South West Implementation Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Implementation Manager role in IT contracts within the South West 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 Implementation Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Andover Bath Berkshire Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London Corsham Coventry Crawley Croydon East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Gatwick Hampshire Hertfordshire Lancashire Leeds London Macclesfield Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stafford Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	135	153
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	9	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	0.207 %	0.301 %
Daily rates quoted	3	6
Average minimum daily rate	£500	£301
Average daily rate	£517	£329
% change on same period last year	+57.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£533	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£420	£406
% change on same period last year	+3.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£28.00
Average hourly rate	-	£28.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£29.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£26.58
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles South West
Matching contract IT job ads	4355	5974
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.887 %	5.891 %
Daily rates quoted	1350	1557
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£342
Average daily rate	£370	£361
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£392	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	593	736
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.60	£25.58
Average hourly rate	£27.40	£27.17
% change on same period last year	+0.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.21	£28.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
Implementation Manager 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 Implementation Manager across the South West 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 Implementation Manager across the South West 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 Implementation Manager across the South 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 Implementation Manager within the South West region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Bristol	+10	5	-	-
Wiltshire	+2	2	£500	+51.51 %
Somerset	+3	1	£600	+100.00 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Implementation 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 Implementation Manager in their job title.

1 9 (39.13 %) Finance 2 7 (30.43 %) PRINCE2 2 7 (30.43 %) Project Management 3 5 (21.74 %) ITIL 4 4 (17.39 %) Banking 4 4 (17.39 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 4 (17.39 %) Change Management 4 4 (17.39 %) Migration 4 4 (17.39 %) Stakeholder Management 5 3 (13.04 %) Retail 5 3 (13.04 %) SC Cleared 5 3 (13.04 %) Security Cleared 5 3 (13.04 %) Pensions 6 2 (8.696 %) Retail Banking 6 2 (8.696 %) Resource Management

7 1 (4.348 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 1 (4.348 %) Spreadsheet 7 1 (4.348 %) Project Planning 7 1 (4.348 %) Statistics 7 1 (4.348 %) Service Management 7 1 (4.348 %) Service Delivery 7 1 (4.348 %) C 7 1 (4.348 %) SQL 7 1 (4.348 %) Oracle 7 1 (4.348 %) MS Project 7 1 (4.348 %) MS Office 7 1 (4.348 %) SAP 7 1 (4.348 %) Windows 7 1 (4.348 %) MS Excel 7 1 (4.348 %) Client/Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Implementation 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 Implementation Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (4.348 %) MS Project 1 1 (4.348 %) MS Office 1 1 (4.348 %) MS Excel 1 1 (4.348 %) MS Visio 1 1 (4.348 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 1 (4.348 %) SAP HR
General 1 9 (39.13 %) Finance 2 4 (17.39 %) Banking 3 3 (13.04 %) Retail 3 3 (13.04 %) Pensions 4 2 (8.696 %) Retail Banking 5 1 (4.348 %) Telecoms 5 1 (4.348 %) Billing 5 1 (4.348 %) Law 5 1 (4.348 %) Military	Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.348 %) Client/Server 1 1 (4.348 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 1 (4.348 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (30.43 %) PRINCE2 1 7 (30.43 %) Project Management 2 5 (21.74 %) ITIL 3 4 (17.39 %) Change Management 3 4 (17.39 %) Migration 3 4 (17.39 %) Stakeholder Management 4 3 (13.04 %) SC Cleared 4 3 (13.04 %) Security Cleared 5 2 (8.696 %) Resource Management 6 1 (4.348 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 1 (4.348 %) Risk Assessment 6 1 (4.348 %) Programme Management 6 1 (4.348 %) Project Planning 6 1 (4.348 %) Risk Management 6 1 (4.348 %) Service Management 6 1 (4.348 %) Service Delivery 6 1 (4.348 %) ERP 6 1 (4.348 %) Business Intelligence 6 1 (4.348 %) Configuration Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (4.348 %) C 1 1 (4.348 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 4 (17.39 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (4.348 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.348 %) SLA	Vendors 1 1 (4.348 %) Oracle 1 1 (4.348 %) SAP 1 1 (4.348 %) Microsoft