North West Performance Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Performance 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 job ads that have cited Performance Management over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clydebank County Antrim Coventry Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire England Essex Glasgow Gosport Hampshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Hull Inverness Ipswich Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Plymouth Preston Reading Reigate Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	117	102
Rank change on same period last year	-15
Matching contract IT job ads	27	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	1.243 %	1.701 %
Daily rates quoted	6	7
Average minimum daily rate	£272	£509
Average daily rate	£310	£523
% change on same period last year	-40.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£537
UK excluding London average daily rate	£366	£387
% change on same period last year	-5.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.50	-
Average hourly rate	£21.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.85	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+4.83 %
Processes & Methodologies North West
Matching contract IT job ads	2172	1822
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.864 %	1.933 %
Daily rates quoted	589	445
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£350
Average daily rate	£368	£367
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£383
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	203	124
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.23	£24.22
Average hourly rate	£24.84	£26.17
% change on same period last year	-5.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.45	£28.12
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Performance 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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Performance 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 Performance 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 Performance Management across the North West region over the 3 months to 4 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 Performance 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 Performance Management across the North West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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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 Performance Management within the North West region over the 3 months to 4 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
Manchester	-14	10	£335	+19.64 %
Lancashire	-1	5	£288	-36.11 %
Cheshire	-18	4	£200	-
Merseyside	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Performance 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 Performance Management.

1 19 (36.54 %) NHS 2 13 (25.00 %) Finance 3 8 (15.38 %) Project Management 3 8 (15.38 %) SQL 3 8 (15.38 %) PRINCE2 4 6 (11.54 %) Service Delivery 5 5 (9.615 %) ASP 5 5 (9.615 %) ASP.NET 5 5 (9.615 %) .NET 5 5 (9.615 %) SQL Server 6 4 (7.692 %) Document Management 6 4 (7.692 %) Government 6 4 (7.692 %) E-business 6 4 (7.692 %) Oracle 6 4 (7.692 %) CMMI

6 4 (7.692 %) SLA 6 4 (7.692 %) SQL Server 2005 6 4 (7.692 %) Incident Management 6 4 (7.692 %) Strategic Planning 6 4 (7.692 %) Oracle RAC 7 3 (5.769 %) Change Management 7 3 (5.769 %) SAP 7 3 (5.769 %) eRoom 8 2 (3.846 %) Billing 8 2 (3.846 %) Information Management 8 2 (3.846 %) Health 8 2 (3.846 %) ITIL 8 2 (3.846 %) SAP HR 8 2 (3.846 %) Service Management 8 2 (3.846 %) Supplier Management

Performance Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Performance 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 Performance Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (9.615 %) .NET 1 5 (9.615 %) ASP 1 5 (9.615 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 3 (5.769 %) eRoom 2 1 (1.923 %) CMS
Business Applications 1 2 (3.846 %) SAP HR 1 2 (3.846 %) SAP HCM 2 1 (1.923 %) SAP HR-PA	Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.923 %) Intranet 1 1 (1.923 %) Internet 1 1 (1.923 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (9.615 %) SQL Server 2 4 (7.692 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 13 (25.00 %) Finance 2 4 (7.692 %) Government 3 2 (3.846 %) Health 3 2 (3.846 %) Billing 4 1 (1.923 %) Local Government 4 1 (1.923 %) Marketing 4 1 (1.923 %) Education 4 1 (1.923 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 12 (23.08 %) Analyst 2 5 (9.615 %) Developer 2 5 (9.615 %) Information Analyst 3 4 (7.692 %) Senior DBA 3 4 (7.692 %) Relationships Manager 3 4 (7.692 %) Project Coordinator 3 4 (7.692 %) Senior Oracle DBA 3 4 (7.692 %) Oracle DBA 3 4 (7.692 %) Coordinator 3 4 (7.692 %) Project Manager 3 4 (7.692 %) DBA 3 4 (7.692 %) Administrator 4 3 (5.769 %) Senior Manager 4 3 (5.769 %) Performance Analyst 4 3 (5.769 %) Performance Manager 5 2 (3.846 %) SQL Developer 5 2 (3.846 %) SAP Consultant 5 2 (3.846 %) Service Analyst 5 2 (3.846 %) IT Manager 5 2 (3.846 %) Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 19 (36.54 %) NHS 2 1 (1.923 %) Smartcard 2 1 (1.923 %) Asset Management
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (15.38 %) PRINCE2 1 8 (15.38 %) Project Management 2 6 (11.54 %) Service Delivery 3 4 (7.692 %) Document Management 3 4 (7.692 %) E-business 3 4 (7.692 %) CMMI 3 4 (7.692 %) Strategic Planning 3 4 (7.692 %) Incident Management 4 3 (5.769 %) Change Management 5 2 (3.846 %) ITIL 5 2 (3.846 %) Service Management 5 2 (3.846 %) Supplier Management 5 2 (3.846 %) Knowledge Management 5 2 (3.846 %) Time Management 5 2 (3.846 %) Information Management 5 2 (3.846 %) Data Protection 6 1 (1.923 %) QMS 6 1 (1.923 %) Project Planning 6 1 (1.923 %) Load Balancing 6 1 (1.923 %) Release Management	Programming Languages 1 8 (15.38 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (3.846 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (7.692 %) SLA 2 1 (1.923 %) QA
System Software 1 4 (7.692 %) Oracle RAC	Vendors 1 4 (7.692 %) Oracle 2 3 (5.769 %) SAP 3 1 (1.923 %) Microsoft 3 1 (1.923 %) Nokia 3 1 (1.923 %) CheckPoint 3 1 (1.923 %) BT 3 1 (1.923 %) Accenture