The first table below looks at the demand for Change Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Change Management over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Hertfordshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Change Management
Rank 30 54 44
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -10
Contract jobs citing Change Management 28 24 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 4.294% 2.437% 2.469%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.195% 3.675% 4.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 6
Average daily rate £388 £350 £383
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.71% -8.49%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £170 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £490 £484
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £360
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
Average hourly rate £21.50 £27.25 £10.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.10% +165.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £15.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+43.33% -40.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
452 653 538
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 69.33% 66.29% 60.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 290 246
Average daily rate £400 £350 £380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £461 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 55 69
Average hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.40 £11.43 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £49.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Change Management
East of England

Change Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Change Management Jobs Demand Trend

Change Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Change Management Daily Rate Trend

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Change Management across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Hertfordshire Change Management Daily Rate Histogram

Change Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Change Management across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Change Management Hourly Rate Trend

Change Management
Contract Locations

The table below 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 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
St Albans +9 12 - -
Watford +4 2 £500 +354.54% 3
Welwyn Garden City - - - - 2
Borehamwood - - - -
Hemel Hempstead - - - - 3
Change Management
East of England

Change Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 21 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 19 (48.72%) MS Excel
3 15 (38.46%) Remedy
3 15 (38.46%) Service Management
3 15 (38.46%) Risk Management
3 15 (38.46%) ITIL
3 15 (38.46%) PRINCE2
4 14 (35.90%) Migration
4 14 (35.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 12 (30.77%) ISEB
6 10 (25.64%) Finance
6 10 (25.64%) Project Management
7 9 (23.08%) Retail
8 6 (15.38%) Oracle
8 6 (15.38%) SAP
9 5 (12.82%) SQL
9 5 (12.82%) E-Commerce
9 5 (12.82%) Time Management
10 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
10 4 (10.26%) Change Control
10 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (10.26%) MS Office
11 3 (7.692%) C#
11 3 (7.692%) Web Services
11 3 (7.692%) XML
11 3 (7.692%) .NET
11 3 (7.692%) SQL Server
11 3 (7.692%) SharePoint
11 3 (7.692%) N-Tier
11 3 (7.692%) SOA

Change Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 3 (7.692%) .NET
1 3 (7.692%) Web Services
1 3 (7.692%) XML
2 2 (5.128%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (7.692%) SharePoint
1 3 (7.692%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.564%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 19 (48.72%) MS Excel
2 4 (10.26%) MS Office
3 3 (7.692%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.128%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.564%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.692%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.692%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.692%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 10 (25.64%) Finance
2 9 (23.08%) Retail
3 3 (7.692%) French Language
3 3 (7.692%) Manufacturing
3 3 (7.692%) Games
4 2 (5.128%) Law
4 2 (5.128%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Project Manager
2 8 (20.51%) Analyst
3 6 (15.38%) Business Analyst
4 5 (12.82%) Architect
5 3 (7.692%) Project Officer
5 3 (7.692%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.128%) Programme Manager
6 2 (5.128%) Migration Project Manager
7 1 (2.564%) SAP Manager
7 1 (2.564%) PMO Manager
7 1 (2.564%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 1 (2.564%) ERP Manager
7 1 (2.564%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (2.564%) Senior Operations Engineer
7 1 (2.564%) Storage Architect
7 1 (2.564%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
7 1 (2.564%) Technical Architect
7 1 (2.564%) UNIX Technical Specialist
7 1 (2.564%) ERP Project Manager
7 1 (2.564%) Linux Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.692%) N-Tier
1 3 (7.692%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.564%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.564%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.128%) UNIX
1 2 (5.128%) Linux
1 2 (5.128%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.564%) Windows 7
2 1 (2.564%) Windows XP
2 1 (2.564%) Windows
2 1 (2.564%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) ITIL
1 15 (38.46%) PRINCE2
1 15 (38.46%) Service Management
1 15 (38.46%) Risk Management
2 14 (35.90%) Migration
3 10 (25.64%) Project Management
4 5 (12.82%) E-Commerce
4 5 (12.82%) Time Management
5 4 (10.26%) Change Control
5 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (7.692%) TDD
6 3 (7.692%) SOA
6 3 (7.692%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (7.692%) Unit Testing
6 3 (7.692%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (7.692%) Business Analysis
6 3 (7.692%) AOP
6 3 (7.692%) Refactoring
6 3 (7.692%) Problem Management
7 2 (5.128%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) SQL
2 3 (7.692%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (35.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 12 (30.77%) ISEB
3 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.692%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (2.564%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.564%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (5.128%) NetBackup
2 1 (2.564%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 21 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 15 (38.46%) Remedy
3 6 (15.38%) Oracle
3 6 (15.38%) SAP
4 2 (5.128%) Citrix
4 2 (5.128%) BMC
4 2 (5.128%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.128%) Symantec
5 1 (2.564%) Cisco
5 1 (2.564%) IBM
5 1 (2.564%) VMware
5 1 (2.564%) Brocade
5 1 (2.564%) HP
Hertfordshire
Prince2 Practitioner qualification or equivalent. ISEB or APM qualified... Knowledge of initiation, change management, risk management, and the principles and practicalities of running projects. Proven experience of Microsoft...
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Posted: 14 June 2013