Hertfordshire Senior Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Senior Manager role in IT contracts within the Hertfordshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Senior Manager
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Reading Redditch Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	50	72
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	39	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.052 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	2.735 %	1.251 %
Daily rates quoted	20	12
Average minimum daily rate	£505	£414
Average daily rate	£526	£445
% change on same period last year	+18.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£548	£475
UK excluding London average daily rate	£499	£477
% change on same period last year	+4.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£48.75	£51.67
% change on same period last year	-5.64 %
Job Titles Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1426	1759
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.901 %	1.780 %
Daily rates quoted	522	682
Average minimum daily rate	£359	£330
Average daily rate	£386	£350
% change on same period last year	+10.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£413	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	181	161
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.27	£22.02
Average hourly rate	£25.34	£23.13
% change on same period last year	+9.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.41	£24.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Senior Manager 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.

Senior Manager
Demand Trend

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

Senior Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Manager across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 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 Senior Manager across the Hertfordshire 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 Senior Manager within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 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
Watford	+18	12	£663	-

Senior Manager East of England

Senior Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Senior 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 Senior Manager in their job title.

1 40 (71.43 %) Project Management 2 37 (66.07 %) PRINCE2 3 17 (30.36 %) Stakeholder Management 4 14 (25.00 %) Finance 5 12 (21.43 %) Java 6 11 (19.64 %) J2EE 7 9 (16.07 %) E-Commerce 8 8 (14.29 %) Telecoms 9 6 (10.71 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 6 (10.71 %) Performance Management 10 4 (7.143 %) QMS 10 4 (7.143 %) Games 11 3 (5.357 %) Health 11 3 (5.357 %) Programme Management 11 3 (5.357 %) Retail

11 3 (5.357 %) PRINCE 11 3 (5.357 %) Pharmaceutical 11 3 (5.357 %) GMP 11 3 (5.357 %) Microsoft 11 3 (5.357 %) MS Project 11 3 (5.357 %) .NET 11 3 (5.357 %) Degree 11 3 (5.357 %) Time Management 12 2 (3.571 %) WebSphere 12 2 (3.571 %) GGSN 12 2 (3.571 %) Business Intelligence 12 2 (3.571 %) PMI 12 2 (3.571 %) IBM 12 2 (3.571 %) Software Engineering 12 2 (3.571 %) Supplier Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Senior 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 Senior Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 11 (19.64 %) J2EE 2 3 (5.357 %) .NET 3 2 (3.571 %) WebSphere 4 1 (1.786 %) HTML 4 1 (1.786 %) ASP	Applications 1 3 (5.357 %) MS Project
Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.571 %) GGSN 2 1 (1.786 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.786 %) SQL Server 1 1 (1.786 %) SQL Server 7
General 1 14 (25.00 %) Finance 2 8 (14.29 %) Telecoms 3 4 (7.143 %) Games 4 3 (5.357 %) Retail 4 3 (5.357 %) Health 4 3 (5.357 %) Pharmaceutical 5 2 (3.571 %) Education 6 1 (1.786 %) Legal 6 1 (1.786 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (1.786 %) Marketing	Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.571 %) PMI 2 1 (1.786 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 1 (1.786 %) Windows 1 1 (1.786 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 40 (71.43 %) Project Management 2 37 (66.07 %) PRINCE2 3 17 (30.36 %) Stakeholder Management 4 9 (16.07 %) E-Commerce 5 6 (10.71 %) Performance Management 6 4 (7.143 %) QMS 7 3 (5.357 %) PRINCE 7 3 (5.357 %) Time Management 7 3 (5.357 %) Programme Management 8 2 (3.571 %) Business Intelligence 8 2 (3.571 %) CMMI 8 2 (3.571 %) Supplier Management 8 2 (3.571 %) Software Engineering 9 1 (1.786 %) Business Analysis 9 1 (1.786 %) Data Migration 9 1 (1.786 %) Resource Management 9 1 (1.786 %) Matrix Management 9 1 (1.786 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 1 (1.786 %) Performance Testing 9 1 (1.786 %) Integration Testing
Programming Languages 1 12 (21.43 %) Java 2 1 (1.786 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 6 (10.71 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 3 (5.357 %) Degree 3 1 (1.786 %) ISEB 3 1 (1.786 %) PMP 3 1 (1.786 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (5.357 %) GMP	Vendors 1 3 (5.357 %) Microsoft 2 2 (3.571 %) IBM 3 1 (1.786 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.786 %) SAP 3 1 (1.786 %) Cisco 3 1 (1.786 %) Dell 3 1 (1.786 %) EMC 3 1 (1.786 %) Accenture