North West Infrastructure Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Manager in their job title over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Blackburn Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Crawley Dagenham Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Horsham Hull Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South West Staines Stevenage Stirling Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	113	94
Rank change on same period last year	-19
Matching contract IT job ads	30	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	0.758 %	0.922 %
Daily rates quoted	11	15
Average minimum daily rate	£394	£393
Average daily rate	£409	£417
% change on same period last year	-1.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£440
UK excluding London average daily rate	£419	£386
% change on same period last year	+8.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£28.00
Average hourly rate	-	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.25	£36.98
% change on same period last year	-12.79 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3957	3364
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.077 %	3.779 %
Daily rates quoted	1033	658
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£312
Average daily rate	£357	£326
% change on same period last year	+9.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£363	£353
% change on same period last year	+2.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	431	312
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.14	£20.91
Average hourly rate	£24.03	£22.15
% change on same period last year	+8.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.93	£23.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.48	£25.12
% change on same period last year	-6.53 %
Infrastructure 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Infrastructure 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Manager 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 Infrastructure Manager across the North West region.

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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 Infrastructure Manager 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	-22	13	£394	-9.45 %
2	Manchester	-14	12	£423	+20.89 %
3	Lancashire	-1	2	£336	-
4	Merseyside	-	1	£500	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the North West region citing Infrastructure Manager 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 Infrastructure Manager.

1 20 (38.46 %) Finance 2 18 (34.62 %) Project Management 3 15 (28.85 %) PRINCE2 4 10 (19.23 %) ITIL 5 8 (15.38 %) Unix 6 7 (13.46 %) Microsoft 6 7 (13.46 %) Risk Management 6 7 (13.46 %) Stakeholder Management 6 7 (13.46 %) Banking 7 6 (11.54 %) Telecoms 7 6 (11.54 %) WAN 8 5 (9.615 %) ISEB 8 5 (9.615 %) PMI 8 5 (9.615 %) MS Excel 8 5 (9.615 %) LAN

8 5 (9.615 %) WebSphere 8 5 (9.615 %) Technical Architecture 9 4 (7.692 %) Matrix Management 9 4 (7.692 %) Lotus Notes 9 4 (7.692 %) Lotus 9 4 (7.692 %) Tivoli 9 4 (7.692 %) Service Delivery 9 4 (7.692 %) Middleware 10 3 (5.769 %) Financial Institution 10 3 (5.769 %) Shell Script 10 3 (5.769 %) PRINCE 10 3 (5.769 %) PRINCE2 Certification 10 3 (5.769 %) Sun 10 3 (5.769 %) LDAP 10 3 (5.769 %) Windows

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the North West region citing Infrastructure Manager 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 Infrastructure Manager. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (9.615 %) WebSphere 2 4 (7.692 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 4 (7.692 %) Lotus Notes 2 3 (5.769 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 2 (3.846 %) WebSphere Message Broker 4 1 (1.923 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 5 (9.615 %) MS Excel 2 3 (5.769 %) MS PowerPoint 2 3 (5.769 %) MS Project 3 1 (1.923 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 2 (3.846 %) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking 1 6 (11.54 %) WAN 2 5 (9.615 %) LAN 3 3 (5.769 %) LDAP 4 2 (3.846 %) Wireless Security 4 2 (3.846 %) Wireless 5 1 (1.923 %) VLAN 5 1 (1.923 %) VoIP 5 1 (1.923 %) Wi-Fi	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (3.846 %) EDRMS 1 2 (3.846 %) EDMS 2 1 (1.923 %) DB2
General 1 20 (38.46 %) Finance 2 7 (13.46 %) Banking 3 6 (11.54 %) Telecoms 4 3 (5.769 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (1.923 %) Pharmaceutical 5 1 (1.923 %) Government 5 1 (1.923 %) Insurance 5 1 (1.923 %) Online Banking	Miscellaneous 1 5 (9.615 %) PMI 2 2 (3.846 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 8 (15.38 %) Unix 2 3 (5.769 %) Windows 3 2 (3.846 %) Solaris 3 2 (3.846 %) NetWare 4 1 (1.923 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (34.62 %) Project Management 2 15 (28.85 %) PRINCE2 3 10 (19.23 %) ITIL 4 7 (13.46 %) Risk Management 4 7 (13.46 %) Stakeholder Management 5 5 (9.615 %) Technical Architecture 6 4 (7.692 %) Matrix Management 6 4 (7.692 %) Service Delivery 7 3 (5.769 %) PRINCE 7 3 (5.769 %) Knowledge Management 8 2 (3.846 %) Project Planning 8 2 (3.846 %) Service Management 8 2 (3.846 %) Logistics 9 1 (1.923 %) Change Management
Programming Languages 1 3 (5.769 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 5 (9.615 %) ISEB 2 3 (5.769 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 3 (5.769 %) Degree 3 2 (3.846 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 2 (3.846 %) ITIL Certification 4 1 (1.923 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (1.923 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.846 %) SLA	Systems Management 1 4 (7.692 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 7 (13.46 %) Microsoft 2 4 (7.692 %) Lotus 3 3 (5.769 %) Sun 3 3 (5.769 %) SAP 4 2 (3.846 %) Novell 5 1 (1.923 %) Cisco