England Senior Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Senior Manager role in IT contracts within the England 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 Senior Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Andover Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheshire City of London Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Huntingdon Ipswich Lancashire Leeds Leek Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wokingham Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	199	251
Rank change on same period last year	+52
Matching contract IT job ads	537	567
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.709 %	0.565 %
As % of the category below	0.848 %	0.660 %
Daily rates quoted	222	208
Average minimum daily rate	£501	£472
Average daily rate	£534	£503
% change on same period last year	+6.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£567	£534
UK excluding London average daily rate	£493	£474
% change on same period last year	+4.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£50.11	£31.67
Average hourly rate	£52.22	£40.17
% change on same period last year	+30.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£54.33	£48.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£48.75	£62.50
% change on same period last year	-22.00 %
Job Titles England
Matching contract IT job ads	63297	85877
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	83.53 %	85.53 %
Daily rates quoted	21681	26543
Average minimum daily rate	£379	£390
Average daily rate	£405	£415
% change on same period last year	-2.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£432	£441
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	5405	7221
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.35	£24.34
Average hourly rate	£23.97	£25.90
% change on same period last year	-7.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.59	£27.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
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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 Senior Manager across the England 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 Senior Manager across the England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Manager across the England region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 Senior Manager across the England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Manager across the England region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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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 Senior Manager within the England region over the 3 months to 21 August 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	+19	249	£577	+8.44 %
South East	+37	68	£495	+6.88 %
East of England	+22	58	£520	+14.29 %
Yorkshire	+31	46	£485	+14.07 %
South West	+30	32	£490	+6.24 %
North West	+4	32	£444	-14.66 %
East Midlands	+7	21	£503	-1.21 %
West Midlands	+15	19	£476	+5.98 %
Midlands	+18	9	£505	-6.76 %
North East	+11	5	£630	+29.23 %
South Coast	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Senior 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 Senior Manager in their job title.

1 324 (30.98 %) Project Management 2 320 (30.59 %) Finance 3 316 (30.21 %) PRINCE2 4 169 (16.16 %) Banking 5 139 (13.29 %) Stakeholder Management 6 104 (9.943 %) Government 7 78 (7.457 %) Investment Banking 8 71 (6.788 %) NHS 9 67 (6.405 %) Retail 10 65 (6.214 %) Change Management 10 65 (6.214 %) Telecoms 10 65 (6.214 %) PRINCE2 Certification 11 59 (5.641 %) Health 12 55 (5.258 %) Programme Management 13 54 (5.163 %) Insurance

14 52 (4.971 %) Security Cleared 15 51 (4.876 %) ITIL 16 49 (4.685 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 17 48 (4.589 %) PRINCE 17 48 (4.589 %) Marketing 18 46 (4.398 %) Risk Management 19 42 (4.015 %) Service Delivery 20 41 (3.920 %) Retail Banking 21 37 (3.537 %) Migration 22 36 (3.442 %) Derivative 23 34 (3.250 %) Front Office 23 34 (3.250 %) Oracle 23 34 (3.250 %) MS Project 24 33 (3.155 %) SAP 24 33 (3.155 %) Microsoft

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Senior 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 Senior Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 31 (2.964 %) .NET 2 19 (1.816 %) J2EE 3 12 (1.147 %) HTML 4 9 (0.860 %) XML 5 8 (0.765 %) ASP.NET 6 7 (0.669 %) WebSphere 6 7 (0.669 %) Middleware 7 6 (0.574 %) CSS 8 4 (0.382 %) ASP 8 4 (0.382 %) .NET Framework 9 3 (0.287 %) WebServices 10 2 (0.191 %) XHTML 10 2 (0.191 %) AJAX 11 1 (0.096 %) JSF 11 1 (0.096 %) WinForms 11 1 (0.096 %) ebXML 11 1 (0.096 %) XSLT 11 1 (0.096 %) SOAP 11 1 (0.096 %) Drupal 11 1 (0.096 %) Software Packaging	Application Platforms 1 15 (1.434 %) SharePoint 2 8 (0.765 %) MS Exchange 2 8 (0.765 %) CMS 3 6 (0.574 %) IIS 4 5 (0.478 %) Office Project Server 5 4 (0.382 %) WebLogic 6 3 (0.287 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 3 (0.287 %) BizTalk Server 7 2 (0.191 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 2 (0.191 %) Apache 7 2 (0.191 %) SAS 7 2 (0.191 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 1 (0.096 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 1 (0.096 %) Zope 8 1 (0.096 %) Plone 8 1 (0.096 %) Commerce Server 8 1 (0.096 %) WebLogic Portal 8 1 (0.096 %) NetWeaver 8 1 (0.096 %) MQSeries 8 1 (0.096 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 34 (3.250 %) MS Project 2 20 (1.912 %) MS Visio 3 16 (1.530 %) MS Excel 4 12 (1.147 %) MS Office 5 7 (0.669 %) CA Clarity 6 6 (0.574 %) MS PowerPoint 7 1 (0.096 %) Photoshop 7 1 (0.096 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 5 (0.478 %) SAP Oil and Gas 2 3 (0.287 %) Loan IQ 2 3 (0.287 %) Summit 3 2 (0.191 %) SAP HR 3 2 (0.191 %) Endur 4 1 (0.096 %) JDE EnterpriseOne 4 1 (0.096 %) SimCorp Dimension 4 1 (0.096 %) Oracle CRM 4 1 (0.096 %) Oracle Applications 4 1 (0.096 %) Teamcenter 4 1 (0.096 %) Tesseract 4 1 (0.096 %) Minerva 4 1 (0.096 %) MultiFonds 4 1 (0.096 %) HiPortfolio 4 1 (0.096 %) Oracle Financials 4 1 (0.096 %) Oracle BRM 4 1 (0.096 %) TIBCO iProcess 4 1 (0.096 %) Eagle PACE 4 1 (0.096 %) Eagle STAR 4 1 (0.096 %) InvestOne
Communications & Networking 1 25 (2.390 %) Internet 2 15 (1.434 %) Firewall 3 13 (1.243 %) LAN 4 11 (1.052 %) WAN 5 9 (0.860 %) VoIP 6 7 (0.669 %) Wireless 7 6 (0.574 %) VPN 7 6 (0.574 %) Broadband 7 6 (0.574 %) SAN 8 5 (0.478 %) Extranet 8 5 (0.478 %) MPLS 9 4 (0.382 %) TCP/IP 9 4 (0.382 %) ATM 10 3 (0.287 %) IP Telephony 10 3 (0.287 %) Intranet 10 3 (0.287 %) GPRS 10 3 (0.287 %) DNS 11 2 (0.191 %) GGSN 11 2 (0.191 %) SSL 11 2 (0.191 %) GSM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (0.765 %) Datawarehouse 2 7 (0.669 %) SQL Server 3 6 (0.574 %) RDBMS 4 4 (0.382 %) Data Cleansing 5 3 (0.287 %) OLAP 6 2 (0.191 %) DB2 6 2 (0.191 %) ETL 6 2 (0.191 %) BusinessObjects 6 2 (0.191 %) SAP BW 6 2 (0.191 %) EDRMS 6 2 (0.191 %) SQL Server 2005 7 1 (0.096 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 7 1 (0.096 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 1 (0.096 %) Data Mart 7 1 (0.096 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 1 (0.096 %) GIS 7 1 (0.096 %) EDMS 7 1 (0.096 %) DataStage 7 1 (0.096 %) OLTP 7 1 (0.096 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 8 (0.765 %) Flash 2 5 (0.478 %) TestDirector 3 3 (0.287 %) RequisitePro 4 2 (0.191 %) AllFusion 4 2 (0.191 %) LoadRunner 4 2 (0.191 %) ERwin 5 1 (0.096 %) JIRA 5 1 (0.096 %) ClearCase	General 1 320 (30.59 %) Finance 2 169 (16.16 %) Banking 3 104 (9.943 %) Government 4 78 (7.457 %) Investment Banking 5 67 (6.405 %) Retail 6 65 (6.214 %) Telecoms 7 59 (5.641 %) Health 8 54 (5.163 %) Insurance 9 48 (4.589 %) Marketing 10 41 (3.920 %) Retail Banking 11 34 (3.250 %) Front Office 12 32 (3.059 %) Pensions 13 22 (2.103 %) Back Office 14 14 (1.338 %) Legal 14 14 (1.338 %) Education 15 12 (1.147 %) Local Government 16 10 (0.956 %) Financial Institution 17 8 (0.765 %) Publishing 18 7 (0.669 %) Games 19 6 (0.574 %) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous 1 71 (6.788 %) NHS 2 36 (3.442 %) Derivative 3 20 (1.912 %) PMI 4 18 (1.721 %) Fixed Income 5 10 (0.956 %) Management Information System 5 10 (0.956 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 10 (0.956 %) Credit Derivative 6 8 (0.765 %) Interest Rate Derivative 7 7 (0.669 %) French Language 8 6 (0.574 %) Wiki 8 6 (0.574 %) Blog 8 6 (0.574 %) Spanish Language 8 6 (0.574 %) Credit Risk 8 6 (0.574 %) Equities 8 6 (0.574 %) Equity Derivative 9 5 (0.478 %) DTV 9 5 (0.478 %) Italian Language 10 4 (0.382 %) Portuguese Language 10 4 (0.382 %) Computer Science 10 4 (0.382 %) Market Risk	Operating Systems 1 24 (2.294 %) Windows 2 18 (1.721 %) UNIX 3 10 (0.956 %) AIX 4 6 (0.574 %) Solaris 4 6 (0.574 %) Windows Vista 5 5 (0.478 %) Windows Server 2003 5 5 (0.478 %) Linux 6 2 (0.191 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (0.096 %) OS/400 7 1 (0.096 %) Windows XP 7 1 (0.096 %) HPUX 7 1 (0.096 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 324 (30.98 %) Project Management 2 316 (30.21 %) PRINCE2 3 139 (13.29 %) Stakeholder Management 4 65 (6.214 %) Change Management 5 55 (5.258 %) Programme Management 6 52 (4.971 %) Security Cleared 7 51 (4.876 %) ITIL 8 48 (4.589 %) PRINCE 9 46 (4.398 %) Risk Management 10 42 (4.015 %) Service Delivery 11 37 (3.537 %) Migration 12 31 (2.964 %) Business Analysis 12 31 (2.964 %) SC Cleared 13 28 (2.677 %) Service Management 14 27 (2.581 %) Supplier Management 15 25 (2.390 %) Performance Management 16 23 (2.199 %) Matrix Management 17 21 (2.008 %) E-Commerce 17 21 (2.008 %) Test Management 18 18 (1.721 %) Asset Management	Programming Languages 1 28 (2.677 %) Java 2 23 (2.199 %) SQL 3 12 (1.147 %) C# 4 8 (0.765 %) C 5 6 (0.574 %) JavaScript 5 6 (0.574 %) PL/SQL 6 3 (0.287 %) C++ 7 2 (0.191 %) PHP 7 2 (0.191 %) Transact-SQL 7 2 (0.191 %) VB 7 2 (0.191 %) VB.NET 7 2 (0.191 %) PowerHouse 8 1 (0.096 %) Korn 8 1 (0.096 %) AWK 8 1 (0.096 %) Shell Script 8 1 (0.096 %) Tcl 8 1 (0.096 %) ActionScript 8 1 (0.096 %) VBA 8 1 (0.096 %) VBScript 8 1 (0.096 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 65 (6.214 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 49 (4.685 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 25 (2.390 %) Degree 4 18 (1.721 %) ISEB 5 17 (1.625 %) PMI Certification 6 15 (1.434 %) PMP 7 10 (0.956 %) ITIL Certification 8 6 (0.574 %) MCSE 8 6 (0.574 %) Microsoft Certification 9 5 (0.478 %) Cisco Certification 10 4 (0.382 %) Citrix Certification 11 3 (0.287 %) ISEB Practitioner 11 3 (0.287 %) ACCA 11 3 (0.287 %) CCNP 11 3 (0.287 %) CISSP 12 2 (0.191 %) SAP Certification 12 2 (0.191 %) IRCA 12 2 (0.191 %) CCNA 13 1 (0.096 %) ICAEW 13 1 (0.096 %) CIPFA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 10 (0.956 %) QA 2 5 (0.478 %) GMP 3 4 (0.382 %) SLA 3 4 (0.382 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 3 (0.287 %) ISO27001 4 3 (0.287 %) Basel II 5 2 (0.191 %) HL7 5 2 (0.191 %) GCP 5 2 (0.191 %) GLP 5 2 (0.191 %) TickIT 6 1 (0.096 %) CESG Infosec 6 1 (0.096 %) JSP 440
System Software 1 4 (0.382 %) VMware Infrastructure 1 4 (0.382 %) Active Directory 1 4 (0.382 %) VMware ESX 2 1 (0.096 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 4 (0.382 %) ServiceCenter 2 3 (0.287 %) Tivoli 3 2 (0.191 %) AssetCenter 3 2 (0.191 %) OpenView 3 2 (0.191 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 1 (0.096 %) AutoSys
Vendors 1 34 (3.250 %) Oracle 2 33 (3.155 %) SAP 2 33 (3.155 %) Microsoft 3 15 (1.434 %) Cisco 4 10 (0.956 %) Siebel 5 8 (0.765 %) IBM 5 8 (0.765 %) VMware 6 6 (0.574 %) HP 6 6 (0.574 %) Peregrine 7 5 (0.478 %) Citrix 8 4 (0.382 %) Sybase 8 4 (0.382 %) Northgate 9 3 (0.287 %) Brocade 9 3 (0.287 %) Primavera 9 3 (0.287 %) JD Edwards 9 3 (0.287 %) Informatica 9 3 (0.287 %) Interwoven 9 3 (0.287 %) Avaya 10 2 (0.191 %) Business Objects 10 2 (0.191 %) Nortel