North West Time Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Time 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 Time Management over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Croydon Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Fife Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Walton-on-Thames Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	109	127
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	18	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	0.960 %	1.018 %
Daily rates quoted	7	7
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£339
Average daily rate	£355	£371
% change on same period last year	-4.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£404
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£360
% change on same period last year	-0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.75	£12.09
Average hourly rate	£27.75	£12.09
% change on same period last year	+129.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.75	£12.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.30	£23.88
% change on same period last year	+10.12 %
Processes & Methodologies North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1875	1965
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.640 %	1.986 %
Daily rates quoted	483	480
Average minimum daily rate	£355	£332
Average daily rate	£377	£350
% change on same period last year	+7.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	183	163
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.20	£26.23
Average hourly rate	£26.70	£28.30
% change on same period last year	-5.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.21	£30.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
Time 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.

Time Management
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Time 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 Time 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 Time Management across the North West region over the 3 months to 10 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 Time 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 Time Management within the North West region over the 3 months to 10 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
Manchester	0	5	-	-
Cheshire	+7	5	£347	-4.27 %
Merseyside	+1	4	£363	-
Lancashire	+4	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Time 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 Time Management.

1 14 (35.90 %) Finance 2 11 (28.21 %) Microsoft 3 9 (23.08 %) Project Management 4 8 (20.51 %) MS Excel 5 7 (17.95 %) PL/SQL 5 7 (17.95 %) SQL 5 7 (17.95 %) SAP 6 6 (15.38 %) .NET 6 6 (15.38 %) Windows 7 5 (12.82 %) MS Office 7 5 (12.82 %) C# 7 5 (12.82 %) Internet 7 5 (12.82 %) Spread Betting 8 4 (10.26 %) MS PowerPoint 8 4 (10.26 %) Validation

8 4 (10.26 %) Migration 8 4 (10.26 %) UNIX 9 3 (7.692 %) SharePoint 9 3 (7.692 %) MCSE 9 3 (7.692 %) Active Directory 9 3 (7.692 %) Microsoft Certification 9 3 (7.692 %) SAP HR 9 3 (7.692 %) Intranet 9 3 (7.692 %) LAN 9 3 (7.692 %) WAN 9 3 (7.692 %) DNS 9 3 (7.692 %) Data Security 9 3 (7.692 %) Network Design 9 3 (7.692 %) SharePoint Server 2007 9 3 (7.692 %) Performance Management

Time Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Time 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 Time Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (15.38 %) .NET 2 2 (5.128 %) Oracle Fusion 3 1 (2.564 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 3 (7.692 %) SharePoint 1 3 (7.692 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (2.564 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 1 (2.564 %) WebSphere MQ
Applications 1 8 (20.51 %) MS Excel 2 5 (12.82 %) MS Office 3 4 (10.26 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 3 (7.692 %) SAP HR 2 2 (5.128 %) Oracle Applications 2 2 (5.128 %) SAP Payroll 2 2 (5.128 %) SAP HCM 3 1 (2.564 %) SAP HR-PA
Communications & Networking 1 5 (12.82 %) Internet 2 3 (7.692 %) DNS 2 3 (7.692 %) Intranet 2 3 (7.692 %) LAN 2 3 (7.692 %) WAN 3 2 (5.128 %) Ethernet 4 1 (2.564 %) HTTP 4 1 (2.564 %) SNMP 4 1 (2.564 %) DHCP 4 1 (2.564 %) LDAP	General 1 14 (35.90 %) Finance 2 2 (5.128 %) Pharmaceutical 3 1 (2.564 %) Government 3 1 (2.564 %) Banking 3 1 (2.564 %) Insurance 3 1 (2.564 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 7 (17.95 %) Developer 1 7 (17.95 %) Project Manager 2 6 (15.38 %) Administrator 3 5 (12.82 %) .NET Developer 3 5 (12.82 %) C# Developer 3 5 (12.82 %) Analyst 3 5 (12.82 %) Consultant 3 5 (12.82 %) SQL Developer 4 3 (7.692 %) Project Coordinator 4 3 (7.692 %) Coordinator 5 2 (5.128 %) Oracle Developer 5 2 (5.128 %) SAP HR Consultant 5 2 (5.128 %) Systems Administrator 5 2 (5.128 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 2 (5.128 %) SAP Consultant 5 2 (5.128 %) Network Administrator 5 2 (5.128 %) SAP Analyst 6 1 (2.564 %) WebSphere Administrator 6 1 (2.564 %) IT Support Engineer 6 1 (2.564 %) Configuration Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 5 (12.82 %) Spread Betting 2 2 (5.128 %) Computer Science 2 2 (5.128 %) Dutch Language 2 2 (5.128 %) French Language 2 2 (5.128 %) German Language 2 2 (5.128 %) Portuguese Language 2 2 (5.128 %) Spanish Language
Operating Systems 1 6 (15.38 %) Windows 2 4 (10.26 %) UNIX 3 1 (2.564 %) AIX 3 1 (2.564 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (23.08 %) Project Management 2 4 (10.26 %) Validation 2 4 (10.26 %) Migration 3 3 (7.692 %) Network Design 3 3 (7.692 %) Data Security 3 3 (7.692 %) Performance Management 4 2 (5.128 %) Risk Management 4 2 (5.128 %) E-business 4 2 (5.128 %) Penetration Testing 4 2 (5.128 %) Logistics 4 2 (5.128 %) Risk Assessment 4 2 (5.128 %) SOA 4 2 (5.128 %) Benchmarking 5 1 (2.564 %) ITIL 5 1 (2.564 %) Six Sigma 5 1 (2.564 %) Quality Management 5 1 (2.564 %) CMMI 5 1 (2.564 %) Change Management 5 1 (2.564 %) Information Security 5 1 (2.564 %) Document Management
Programming Languages 1 7 (17.95 %) PL/SQL 1 7 (17.95 %) SQL 2 5 (12.82 %) C# 3 1 (2.564 %) Java 3 1 (2.564 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 3 (7.692 %) MCSE 1 3 (7.692 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (5.128 %) Degree 2 2 (5.128 %) CISSP 3 1 (2.564 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (2.564 %) CCNP 3 1 (2.564 %) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.564 %) ISO9001 1 1 (2.564 %) QA	System Software 1 3 (7.692 %) Active Directory 2 2 (5.128 %) ISA Server
Vendors 1 11 (28.21 %) Microsoft 2 7 (17.95 %) SAP 3 2 (5.128 %) Oracle 4 1 (2.564 %) Citrix