South West Change Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Change 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 Change Management over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Amersham Avon Aylesbury Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Billingham Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Huntingdon Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knottingley Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staines Stevenage Stourbridge Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	65
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	97	100
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.124 %	0.112 %
As % of the category below	4.319 %	4.120 %
Daily rates quoted	45	40
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£347
Average daily rate	£372	£382
% change on same period last year	-2.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£416
UK excluding London average daily rate	£406	£392
% change on same period last year	+3.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.38	£20.36
Average hourly rate	£29.38	£22.20
% change on same period last year	+32.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.38	£24.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.26	£26.14
% change on same period last year	+0.45 %
Processes & Methodologies South West
Matching contract IT job ads	2246	2427
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.882 %	2.727 %
Daily rates quoted	749	751
Average minimum daily rate	£377	£359
Average daily rate	£405	£381
% change on same period last year	+6.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£432	£402
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£376
% change on same period last year	+2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	200	258
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.46	£28.83
Average hourly rate	£28.75	£30.70
% change on same period last year	-6.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.05	£32.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.61	£29.48
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
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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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Change 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Change 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 Change Management across the South West region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Change 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 Change Management across the South West region over the past 3 months.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Change Management within the South West region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Wiltshire	+4	32	£342	-16.97 %
2	Bristol	+9	23	£325	-8.93 %
3	Dorset	+4	13	£523	+39.87 %
4	Gloucestershire	+9	6	£300	-17.80 %
4	Somerset	+7	6	£363	-3.33 %
5	Devon	+8	4	£400	+6.66 %
6	Avon	+7	1	£250	+81.81 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the South West region citing Change Management also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Change Management.

1 57 (30.32 %) Finance 2 33 (17.55 %) Project Management 3 31 (16.49 %) PRINCE2 4 26 (13.83 %) ITIL 5 17 (9.043 %) Business Analysis 6 16 (8.511 %) Government 6 16 (8.511 %) Banking 7 15 (7.979 %) Windows 7 15 (7.979 %) Microsoft 8 13 (6.915 %) Migration 8 13 (6.915 %) Insurance 9 12 (6.383 %) MS Office 10 11 (5.851 %) NHS 10 11 (5.851 %) BPR 10 11 (5.851 %) CRM

10 11 (5.851 %) Retail 11 10 (5.319 %) Pensions 11 10 (5.319 %) CA Clarity 11 10 (5.319 %) Unix 11 10 (5.319 %) Configuration Management 11 10 (5.319 %) Internet 12 9 (4.787 %) Oracle 12 9 (4.787 %) PRINCE2 Certification 12 9 (4.787 %) ITIL Certification 12 9 (4.787 %) VMware 13 8 (4.255 %) MS Project 14 7 (3.723 %) MS Excel 14 7 (3.723 %) SLA 14 7 (3.723 %) Six Sigma 14 7 (3.723 %) Risk Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the South West region citing Change Management also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Change Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (2.660 %) XML 2 3 (1.596 %) .NET 3 2 (1.064 %) WinForms 3 2 (1.064 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (1.064 %) ASP.NET 2.0 4 1 (0.532 %) DAO 4 1 (0.532 %) ADO 4 1 (0.532 %) ODBC 4 1 (0.532 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 2 (1.064 %) IIS 2 1 (0.532 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (0.532 %) Oracle Application Server
Applications 1 12 (6.383 %) MS Office 2 10 (5.319 %) CA Clarity 3 8 (4.255 %) MS Project 4 7 (3.723 %) MS Excel 5 5 (2.660 %) MS Visio 6 2 (1.064 %) CATIA 6 2 (1.064 %) Windchill 6 2 (1.064 %) MS PowerPoint 6 2 (1.064 %) Open Workbench	Business Applications 1 3 (1.596 %) Oracle 11i 1 3 (1.596 %) assyst 2 2 (1.064 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 10 (5.319 %) Internet 2 3 (1.596 %) SAN 3 2 (1.064 %) Firewall 3 2 (1.064 %) Broadband 3 2 (1.064 %) SMS 3 2 (1.064 %) LDAP 3 2 (1.064 %) DHCP 3 2 (1.064 %) DNS 4 1 (0.532 %) ATM 4 1 (0.532 %) VoIP 4 1 (0.532 %) WAN 4 1 (0.532 %) IPCC 4 1 (0.532 %) IP Telephony 4 1 (0.532 %) Cisco IPT	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (3.191 %) SQL Server 2 4 (2.128 %) MS Access 3 2 (1.064 %) Datawarehouse 3 2 (1.064 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 2 (1.064 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (0.532 %) Oracle Reports 4 1 (0.532 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (0.532 %) BusinessObjects 4 1 (0.532 %) EDRMS 4 1 (0.532 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 1 (0.532 %) Oracle Forms 1 1 (0.532 %) ClearCase 1 1 (0.532 %) TestDirector	General 1 57 (30.32 %) Finance 2 16 (8.511 %) Government 2 16 (8.511 %) Banking 3 13 (6.915 %) Insurance 4 11 (5.851 %) Retail 5 10 (5.319 %) Pensions 6 6 (3.191 %) Music 6 6 (3.191 %) Health 7 5 (2.660 %) Retail Banking 8 4 (2.128 %) Local Government 8 4 (2.128 %) Aerospace 8 4 (2.128 %) Back Office 9 2 (1.064 %) Telecoms 9 2 (1.064 %) Investment Banking 9 2 (1.064 %) Marketing 10 1 (0.532 %) Construction 10 1 (0.532 %) Legal 10 1 (0.532 %) Criminal Justice 10 1 (0.532 %) Military
Job Titles 1 39 (20.74 %) Project Manager 2 37 (19.68 %) Analyst 3 20 (10.64 %) Change Manager 4 13 (6.915 %) Change Analyst 5 12 (6.383 %) Business Analyst 5 12 (6.383 %) Administrator 6 7 (3.723 %) Product Manager 7 6 (3.191 %) Programme Manager 7 6 (3.191 %) Developer 8 5 (2.660 %) Systems Administrator 8 5 (2.660 %) Coordinator 8 5 (2.660 %) Programme Planner 8 5 (2.660 %) SAP Project Manager 8 5 (2.660 %) Implementation Manager 8 5 (2.660 %) SAP Manager 9 4 (2.128 %) Change Management Analyst 9 4 (2.128 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 9 4 (2.128 %) UNIX Administrator 9 4 (2.128 %) Consultant 9 4 (2.128 %) Senior Manager	Miscellaneous 1 11 (5.851 %) NHS 2 3 (1.596 %) Management Information System 3 2 (1.064 %) Wiki 4 1 (0.532 %) Fat Client 4 1 (0.532 %) AS400 4 1 (0.532 %) CMDB 4 1 (0.532 %) Thin Client 4 1 (0.532 %) Mainframe 4 1 (0.532 %) Client/Server 4 1 (0.532 %) Chip and PIN
Operating Systems 1 15 (7.979 %) Windows 2 10 (5.319 %) Unix 3 6 (3.191 %) Solaris 3 6 (3.191 %) Linux 4 5 (2.660 %) AIX 5 2 (1.064 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (0.532 %) HPUX 6 1 (0.532 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (0.532 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 33 (17.55 %) Project Management 2 31 (16.49 %) PRINCE2 3 26 (13.83 %) ITIL 4 17 (9.043 %) Business Analysis 5 13 (6.915 %) Migration 6 11 (5.851 %) BPR 6 11 (5.851 %) CRM 7 10 (5.319 %) Configuration Management 8 7 (3.723 %) Six Sigma 8 7 (3.723 %) Risk Management 8 7 (3.723 %) Incident Management 9 6 (3.191 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 6 (3.191 %) SEO 9 6 (3.191 %) Stakeholder Management 9 6 (3.191 %) Service Management 10 5 (2.660 %) PRINCE 10 5 (2.660 %) Programme Management 10 5 (2.660 %) Service Delivery 10 5 (2.660 %) Integration Testing 10 5 (2.660 %) Data Migration
Programming Languages 1 6 (3.191 %) SQL 2 3 (1.596 %) PHP 3 2 (1.064 %) C 3 2 (1.064 %) C# 3 2 (1.064 %) VB.NET 4 1 (0.532 %) VBA 4 1 (0.532 %) Shell Script 4 1 (0.532 %) Perl 4 1 (0.532 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 9 (4.787 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 9 (4.787 %) ITIL Certification 2 6 (3.191 %) Degree 3 5 (2.660 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 1 (0.532 %) ISEB 4 1 (0.532 %) MBA 4 1 (0.532 %) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (3.723 %) SLA 2 4 (2.128 %) QA 3 3 (1.596 %) HL7 4 2 (1.064 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 7 (3.723 %) VMware ESX 2 4 (2.128 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 3 3 (1.596 %) NetBackup 4 2 (1.064 %) NFS 5 1 (0.532 %) Active Directory 5 1 (0.532 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 3 (1.596 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 2 2 (1.064 %) AutoSys 3 1 (0.532 %) WSUS 3 1 (0.532 %) Tivoli 3 1 (0.532 %) Tivoli Monitoring	Vendors 1 15 (7.979 %) Microsoft 2 9 (4.787 %) Oracle 2 9 (4.787 %) VMware 3 6 (3.191 %) SAP 3 6 (3.191 %) IBM 4 5 (2.660 %) Sun 5 4 (2.128 %) HP 5 4 (2.128 %) Remedy 6 3 (1.596 %) Red Hat 6 3 (1.596 %) CA 6 3 (1.596 %) VERITAS 6 3 (1.596 %) Fujitsu 7 2 (1.064 %) Infovista 7 2 (1.064 %) EMC 8 1 (0.532 %) Intel 8 1 (0.532 %) Cisco 8 1 (0.532 %) Business Objects 8 1 (0.532 %) Niku 8 1 (0.532 %) Primavera 8 1 (0.532 %) Lotus