North East Business Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Business Manager role in IT contracts within the North East region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Manager
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Rugby Scotland Shropshire Solihull South East South Wales South West Southampton Southport Staffordshire Surrey Sussex Swindon Teddington Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	60
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.342 %	0.133 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£120	£450
Average daily rate	£140	£500
% change on same period last year	-72.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£160	£550
UK excluding London average daily rate	£444	£427
% change on same period last year	+4.05 %
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	£22.56	£57.50
% change on same period last year	-60.77 %
Job Titles North East
Matching contract IT job ads	585	752
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.791 %	0.742 %
Daily rates quoted	126	143
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£328
Average daily rate	£335	£347
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£351	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	94	70
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.11	£21.92
Average hourly rate	£23.15	£23.60
% change on same period last year	-1.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.20	£25.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
Business Manager 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.

Business Manager
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Manager across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Business Manager across the North East region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Manager within the North East region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Tyne and Wear	-	2	£140	-

Business Manager England

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Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region that cited Business Manager in their job title 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 with Business Manager in their job title.

1 4 (66.67 %) PRINCE2 2 3 (50.00 %) Government 3 2 (33.33 %) Management Information System 3 2 (33.33 %) NPfIT 3 2 (33.33 %) Service Delivery 3 2 (33.33 %) Change Management 3 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 2 (33.33 %) ISEB 3 2 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 2 (33.33 %) NHS 3 2 (33.33 %) MS Project 3 2 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 1 (16.67 %) Finance

Business Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region that cited Business Manager in their job title 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 with Business Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 2 (33.33 %) MS Project	General 1 3 (50.00 %) Government 2 1 (16.67 %) Finance
Miscellaneous 1 2 (33.33 %) NHS 1 2 (33.33 %) NPfIT 1 2 (33.33 %) Management Information System	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (66.67 %) PRINCE2 2 2 (33.33 %) Service Delivery 2 2 (33.33 %) Change Management
Qualifications 1 2 (33.33 %) ISEB 1 2 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 2 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Vendors 1 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft