Highlands Service Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Service Management skills within the Highlands region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Service Management over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Service Management
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Avon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Haslemere Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hove Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staines Stevenage Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wolverhampton Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£363	£346
% change on same period last year	+5.00 %
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	£19.69	£26.20
% change on same period last year	-24.82 %
Processes & Methodologies Highlands
Matching contract IT job ads	6	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.025 %
Daily rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum daily rate	-	£290
Average daily rate	-	£293
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£296
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£14.25
Average hourly rate	£40.25	£14.25
% change on same period last year	+182.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.50	£14.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.42	£29.97
% change on same period last year	-1.81 %
Service Management Scotland

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 Service Management across the Highlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Highlands region citing Service 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 Service Management.

1 1 (100.00 %) MS Office 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 1 (100.00 %) Active Directory

Service Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Highlands region citing Service 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 Service Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Office	Operating Systems 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows
System Software 1 1 (100.00 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft