Manchester Information Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Information 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 Information Management over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Management
Location Aberdeen Avon Basingstoke Berkshire Blackpool Bournemouth Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Dorset East Midlands East of England England Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hackney Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Lancashire Leeds London Macclesfield Manchester Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Reading Salisbury Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	74	67
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	2	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.361 %	0.828 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£450	-
Average daily rate	£500	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£550	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£396	£317
% change on same period last year	+25.08 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£18.00
Average hourly rate	-	£21.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.96	£23.20
% change on same period last year	+24.83 %
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 %
Information 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 Information Management across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Information Management
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Information 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 Information Management across the Manchester region.

Information Management
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Information 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 Information Management.

1 5 (62.50 %) Oracle 2 3 (37.50 %) Management Information System 2 3 (37.50 %) Oracle EBS 2 3 (37.50 %) Problem Management 2 3 (37.50 %) SQL 3 2 (25.00 %) Finance 3 2 (25.00 %) Oracle HRMS 3 2 (25.00 %) Change Management 3 2 (25.00 %) Regression Testing 3 2 (25.00 %) MS Office 3 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 4 1 (12.50 %) NHS 4 1 (12.50 %) EAM 4 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (12.50 %) CRM

4 1 (12.50 %) DB2 4 1 (12.50 %) Oracle Applications 4 1 (12.50 %) Pensions 4 1 (12.50 %) Data Extraction

Information Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Information 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 Information Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 2 (25.00 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle EBS 2 2 (25.00 %) Oracle HRMS 3 1 (12.50 %) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) DB2 1 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 8/8i	General 1 2 (25.00 %) Finance 2 1 (12.50 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 5 (62.50 %) Analyst 2 4 (50.00 %) Support Analyst 2 4 (50.00 %) Applications Support 2 4 (50.00 %) Applications Support Analyst 3 3 (37.50 %) Senior Support Analyst 3 3 (37.50 %) Senior Applications Support Analyst 3 3 (37.50 %) Senior Analyst 4 2 (25.00 %) Oracle Analyst 4 2 (25.00 %) Oracle Support Analyst 5 1 (12.50 %) Oracle Applications Support Analyst 5 1 (12.50 %) Oracle Applications Support 5 1 (12.50 %) Senior Oracle Analyst 5 1 (12.50 %) Access Developer 5 1 (12.50 %) Functional Analyst 5 1 (12.50 %) Database Developer 5 1 (12.50 %) Functional Consultant 5 1 (12.50 %) Consultant 5 1 (12.50 %) Business Analyst 5 1 (12.50 %) Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (37.50 %) Management Information System 2 1 (12.50 %) Data Extraction 2 1 (12.50 %) NHS
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Problem Management 2 2 (25.00 %) Change Management 2 2 (25.00 %) Regression Testing 3 1 (12.50 %) CRM 3 1 (12.50 %) EAM	Programming Languages 1 3 (37.50 %) SQL
Vendors 1 5 (62.50 %) Oracle 2 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft