Reading Business Manager Contracts

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

Business Manager
Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Isle of Wight Jersey Lancashire Leeds Lincolnshire London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Rugby Scotland Shropshire Solihull South East South Wales South West Southampton Staffordshire Surrey Sussex Swindon Teddington Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	70	68
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	2	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.215 %	0.512 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£300
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£451	£442
% change on same period last year	+2.07 %
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	-	£38.75
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	930	977
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.240 %	0.988 %
Daily rates quoted	274	321
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£332
Average daily rate	£346	£355
% change on same period last year	-2.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	79	100
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.92	£27.82
Average hourly rate	£22.47	£29.13
% change on same period last year	-22.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.02	£30.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Business Manager Berkshire

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 Business Manager across the Reading 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 Business Manager across the Reading region.

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Top 6 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (33.33 %) SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 1 1 (33.33 %) Disaster Recovery 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Continuity 1 1 (33.33 %) Content Management

Business Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Disaster Recovery 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Continuity 1 1 (33.33 %) Content Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL
System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft