North West Business Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Business Manager role in IT contracts within the North West 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Manager
Location Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Kent Kidlington Lancashire Lancaster Leeds London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rochdale Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	101	126
Rank change on same period last year	+25
Matching contract IT job ads	26	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.042 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	0.857 %	0.419 %
Daily rates quoted	6	6
Average minimum daily rate	£364	£390
Average daily rate	£375	£404
% change on same period last year	-7.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£418
UK excluding London average daily rate	£431	£437
% change on same period last year	-1.51 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.34	-
Average hourly rate	£17.34	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.34	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.69	£14.00
% change on same period last year	+83.48 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3033	4058
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.873 %	4.358 %
Daily rates quoted	676	805
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£326
Average daily rate	£339	£342
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	437	479
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.06	£19.41
Average hourly rate	£21.74	£21.18
% change on same period last year	+2.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.43	£22.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Business Manager
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 West region.

Business Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Manager across the North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

Business Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Business Manager
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 West region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Manchester	+8	12	£420	-13.84 %
Cheshire	-6	4	£288	-1.54 %
Lancashire	-	3	-	-

Business Manager England

Business Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 18 (31.58 %) Project Management 2 15 (26.32 %) Finance 3 14 (24.56 %) PRINCE2 4 11 (19.30 %) Business Analysis 5 7 (12.28 %) Risk Management 5 7 (12.28 %) PRINCE 6 6 (10.53 %) Oracle 6 6 (10.53 %) Stakeholder Management 6 6 (10.53 %) System Testing 7 5 (8.772 %) Marketing 7 5 (8.772 %) Systems Analysis 7 5 (8.772 %) Government 7 5 (8.772 %) MS Office 8 4 (7.018 %) ITIL 8 4 (7.018 %) Oracle 11i

8 4 (7.018 %) MS Excel 8 4 (7.018 %) Oracle Discoverer 8 4 (7.018 %) Change Management 8 4 (7.018 %) Oracle HRMS 8 4 (7.018 %) Business Continuity 8 4 (7.018 %) Pensions 8 4 (7.018 %) Security Cleared 9 3 (5.263 %) QMS 9 3 (5.263 %) QA 9 3 (5.263 %) Business Development 9 3 (5.263 %) Retail 9 3 (5.263 %) Data Management 9 3 (5.263 %) Telecoms 9 3 (5.263 %) MS Visio 10 2 (3.509 %) ISEB

Business Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 5 (8.772 %) MS Office 2 4 (7.018 %) MS Excel 3 3 (5.263 %) MS Visio 4 1 (1.754 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 4 (7.018 %) Oracle 11i 1 4 (7.018 %) Oracle HRMS 2 1 (1.754 %) Academy Housing 2 1 (1.754 %) arcHouse
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.754 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (7.018 %) Oracle Discoverer 2 2 (3.509 %) Datawarehouse
General 1 15 (26.32 %) Finance 2 5 (8.772 %) Government 2 5 (8.772 %) Marketing 3 4 (7.018 %) Pensions 4 3 (5.263 %) Retail 4 3 (5.263 %) Telecoms 5 2 (3.509 %) Banking 5 2 (3.509 %) Manufacturing 5 2 (3.509 %) Insurance 5 2 (3.509 %) Local Government 6 1 (1.754 %) Retail Banking 6 1 (1.754 %) Advertising 6 1 (1.754 %) Publishing 6 1 (1.754 %) Police 6 1 (1.754 %) Health	Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.509 %) NHS 2 1 (1.754 %) NPfIT
Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (31.58 %) Project Management 2 14 (24.56 %) PRINCE2 3 11 (19.30 %) Business Analysis 4 7 (12.28 %) PRINCE 4 7 (12.28 %) Risk Management 5 6 (10.53 %) Stakeholder Management 5 6 (10.53 %) System Testing 6 5 (8.772 %) Systems Analysis 7 4 (7.018 %) Security Cleared 7 4 (7.018 %) ITIL 7 4 (7.018 %) Business Continuity 7 4 (7.018 %) Change Management 8 3 (5.263 %) Data Management 8 3 (5.263 %) Business Development 8 3 (5.263 %) QMS 9 2 (3.509 %) BC Cleared 9 2 (3.509 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 2 (3.509 %) GAP Analysis 9 2 (3.509 %) Migration 10 1 (1.754 %) Risk Assessment	Programming Languages 1 1 (1.754 %) C
Qualifications 1 2 (3.509 %) ISEB 1 2 (3.509 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (1.754 %) CIPD 2 1 (1.754 %) ISTQB 2 1 (1.754 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (5.263 %) QA 2 1 (1.754 %) SLA
Systems Management 1 1 (1.754 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 6 (10.53 %) Oracle 2 2 (3.509 %) Teradata 3 1 (1.754 %) Northgate 3 1 (1.754 %) Civica 3 1 (1.754 %) Comino 3 1 (1.754 %) Capita 3 1 (1.754 %) Orchard 3 1 (1.754 %) Microsoft 3 1 (1.754 %) Hyperion 3 1 (1.754 %) Siemens 3 1 (1.754 %) Anite