Midlands Document Management Contracts

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

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London Coventry Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Reading Redcar Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walton-on-Thames Ware Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	74	74
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	1	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	0.143 %	1.348 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£317
Average daily rate	-	£354
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£392
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£390
% change on same period last year	-0.98 %
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	£29.47	£22.88
% change on same period last year	+28.81 %
Processes & Methodologies Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	697	816
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.929 %	0.826 %
Daily rates quoted	164	157
Average minimum daily rate	£389	£374
Average daily rate	£409	£395
% change on same period last year	+3.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£429	£417
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	61
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£28.21
Average hourly rate	£27.35	£29.23
% change on same period last year	-6.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.69	£30.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Document Management England

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 Document Management across the Midlands 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 Document Management across the Midlands 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 Document Management across the Midlands region.

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Top 7 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (66.67 %) Mercator 1 2 (66.67 %) Papyrus 1 2 (66.67 %) StreamWeaver 2 1 (33.33 %) MS PowerPoint 2 1 (33.33 %) Problem Management 2 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Visio

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) Papyrus 1 2 (66.67 %) StreamWeaver	Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Visio 1 1 (33.33 %) MS PowerPoint
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Consultant 2 1 (33.33 %) Solutions Architect 2 1 (33.33 %) Architect	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 1 1 (33.33 %) Problem Management
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Mercator