Home Counties Change Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Change Management skills within the Home Counties 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 20 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 Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Isle of Wight Kent Kidlington 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 Solihull 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 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 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	25
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	4	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	10.81 %	5.000 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£400	-
Average daily rate	£400	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£400	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£389	£371
% change on same period last year	+5.07 %
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	£25.05	£31.42
% change on same period last year	-20.29 %
Processes & Methodologies Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	37	60
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.049 %	0.060 %
Daily rates quoted	11	10
Average minimum daily rate	£416	£360
Average daily rate	£426	£362
% change on same period last year	+17.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£437	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£34.60
Average hourly rate	-	£35.20
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.34	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
Change 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 Change Management across the Home Counties 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 Home Counties 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 Home Counties region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 3 (50.00 %) PRINCE2 1 3 (50.00 %) Government 2 2 (33.33 %) Business Analysis 2 2 (33.33 %) Local Government 2 2 (33.33 %) MS PowerPoint 2 2 (33.33 %) ITIL 2 2 (33.33 %) Project Management 2 2 (33.33 %) MS Excel 2 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 2 (33.33 %) ISEB 2 2 (33.33 %) Finance 2 2 (33.33 %) Education 3 1 (16.67 %) Quality Management 3 1 (16.67 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (16.67 %) Configuration Management

3 1 (16.67 %) Windows 3 1 (16.67 %) Project Planning 3 1 (16.67 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (16.67 %) DV Cleared 3 1 (16.67 %) Security Cleared

Change Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 Platforms 1 1 (16.67 %) SharePoint Server 2007	Applications 1 2 (33.33 %) MS PowerPoint 1 2 (33.33 %) MS Excel
General 1 3 (50.00 %) Government 2 2 (33.33 %) Local Government 2 2 (33.33 %) Finance 2 2 (33.33 %) Education	Job Titles 1 5 (83.33 %) Project Manager 2 1 (16.67 %) Programme Manager
Operating Systems 1 1 (16.67 %) Windows Server 2003 1 1 (16.67 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (50.00 %) PRINCE2 2 2 (33.33 %) Business Analysis 2 2 (33.33 %) ITIL 2 2 (33.33 %) Project Management 3 1 (16.67 %) Quality Management 3 1 (16.67 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (16.67 %) Project Planning 3 1 (16.67 %) DV Cleared 3 1 (16.67 %) Security Cleared
Qualifications 1 2 (33.33 %) ISEB	Vendors 1 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft