South West Asset Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Asset Management skills within the South 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 Asset Management over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Ilford Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Scotland Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Templecombe UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville West Midlands West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	99	145
Rank change on same period last year	+46
Matching contract IT job ads	36	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.057 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	1.299 %	0.575 %
Daily rates quoted	10	9
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£350
Average daily rate	£355	£382
% change on same period last year	-6.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£413
UK excluding London average daily rate	£423	£370
% change on same period last year	+14.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.28	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£18.06	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+20.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.85	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.19	£19.16
% change on same period last year	+5.39 %
Processes & Methodologies South West
Matching contract IT job ads	2772	3132
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.366 %	3.356 %
Daily rates quoted	840	952
Average minimum daily rate	£376	£353
Average daily rate	£397	£375
% change on same period last year	+5.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£418	£397
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£370
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	393	362
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.85	£30.53
Average hourly rate	£29.71	£32.29
% change on same period last year	-7.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.57	£34.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.17	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Asset 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 Asset Management across the South 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 Asset Management across the South West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Asset Management across the South West region over the 3 months to 21 November 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 Asset Management across the South West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Asset Management across the South West region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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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 Asset Management within the South West region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Wiltshire	+3	11	£389	-5.56 %
Bristol	+8	8	£500	+122.22 %
Somerset	-6	6	£175	-
Devon	-	3	£325	-
Gloucestershire	-	3	-	-
Dorset	+24	1	£250	-42.85 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Asset 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 Asset Management.

1 15 (24.59 %) Government 2 14 (22.95 %) Finance 3 12 (19.67 %) Security Cleared 4 10 (16.39 %) Migration 5 8 (13.11 %) ITIL 5 8 (13.11 %) Windows 6 7 (11.48 %) MS Excel 6 7 (11.48 %) SC Cleared 6 7 (11.48 %) Pensions 7 6 (9.836 %) Oracle 7 6 (9.836 %) Service Management 8 5 (8.197 %) MS Office 8 5 (8.197 %) SAP 8 5 (8.197 %) PRINCE2 8 5 (8.197 %) assyst

9 4 (6.557 %) BC Cleared 9 4 (6.557 %) Dell 9 4 (6.557 %) Microsoft 9 4 (6.557 %) Project Management 10 3 (4.918 %) Configuration Management 10 3 (4.918 %) GIS 10 3 (4.918 %) ITSM 10 3 (4.918 %) Health 10 3 (4.918 %) SLA 10 3 (4.918 %) ITIL Certification 10 3 (4.918 %) Windows XP 10 3 (4.918 %) Military 10 3 (4.918 %) Degree 10 3 (4.918 %) Data Migration 10 3 (4.918 %) CMDB

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Asset 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 Asset Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (1.639 %) CMS 1 1 (1.639 %) Oracle Spatial	Applications 1 7 (11.48 %) MS Excel 2 5 (8.197 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.639 %) QuarkXPress 3 1 (1.639 %) InDesign 3 1 (1.639 %) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications 1 5 (8.197 %) assyst 2 2 (3.279 %) Summit 2 2 (3.279 %) SAP FI 3 1 (1.639 %) SAP PP	Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.639 %) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (4.918 %) GIS 2 1 (1.639 %) Oracle 9i 2 1 (1.639 %) MS Access 2 1 (1.639 %) ETL 2 1 (1.639 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (1.639 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (1.639 %) SQLPlus	Development Applications 1 1 (1.639 %) Oracle Forms
General 1 15 (24.59 %) Government 2 14 (22.95 %) Finance 3 7 (11.48 %) Pensions 4 3 (4.918 %) Health 4 3 (4.918 %) Military 5 2 (3.279 %) Local Government 6 1 (1.639 %) Auditing 6 1 (1.639 %) Avionics 6 1 (1.639 %) Retail 6 1 (1.639 %) Insurance 6 1 (1.639 %) Front Office 6 1 (1.639 %) Back Office 6 1 (1.639 %) Electronics 6 1 (1.639 %) Publishing 6 1 (1.639 %) Police	Job Titles 1 11 (18.03 %) Analyst 2 10 (16.39 %) Project Manager 3 8 (13.11 %) Administrator 4 6 (9.836 %) Support Engineer 4 6 (9.836 %) Business Analyst 4 6 (9.836 %) Programme Manager 4 6 (9.836 %) Desktop Support 5 5 (8.197 %) Desktop Support Engineer 5 5 (8.197 %) Desktop Engineer 5 5 (8.197 %) IT Administrator 6 4 (6.557 %) Financial Business Analyst 6 4 (6.557 %) Financial Services Business Analyst 6 4 (6.557 %) Consultant 7 3 (4.918 %) Technical Support Engineer 7 3 (4.918 %) Technical Support 7 3 (4.918 %) Technical Engineer 8 2 (3.279 %) SAP Consultant 8 2 (3.279 %) Software Consultant 8 2 (3.279 %) Senior Analyst 8 2 (3.279 %) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.918 %) CMDB 2 2 (3.279 %) Computer Science 2 2 (3.279 %) French Language 2 2 (3.279 %) German Language 3 1 (1.639 %) Firmware 3 1 (1.639 %) Handset	Operating Systems 1 8 (13.11 %) Windows 2 3 (4.918 %) Windows XP 3 1 (1.639 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (1.639 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (19.67 %) Security Cleared 2 10 (16.39 %) Migration 3 8 (13.11 %) ITIL 4 7 (11.48 %) SC Cleared 5 6 (9.836 %) Service Management 6 5 (8.197 %) PRINCE2 7 4 (6.557 %) Project Management 7 4 (6.557 %) BC Cleared 8 3 (4.918 %) ITSM 8 3 (4.918 %) Data Migration 8 3 (4.918 %) Configuration Management 9 2 (3.279 %) Logistics 9 2 (3.279 %) Time Management 9 2 (3.279 %) Programme Management 9 2 (3.279 %) Document Management 9 2 (3.279 %) Disaster Recovery 10 1 (1.639 %) Stakeholder Management 10 1 (1.639 %) Web Design 10 1 (1.639 %) Data Analysis 10 1 (1.639 %) Supply Chain Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (3.279 %) SQL 2 1 (1.639 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (4.918 %) ITIL Certification 1 3 (4.918 %) Degree 2 2 (3.279 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (1.639 %) PMP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (4.918 %) SLA
Vendors 1 6 (9.836 %) Oracle 2 5 (8.197 %) SAP 3 4 (6.557 %) Microsoft 3 4 (6.557 %) Dell 4 1 (1.639 %) Informatica 4 1 (1.639 %) Novell 4 1 (1.639 %) Remedy 4 1 (1.639 %) Adobe 4 1 (1.639 %) HP 4 1 (1.639 %) Business Objects