Hampshire Business Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Business Manager role in IT contracts within the Hampshire 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 Business Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Hampshire Harlow Herefordshire Hertfordshire Jersey Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Reading Redditch Rugby Scotland Shropshire South East South Wales South West Southampton Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	83	120
Rank change on same period last year	+37
Matching contract IT job ads	19	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.902 %	0.230 %
Daily rates quoted	15	1
Average minimum daily rate	£410	£500
Average daily rate	£437	£550
% change on same period last year	-20.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£465	£600
UK excluding London average daily rate	£451	£413
% change on same period last year	+9.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£20.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£33.33
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	2106	2609
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.772 %	2.765 %
Daily rates quoted	463	662
Average minimum daily rate	£351	£343
Average daily rate	£374	£365
% change on same period last year	+2.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£396	£387
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	391	517
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.52	£28.51
Average hourly rate	£27.35	£30.13
% change on same period last year	-9.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.18	£31.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.40	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.22 %
Business Manager South East

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 Business Manager across the Hampshire 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 Business Manager across the Hampshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Manager across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 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 Business Manager across the Hampshire region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Business Manager within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 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
Southampton	+12	6	£417	-24.24 %
Gosport	-	2	£475	-
Farnborough	-	2	-	-
Basingstoke	-	2	£488	-
Winchester	-	2	£344	-

Business Manager South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region that cited Business 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 Business Manager in their job title.

1 10 (27.03 %) Workflow 2 9 (24.32 %) Finance 2 9 (24.32 %) Project Management 3 8 (21.62 %) BizTalk Server 3 8 (21.62 %) .NET 3 8 (21.62 %) SharePoint 4 6 (16.22 %) Microsoft 4 6 (16.22 %) Intranet 4 6 (16.22 %) Retail 4 6 (16.22 %) Insurance 4 6 (16.22 %) Business Analysis 5 5 (13.51 %) SharePoint Portal Server 5 5 (13.51 %) Windows SharePoint Services 5 5 (13.51 %) SAP 5 5 (13.51 %) SharePoint Server 2007

6 4 (10.81 %) FMCG 6 4 (10.81 %) PRINCE2 6 4 (10.81 %) C# 6 4 (10.81 %) MS Office 6 4 (10.81 %) E-Commerce 6 4 (10.81 %) ERP 6 4 (10.81 %) Internet 7 3 (8.108 %) Retail Banking 7 3 (8.108 %) Programme Management 7 3 (8.108 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 3 (8.108 %) Banking 7 3 (8.108 %) Performance Management 7 3 (8.108 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 3 (8.108 %) Resource Management 8 2 (5.405 %) BusinessObjects XI

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region that cited Business 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 Business Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (21.62 %) .NET 2 5 (13.51 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 8 (21.62 %) SharePoint 1 8 (21.62 %) BizTalk Server 2 5 (13.51 %) SharePoint Portal Server 2 5 (13.51 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (2.703 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 4 (10.81 %) MS Office 2 1 (2.703 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (2.703 %) Tesseract 1 1 (2.703 %) Minerva 1 1 (2.703 %) SAP SCM
Communications & Networking 1 6 (16.22 %) Intranet 2 4 (10.81 %) Internet 3 1 (2.703 %) ATM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (5.405 %) BusinessObjects 1 2 (5.405 %) BusinessObjects XI
General 1 9 (24.32 %) Finance 2 6 (16.22 %) Retail 2 6 (16.22 %) Insurance 3 4 (10.81 %) FMCG 4 3 (8.108 %) Banking 4 3 (8.108 %) Retail Banking 5 2 (5.405 %) Government 6 1 (2.703 %) Health 6 1 (2.703 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (2.703 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (2.703 %) Front Office 6 1 (2.703 %) Investment Banking	Operating Systems 1 1 (2.703 %) Windows 1 1 (2.703 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (27.03 %) Workflow 2 9 (24.32 %) Project Management 3 6 (16.22 %) Business Analysis 4 4 (10.81 %) PRINCE2 4 4 (10.81 %) E-Commerce 4 4 (10.81 %) ERP 5 3 (8.108 %) Resource Management 5 3 (8.108 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 3 (8.108 %) Programme Management 5 3 (8.108 %) Performance Management 6 2 (5.405 %) Stakeholder Management 6 2 (5.405 %) Workflow Management 6 2 (5.405 %) PRINCE 6 2 (5.405 %) BPR 7 1 (2.703 %) CRM 7 1 (2.703 %) Change Management 7 1 (2.703 %) Regression Testing 7 1 (2.703 %) Supply Chain Management 7 1 (2.703 %) Migration 7 1 (2.703 %) Test Scripting	Programming Languages 1 4 (10.81 %) C# 2 1 (2.703 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (8.108 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (2.703 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.703 %) Basel II
System Software 1 1 (2.703 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 6 (16.22 %) Microsoft 2 5 (13.51 %) SAP 3 2 (5.405 %) Business Objects 4 1 (2.703 %) LatentZero