Essex Performance Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Performance 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 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	44	66
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	13	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	3.693 %	0.725 %
Daily rates quoted	7	1
Average minimum daily rate	£169	£220
Average daily rate	£244	£220
% change on same period last year	+10.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£319	£220
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£432
% change on same period last year	-14.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	-
Average hourly rate	£18.87	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.74	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.64	£23.75
% change on same period last year	+16.40 %
Processes & Methodologies Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	352	414
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.500 %	0.418 %
Daily rates quoted	121	136
Average minimum daily rate	£355	£362
Average daily rate	£375	£380
% change on same period last year	-1.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£396	£397
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	35	64
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.92	£30.42
Average hourly rate	£29.90	£31.25
% change on same period last year	-4.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.88	£32.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.32	£30.04
% change on same period last year	-2.39 %
Performance 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.

Performance Management
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Performance 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 Performance 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 Performance Management across the Essex region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

Performance Management
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Performance 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 Performance Management across the Essex 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 Essex 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
Chelmsford	-	1	-	-
Witham	+3	1	£305	-

Performance Management East of England

Performance Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 4 (21.05 %) HTML 1 4 (21.05 %) Windows 1 4 (21.05 %) Windows XP 1 4 (21.05 %) DHCP 1 4 (21.05 %) DNS 1 4 (21.05 %) Windows Server 2003 1 4 (21.05 %) Internet 1 4 (21.05 %) Strategic Planning 1 4 (21.05 %) System Testing 2 3 (15.79 %) Firewall 2 3 (15.79 %) Management Information System 2 3 (15.79 %) Microsoft 2 3 (15.79 %) Active Directory 2 3 (15.79 %) Novell 2 3 (15.79 %) NetWare

2 3 (15.79 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (15.79 %) VB 2 3 (15.79 %) MS Office 2 3 (15.79 %) ASP 3 2 (10.53 %) SPSS 3 2 (10.53 %) Oracle 3 2 (10.53 %) Service Delivery 3 2 (10.53 %) Government 3 2 (10.53 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (5.263 %) Local Government 4 1 (5.263 %) .NET Framework 4 1 (5.263 %) Finance 4 1 (5.263 %) NHS 4 1 (5.263 %) Intranet 4 1 (5.263 %) SLA

Performance Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 4 (21.05 %) HTML 2 3 (15.79 %) ASP 3 1 (5.263 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (5.263 %) XML 3 1 (5.263 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (5.263 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 3 (15.79 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 3 (15.79 %) MS Office 2 2 (10.53 %) SPSS	Communications & Networking 1 4 (21.05 %) DHCP 1 4 (21.05 %) DNS 1 4 (21.05 %) Internet 2 3 (15.79 %) Firewall 3 1 (5.263 %) Intranet
General 1 2 (10.53 %) Government 2 1 (5.263 %) Local Government 2 1 (5.263 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 4 (21.05 %) Server Engineer 1 4 (21.05 %) Performance Manager 2 3 (15.79 %) Analyst 2 3 (15.79 %) Service Manager 3 2 (10.53 %) Data Analyst 3 2 (10.53 %) Information Analyst 4 1 (5.263 %) Developer 4 1 (5.263 %) NHS Information Analyst 4 1 (5.263 %) Delivery Manager 4 1 (5.263 %) Server Support Engineer 4 1 (5.263 %) Information Manager 4 1 (5.263 %) Business Manager 4 1 (5.263 %) Performance Analyst 4 1 (5.263 %) .NET Developer 4 1 (5.263 %) C# Developer 4 1 (5.263 %) Team Leader 4 1 (5.263 %) Server Support 4 1 (5.263 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (5.263 %) Services Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous 1 3 (15.79 %) Management Information System 2 1 (5.263 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 4 (21.05 %) Windows 1 4 (21.05 %) Windows XP 1 4 (21.05 %) Windows Server 2003 2 3 (15.79 %) NetWare 3 2 (10.53 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (5.263 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (21.05 %) Strategic Planning 1 4 (21.05 %) System Testing 2 2 (10.53 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (5.263 %) ITIL 3 1 (5.263 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 3 (15.79 %) VB 2 1 (5.263 %) C 2 1 (5.263 %) C# 2 1 (5.263 %) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (5.263 %) SLA	System Software 1 3 (15.79 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 3 (15.79 %) Microsoft 1 3 (15.79 %) Novell 2 2 (10.53 %) Oracle