The first table below looks at the demand for Change Control skills in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Change Control over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Halifax region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Change Control
Rank - 24 -
Contract jobs citing Change Control 0 9 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax - 3.704% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 4.412% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 0
Average daily rate - £390 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £29.75
% change year-on-year
+16.00% -15.96%
All Processes & Methodologies
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
89 204 81
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 76.72% 83.95% 68.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 173 51
Average daily rate £365 £380 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.94% +1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £265 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £495 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Average hourly rate - £15.00 £7.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +114.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Change Control
West Yorkshire

Change Control
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Change Control across the Halifax region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Halifax Change Control Jobs Demand Trend

Change Control
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Change Control across the Halifax region.

Halifax Change Control Daily Rate Trend

Change Control
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax region citing Change Control 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 Control.

1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Retail
2 2 (50.00%) Critical Path Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) MS Project
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) IIS
3 1 (25.00%) MS Office
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) SSL
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall

Change Control
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax region citing Change Control 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 Control. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Project
2 1 (25.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) PMO Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Wintel Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Project Planner
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Critical Path Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) VMware