North West IT Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the IT 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 IT Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Denbighshire Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Hove Ilford Ipswich Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Lincolnshire London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North Wales North West Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rhyl Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	127	120
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	16	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	0.453 %	0.480 %
Daily rates quoted	5	6
Average minimum daily rate	£410	£325
Average daily rate	£415	£338
% change on same period last year	+22.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£420	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£393	£400
% change on same period last year	-1.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£24.00
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£25.25
% change on same period last year	+38.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.45	£27.55
% change on same period last year	-14.88 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3534	3747
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.711 %	3.791 %
Daily rates quoted	819	800
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£320
Average daily rate	£346	£336
% change on same period last year	+2.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	421	363
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.71	£21.12
Average hourly rate	£22.79	£22.71
% change on same period last year	+0.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.86	£24.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
IT 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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing IT 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 IT 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 IT Manager across the North West region over the 3 months to 25 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 IT 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 jobs citing IT Manager within the North West region over the 3 months to 25 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
Lancashire	+16	7	£430	+22.90 %
Cheshire	-13	2	£393	-
Manchester	-17	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited IT 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 IT Manager in their job title.

1 12 (30.00 %) Finance 2 9 (22.50 %) Project Management 3 7 (17.50 %) PRINCE2 4 6 (15.00 %) ITIL 4 6 (15.00 %) Government 5 5 (12.50 %) NHS 6 4 (10.00 %) ERP 6 4 (10.00 %) Service Management 6 4 (10.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 3 (7.500 %) Firewall 7 3 (7.500 %) Disaster Recovery 7 3 (7.500 %) Stakeholder Management 7 3 (7.500 %) 3ds Max 7 3 (7.500 %) MS Exchange 7 3 (7.500 %) PRINCE2 Certification

7 3 (7.500 %) Oracle 7 3 (7.500 %) MS Office 7 3 (7.500 %) Microsoft 7 3 (7.500 %) AutoCAD 8 2 (5.000 %) Active Directory 8 2 (5.000 %) ECDL 8 2 (5.000 %) CAD 8 2 (5.000 %) SAP 8 2 (5.000 %) LAN 8 2 (5.000 %) Data Management 8 2 (5.000 %) Law 8 2 (5.000 %) Migration 8 2 (5.000 %) Service Delivery 8 2 (5.000 %) Supplier Management 8 2 (5.000 %) Degree

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited IT 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 IT Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 4 (10.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (7.500 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (5.000 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (2.500 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 3 (7.500 %) MS Office 1 3 (7.500 %) AutoCAD 1 3 (7.500 %) 3ds Max
Communications & Networking 1 3 (7.500 %) Firewall 2 2 (5.000 %) LAN 3 1 (2.500 %) WAN 3 1 (2.500 %) VPN 3 1 (2.500 %) Intranet 3 1 (2.500 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.500 %) SQL Server
General 1 12 (30.00 %) Finance 2 6 (15.00 %) Government 3 2 (5.000 %) Law 4 1 (2.500 %) Marketing 4 1 (2.500 %) Health	Miscellaneous 1 5 (12.50 %) NHS 2 1 (2.500 %) Smartcard 2 1 (2.500 %) NPfIT 2 1 (2.500 %) Informatics
Operating Systems 1 1 (2.500 %) UNIX 1 1 (2.500 %) Windows 1 1 (2.500 %) Linux 1 1 (2.500 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (22.50 %) Project Management 2 7 (17.50 %) PRINCE2 3 6 (15.00 %) ITIL 4 4 (10.00 %) Service Management 4 4 (10.00 %) ERP 5 3 (7.500 %) Disaster Recovery 5 3 (7.500 %) Stakeholder Management 6 2 (5.000 %) Migration 6 2 (5.000 %) Data Management 6 2 (5.000 %) CAD 6 2 (5.000 %) Service Delivery 6 2 (5.000 %) Supplier Management 6 2 (5.000 %) Performance Management 7 1 (2.500 %) Data Protection 7 1 (2.500 %) Strategic Planning 7 1 (2.500 %) Technical Architecture 7 1 (2.500 %) Resource Management 7 1 (2.500 %) CMMI 7 1 (2.500 %) CRM 7 1 (2.500 %) Information Management
Qualifications 1 3 (7.500 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (5.000 %) ECDL 2 2 (5.000 %) Degree 3 1 (2.500 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.500 %) SLA 1 1 (2.500 %) PCI DSS
System Software 1 2 (5.000 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 3 (7.500 %) Oracle 1 3 (7.500 %) Microsoft 2 2 (5.000 %) SAP 3 1 (2.500 %) Avaya 3 1 (2.500 %) Lotus