Kent Change Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Change Management skills within the Kent 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Amersham Avon Aylesbury Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Billingham Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Huntingdon Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knottingley Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staines Stevenage Stourbridge Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	44
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	23	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	7.850 %	2.869 %
Daily rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£363
Average daily rate	£375	£381
% change on same period last year	-1.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£406	£392
% change on same period last year	+3.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.00	£33.00
Average hourly rate	£19.75	£35.50
% change on same period last year	-44.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.50	£38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.26	£26.14
% change on same period last year	+0.45 %
Processes & Methodologies Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	293	244
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.376 %	0.274 %
Daily rates quoted	58	69
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£329
Average daily rate	£357	£342
% change on same period last year	+4.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£376
% change on same period last year	+2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	36	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.69	£19.95
Average hourly rate	£24.75	£20.52
% change on same period last year	+20.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.81	£21.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.61	£29.48
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Change Management across the Kent 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Change Management across the Kent region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Change Management across the Kent region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Change Management within the Kent region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Sandwich	-	4	-	-

Change Management South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Kent region citing Change Management also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Change Management.

1 24 (41.38 %) Unix 2 23 (39.66 %) Migration 3 14 (24.14 %) LDAP 3 14 (24.14 %) Solaris 3 14 (24.14 %) Linux 4 13 (22.41 %) Active Directory 4 13 (22.41 %) Pharmaceutical 5 12 (20.69 %) Configuration Management 5 12 (20.69 %) ITIL 6 10 (17.24 %) Perl 6 10 (17.24 %) ITIL Certification 7 9 (15.52 %) Shell Script 8 8 (13.79 %) Kerberos 9 7 (12.07 %) MS Project 9 7 (12.07 %) Microsoft

9 7 (12.07 %) Finance 10 6 (10.34 %) Incident Management 10 6 (10.34 %) ServiceCenter 10 6 (10.34 %) Service Management 11 5 (8.621 %) HP 12 4 (6.897 %) Project Management 12 4 (6.897 %) Business Intelligence 12 4 (6.897 %) CMDB 12 4 (6.897 %) Banking 13 3 (5.172 %) Insurance 13 3 (5.172 %) Problem Management 13 3 (5.172 %) MS Office 13 3 (5.172 %) Java 13 3 (5.172 %) J2EE 13 3 (5.172 %) Risk Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Kent region citing Change Management also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Change Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (5.172 %) J2EE 2 2 (3.448 %) WebServices 2 2 (3.448 %) Hibernate 2 2 (3.448 %) Spring 3 1 (1.724 %) HTML 3 1 (1.724 %) XML 3 1 (1.724 %) ODBC 3 1 (1.724 %) ActiveX 3 1 (1.724 %) ASP 3 1 (1.724 %) EJB 3 1 (1.724 %) JDBC	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.724 %) Lotus Domino 1 1 (1.724 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 7 (12.07 %) MS Project 2 3 (5.172 %) MS Office 3 2 (3.448 %) MS Visio 4 1 (1.724 %) Shockwave 4 1 (1.724 %) Fireworks 4 1 (1.724 %) MS Excel 4 1 (1.724 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 14 (24.14 %) LDAP 2 8 (13.79 %) Kerberos 3 1 (1.724 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (1.724 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.724 %) SQL Server 1 1 (1.724 %) RDBMS 1 1 (1.724 %) EDRMS 1 1 (1.724 %) Data Cleansing	Development Applications 1 1 (1.724 %) Flash 1 1 (1.724 %) JBuilder 1 1 (1.724 %) TestDirector
General 1 13 (22.41 %) Pharmaceutical 2 7 (12.07 %) Finance 3 4 (6.897 %) Banking 4 3 (5.172 %) Insurance 4 3 (5.172 %) Health 5 2 (3.448 %) Retail Banking 5 2 (3.448 %) Retail 6 1 (1.724 %) Education 6 1 (1.724 %) Government 6 1 (1.724 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 15 (25.86 %) Analyst 2 12 (20.69 %) Administrator 3 11 (18.97 %) Change Analyst 4 9 (15.52 %) Change Management Analyst 4 9 (15.52 %) UNIX Engineer 5 7 (12.07 %) Project Administrator 5 7 (12.07 %) UNIX Administrator 6 4 (6.897 %) Systems Administrator 6 4 (6.897 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 7 3 (5.172 %) Change Manager 7 3 (5.172 %) Developer 7 3 (5.172 %) Business Analyst 8 2 (3.448 %) Programme Manager 8 2 (3.448 %) Project Manager 8 2 (3.448 %) Java Developer 8 2 (3.448 %) Senior Manager 8 2 (3.448 %) Quality Manager 8 2 (3.448 %) Service Manager 8 2 (3.448 %) J2EE Developer 8 2 (3.448 %) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 4 (6.897 %) CMDB 2 2 (3.448 %) Informatics 2 2 (3.448 %) Computer Science 3 1 (1.724 %) HACMP	Operating Systems 1 24 (41.38 %) Unix 2 14 (24.14 %) Solaris 2 14 (24.14 %) Linux 3 1 (1.724 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (39.66 %) Migration 2 12 (20.69 %) ITIL 2 12 (20.69 %) Configuration Management 3 6 (10.34 %) Service Management 3 6 (10.34 %) Incident Management 4 4 (6.897 %) Business Intelligence 4 4 (6.897 %) Project Management 5 3 (5.172 %) Risk Management 5 3 (5.172 %) Problem Management 6 2 (3.448 %) Project Planning 6 2 (3.448 %) Business Development 6 2 (3.448 %) UML 7 1 (1.724 %) Quality Management 7 1 (1.724 %) Release Management 7 1 (1.724 %) Integration Testing 7 1 (1.724 %) Document Management 7 1 (1.724 %) Business Analysis 7 1 (1.724 %) Knowledge Management	Programming Languages 1 10 (17.24 %) Perl 2 9 (15.52 %) Shell Script 3 3 (5.172 %) Java 4 1 (1.724 %) JavaScript 4 1 (1.724 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (1.724 %) SQL 4 1 (1.724 %) Korn
Qualifications 1 10 (17.24 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (1.724 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.448 %) 21 CFR Part 11 1 2 (3.448 %) GCP 1 2 (3.448 %) GMP 1 2 (3.448 %) GLP 1 2 (3.448 %) GxP 1 2 (3.448 %) QA
System Software 1 13 (22.41 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 6 (10.34 %) ServiceCenter
Vendors 1 7 (12.07 %) Microsoft 2 5 (8.621 %) HP 3 2 (3.448 %) Oracle