North West Resource Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Resource 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 Resource Management over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crewe Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds London Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	128	124
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	16	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.737 %	0.494 %
Daily rates quoted	6	4
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£308
Average daily rate	£400	£326
% change on same period last year	+22.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£367	£381
% change on same period last year	-3.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£20.75
% change on same period last year	+68.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.18	£39.32
% change on same period last year	-41.04 %
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 %
Resource 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 Resource 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 Resource 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 Resource 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 Resource Management 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 Resource 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	9	£500	-
Cheshire	-18	5	£300	+23.71 %
Lancashire	+4	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 Resource 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 Resource Management.

1 9 (30.00 %) Project Management 2 8 (26.67 %) Government 3 7 (23.33 %) Oracle 4 6 (20.00 %) Finance 4 6 (20.00 %) Migration 5 5 (16.67 %) Pharmaceutical 5 5 (16.67 %) ITIL 5 5 (16.67 %) Windows 5 5 (16.67 %) Data Migration 5 5 (16.67 %) Data Integration 6 4 (13.33 %) PRINCE2 6 4 (13.33 %) Microsoft 6 4 (13.33 %) Informatica 6 4 (13.33 %) Oracle EBS 7 3 (10.00 %) Risk Management

7 3 (10.00 %) Change Management 7 3 (10.00 %) Disaster Recovery 7 3 (10.00 %) Health 7 3 (10.00 %) Stakeholder Management 7 3 (10.00 %) Unix 7 3 (10.00 %) NetWare 7 3 (10.00 %) Solaris 7 3 (10.00 %) MS Exchange 7 3 (10.00 %) SAP 7 3 (10.00 %) XML 7 3 (10.00 %) AutoSys 7 3 (10.00 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 3 (10.00 %) Risk Analysis 8 2 (6.667 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 2 (6.667 %) Programme Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 3 (10.00 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 3 (10.00 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (10.00 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 1 (3.333 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 2 (6.667 %) MS Project 2 1 (3.333 %) MS Office 2 1 (3.333 %) MS Excel 2 1 (3.333 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 4 (13.33 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (3.333 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.333 %) LAN 1 1 (3.333 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.333 %) SQL Server 1 1 (3.333 %) ETL 1 1 (3.333 %) RDBMS 1 1 (3.333 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 1 (3.333 %) ClearCase	General 1 8 (26.67 %) Government 2 6 (20.00 %) Finance 3 5 (16.67 %) Pharmaceutical 4 3 (10.00 %) Health 5 1 (3.333 %) Pensions 5 1 (3.333 %) Education
Job Titles 1 6 (20.00 %) Project Manager 2 3 (10.00 %) Analyst 2 3 (10.00 %) Systems Support 2 3 (10.00 %) Support Specialist 2 3 (10.00 %) Technical Analyst 2 3 (10.00 %) Senior Technical Analyst 2 3 (10.00 %) Senior Analyst 3 2 (6.667 %) Consultant 3 2 (6.667 %) Test Manager 3 2 (6.667 %) Programme Manager 4 1 (3.333 %) Project Planner 4 1 (3.333 %) IT Manager 4 1 (3.333 %) DBA 4 1 (3.333 %) Server Support 4 1 (3.333 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (3.333 %) Project Support Officer 4 1 (3.333 %) SQL DBA 4 1 (3.333 %) Resource Manager 4 1 (3.333 %) Server Engineer 4 1 (3.333 %) Oracle Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 5 (16.67 %) Data Integration 2 1 (3.333 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 5 (16.67 %) Windows 2 3 (10.00 %) Solaris 2 3 (10.00 %) NetWare 2 3 (10.00 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (30.00 %) Project Management 2 6 (20.00 %) Migration 3 5 (16.67 %) ITIL 3 5 (16.67 %) Data Migration 4 4 (13.33 %) PRINCE2 5 3 (10.00 %) Risk Analysis 5 3 (10.00 %) Stakeholder Management 5 3 (10.00 %) Change Management 5 3 (10.00 %) Disaster Recovery 5 3 (10.00 %) Risk Management 6 2 (6.667 %) Programme Management 6 2 (6.667 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 1 (3.333 %) Data Mapping 7 1 (3.333 %) SC Cleared 7 1 (3.333 %) Security Cleared 7 1 (3.333 %) Data Analysis 7 1 (3.333 %) Supplier Management 7 1 (3.333 %) Project Planning
Programming Languages 1 1 (3.333 %) SQL 1 1 (3.333 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 1 (3.333 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 1 (3.333 %) Degree
System Software 1 1 (3.333 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 3 (10.00 %) AutoSys
Vendors 1 7 (23.33 %) Oracle 2 4 (13.33 %) Microsoft 2 4 (13.33 %) Informatica 3 3 (10.00 %) SAP 4 1 (3.333 %) Cisco 4 1 (3.333 %) IBM 4 1 (3.333 %) Lotus