Hampshire Release Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Release Management skills within the Hampshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Release Management over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Fareham Gatwick Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Leeds London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	84	119
Rank change on same period last year	+35
Matching contract IT job ads	14	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	1.146 %	0.268 %
Daily rates quoted	7	2
Average minimum daily rate	£384	£250
Average daily rate	£420	£260
% change on same period last year	+61.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£455	£270
UK excluding London average daily rate	£419	£368
% change on same period last year	+14.03 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.09	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£25.04	£34.00
% change on same period last year	-26.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.98	£38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.19	£36.00
% change on same period last year	-35.57 %
Processes & Methodologies Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1222	1493
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.629 %	1.489 %
Daily rates quoted	386	454
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£355
Average daily rate	£370	£379
% change on same period last year	-2.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	211	281
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.21	£30.09
Average hourly rate	£34.99	£32.08
% change on same period last year	+9.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.77	£34.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Release Management 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 Release Management across the Hampshire 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 Release Management 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 Release Management across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Release Management 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 jobs citing Release Management within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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	-	4	£389	-
Fareham	-	3	£388	-
Basingstoke	+7	1	£515	+98.07 %
Portsmouth	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Release 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 Release Management.

1 16 (55.17 %) Oracle 2 11 (37.93 %) Migration 3 10 (34.48 %) Configuration Management 3 10 (34.48 %) UNIX 4 9 (31.03 %) Stakeholder Management 4 9 (31.03 %) Data Migration 5 7 (24.14 %) Finance 6 6 (20.69 %) Oracle EBS 6 6 (20.69 %) ClearQuest 6 6 (20.69 %) Project Management 6 6 (20.69 %) Windows 7 5 (17.24 %) ClearCase 7 5 (17.24 %) ITIL 8 4 (13.79 %) Subversion 8 4 (13.79 %) Insurance

8 4 (13.79 %) J2EE 8 4 (13.79 %) SQL Server 8 4 (13.79 %) DB2 8 4 (13.79 %) Java 9 3 (10.34 %) PRINCE2 9 3 (10.34 %) Solaris 9 3 (10.34 %) VSS/SourceSafe 9 3 (10.34 %) Supplier Management 9 3 (10.34 %) Change Management 9 3 (10.34 %) Risk Analysis 9 3 (10.34 %) Pensions 10 2 (6.897 %) Logistics 10 2 (6.897 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 2 (6.897 %) Test Scripting 10 2 (6.897 %) QA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Release 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 Release Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (13.79 %) J2EE 2 1 (3.448 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (6.897 %) Lotus Notes
Business Applications 1 6 (20.69 %) Oracle EBS 2 2 (6.897 %) MAXIMO	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (13.79 %) SQL Server 1 4 (13.79 %) DB2 2 2 (6.897 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 2 (6.897 %) TOAD 2 2 (6.897 %) Oracle Discoverer 2 2 (6.897 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 6 (20.69 %) ClearQuest 2 5 (17.24 %) ClearCase 3 4 (13.79 %) Subversion 4 3 (10.34 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 2 (6.897 %) WinRunner 5 2 (6.897 %) TestDirector 5 2 (6.897 %) QuickTest Pro 6 1 (3.448 %) InstallShield 6 1 (3.448 %) CruiseControl 6 1 (3.448 %) Ant 6 1 (3.448 %) Visual Studio 6 1 (3.448 %) PVCS 6 1 (3.448 %) Atlassian Bamboo	General 1 7 (24.14 %) Finance 2 4 (13.79 %) Insurance 3 3 (10.34 %) Pensions 4 2 (6.897 %) Government
Job Titles 1 10 (34.48 %) Project Manager 2 9 (31.03 %) Configuration Manager 3 7 (24.14 %) Release Manager 4 5 (17.24 %) Data Manager 4 5 (17.24 %) Environment Manager 4 5 (17.24 %) Migration Project Manager 5 3 (10.34 %) Software Manager 5 3 (10.34 %) Software Configuration Manager 6 2 (6.897 %) Technical Analyst 6 2 (6.897 %) Analyst 6 2 (6.897 %) Test Analyst 6 2 (6.897 %) Technical Test Analyst 7 1 (3.448 %) IT Manager 7 1 (3.448 %) Service Manager 7 1 (3.448 %) Services Delivery Manager 7 1 (3.448 %) IT Project Manager 7 1 (3.448 %) Delivery Manager 7 1 (3.448 %) Data Migration Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.897 %) Management Information System 1 2 (6.897 %) CMDB
Operating Systems 1 10 (34.48 %) UNIX 2 6 (20.69 %) Windows 3 3 (10.34 %) Solaris 4 2 (6.897 %) Linux 4 2 (6.897 %) zOS 4 2 (6.897 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (37.93 %) Migration 2 10 (34.48 %) Configuration Management 3 9 (31.03 %) Stakeholder Management 3 9 (31.03 %) Data Migration 4 6 (20.69 %) Project Management 5 5 (17.24 %) ITIL 6 3 (10.34 %) PRINCE2 6 3 (10.34 %) Risk Analysis 6 3 (10.34 %) Change Management 6 3 (10.34 %) Supplier Management 7 2 (6.897 %) Software Testing 7 2 (6.897 %) Incident Management 7 2 (6.897 %) Logistics 7 2 (6.897 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 2 (6.897 %) Test Scripting 7 2 (6.897 %) EAM 7 2 (6.897 %) Asset Management 8 1 (3.448 %) Data Analysis 8 1 (3.448 %) Service Delivery 8 1 (3.448 %) Data Mapping
Programming Languages 1 4 (13.79 %) Java 2 2 (6.897 %) SQL 2 2 (6.897 %) VBA 3 1 (3.448 %) Shell Script 3 1 (3.448 %) C#	Qualifications 1 2 (6.897 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (6.897 %) QA 2 1 (3.448 %) SLA	Vendors 1 16 (55.17 %) Oracle 2 2 (6.897 %) Actuate 2 2 (6.897 %) Lotus