North East WFM Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Workforce Management (WFM) 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 WFM over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Workforce Management (WFM)
Location Birmingham City of London Croydon East of England England Essex Hampshire London Manchester North East North West South East South West UK West Midlands	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	61
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.228 %
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	£355	£411
% change on same period last year	-13.67 %
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	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Processes & Methodologies North East
Matching contract IT job ads	217	438
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.349 %	0.470 %
Daily rates quoted	54	141
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£321
Average daily rate	£355	£333
% change on same period last year	+6.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£389	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£372
% change on same period last year	+2.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	37
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.99	£39.68
Average hourly rate	£23.12	£42.61
% change on same period last year	-45.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.26	£45.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.24	£29.63
% change on same period last year	-4.68 %
WFM 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 WFM across the North East 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 WFM across the North East region.

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Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing WFM 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 WFM.

1 2 (100.00 %) ITIL 1 2 (100.00 %) CRM 1 2 (100.00 %) VoIP 1 2 (100.00 %) Nortel 1 2 (100.00 %) Genesys 1 2 (100.00 %) CTI 1 2 (100.00 %) Service Management 1 2 (100.00 %) Telecoms

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing WFM 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 WFM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 2 (100.00 %) VoIP 1 2 (100.00 %) CTI	General 1 2 (100.00 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Telecoms Engineer	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) ITIL 1 2 (100.00 %) CRM 1 2 (100.00 %) Service Management
Vendors 1 2 (100.00 %) Nortel 1 2 (100.00 %) Genesys