Manchester Incident Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Incident 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 Incident 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 Avon Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Leeds Leighton Buzzard London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North Wales North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	65
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	12	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	2.098 %	0.858 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£304	£292
% change on same period last year	+3.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£21.60	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.20	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.76	£18.28
% change on same period last year	-13.75 %
Processes & Methodologies Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	572	466
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.755 %	0.464 %
Daily rates quoted	115	110
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£342
Average daily rate	£357	£362
% change on same period last year	-1.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	34
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.20	£20.57
Average hourly rate	£28.96	£23.06
% change on same period last year	+25.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.72	£25.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.34	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
Incident 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 Incident 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 Incident Management across the Manchester 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 Incident Management across the Manchester region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Incident Management across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Incident 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 Incident Management.

1 12 (75.00 %) SLA 2 6 (37.50 %) SAP 2 6 (37.50 %) SAP FI 2 6 (37.50 %) Dutch Language 2 6 (37.50 %) French Language 2 6 (37.50 %) German Language 3 5 (31.25 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 3 (18.75 %) LiveLink 5 2 (12.50 %) MS Office 5 2 (12.50 %) SAP Oil and Gas 5 2 (12.50 %) Mainframe 5 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft 5 2 (12.50 %) Active Directory 5 2 (12.50 %) Citrix 5 2 (12.50 %) Novell

5 2 (12.50 %) Terminal Services 5 2 (12.50 %) Windows 5 2 (12.50 %) MS Excel 5 2 (12.50 %) Client/Server 5 2 (12.50 %) VME 6 1 (6.250 %) Network Security 6 1 (6.250 %) LAN 6 1 (6.250 %) ITIL 6 1 (6.250 %) Problem Management 6 1 (6.250 %) Service Management 6 1 (6.250 %) Change Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Incident 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 Incident Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 3 (18.75 %) LiveLink	Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) MS Office 1 2 (12.50 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 6 (37.50 %) SAP FI 2 2 (12.50 %) SAP Oil and Gas	Communications & Networking 1 1 (6.250 %) Network Security 1 1 (6.250 %) LAN
Job Titles 1 10 (62.50 %) Analyst 2 7 (43.75 %) Support Analyst 3 6 (37.50 %) Applications Support 4 5 (31.25 %) SAP Analyst 5 4 (25.00 %) SAP Support 6 3 (18.75 %) SAP Support Analyst 6 3 (18.75 %) 1st Line Support 7 2 (12.50 %) Helpdesk Support 8 1 (6.250 %) 1st Line Support Analyst 8 1 (6.250 %) Helpdesk Analyst 8 1 (6.250 %) Network Engineer 8 1 (6.250 %) Applications Support Analyst 8 1 (6.250 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 8 1 (6.250 %) Problem Manager 8 1 (6.250 %) Problem Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 6 (37.50 %) Dutch Language 1 6 (37.50 %) French Language 1 6 (37.50 %) German Language 2 2 (12.50 %) Mainframe 2 2 (12.50 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 2 (12.50 %) Windows 1 2 (12.50 %) VME	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (6.250 %) ITIL 1 1 (6.250 %) Problem Management 1 1 (6.250 %) Service Management 1 1 (6.250 %) Change Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 12 (75.00 %) SLA 2 5 (31.25 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 2 (12.50 %) Active Directory 1 2 (12.50 %) Terminal Services
Vendors 1 6 (37.50 %) SAP 2 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft 2 2 (12.50 %) Citrix 2 2 (12.50 %) Novell