Hertfordshire Change Management Contracts

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

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Cheshunt Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Huddersfield Isle of Wight Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Helens Staines Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Truro Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	51
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	48	48
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.064 %	0.048 %
As % of the category below	5.467 %	5.000 %
Daily rates quoted	10	34
Average minimum daily rate	£427	£365
Average daily rate	£448	£385
% change on same period last year	+16.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£468	£405
UK excluding London average daily rate	£389	£367
% change on same period last year	+6.05 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£20.04	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.07	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.19	£31.52
% change on same period last year	-20.08 %
Processes & Methodologies Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	878	960
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.170 %	0.958 %
Daily rates quoted	320	404
Average minimum daily rate	£379	£352
Average daily rate	£406	£373
% change on same period last year	+8.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£434	£394
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	95	95
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.89	£27.69
Average hourly rate	£30.61	£29.50
% change on same period last year	+3.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.34	£31.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Change 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Change Management across the Hertfordshire 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 Change Management across the Hertfordshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Change Management across the Hertfordshire 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 Change Management across the Hertfordshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Change Management across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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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 Change Management within the Hertfordshire 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
Watford	+2	9	£495	+31.51 %
Letchworth	-	8	-	-
Hitchin	-	4	-	-
Rickmansworth	-	3	-	-
Ware	-	1	-	-
Welwyn Garden City	-	1	£350	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 28 (28.57 %) Retail 2 23 (23.47 %) E-Commerce 3 21 (21.43 %) Scrum 4 20 (20.41 %) Finance 4 20 (20.41 %) OO 5 18 (18.37 %) Project Management 6 16 (16.33 %) Telecoms 6 16 (16.33 %) HTML 7 15 (15.31 %) .NET 8 14 (14.29 %) Configuration Management 8 14 (14.29 %) C 8 14 (14.29 %) DOM 8 14 (14.29 %) W3C 9 12 (12.24 %) RAD 10 11 (11.22 %) XML

10 11 (11.22 %) ITIL 11 10 (10.20 %) C# 11 10 (10.20 %) ASP.NET 11 10 (10.20 %) Time Management 12 9 (9.184 %) MS Office 12 9 (9.184 %) XSLT 13 8 (8.163 %) Service Delivery 13 8 (8.163 %) Internet 13 8 (8.163 %) PRINCE2 13 8 (8.163 %) SQL 13 8 (8.163 %) Release Management 14 7 (7.143 %) CMDB 14 7 (7.143 %) WPF 14 7 (7.143 %) AJAX 14 7 (7.143 %) ADO.NET

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 16 (16.33 %) HTML 2 15 (15.31 %) .NET 3 14 (14.29 %) DOM 4 11 (11.22 %) XML 5 10 (10.20 %) ASP.NET 6 9 (9.184 %) XSLT 7 7 (7.143 %) AJAX 7 7 (7.143 %) WPF 7 7 (7.143 %) ADO.NET 8 5 (5.102 %) WebSphere 9 4 (4.082 %) Java EE 9 4 (4.082 %) CSS 9 4 (4.082 %) J2EE 10 2 (2.041 %) XSL 10 2 (2.041 %) XHTML 11 1 (1.020 %) ISPF	Application Platforms 1 7 (7.143 %) BizTalk Server 2 5 (5.102 %) WebSphere MQ 3 4 (4.082 %) WebLogic 4 2 (2.041 %) Lotus Notes 4 2 (2.041 %) TeamSite 4 2 (2.041 %) CMS 5 1 (1.020 %) CICS 5 1 (1.020 %) MQSeries
Applications 1 9 (9.184 %) MS Office 2 3 (3.061 %) MS Project 3 2 (2.041 %) MS Excel 4 1 (1.020 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (1.020 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 8 (8.163 %) Internet 2 7 (7.143 %) SMTP 2 7 (7.143 %) FTP 2 7 (7.143 %) HTTP 2 7 (7.143 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (2.041 %) LDAP 3 2 (2.041 %) ATM 3 2 (2.041 %) Frame Relay 3 2 (2.041 %) 2G 3 2 (2.041 %) BSS 4 1 (1.020 %) Network Security 4 1 (1.020 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (3.061 %) SQL Server 1 3 (3.061 %) TOAD 2 1 (1.020 %) DB2 2 1 (1.020 %) Oracle Reports 2 1 (1.020 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 6 (6.122 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 4 (4.082 %) ClearCase 2 4 (4.082 %) JIRA 2 4 (4.082 %) Ant 3 3 (3.061 %) ClearQuest 3 3 (3.061 %) Subversion 4 2 (2.041 %) RequisitePro 4 2 (2.041 %) CaliberRM	General 1 28 (28.57 %) Retail 2 20 (20.41 %) Finance 3 16 (16.33 %) Telecoms 4 7 (7.143 %) Games 4 7 (7.143 %) Front Office 5 4 (4.082 %) Pharmaceutical 6 3 (3.061 %) Banking 7 2 (2.041 %) Government 7 2 (2.041 %) Electronics 8 1 (1.020 %) Financial Institution 8 1 (1.020 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 25 (25.51 %) Analyst 2 15 (15.31 %) Project Manager 3 11 (11.22 %) Team Leader 4 10 (10.20 %) Business Analyst 5 9 (9.184 %) Administrator 5 9 (9.184 %) Web Team Leader 6 8 (8.163 %) Process Analyst 7 6 (6.122 %) Change Manager 7 6 (6.122 %) UML Business Analyst 8 5 (5.102 %) Change Analyst 8 5 (5.102 %) Technical Manager 8 5 (5.102 %) Architect 8 5 (5.102 %) Developer 8 5 (5.102 %) Development Manager 9 4 (4.082 %) Release Manager 9 4 (4.082 %) Change Management Analyst 10 3 (3.061 %) Infrastructure Manager 10 3 (3.061 %) Financial Business Analyst 10 3 (3.061 %) Document Controller 10 3 (3.061 %) Financial Services Business Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 14 (14.29 %) W3C 2 7 (7.143 %) CMDB 3 4 (4.082 %) EPoS 4 2 (2.041 %) German Language 5 1 (1.020 %) iDTV 5 1 (1.020 %) IBM Mainframe 5 1 (1.020 %) Mainframe 5 1 (1.020 %) Management Information System 5 1 (1.020 %) E-Learning
Operating Systems 1 5 (5.102 %) UNIX 2 4 (4.082 %) Linux 3 2 (2.041 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (2.041 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (23.47 %) E-Commerce 2 21 (21.43 %) Scrum 3 20 (20.41 %) OO 4 18 (18.37 %) Project Management 5 14 (14.29 %) Configuration Management 6 12 (12.24 %) RAD 7 11 (11.22 %) ITIL 8 10 (10.20 %) Time Management 9 8 (8.163 %) PRINCE2 9 8 (8.163 %) Service Delivery 9 8 (8.163 %) Release Management 10 7 (7.143 %) Service Management 10 7 (7.143 %) UML 11 5 (5.102 %) Document Management 12 4 (4.082 %) Incident Management 12 4 (4.082 %) Risk Analysis 12 4 (4.082 %) Web Development 12 4 (4.082 %) Six Sigma 12 4 (4.082 %) Quality Management 12 4 (4.082 %) Validation
Programming Languages 1 14 (14.29 %) C 2 10 (10.20 %) C# 3 8 (8.163 %) SQL 4 4 (4.082 %) Java 5 2 (2.041 %) JavaScript 6 1 (1.020 %) COBOL	Qualifications 1 6 (6.122 %) ITIL Certification 2 4 (4.082 %) Degree 3 1 (1.020 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (1.020 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.061 %) COBIT 2 2 (2.041 %) ISO9001	Systems Management 1 4 (4.082 %) Tivoli 2 3 (3.061 %) Unicenter
Vendors 1 6 (6.122 %) Microsoft 1 6 (6.122 %) Oracle 1 6 (6.122 %) Serena 2 5 (5.102 %) IBM 3 4 (4.082 %) Novell 4 3 (3.061 %) HP 4 3 (3.061 %) BMC 4 3 (3.061 %) CA 5 2 (2.041 %) Nortel 5 2 (2.041 %) Interwoven 5 2 (2.041 %) Lotus 6 1 (1.020 %) Remedy 6 1 (1.020 %) SAP 6 1 (1.020 %) Cisco 6 1 (1.020 %) Juniper 6 1 (1.020 %) Hyperion 6 1 (1.020 %) JDA