney Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hendon Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Rotherham Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Stafford Staffordshire Staines Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	171	241
Rank change on same period last year	+70
Matching contract IT job ads	598	588
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.842 %	0.594 %
As % of the category below	4.173 %	2.955 %
Daily rates quoted	200	187
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£343
Average daily rate	£388	£373
% change on same period last year	+4.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£420	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£375	£360
% change on same period last year	+4.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	47	104
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.64	£22.49
Average hourly rate	£21.79	£24.66
% change on same period last year	-11.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.94	£26.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.05	£26.17
% change on same period last year	-15.74 %
Miscellaneous England
Matching contract IT job ads	14331	19901
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	20.18 %	20.11 %
Daily rates quoted	5607	7107
Average minimum daily rate	£435	£466
Average daily rate	£468	£499
% change on same period last year	-6.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£501	£533
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£345
% change on same period last year	+1.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	1159	1572
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.21	£24.01
Average hourly rate	£26.12	£25.90
% change on same period last year	+0.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.02	£27.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.99	£26.29
% change on same period last year	-4.93 %
Management Information System UK

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.

Management Information System
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Management Information System across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Management Information System
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Management Information System across the England region.

Management Information System
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Management Information System across the England region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Management Information System
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Management Information System across the England region.

Management Information System
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Management Information System across the England region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Management Information System
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Management Information System within the England region over the 3 months to 10 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
London	+46	286	£391	+0.69 %
South East	+55	104	£385	+11.02 %
Yorkshire	+43	58	£396	-12.08 %
South West	+40	57	£392	+9.23 %
North West	+24	28	£335	+4.12 %
East of England	+17	19	£440	+63.34 %
West Midlands	+19	15	£314	-18.87 %
Midlands	+22	11	£356	-35.22 %
East Midlands	-5	11	£516	+6.62 %
North East	+2	7	£400	+13.87 %
South Coast	-	3	-	-

Management Information System UK

Management Information System
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Management Information System 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 Management Information System.

1 301 (26.38 %) Finance 2 205 (17.97 %) Project Management 3 156 (13.67 %) SQL 4 139 (12.18 %) Government 5 138 (12.09 %) Oracle 6 112 (9.816 %) Information Management 7 108 (9.465 %) PRINCE2 8 104 (9.115 %) Microsoft 9 101 (8.852 %) NHS 10 98 (8.589 %) Banking 11 95 (8.326 %) MS Excel 12 90 (7.888 %) Business Analysis 13 89 (7.800 %) Datawarehouse 14 85 (7.450 %) Health 15 75 (6.573 %) Information Security

16 73 (6.398 %) Change Management 16 73 (6.398 %) Security Cleared 17 71 (6.223 %) Windows 18 70 (6.135 %) Data Management 19 69 (6.047 %) SQL Server 20 64 (5.609 %) Business Objects 20 64 (5.609 %) BusinessObjects 21 62 (5.434 %) MS Office 22 59 (5.171 %) Business Intelligence 22 59 (5.171 %) Content Management 23 56 (4.908 %) Data Modelling 24 55 (4.820 %) ITIL 25 54 (4.733 %) Data Analysis 26 53 (4.645 %) Investment Banking 26 53 (4.645 %) Degree

Management Information System
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Management Information System 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 Management Information System. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 40 (3.506 %) .NET 2 22 (1.928 %) XML 3 19 (1.665 %) HTML 4 13 (1.139 %) ASP 5 10 (0.876 %) J2EE 6 9 (0.789 %) ODBC 7 7 (0.613 %) WebSphere 8 6 (0.526 %) WebServices 9 5 (0.438 %) SOAP 9 5 (0.438 %) ASP.NET 9 5 (0.438 %) CSS 10 4 (0.351 %) .NET Framework 10 4 (0.351 %) Middleware 11 3 (0.263 %) XSLT 11 3 (0.263 %) WSDL 11 3 (0.263 %) XML Schema 12 2 (0.175 %) XHTML 12 2 (0.175 %) XSL 12 2 (0.175 %) Struts 12 2 (0.175 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 43 (3.769 %) CMS 2 36 (3.155 %) SharePoint 3 20 (1.753 %) MS Exchange 4 13 (1.139 %) IIS 4 13 (1.139 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 12 (1.052 %) SAS 6 8 (0.701 %) Documentum 7 6 (0.526 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 5 (0.438 %) Oracle Spatial 8 5 (0.438 %) ArcSDE 8 5 (0.438 %) ArcGIS 9 4 (0.351 %) Lotus Notes 9 4 (0.351 %) Apache 9 4 (0.351 %) MapXtreme 9 4 (0.351 %) Exchange Server 5.5 9 4 (0.351 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 3 (0.263 %) Oracle Application Server 10 3 (0.263 %) LiveLink 10 3 (0.263 %) WebLogic 10 3 (0.263 %) IBM HTTP Server
Applications 1 95 (8.326 %) MS Excel 2 62 (5.434 %) MS Office 3 52 (4.557 %) MS Visio 4 42 (3.681 %) MS PowerPoint 5 41 (3.593 %) MS Project 6 26 (2.279 %) Spreadsheet 7 5 (0.438 %) CA Clarity 8 4 (0.351 %) SPSS 9 3 (0.263 %) Photoshop 10 1 (0.088 %) InfoPath 10 1 (0.088 %) Acrobat 10 1 (0.088 %) ArcInfo 10 1 (0.088 %) Paint Shop Pro 10 1 (0.088 %) Windchill	Business Applications 1 15 (1.315 %) Oracle EBS 2 10 (0.876 %) Oracle ERP 3 7 (0.613 %) Oracle HRMS 3 7 (0.613 %) SAP HR 4 6 (0.526 %) Oracle Financials 4 6 (0.526 %) Microsoft CRM 5 4 (0.351 %) Oracle Applications 5 4 (0.351 %) Oracle iRecruitment 6 3 (0.263 %) assyst 6 3 (0.263 %) SAP HCM 6 3 (0.263 %) HFM 6 3 (0.263 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 7 2 (0.175 %) Oracle 11i 7 2 (0.175 %) SAP R/3 7 2 (0.175 %) Sophis VALUE 7 2 (0.175 %) SAP ERP 7 2 (0.175 %) Oracle General Ledger 8 1 (0.088 %) Hyperion Planning 8 1 (0.088 %) Misys Midas 8 1 (0.088 %) arcHouse
Communications & Networking 1 38 (3.330 %) Internet 2 28 (2.454 %) Firewall 3 26 (2.279 %) Intranet 4 19 (1.665 %) LAN 5 13 (1.139 %) VPN 6 12 (1.052 %) SAN 7 11 (0.964 %) TCP/IP 7 11 (0.964 %) WAN 8 8 (0.701 %) VoIP 8 8 (0.701 %) SNMP 8 8 (0.701 %) IP Telephony 9 7 (0.613 %) Wireless 10 6 (0.526 %) Network Security 11 5 (0.438 %) DEFINITY 11 5 (0.438 %) DNS 12 4 (0.351 %) HTTP 13 3 (0.263 %) HTTPS 13 3 (0.263 %) GSM 13 3 (0.263 %) FTP 13 3 (0.263 %) MPLS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 89 (7.800 %) Datawarehouse 2 69 (6.047 %) SQL Server 3 64 (5.609 %) BusinessObjects 4 40 (3.506 %) Oracle Reports 5 33 (2.892 %) Oracle Discoverer 6 28 (2.454 %) MS Access 7 23 (2.016 %) EDRMS 8 22 (1.928 %) Crystal Reports 9 20 (1.753 %) Oracle 10g 10 16 (1.402 %) ETL 11 15 (1.315 %) OLAP 11 15 (1.315 %) Oracle 9i 11 15 (1.315 %) SAP BW 12 14 (1.227 %) SQL Server 2005 13 13 (1.139 %) Oracle OLAP 13 13 (1.139 %) GIS 13 13 (1.139 %) OLTP 14 11 (0.964 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 11 (0.964 %) DB2 14 11 (0.964 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 9 (0.789 %) ClearQuest 2 8 (0.701 %) Visual Studio 3 6 (0.526 %) ClearCase 4 5 (0.438 %) Oracle Forms 5 4 (0.351 %) Rational Rose 5 4 (0.351 %) TestDirector 5 4 (0.351 %) RequisitePro 5 4 (0.351 %) Subversion 6 3 (0.263 %) Dreamweaver 7 2 (0.175 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 2 (0.175 %) LoadRunner 8 1 (0.088 %) Ant 8 1 (0.088 %) QuickTest Pro 8 1 (0.088 %) MSI 8 1 (0.088 %) InstallShield 8 1 (0.088 %) Telelogic DOORS 8 1 (0.088 %) NUnit 8 1 (0.088 %) Flash 8 1 (0.088 %) JDeveloper 8 1 (0.088 %) OpenDeploy	General 1 301 (26.38 %) Finance 2 139 (12.18 %) Government 3 98 (8.589 %) Banking 4 85 (7.450 %) Health 5 53 (4.645 %) Investment Banking 6 37 (3.243 %) Insurance 7 32 (2.805 %) Education 8 31 (2.717 %) Retail 9 30 (2.629 %) Local Government 10 28 (2.454 %) Front Office 11 27 (2.366 %) Construction 12 25 (2.191 %) Legal 12 25 (2.191 %) Telecoms 13 20 (1.753 %) Pensions 14 16 (1.402 %) Back Office 15 15 (1.315 %) Billing 16 13 (1.139 %) Financial Institution 17 12 (1.052 %) Pharmaceutical 18 11 (0.964 %) Auditing 19 9 (0.789 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 395 (34.62 %) Analyst 2 180 (15.78 %) Business Analyst 3 112 (9.816 %) Project Manager 4 81 (7.099 %) Developer 5 68 (5.960 %) Consultant 6 61 (5.346 %) Data Analyst 7 41 (3.593 %) Information Analyst 8 40 (3.506 %) Architect 9 36 (3.155 %) Administrator 10 35 (3.067 %) Senior Analyst 11 30 (2.629 %) Information Manager 12 27 (2.366 %) Business Manager 12 27 (2.366 %) Programme Manager 13 25 (2.191 %) Support Analyst 14 19 (1.665 %) Coordinator 15 18 (1.578 %) MI Analyst 16 17 (1.490 %) Systems Analyst 16 17 (1.490 %) Security Consultant 17 15 (1.315 %) Systems Engineer 17 15 (1.315 %) Change Manager	Miscellaneous 1 101 (8.852 %) NHS 2 23 (2.016 %) Freedom of Information 3 21 (1.840 %) Statistics 4 19 (1.665 %) Derivative 5 14 (1.227 %) Fixed Income 6 13 (1.139 %) NPfIT 6 13 (1.139 %) Data Protection Act 7 12 (1.052 %) Computer Science 7 12 (1.052 %) Credit Risk 8 10 (0.876 %) Clustering 9 8 (0.701 %) Equities 10 7 (0.613 %) Freedom of Information Act 10 7 (0.613 %) Data Extraction 11 6 (0.526 %) PKI 11 6 (0.526 %) Blackberry 12 5 (0.438 %) Mainframe 12 5 (0.438 %) PACS 12 5 (0.438 %) Equity Derivative 13 4 (0.351 %) Data Integration 13 4 (0.351 %) SCADA
Operating Systems 1 71 (6.223 %) Windows 2 40 (3.506 %) UNIX 3 28 (2.454 %) Windows Server 2003 4 22 (1.928 %) Windows 2000 5 14 (1.227 %) Solaris 6 13 (1.139 %) Windows XP 7 10 (0.876 %) Linux 8 6 (0.526 %) AIX 9 3 (0.263 %) Windows NT 9 3 (0.263 %) Windows Mobile 10 2 (0.175 %) OpenVMS 10 2 (0.175 %) Red Hat Linux 11 1 (0.088 %) Mac OS X 11 1 (0.088 %) zOS 11 1 (0.088 %) Windows 2000 Server 11 1 (0.088 %) VMS 11 1 (0.088 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 205 (17.97 %) Project Management 2 112 (9.816 %) Information Management 3 108 (9.465 %) PRINCE2 4 90 (7.888 %) Business Analysis 5 75 (6.573 %) Information Security 6 73 (6.398 %) Change Management 6 73 (6.398 %) Security Cleared 7 70 (6.135 %) Data Management 8 59 (5.171 %) Content Management 8 59 (5.171 %) Business Intelligence 9 56 (4.908 %) Data Modelling 10 55 (4.820 %) ITIL 11 54 (4.733 %) Data Analysis 12 52 (4.557 %) Performance Management 13 45 (3.944 %) UML 13 45 (3.944 %) Risk Management 14 44 (3.856 %) Migration 15 42 (3.681 %) ERP 16 41 (3.593 %) CRM 17 38 (3.330 %) Service Management
Programming Languages 1 156 (13.67 %) SQL 2 26 (2.279 %) VB 3 24 (2.103 %) VBA 3 24 (2.103 %) Java 4 20 (1.753 %) C# 5 12 (1.052 %) Transact-SQL 6 11 (0.964 %) PL/SQL 7 8 (0.701 %) C++ 8 7 (0.613 %) JavaScript 8 7 (0.613 %) Perl 8 7 (0.613 %) VB6 9 6 (0.526 %) C 10 5 (0.438 %) PHP 10 5 (0.438 %) VB.NET 10 5 (0.438 %) Python 10 5 (0.438 %) Ruby 11 3 (0.263 %) VC++ 11 3 (0.263 %) VBScript 12 2 (0.175 %) SAS Macro 12 2 (0.175 %) XQuery	Qualifications 1 53 (4.645 %) Degree 2 32 (2.805 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 17 (1.490 %) Microsoft Certification 4 15 (1.315 %) ISEB 5 14 (1.227 %) MCSE 6 13 (1.139 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 7 9 (0.789 %) ITIL Certification 8 8 (0.701 %) PMP 8 8 (0.701 %) CISSP 9 6 (0.526 %) CISA 10 4 (0.351 %) CISM 10 4 (0.351 %) PMI Certification 10 4 (0.351 %) Cisco Certification 11 3 (0.263 %) MCP 11 3 (0.263 %) MCSA 11 3 (0.263 %) ACCA 12 2 (0.175 %) SSCP 12 2 (0.175 %) CIMA 12 2 (0.175 %) CCIE 12 2 (0.175 %) Novell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 29 (2.542 %) SLA 2 25 (2.191 %) QA 3 15 (1.315 %) ISO27001 4 11 (0.964 %) ISO17799 5 9 (0.789 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 6 8 (0.701 %) PCI DSS 7 7 (0.613 %) BS7799 8 3 (0.263 %) BS7666 9 2 (0.175 %) ISO9001 9 2 (0.175 %) HMG Infosec 10 1 (0.088 %) HL7 10 1 (0.088 %) WAI 10 1 (0.088 %) COBIT 10 1 (0.088 %) 21 CFR Part 11	System Software 1 23 (2.016 %) Active Directory 2 5 (0.438 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 3 (0.263 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 3 (0.263 %) NetBackup 3 3 (0.263 %) Oracle RMAN 4 2 (0.175 %) Oracle RAC 4 2 (0.175 %) ISA Server 5 1 (0.088 %) VMware ESX 5 1 (0.088 %) Backup Exec 5 1 (0.088 %) Novell eDirectory 5 1 (0.088 %) MailMarshal
Systems Management 1 4 (0.351 %) Tivoli 1 4 (0.351 %) CONTROL-M 1 4 (0.351 %) OVOW 2 2 (0.175 %) OVPI 2 2 (0.175 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 1 (0.088 %) SCOM 3 1 (0.088 %) WSUS 3 1 (0.088 %) ZENworks 3 1 (0.088 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 1 (0.088 %) MAILsweeper 3 1 (0.088 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 1 (0.088 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (0.088 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 3 1 (0.088 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 138 (12.09 %) Oracle 2 104 (9.115 %) Microsoft 3 64 (5.609 %) Business Objects 4 37 (3.243 %) SAP 5 17 (1.490 %) Cognos 6 12 (1.052 %) Cisco 6 12 (1.052 %) Hyperion 7 11 (0.964 %) IBM 8 10 (0.876 %) Sun 9 9 (0.789 %) PeopleSoft 10 8 (0.701 %) Mapinfo 11 7 (0.613 %) Agresso 11 7 (0.613 %) CheckPoint 12 6 (0.526 %) Sybase 12 6 (0.526 %) Tridion 12 6 (0.526 %) HP 12 6 (0.526 %) EMC 13 5 (0.438 %) Avaya 13 5 (0.438 %) Cerner 13 5 (0.438 %) Sagent