Essex Change Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Change Management skills within the Essex region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Change Management over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Alderley Edge Aldershot Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Isle of Wight Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knottingley Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Helens Staines Stourbridge Street Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	34
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	22	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	5.867 %	7.065 %
Daily rates quoted	3	10
Average minimum daily rate	£500	£428
Average daily rate	£550	£439
% change on same period last year	+25.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£600	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£393	£377
% change on same period last year	+4.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.88	£22.50
Average hourly rate	£28.71	£23.75
% change on same period last year	+20.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.53	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.75	£27.21
% change on same period last year	-5.35 %
Processes & Methodologies Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	375	368
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.500 %	0.372 %
Daily rates quoted	149	129
Average minimum daily rate	£387	£389
Average daily rate	£404	£412
% change on same period last year	-2.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£421	£436
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	69
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.36	£33.11
Average hourly rate	£35.78	£33.52
% change on same period last year	+6.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.20	£33.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Change Management East of 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 Change Management across the Essex 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 Change Management across the Essex region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Change Management across the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Change Management across the Essex region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Change Management across the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Change Management within the Essex 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
Colchester	-	6	-	-
Southend-on-Sea	-6	2	£650	+62.50 %

Change Management East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Change 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 Change Management.

1 12 (28.57 %) Project Management 2 10 (23.81 %) PRINCE2 2 10 (23.81 %) Government 3 8 (19.05 %) Solaris 4 7 (16.67 %) Oracle 4 7 (16.67 %) Microsoft 4 7 (16.67 %) Health 5 6 (14.29 %) Finance 5 6 (14.29 %) E-business 5 6 (14.29 %) NHS 5 6 (14.29 %) XML 5 6 (14.29 %) SQL 6 5 (11.90 %) Windows 6 5 (11.90 %) Oracle 9i 6 5 (11.90 %) MS Excel

6 5 (11.90 %) EAI 6 5 (11.90 %) ETL 6 5 (11.90 %) Document Management 7 4 (9.524 %) SAN 7 4 (9.524 %) Cisco 7 4 (9.524 %) Microsoft Certification 7 4 (9.524 %) PL/SQL 8 3 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 8 3 (7.143 %) Windows NT 8 3 (7.143 %) MCSE 8 3 (7.143 %) ITIL 8 3 (7.143 %) PRINCE2 Certification 8 3 (7.143 %) ISEB 8 3 (7.143 %) VERITAS 8 3 (7.143 %) Middleware

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Change 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 Change Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (14.29 %) XML 2 3 (7.143 %) Middleware 3 1 (2.381 %) HTML 3 1 (2.381 %) .NET 3 1 (2.381 %) ADO.NET 3 1 (2.381 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.381 %) SharePoint 1 1 (2.381 %) CMS
Applications 1 5 (11.90 %) MS Excel 2 2 (4.762 %) MS Project 2 2 (4.762 %) MS Office 3 1 (2.381 %) MS Visio 3 1 (2.381 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (2.381 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 2 (4.762 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 4 (9.524 %) SAN 2 2 (4.762 %) WAN 2 2 (4.762 %) DNS 2 2 (4.762 %) VLAN 3 1 (2.381 %) LAN 3 1 (2.381 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (2.381 %) Intranet 3 1 (2.381 %) Extranet 3 1 (2.381 %) MPLS 3 1 (2.381 %) MGCP 3 1 (2.381 %) Firewall 3 1 (2.381 %) IPCC 3 1 (2.381 %) IP Telephony	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (11.90 %) Oracle 9i 1 5 (11.90 %) ETL 2 1 (2.381 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 1 (2.381 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (2.381 %) TestDirector	General 1 10 (23.81 %) Government 2 7 (16.67 %) Health 3 6 (14.29 %) Finance 4 3 (7.143 %) Back Office 4 3 (7.143 %) Local Government 5 2 (4.762 %) Marketing 5 2 (4.762 %) Publishing 5 2 (4.762 %) Education 6 1 (2.381 %) Auditing 6 1 (2.381 %) Telecoms 6 1 (2.381 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 12 (28.57 %) Project Manager 2 7 (16.67 %) Analyst 3 6 (14.29 %) DBA 3 6 (14.29 %) Support Engineer 4 5 (11.90 %) Oracle DBA 4 5 (11.90 %) Business Analyst 5 4 (9.524 %) Programme Manager 6 3 (7.143 %) 3rd Line Support 7 2 (4.762 %) Administrator 7 2 (4.762 %) Change Manager 7 2 (4.762 %) Business Change Manager 7 2 (4.762 %) Senior Project Manager 7 2 (4.762 %) Senior Manager 7 2 (4.762 %) Network Administrator 7 2 (4.762 %) Business Project Manager 7 2 (4.762 %) Business Manager 7 2 (4.762 %) Business Change Project Manager 8 1 (2.381 %) Technical Security Analyst 8 1 (2.381 %) Business Change Analyst 8 1 (2.381 %) Coordinator	Miscellaneous 1 6 (14.29 %) NHS 2 2 (4.762 %) E-Learning
Operating Systems 1 8 (19.05 %) Solaris 2 5 (11.90 %) Windows 3 3 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 3 3 (7.143 %) Windows NT 4 2 (4.762 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (2.381 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (28.57 %) Project Management 2 10 (23.81 %) PRINCE2 3 6 (14.29 %) E-business 4 5 (11.90 %) Document Management 4 5 (11.90 %) EAI 5 3 (7.143 %) ITIL 5 3 (7.143 %) Service Delivery 5 3 (7.143 %) Business Analysis 5 3 (7.143 %) Security Management 5 3 (7.143 %) Resource Management 6 2 (4.762 %) Time Management 6 2 (4.762 %) Risk Management 7 1 (2.381 %) Extreme Programming 7 1 (2.381 %) Content Management 7 1 (2.381 %) Supplier Management 7 1 (2.381 %) Software Testing 7 1 (2.381 %) Requirements Management 7 1 (2.381 %) Requirements Analysis 7 1 (2.381 %) Project Planning 7 1 (2.381 %) Quality Management
Programming Languages 1 6 (14.29 %) SQL 2 4 (9.524 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (2.381 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (2.381 %) C 3 1 (2.381 %) C#	Qualifications 1 4 (9.524 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (7.143 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 3 (7.143 %) ISEB 2 3 (7.143 %) MCSE 3 2 (4.762 %) CCNP 3 2 (4.762 %) Cisco Certification 3 2 (4.762 %) Degree 4 1 (2.381 %) ISEB Practitioner 4 1 (2.381 %) MCAD 4 1 (2.381 %) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.762 %) QA 2 1 (2.381 %) SLA	System Software 1 3 (7.143 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 1 (2.381 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 7 (16.67 %) Oracle 1 7 (16.67 %) Microsoft 2 4 (9.524 %) Cisco 3 3 (7.143 %) VERITAS 4 2 (4.762 %) Juniper 4 2 (4.762 %) Alcatel 4 2 (4.762 %) HP 5 1 (2.381 %) Intel 5 1 (2.381 %) BT