North West Change Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Change Management skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Change Management over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Amersham Avon Aylesbury Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Billingham Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Huntingdon Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knottingley Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staines Stevenage Stourbridge Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	68
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching contract IT job ads	153	58
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.196 %	0.065 %
As % of the category below	7.507 %	3.718 %
Daily rates quoted	48	14
Average minimum daily rate	£399	£356
Average daily rate	£419	£368
% change on same period last year	+13.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£439	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£406	£392
% change on same period last year	+3.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.43	£26.08
Average hourly rate	£27.86	£26.58
% change on same period last year	+4.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.29	£27.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.26	£26.14
% change on same period last year	+0.45 %
Processes & Methodologies North West
Matching contract IT job ads	2038	1560
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.615 %	1.753 %
Daily rates quoted	607	379
Average minimum daily rate	£344	£342
Average daily rate	£361	£355
% change on same period last year	+1.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£376
% change on same period last year	+2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	166	99
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.22	£24.82
Average hourly rate	£26.28	£26.24
% change on same period last year	+0.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.35	£27.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.61	£29.48
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
Change 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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Change Management across the North West 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Change 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 Change Management across the North West region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Change 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 Change Management across the North West region over the past 3 months.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Change Management within the North West region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Cheshire	+28	71	£425	+19.65 %
2	Manchester	-2	40	£425	+29.44 %
3	Merseyside	+3	14	£450	-
4	Lancashire	+6	10	£275	-8.44 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the North West region citing Change Management also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Change Management.

1 76 (30.40 %) Unix 2 72 (28.80 %) Tivoli 3 67 (26.80 %) AIX 4 64 (25.60 %) Windows 4 64 (25.60 %) Middleware 5 61 (24.40 %) Finance 6 59 (23.60 %) Solaris 7 58 (23.20 %) Shell Script 8 55 (22.00 %) Mainframe 9 54 (21.60 %) HPUX 9 54 (21.60 %) OMEGAMON 10 52 (20.80 %) Tandem 11 39 (15.60 %) Cisco 12 38 (15.20 %) WebSphere 13 37 (14.80 %) Project Management

14 29 (11.60 %) IBM 15 28 (11.20 %) WebSphere MQ 16 25 (10.00 %) PRINCE2 16 25 (10.00 %) Health 17 23 (9.200 %) SSL 18 22 (8.800 %) WebSphere Application Server 18 22 (8.800 %) WBIMB 19 21 (8.400 %) ITIL 20 18 (7.200 %) Microsoft 20 18 (7.200 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 21 17 (6.800 %) Problem Management 22 16 (6.400 %) Government 23 15 (6.000 %) Stakeholder Management 23 15 (6.000 %) Gentran 23 15 (6.000 %) Windows NT

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the North West region citing Change Management also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Change Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 64 (25.60 %) Middleware 2 38 (15.20 %) WebSphere 3 22 (8.800 %) WBIMB 4 3 (1.200 %) HTML 4 3 (1.200 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 28 (11.20 %) WebSphere MQ 2 22 (8.800 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 15 (6.000 %) Gentran 4 5 (2.000 %) MQSeries 5 4 (1.600 %) Oracle Application Server 5 4 (1.600 %) Oracle 10gAS 6 2 (0.800 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 2 (0.800 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 1 (0.400 %) SharePoint 7 1 (0.400 %) MS Exchange 7 1 (0.400 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 10 (4.000 %) MS Project 1 10 (4.000 %) MS Office 2 4 (1.600 %) MS Visio 3 3 (1.200 %) MS PowerPoint 3 3 (1.200 %) MS Excel 3 3 (1.200 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 7 (2.800 %) Oracle EBS 2 3 (1.200 %) Oracle Applications 2 3 (1.200 %) Oracle 11i 3 1 (0.400 %) arcHouse 3 1 (0.400 %) e-Work 3 1 (0.400 %) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking 1 23 (9.200 %) SSL 2 6 (2.400 %) LAN 2 6 (2.400 %) Symposium 2 6 (2.400 %) IP Telephony 2 6 (2.400 %) Nortel Meridian 2 6 (2.400 %) Cisco IPT 3 5 (2.000 %) SAN 4 3 (1.200 %) VoIP 4 3 (1.200 %) WAN 4 3 (1.200 %) Network Security 4 3 (1.200 %) Firewall 5 2 (0.800 %) HTTP 6 1 (0.400 %) Intranet 6 1 (0.400 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (1.600 %) Oracle 10g 2 3 (1.200 %) Crystal Reports 2 3 (1.200 %) Oracle 9i 3 2 (0.800 %) Cognos Powerplay 3 2 (0.800 %) BusinessObjects 4 1 (0.400 %) SAP BW
Development Applications 1 9 (3.600 %) MSI 2 3 (1.200 %) Oracle Forms 2 3 (1.200 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 61 (24.40 %) Finance 2 25 (10.00 %) Health 3 16 (6.400 %) Government 4 12 (4.800 %) Banking 5 10 (4.000 %) Retail 6 5 (2.000 %) Pensions 6 5 (2.000 %) Retail Banking 6 5 (2.000 %) Financial Institution 7 4 (1.600 %) General Ledger 7 4 (1.600 %) Insurance 7 4 (1.600 %) Local Government 8 3 (1.200 %) Marketing 8 3 (1.200 %) Manufacturing 8 3 (1.200 %) Education 9 2 (0.800 %) Pharmaceutical 9 2 (0.800 %) Advertising 9 2 (0.800 %) Telecoms 10 1 (0.400 %) Aerospace
Job Titles 1 45 (18.00 %) Analyst 2 38 (15.20 %) Project Manager 3 24 (9.600 %) Consultant 4 17 (6.800 %) Administrator 5 15 (6.000 %) WebSphere Specialist 6 14 (5.600 %) Technical Analyst 7 12 (4.800 %) Infrastructure Specialist 7 12 (4.800 %) Business Analyst 7 12 (4.800 %) Business Manager 8 11 (4.400 %) WebSphere Consultant 9 10 (4.000 %) Programme Manager 9 10 (4.000 %) Infrastructure Analyst 10 9 (3.600 %) Change Manager 11 8 (3.200 %) Service Analyst 12 6 (2.400 %) Telephony Engineer 12 6 (2.400 %) Change Analyst 13 5 (2.000 %) Services Delivery Analyst 13 5 (2.000 %) Storage Administrator 14 4 (1.600 %) Service Manager 14 4 (1.600 %) Business Change Manager	Miscellaneous 1 55 (22.00 %) Mainframe 2 52 (20.80 %) Tandem 3 11 (4.400 %) NHS 4 4 (1.600 %) EPoS 5 3 (1.200 %) Management Information System 5 3 (1.200 %) Asset Management 6 1 (0.400 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 76 (30.40 %) Unix 2 67 (26.80 %) AIX 3 64 (25.60 %) Windows 4 59 (23.60 %) Solaris 5 54 (21.60 %) HPUX 6 15 (6.000 %) Windows NT 7 12 (4.800 %) Windows 2000 8 10 (4.000 %) NetWare 9 7 (2.800 %) Linux 10 3 (1.200 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 37 (14.80 %) Project Management 2 25 (10.00 %) PRINCE2 3 21 (8.400 %) ITIL 4 17 (6.800 %) Problem Management 5 15 (6.000 %) Stakeholder Management 6 12 (4.800 %) Programme Management 7 11 (4.400 %) Incident Management 8 6 (2.400 %) Service Delivery 9 5 (2.000 %) Requirements Management 9 5 (2.000 %) Project Planning 9 5 (2.000 %) Information Management 9 5 (2.000 %) Risk Management 9 5 (2.000 %) Release Management 10 4 (1.600 %) Quality Management 10 4 (1.600 %) ERP 10 4 (1.600 %) PRINCE 11 3 (1.200 %) CMMI 11 3 (1.200 %) Service Management 11 3 (1.200 %) GAP Analysis 11 3 (1.200 %) Content Management
Programming Languages 1 58 (23.20 %) Shell Script 2 4 (1.600 %) SQL 3 3 (1.200 %) PHP 3 3 (1.200 %) C 4 2 (0.800 %) Java 4 2 (0.800 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 7 (2.800 %) Degree 2 6 (2.400 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 3 (1.200 %) ITIL Certification 3 3 (1.200 %) MCSE 3 3 (1.200 %) Microsoft Certification 4 2 (0.800 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (3.200 %) SLA 2 6 (2.400 %) QA 3 1 (0.400 %) ISO9000 3 1 (0.400 %) BS7799 3 1 (0.400 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 10 (4.000 %) MetaFrame 1 10 (4.000 %) Terminal Server 2 3 (1.200 %) Oracle RMAN 2 3 (1.200 %) Oracle RAC 2 3 (1.200 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 72 (28.80 %) Tivoli 2 54 (21.60 %) OMEGAMON 3 18 (7.200 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 10 (4.000 %) ZENworks 5 9 (3.600 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 6 1 (0.400 %) OpenView 6 1 (0.400 %) ServiceCenter	Vendors 1 39 (15.60 %) Cisco 2 29 (11.60 %) IBM 3 18 (7.200 %) Microsoft 4 14 (5.600 %) Oracle 4 14 (5.600 %) HP 5 11 (4.400 %) Citrix 6 6 (2.400 %) Nortel 7 5 (2.000 %) Sun 8 4 (1.600 %) SAP 9 3 (1.200 %) Remedy 10 2 (0.800 %) Peregrine 10 2 (0.800 %) Dell 10 2 (0.800 %) Intel 10 2 (0.800 %) Cognos 10 2 (0.800 %) Business Objects 11 1 (0.400 %) CA 11 1 (0.400 %) Hyperion 11 1 (0.400 %) Lotus 11 1 (0.400 %) Altiris 11 1 (0.400 %) Orchard