North West Asset Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Asset Management skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Asset Management over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Bournemouth Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunfermline East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fife Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	108	124
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	40	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.053 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	4.082 %	2.294 %
Daily rates quoted	6	5
Average minimum daily rate	£272	£336
Average daily rate	£290	£336
% change on same period last year	-13.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£309	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£371
% change on same period last year	+2.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.98	-
Average hourly rate	£16.15	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.32	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.39	£17.68
% change on same period last year	-7.30 %
Miscellaneous North West
Matching contract IT job ads	980	523
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.292 %	0.547 %
Daily rates quoted	192	71
Average minimum daily rate	£365	£275
Average daily rate	£386	£294
% change on same period last year	+31.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£406	£314
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£351
% change on same period last year	+3.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	139	116
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.20	£18.67
Average hourly rate	£16.37	£20.60
% change on same period last year	-20.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.54	£22.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.27	£28.61
% change on same period last year	-15.17 %
Asset 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 Asset Management across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous 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 Asset Management across the North West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Asset Management across the North West region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Asset Management across the North West region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Asset Management within the North West region over the 3 months to 8 July 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
Cheshire	-9	21	£175	-50.00 %
Manchester	-15	7	£266	-
Merseyside	-3	6	-	-
Lancashire	+9	5	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Asset 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 Asset Management.

1 9 (16.07 %) Finance 2 8 (14.29 %) SQL 3 7 (12.50 %) MS Office 3 7 (12.50 %) MS Excel 4 6 (10.71 %) Windows 4 6 (10.71 %) ITIL 4 6 (10.71 %) Statistics 5 5 (8.929 %) Oracle 6 4 (7.143 %) .NET 6 4 (7.143 %) C# 6 4 (7.143 %) Unix 6 4 (7.143 %) SC Cleared 6 4 (7.143 %) BC Cleared 6 4 (7.143 %) Security Cleared 6 4 (7.143 %) Risk Management

7 3 (5.357 %) Business Development 7 3 (5.357 %) Degree 7 3 (5.357 %) Business Intelligence 7 3 (5.357 %) SAP 7 3 (5.357 %) EAM 7 3 (5.357 %) Service Delivery 7 3 (5.357 %) Change Management 8 2 (3.571 %) Configuration Management 8 2 (3.571 %) FpML 8 2 (3.571 %) Project Management 8 2 (3.571 %) BizTalk Server 8 2 (3.571 %) Internet 8 2 (3.571 %) SAP MM 8 2 (3.571 %) ASP.NET 8 2 (3.571 %) PRINCE2

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Asset 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 Asset Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (7.143 %) .NET 2 2 (3.571 %) FpML 2 2 (3.571 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (3.571 %) HTML 2 2 (3.571 %) XSLT 2 2 (3.571 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (1.786 %) Spring 3 1 (1.786 %) WebSphere 3 1 (1.786 %) CSS 3 1 (1.786 %) JSP 3 1 (1.786 %) WebServices 3 1 (1.786 %) XML 3 1 (1.786 %) Hibernate	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.571 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (1.786 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 7 (12.50 %) MS Office 1 7 (12.50 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.786 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 2 (3.571 %) SAP MM 1 2 (3.571 %) SAP PM
Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.571 %) Internet 1 2 (3.571 %) GPRS 2 1 (1.786 %) Network Security 2 1 (1.786 %) VPN 2 1 (1.786 %) Intranet 2 1 (1.786 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (3.571 %) SQL Server 1 2 (3.571 %) SQL Server Integration Services 2 1 (1.786 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 2 (3.571 %) Visual Studio	General 1 9 (16.07 %) Finance 2 2 (3.571 %) Front Office 2 2 (3.571 %) Banking 3 1 (1.786 %) Retail 3 1 (1.786 %) Retail Banking 3 1 (1.786 %) Auditing 3 1 (1.786 %) FMCG 3 1 (1.786 %) Financial Institution 3 1 (1.786 %) Government 3 1 (1.786 %) Law 3 1 (1.786 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 13 (23.21 %) Analyst 2 6 (10.71 %) Support Engineer 3 5 (8.929 %) Project Manager 3 5 (8.929 %) Developer 4 4 (7.143 %) 1st Line Support 4 4 (7.143 %) Helpdesk Support 4 4 (7.143 %) Deployment Engineer 5 3 (5.357 %) Administrator 5 3 (5.357 %) Software Manager 5 3 (5.357 %) Business Analyst 6 2 (3.571 %) Coordinator 6 2 (3.571 %) Business Systems Analyst 6 2 (3.571 %) Systems Analyst 6 2 (3.571 %) Consultant 6 2 (3.571 %) SAP Consultant 6 2 (3.571 %) Desktop Engineer 6 2 (3.571 %) SAP PM Consultant 7 1 (1.786 %) Risk Analyst 7 1 (1.786 %) Technical Engineer 7 1 (1.786 %) Resource Manager	Miscellaneous 1 6 (10.71 %) Statistics 2 2 (3.571 %) PDA 3 1 (1.786 %) CMDB 3 1 (1.786 %) Photography 3 1 (1.786 %) N-Tier 3 1 (1.786 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 6 (10.71 %) Windows 2 4 (7.143 %) Unix 3 1 (1.786 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (10.71 %) ITIL 2 4 (7.143 %) SC Cleared 2 4 (7.143 %) BC Cleared 2 4 (7.143 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (7.143 %) Risk Management 3 3 (5.357 %) Business Development 3 3 (5.357 %) Business Intelligence 3 3 (5.357 %) EAM 3 3 (5.357 %) Service Delivery 3 3 (5.357 %) Change Management 4 2 (3.571 %) Configuration Management 4 2 (3.571 %) Project Management 4 2 (3.571 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (3.571 %) OO 4 2 (3.571 %) Risk Analysis 4 2 (3.571 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 2 (3.571 %) Project Planning 4 2 (3.571 %) Service Management 5 1 (1.786 %) Systems Analysis 5 1 (1.786 %) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages 1 8 (14.29 %) SQL 2 4 (7.143 %) C# 3 1 (1.786 %) Java 3 1 (1.786 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (1.786 %) C++	Qualifications 1 3 (5.357 %) Degree 2 1 (1.786 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (1.786 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.571 %) SLA	System Software 1 1 (1.786 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (1.786 %) OpenView 1 1 (1.786 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 5 (8.929 %) Oracle 2 3 (5.357 %) SAP 3 2 (3.571 %) Dell 4 1 (1.786 %) LatentZero 4 1 (1.786 %) thinkFolio 4 1 (1.786 %) Microsoft 4 1 (1.786 %) HP