North East Performance Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Performance Management skills within the North East region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Performance Management over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Performance Management
Location Aberdeen Barking Beccles Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Corby County Antrim Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Exeter Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Witham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	48	59
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	4	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	1.394 %	0.244 %
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	£380	£408
% change on same period last year	-6.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.50	-
Average hourly rate	£30.75	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.54	£23.75
% change on same period last year	+15.94 %
Processes & Methodologies North East
Matching contract IT job ads	287	410
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.401 %	0.412 %
Daily rates quoted	71	110
Average minimum daily rate	£355	£358
Average daily rate	£380	£373
% change on same period last year	+1.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£405	£388
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£372
% change on same period last year	+1.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.86	£47.82
Average hourly rate	£24.67	£51.59
% change on same period last year	-52.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.49	£55.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.30	£30.27
% change on same period last year	-3.20 %
Performance 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.

Performance Management
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Performance Management across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Performance Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Performance Management
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Performance Management across the North East region.

Performance Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Management within the North East region over the 3 months to 6 October 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	-	4	-	-

Performance Management England

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Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing Performance 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 Performance Management.

1 7 (63.64 %) PRINCE2 2 4 (36.36 %) Project Management 2 4 (36.36 %) Health 2 4 (36.36 %) NPfIT 3 3 (27.27 %) CMMI 3 3 (27.27 %) Strategic Planning 4 2 (18.18 %) MS Visio 5 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 5 1 (9.091 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft 5 1 (9.091 %) Active Directory 5 1 (9.091 %) NHS 5 1 (9.091 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (9.091 %) Cognos 5 1 (9.091 %) MS Office

5 1 (9.091 %) ITIL 5 1 (9.091 %) Network Security 5 1 (9.091 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (9.091 %) Change Management 5 1 (9.091 %) Information Security

Performance Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing Performance 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 Performance Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 2 (18.18 %) MS Visio 2 1 (9.091 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) Network Security	General 1 4 (36.36 %) Health
Job Titles 1 4 (36.36 %) Project Manager 2 3 (27.27 %) Relationships Manager 3 2 (18.18 %) Senior Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Network Support Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Administrator 4 1 (9.091 %) Senior Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Network Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) IT Project Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) Senior Support Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) IT Administrator 4 1 (9.091 %) Network Support 4 1 (9.091 %) PC Support Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) PC Support 4 1 (9.091 %) Senior Network Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Senior Network Support 4 1 (9.091 %) Senior Network Support Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Process Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) NHS Project Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 4 (36.36 %) NPfIT 2 1 (9.091 %) NHS
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (63.64 %) PRINCE2 2 4 (36.36 %) Project Management 3 3 (27.27 %) CMMI 3 3 (27.27 %) Strategic Planning 4 1 (9.091 %) ITIL 4 1 (9.091 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (9.091 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (9.091 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (9.091 %) Change Management 4 1 (9.091 %) Information Security	System Software 1 1 (9.091 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 1 (9.091 %) Cognos 1 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft