Oxfordshire Service Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Service Manager role in IT contracts within the Oxfordshire 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 Service Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 9 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crewe Derbyshire Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Flintshire Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Isle of Man Leeds Lewes London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stirling Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Witham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£385
% change on same period last year	-1.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.59	£34.07
% change on same period last year	-33.70 %
Job Titles Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	432	452
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.871 %	0.554 %
Daily rates quoted	101	91
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£333
Average daily rate	£312	£353
% change on same period last year	-11.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£330	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£357
% change on same period last year	-2.05 %
Hourly rates quoted	113	100
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.97	£16.84
Average hourly rate	£22.85	£18.82
% change on same period last year	+21.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.72	£20.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.06	£23.41
% change on same period last year	-1.50 %
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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 Service Manager across the Oxfordshire 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 Service Manager across the Oxfordshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Service Manager across the Oxfordshire region.

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Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited Service 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 Service Manager in their job title.

1 3 (100.00 %) ITIL 2 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) SLA 2 1 (33.33 %) Intel 2 1 (33.33 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) Apple 2 1 (33.33 %) NHS 2 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE 2 1 (33.33 %) ECDL 2 1 (33.33 %) Service Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Degree 2 1 (33.33 %) Problem Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited Service 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 Service Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (100.00 %) ITIL 2 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE 2 1 (33.33 %) Service Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Problem Management	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) ITIL Certification 1 1 (33.33 %) ECDL 1 1 (33.33 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) SLA	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Intel 1 1 (33.33 %) Apple