Middlesex Release Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Release Management skills within the Middlesex region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Release Management over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England England Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Kent Lancashire Leeds London M4 Corridor Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	43
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	2	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.549 %	1.622 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£250	-
Average daily rate	£265	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£280	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£414	£383
% change on same period last year	+7.98 %
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	£30.76	£27.88
% change on same period last year	+10.33 %
Processes & Methodologies Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	364	370
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.485 %	0.374 %
Daily rates quoted	96	93
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£316
Average daily rate	£355	£338
% change on same period last year	+5.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.44	£38.64
Average hourly rate	£35.44	£39.35
% change on same period last year	-9.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.44	£40.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Release 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 Release Management across the Middlesex 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 Release Management across the Middlesex 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 Release Management across the Middlesex region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex region citing Release 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 Release Management.

1 3 (37.50 %) ITIL 1 3 (37.50 %) UNIX 2 2 (25.00 %) Service Delivery 2 2 (25.00 %) Finance 2 2 (25.00 %) Configuration Management 2 2 (25.00 %) Mainframe 2 2 (25.00 %) Retail 3 1 (12.50 %) Investment Banking 3 1 (12.50 %) Insurance 3 1 (12.50 %) Korn 3 1 (12.50 %) QA 3 1 (12.50 %) Data Migration 3 1 (12.50 %) TELNET 3 1 (12.50 %) C 3 1 (12.50 %) Perl

3 1 (12.50 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (12.50 %) SQL 3 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 3 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 3 1 (12.50 %) MS Office 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows 3 1 (12.50 %) B2B 3 1 (12.50 %) SLA 3 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 3 1 (12.50 %) WinRunner 3 1 (12.50 %) LoadRunner 3 1 (12.50 %) ProC 3 1 (12.50 %) Six Sigma 3 1 (12.50 %) Migration 3 1 (12.50 %) Games

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex region citing Release 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 Release Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) WinRunner 1 1 (12.50 %) LoadRunner 1 1 (12.50 %) ProC
General 1 2 (25.00 %) Finance 1 2 (25.00 %) Retail 2 1 (12.50 %) Investment Banking 2 1 (12.50 %) Insurance 2 1 (12.50 %) Games 2 1 (12.50 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Service Manager 1 3 (37.50 %) Team Leader 2 2 (25.00 %) IT Manager 2 2 (25.00 %) Services Delivery Manager 2 2 (25.00 %) Delivery Manager 2 2 (25.00 %) IT Services Delivery Manager 2 2 (25.00 %) Build Manager 2 2 (25.00 %) IT Services Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) UNIX Team Leader 3 1 (12.50 %) Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Quality Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) QA Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Implementation Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Change Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (25.00 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) UNIX 2 1 (12.50 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) ITIL 2 2 (25.00 %) Configuration Management 2 2 (25.00 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (12.50 %) Migration 3 1 (12.50 %) Data Migration 3 1 (12.50 %) Service Management 3 1 (12.50 %) B2B 3 1 (12.50 %) Six Sigma	Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) C 1 1 (12.50 %) Perl 1 1 (12.50 %) PL/SQL 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL 1 1 (12.50 %) Korn
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) SLA 1 1 (12.50 %) QA	Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft