North West Delivery Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Delivery 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 job ads that have cited Delivery Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bracknell Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Darlington Dartford Devon Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Horsham Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Plymouth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Surrey Swansea Swindon Teddington Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	119	119
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	29	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	0.753 %	0.474 %
Daily rates quoted	16	4
Average minimum daily rate	£413	£488
Average daily rate	£424	£494
% change on same period last year	-14.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£436	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£414	£448
% change on same period last year	-7.58 %
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	£39.00	£24.47
% change on same period last year	+59.37 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3851	3585
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.077 %	3.749 %
Daily rates quoted	934	732
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£320
Average daily rate	£355	£335
% change on same period last year	+6.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	439	348
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.83	£21.77
Average hourly rate	£22.70	£23.35
% change on same period last year	-2.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.56	£24.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.39	£25.89
% change on same period last year	-9.63 %
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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 Delivery Manager across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Delivery Manager 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 Delivery Manager 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 Delivery Manager across the North West region.

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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 Delivery Manager 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	-	14	£423	-
Manchester	-12	9	£400	-20.00 %
Merseyside	-	2	-	-
Lancashire	+1	1	-	-

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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 that cited Delivery 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 Delivery Manager in their job title.

1 22 (43.14 %) Project Management 1 22 (43.14 %) Service Delivery 2 20 (39.22 %) Windows 3 15 (29.41 %) Finance 4 14 (27.45 %) PRINCE2 5 13 (25.49 %) ITIL 6 9 (17.65 %) SLA 7 8 (15.69 %) Degree 8 6 (11.76 %) Banking 9 5 (9.804 %) ITIL Certification 10 4 (7.843 %) Microsoft Certification 10 4 (7.843 %) MCSE 10 4 (7.843 %) Education 11 3 (5.882 %) Pensions 11 3 (5.882 %) Government

11 3 (5.882 %) Service Management 12 2 (3.922 %) Pharmaceutical 12 2 (3.922 %) Change Management 12 2 (3.922 %) Financial Institution 12 2 (3.922 %) E-Procurement 12 2 (3.922 %) Stakeholder Management 12 2 (3.922 %) Supplier Management 12 2 (3.922 %) MS PowerPoint 12 2 (3.922 %) MS Excel 12 2 (3.922 %) E-Commerce 12 2 (3.922 %) Unix 12 2 (3.922 %) Microsoft 12 2 (3.922 %) PRINCE 12 2 (3.922 %) Auditing 12 2 (3.922 %) QA

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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 that cited Delivery 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 Delivery Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (1.961 %) Exchange Server 2007 1 1 (1.961 %) Lotus Notes 1 1 (1.961 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 2 (3.922 %) MS PowerPoint 1 2 (3.922 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.961 %) MS Project 2 1 (1.961 %) MS Office 2 1 (1.961 %) MS Visio
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.961 %) LAN 1 1 (1.961 %) VoIP 1 1 (1.961 %) VPN	General 1 15 (29.41 %) Finance 2 6 (11.76 %) Banking 3 4 (7.843 %) Education 4 3 (5.882 %) Pensions 4 3 (5.882 %) Government 5 2 (3.922 %) Pharmaceutical 5 2 (3.922 %) Financial Institution 5 2 (3.922 %) Auditing 6 1 (1.961 %) Retail Banking 6 1 (1.961 %) Retail 6 1 (1.961 %) Insurance
Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.961 %) CMDB 1 1 (1.961 %) IBM Mainframe 1 1 (1.961 %) Computer Science 1 1 (1.961 %) Mainframe 1 1 (1.961 %) VAX	Operating Systems 1 20 (39.22 %) Windows 2 2 (3.922 %) Unix 3 1 (1.961 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (43.14 %) Project Management 1 22 (43.14 %) Service Delivery 2 14 (27.45 %) PRINCE2 3 13 (25.49 %) ITIL 4 3 (5.882 %) Service Management 5 2 (3.922 %) Change Management 5 2 (3.922 %) E-Procurement 5 2 (3.922 %) Stakeholder Management 5 2 (3.922 %) Supplier Management 5 2 (3.922 %) E-Commerce 5 2 (3.922 %) PRINCE 6 1 (1.961 %) Problem Management 6 1 (1.961 %) Matrix Management 6 1 (1.961 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 1 (1.961 %) Performance Management 6 1 (1.961 %) Project Planning 6 1 (1.961 %) Requirements Analysis 6 1 (1.961 %) BPR 6 1 (1.961 %) Programme Management 6 1 (1.961 %) Risk Assessment	Programming Languages 1 1 (1.961 %) C
Qualifications 1 8 (15.69 %) Degree 2 5 (9.804 %) ITIL Certification 3 4 (7.843 %) Microsoft Certification 3 4 (7.843 %) MCSE 4 1 (1.961 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (17.65 %) SLA 2 2 (3.922 %) QA 3 1 (1.961 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors 1 2 (3.922 %) Microsoft 2 1 (1.961 %) Dell 2 1 (1.961 %) EMC 2 1 (1.961 %) Cisco 2 1 (1.961 %) IBM 2 1 (1.961 %) Lotus 2 1 (1.961 %) SAP