Leeds Systems Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Systems Manager role in IT contracts within the Leeds 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 Systems Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

System Manager
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham City of London Derby Derbyshire East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Essex Gatwick Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Horsham Kidlington Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth South East South Wales South West Staines Surrey Swindon Teddington Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	74	68
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	4	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.340 %	0.463 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£250
Average daily rate	£375	£269
% change on same period last year	+39.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£288
UK excluding London average daily rate	£389	£363
% change on same period last year	+7.10 %
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	£36.25	£32.32
% change on same period last year	+12.16 %
Job Titles Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	1178	1081
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.555 %	1.077 %
Daily rates quoted	298	185
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£330
Average daily rate	£347	£354
% change on same period last year	-1.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	62	97
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.27	£26.49
Average hourly rate	£24.41	£27.76
% change on same period last year	-12.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.55	£29.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Systems Manager West Yorkshire

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 Systems Manager across the Leeds 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 Systems Manager across the Leeds region.

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Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region that cited Systems 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 Systems Manager in their job title.

1 4 (50.00 %) NHS 2 3 (37.50 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (25.00 %) Service Management 3 2 (25.00 %) Project Management 3 2 (25.00 %) Oracle 3 2 (25.00 %) Health 3 2 (25.00 %) E-Learning 4 1 (12.50 %) Business Continuity 4 1 (12.50 %) Migration 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL 4 1 (12.50 %) Data Analysis 4 1 (12.50 %) Knowledge Management 4 1 (12.50 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (12.50 %) MBCS 4 1 (12.50 %) Requirements Analysis

4 1 (12.50 %) CITP 4 1 (12.50 %) Informatics 4 1 (12.50 %) QA 4 1 (12.50 %) Time Management 4 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 1 (12.50 %) Data Migration 4 1 (12.50 %) Data Mapping 4 1 (12.50 %) MS Office 4 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (12.50 %) MS Excel 4 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 4 1 (12.50 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (12.50 %) Finance 4 1 (12.50 %) Education

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region that cited Systems 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 Systems Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MS PowerPoint 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Office 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 8/8i
General 1 2 (25.00 %) Health 2 1 (12.50 %) Finance 2 1 (12.50 %) Education	Miscellaneous 1 4 (50.00 %) NHS 2 2 (25.00 %) E-Learning 3 1 (12.50 %) Informatics
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) PRINCE2 2 2 (25.00 %) Service Management 2 2 (25.00 %) Project Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Business Continuity 3 1 (12.50 %) Migration 3 1 (12.50 %) Data Analysis 3 1 (12.50 %) Knowledge Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Requirements Analysis 3 1 (12.50 %) Time Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Data Migration 3 1 (12.50 %) Data Mapping 3 1 (12.50 %) Disaster Recovery	Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) MBCS 1 1 (12.50 %) CITP 1 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) QA
Vendors 1 2 (25.00 %) Oracle 2 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft