Essex Service Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Service Manager role in IT contracts within the Essex region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Service Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Corsham Coventry Darlington Dartford Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hull Ipswich Kent Kidlington Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	59	57
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	2	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.311 %	0.316 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£419
% change on same period last year	-7.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.02	£29.69
% change on same period last year	-12.34 %
Job Titles Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	644	632
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.849 %	0.670 %
Daily rates quoted	249	188
Average minimum daily rate	£276	£331
Average daily rate	£292	£356
% change on same period last year	-18.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£308	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	104	144
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.68	£25.12
Average hourly rate	£28.17	£25.86
% change on same period last year	+8.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.66	£26.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Service Manager 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 Service Manager across the Essex 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 Service Manager across the Essex region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Service Manager across the Essex region.

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Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited Service 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 Service Manager in their job title.

1 11 (68.75 %) Service Delivery 2 10 (62.50 %) PRINCE2 3 7 (43.75 %) ITIL 4 6 (37.50 %) Performance Management 5 5 (31.25 %) NHS 5 5 (31.25 %) SLA 6 4 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 4 (25.00 %) Degree 7 3 (18.75 %) Postgraduate 8 2 (12.50 %) ITIL Certification 8 2 (12.50 %) Health 8 2 (12.50 %) Matrix Management 9 1 (6.250 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 1 (6.250 %) Performance Testing 9 1 (6.250 %) Test Scripting

9 1 (6.250 %) Anite 9 1 (6.250 %) Government 9 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft 9 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel 9 1 (6.250 %) MS Office 9 1 (6.250 %) CSS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited Service 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 Service Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (6.250 %) CSS	Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Office 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel
General 1 2 (12.50 %) Health 2 1 (6.250 %) Government	Miscellaneous 1 5 (31.25 %) NHS
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (68.75 %) Service Delivery 2 10 (62.50 %) PRINCE2 3 7 (43.75 %) ITIL 4 6 (37.50 %) Performance Management 5 2 (12.50 %) Matrix Management 6 1 (6.250 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 1 (6.250 %) Performance Testing 6 1 (6.250 %) Test Scripting	Qualifications 1 4 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 4 (25.00 %) Degree 2 3 (18.75 %) Postgraduate 3 2 (12.50 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (31.25 %) SLA	Vendors 1 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft 1 1 (6.250 %) Anite