Kent Resource Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Resource 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 Resource Management over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Resource Management
Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Camberley Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England England Glasgow Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Middlesex Midlands Newcastle North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Preston Reading Renfrew Renfrewshire Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	48
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	2.839 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£250
Average daily rate	-	£250
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£344
% change on same period last year	+11.09 %
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	£18.00	£36.48
% change on same period last year	-50.66 %
Processes & Methodologies Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	197	317
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.277 %	0.320 %
Daily rates quoted	54	69
Average minimum daily rate	£316	£340
Average daily rate	£328	£356
% change on same period last year	-7.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	47
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.78	£29.56
Average hourly rate	£27.87	£32.25
% change on same period last year	-13.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.96	£34.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
Resource 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 Resource 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 IT contract jobs citing Resource 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 IT contractor jobs citing Resource Management across the Kent region.

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Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Resource 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 Resource Management.

1 7 (87.50 %) Microsoft 2 4 (50.00 %) Project Management 2 4 (50.00 %) MS Project 3 3 (37.50 %) VMware 3 3 (37.50 %) Thin Client 3 3 (37.50 %) Fat Client 3 3 (37.50 %) VoIP 3 3 (37.50 %) ITIL 4 2 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (25.00 %) Marketing 4 2 (25.00 %) Project Planning 5 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 5 1 (12.50 %) Finance 5 1 (12.50 %) Education 5 1 (12.50 %) Pharmaceutical

5 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 1 (12.50 %) MS Excel 5 1 (12.50 %) LAN 5 1 (12.50 %) WAN 5 1 (12.50 %) SAP

Resource Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Resource 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 Resource Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 4 (50.00 %) MS Project 2 1 (12.50 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (37.50 %) VoIP 2 1 (12.50 %) WAN 2 1 (12.50 %) LAN
General 1 2 (25.00 %) Marketing 2 1 (12.50 %) Pharmaceutical 2 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 2 1 (12.50 %) Finance 2 1 (12.50 %) Education	Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Project Manager 2 2 (25.00 %) Technical Lead 2 2 (25.00 %) Project Planner 3 1 (12.50 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Junior Project Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Infrastructure Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Junior
Miscellaneous 1 3 (37.50 %) Thin Client 1 3 (37.50 %) Fat Client	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (50.00 %) Project Management 2 3 (37.50 %) ITIL 3 2 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (25.00 %) Project Planning
Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Vendors 1 7 (87.50 %) Microsoft 2 3 (37.50 %) VMware 3 1 (12.50 %) SAP