North West Document Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Document 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 Document Management over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Cardiff Cheshire City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Fareham Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex New Malden Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southwark Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Street Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	119	134
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	12	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	0.640 %	0.610 %
Daily rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum daily rate	£273	£400
Average daily rate	£273	£400
% change on same period last year	-31.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£273	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£341
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.00	-
Average hourly rate	£12.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.63	£24.82
% change on same period last year	-12.85 %
Processes & Methodologies North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1876	1968
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.653 %	1.992 %
Daily rates quoted	485	475
Average minimum daily rate	£357	£334
Average daily rate	£379	£351
% change on same period last year	+7.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£401	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	183	161
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.20	£26.25
Average hourly rate	£26.70	£28.29
% change on same period last year	-5.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.21	£30.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.42	£29.97
% change on same period last year	-1.81 %
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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 Document 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 IT contract jobs citing Document 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 Document Management across the North West region over the 3 months to 13 October 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 Document Management across the North West region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Document Management within the North West region over the 3 months to 13 October 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	+15	6	£100	-
Merseyside	-4	2	£420	-
Manchester	-1	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Document 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 Document Management.

1 12 (41.38 %) Windows 2 11 (37.93 %) MS Office 3 7 (24.14 %) Law 4 6 (20.69 %) Microsoft 4 6 (20.69 %) Windows 2000 5 5 (17.24 %) MS Excel 5 5 (17.24 %) HTML 5 5 (17.24 %) SQL 5 5 (17.24 %) Project Management 6 4 (13.79 %) Pharmaceutical 6 4 (13.79 %) IXOS 6 4 (13.79 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 6 4 (13.79 %) SAP 6 4 (13.79 %) XML 6 4 (13.79 %) UNIX

6 4 (13.79 %) Web Development 6 4 (13.79 %) Finance 7 3 (10.34 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 3 (10.34 %) Performance Management 7 3 (10.34 %) FrontPage 7 3 (10.34 %) Documentum 7 3 (10.34 %) Workflow 7 3 (10.34 %) DNS 7 3 (10.34 %) TELNET 8 2 (6.897 %) Windows Server 2003 8 2 (6.897 %) PRINCE2 Certification 8 2 (6.897 %) PRINCE2 8 2 (6.897 %) SharePoint 8 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server 8 2 (6.897 %) IIS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Document 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 Document Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (17.24 %) HTML 2 4 (13.79 %) XML 3 1 (3.448 %) Middleware 3 1 (3.448 %) Windows SharePoint Services 3 1 (3.448 %) .NET 3 1 (3.448 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 3 (10.34 %) Documentum 2 2 (6.897 %) IIS 2 2 (6.897 %) eRoom 2 2 (6.897 %) SharePoint 3 1 (3.448 %) Gentran 3 1 (3.448 %) SharePoint Portal Server 3 1 (3.448 %) Office Project Server 3 1 (3.448 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (3.448 %) LiveLink
Applications 1 11 (37.93 %) MS Office 2 5 (17.24 %) MS Excel 3 1 (3.448 %) MS Visio 3 1 (3.448 %) DeltaView 3 1 (3.448 %) InfoPath 3 1 (3.448 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 3 (10.34 %) DNS 1 3 (10.34 %) TELNET 2 1 (3.448 %) Intranet 2 1 (3.448 %) LAN 2 1 (3.448 %) WAN 2 1 (3.448 %) DHCP 2 1 (3.448 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 3 (10.34 %) FrontPage
General 1 7 (24.14 %) Law 2 4 (13.79 %) Pharmaceutical 2 4 (13.79 %) Finance 3 1 (3.448 %) Legal 3 1 (3.448 %) Billing 3 1 (3.448 %) Insurance 3 1 (3.448 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 4 (13.79 %) Tester 1 4 (13.79 %) Junior 1 4 (13.79 %) Consultant 1 4 (13.79 %) Junior Tester 2 3 (10.34 %) Systems Support 2 3 (10.34 %) Project Coordinator 2 3 (10.34 %) SAP Consultant 2 3 (10.34 %) Developer 2 3 (10.34 %) Coordinator 2 3 (10.34 %) Project Manager 3 2 (6.897 %) Project Administrator 3 2 (6.897 %) Applications Support 3 2 (6.897 %) Administrator 3 2 (6.897 %) Software Tester 3 2 (6.897 %) SQL Developer 4 1 (3.448 %) Enterprise Architect 4 1 (3.448 %) Implementation Manager 4 1 (3.448 %) Implementation Project Manager 4 1 (3.448 %) Citrix Specialist 4 1 (3.448 %) SharePoint Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.448 %) NHS 1 1 (3.448 %) Blackberry 1 1 (3.448 %) Mainframe 1 1 (3.448 %) Tandem	Operating Systems 1 12 (41.38 %) Windows 2 6 (20.69 %) Windows 2000 3 4 (13.79 %) UNIX 4 3 (10.34 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 2 (6.897 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (3.448 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (3.448 %) AIX 6 1 (3.448 %) HPUX 6 1 (3.448 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (17.24 %) Project Management 2 4 (13.79 %) Web Development 3 3 (10.34 %) Workflow 3 3 (10.34 %) Performance Management 4 2 (6.897 %) Migration 4 2 (6.897 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (3.448 %) ERP 5 1 (3.448 %) SOA 5 1 (3.448 %) PRINCE 5 1 (3.448 %) Wealth Management 5 1 (3.448 %) Time Management 5 1 (3.448 %) Process Management 5 1 (3.448 %) Change Management 5 1 (3.448 %) Stakeholder Management 5 1 (3.448 %) Content Management 5 1 (3.448 %) Information Management 5 1 (3.448 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (3.448 %) Knowledge Management 5 1 (3.448 %) Enterprise Architecture 5 1 (3.448 %) Technical Architecture	Programming Languages 1 5 (17.24 %) SQL 2 1 (3.448 %) VB 2 1 (3.448 %) Shell Script 2 1 (3.448 %) C 2 1 (3.448 %) DHTML 2 1 (3.448 %) Java
Qualifications 1 2 (6.897 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.448 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 1 (3.448 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 4 (13.79 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (3.448 %) ARCserve 2 1 (3.448 %) OMEGAMON 2 1 (3.448 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 6 (20.69 %) Microsoft 2 4 (13.79 %) SAP 2 4 (13.79 %) IXOS 3 1 (3.448 %) Citrix 3 1 (3.448 %) Alcatel 3 1 (3.448 %) Lotus