Manchester Change Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Change Management skills within the Manchester 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 5 September 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 Cheshunt Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Huddersfield Isle of Wight Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East 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 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 Truro 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 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	59
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	38	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.051 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	6.859 %	2.484 %
Daily rates quoted	9	2
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£525
Average daily rate	£350	£538
% change on same period last year	-34.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£550
UK excluding London average daily rate	£385	£362
% change on same period last year	+6.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£17.00
Average hourly rate	-	£19.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.24	£31.10
% change on same period last year	-18.85 %
Processes & Methodologies Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	554	483
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.749 %	0.476 %
Daily rates quoted	126	121
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£337
Average daily rate	£352	£358
% change on same period last year	-1.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	48	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.83	£21.66
Average hourly rate	£29.50	£23.78
% change on same period last year	+24.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.17	£25.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.41
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Change Management North West

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 Manchester 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 Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 43 (50.00 %) Tivoli 2 33 (38.37 %) HPUX 3 32 (37.21 %) Solaris 3 32 (37.21 %) Windows 3 32 (37.21 %) Shell Script 3 32 (37.21 %) Middleware 3 32 (37.21 %) Mainframe 3 32 (37.21 %) Tandem 3 32 (37.21 %) OMEGAMON 4 31 (36.05 %) AIX 5 27 (31.40 %) Finance 6 23 (26.74 %) UNIX 7 11 (12.79 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 7 11 (12.79 %) Health 8 10 (11.63 %) Gentran

8 10 (11.63 %) WebSphere 8 10 (11.63 %) IBM 9 8 (9.302 %) PRINCE2 9 8 (9.302 %) Oracle 10 6 (6.977 %) WebSphere Application Server 10 6 (6.977 %) Cisco 11 5 (5.814 %) Banking 11 5 (5.814 %) SQL 11 5 (5.814 %) Stakeholder Management 11 5 (5.814 %) Project Management 12 4 (4.651 %) Regression Testing 12 4 (4.651 %) Oracle EBS 12 4 (4.651 %) ITIL 12 4 (4.651 %) WebSphere MQ 12 4 (4.651 %) Project Planning

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 Development 1 32 (37.21 %) Middleware 2 10 (11.63 %) WebSphere 3 2 (2.326 %) HTML 4 1 (1.163 %) J2EE 4 1 (1.163 %) WBIMB	Application Platforms 1 10 (11.63 %) Gentran 2 6 (6.977 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 4 (4.651 %) WebSphere MQ
Applications 1 3 (3.488 %) MS Office 2 2 (2.326 %) Photoshop 2 2 (2.326 %) MS Project 3 1 (1.163 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 4 (4.651 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (1.163 %) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.163 %) LDAP 1 1 (1.163 %) VoIP 1 1 (1.163 %) WAN 1 1 (1.163 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.163 %) MySQL 1 1 (1.163 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 2 (2.326 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (1.163 %) WinRunner 2 1 (1.163 %) TestDirector 2 1 (1.163 %) Bugzilla	General 1 27 (31.40 %) Finance 2 11 (12.79 %) Health 3 5 (5.814 %) Banking 4 3 (3.488 %) Billing 4 3 (3.488 %) Telecoms 4 3 (3.488 %) Marketing 5 2 (2.326 %) Pharmaceutical 5 2 (2.326 %) Insurance 5 2 (2.326 %) Pensions 5 2 (2.326 %) Retail Banking 5 2 (2.326 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 16 (18.60 %) Consultant 2 14 (16.28 %) Project Manager 3 11 (12.79 %) Analyst 4 10 (11.63 %) Administrator 5 6 (6.977 %) Storage Administrator 5 6 (6.977 %) WebSphere Specialist 6 5 (5.814 %) Infrastructure Specialist 7 4 (4.651 %) Senior Support Analyst 7 4 (4.651 %) Applications Support 7 4 (4.651 %) Applications Support Analyst 7 4 (4.651 %) Senior Analyst 7 4 (4.651 %) Support Analyst 7 4 (4.651 %) Senior Applications Support Analyst 8 3 (3.488 %) Functional Consultant 8 3 (3.488 %) Business Analyst 8 3 (3.488 %) Oracle Consultant 8 3 (3.488 %) Oracle Functional Consultant 9 2 (2.326 %) Business Manager 9 2 (2.326 %) Business Project Manager 9 2 (2.326 %) Coordinator	Miscellaneous 1 32 (37.21 %) Mainframe 1 32 (37.21 %) Tandem 2 2 (2.326 %) NHS 3 1 (1.163 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 33 (38.37 %) HPUX 2 32 (37.21 %) Solaris 2 32 (37.21 %) Windows 3 31 (36.05 %) AIX 4 23 (26.74 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (9.302 %) PRINCE2 2 5 (5.814 %) Project Management 2 5 (5.814 %) Stakeholder Management 3 4 (4.651 %) ITIL 3 4 (4.651 %) Regression Testing 3 4 (4.651 %) Project Planning 4 3 (3.488 %) Resource Management 4 3 (3.488 %) Direct Marketing 4 3 (3.488 %) Problem Management 4 3 (3.488 %) BPR 5 2 (2.326 %) CRM 5 2 (2.326 %) ERP 5 2 (2.326 %) EAM 5 2 (2.326 %) Risk Analysis 5 2 (2.326 %) Content Management 5 2 (2.326 %) Information Management 5 2 (2.326 %) Requirements Management 6 1 (1.163 %) Document Management 6 1 (1.163 %) Automated Testing 6 1 (1.163 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 32 (37.21 %) Shell Script 2 5 (5.814 %) SQL 3 2 (2.326 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 2 (2.326 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 2 (2.326 %) ITIL Certification 1 2 (2.326 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.163 %) SLA 1 1 (1.163 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	Systems Management 1 43 (50.00 %) Tivoli 2 32 (37.21 %) OMEGAMON 3 11 (12.79 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 10 (11.63 %) IBM 2 8 (9.302 %) Oracle 3 6 (6.977 %) Cisco 4 3 (3.488 %) SAP 4 3 (3.488 %) Microsoft 5 1 (1.163 %) VMware