South West IT Manager Contracts

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

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Denbighshire Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Hove Ilford Ipswich Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Lincolnshire London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North Wales North West Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rhyl Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	114	128
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	24	36
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.036 %
As % of the category below	0.575 %	0.653 %
Daily rates quoted	13	17
Average minimum daily rate	£364	£410
Average daily rate	£394	£421
% change on same period last year	-6.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£433
UK excluding London average daily rate	£393	£400
% change on same period last year	-1.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£18.00	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-28.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.45	£27.55
% change on same period last year	-14.88 %
Job Titles South West
Matching contract IT job ads	4172	5513
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.561 %	5.578 %
Daily rates quoted	1410	1472
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£337
Average daily rate	£368	£356
% change on same period last year	+3.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£391	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	527	707
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.83	£24.47
Average hourly rate	£26.74	£26.19
% change on same period last year	+2.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.65	£27.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
IT 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 IT 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 IT Manager 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 IT Manager across the South West region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 IT Manager across the South West region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Manager within the South West region over the 3 months to 25 July 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	+7	8	£426	+4.38 %
Gloucestershire	-1	5	£363	+11.53 %
Bristol	+9	3	£325	-12.35 %
Dorset	+4	2	£500	+4.16 %
Devon	+8	2	£330	-34.00 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 13 (28.26 %) Project Management 2 12 (26.09 %) Finance 2 12 (26.09 %) PRINCE2 2 12 (26.09 %) Pensions 3 10 (21.74 %) ITIL 4 6 (13.04 %) Service Management 5 5 (10.87 %) Security Cleared 6 4 (8.696 %) DV Cleared 6 4 (8.696 %) ITSM 6 4 (8.696 %) Service Delivery 6 4 (8.696 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 3 (6.522 %) NHS 7 3 (6.522 %) Windows 7 3 (6.522 %) Oracle 7 3 (6.522 %) SAP

7 3 (6.522 %) Insurance 8 2 (4.348 %) Banking 8 2 (4.348 %) Matrix Management 8 2 (4.348 %) Project Planning 8 2 (4.348 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 2 (4.348 %) Back Office 8 2 (4.348 %) Telecoms 8 2 (4.348 %) Programme Management 8 2 (4.348 %) Quality Management 8 2 (4.348 %) Government 8 2 (4.348 %) MS Project 8 2 (4.348 %) WAN 8 2 (4.348 %) Windows Server 2003 9 1 (2.174 %) Intranet 9 1 (2.174 %) Blackberry

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 1 (2.174 %) JSP	Applications 1 2 (4.348 %) MS Project 2 1 (2.174 %) MS Visio 2 1 (2.174 %) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications 1 1 (2.174 %) Summit 1 1 (2.174 %) SAP SRM	Communications & Networking 1 2 (4.348 %) WAN 2 1 (2.174 %) VPN 2 1 (2.174 %) SAN 2 1 (2.174 %) Intranet 2 1 (2.174 %) Network Security 2 1 (2.174 %) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.174 %) GIS	General 1 12 (26.09 %) Finance 1 12 (26.09 %) Pensions 2 3 (6.522 %) Insurance 3 2 (4.348 %) Government 3 2 (4.348 %) Back Office 3 2 (4.348 %) Telecoms 3 2 (4.348 %) Banking 4 1 (2.174 %) Retail 4 1 (2.174 %) Health 4 1 (2.174 %) Legal 4 1 (2.174 %) Military 4 1 (2.174 %) Local Government 4 1 (2.174 %) Auditing 4 1 (2.174 %) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous 1 3 (6.522 %) NHS 2 1 (2.174 %) Blackberry 2 1 (2.174 %) NPfIT 2 1 (2.174 %) EPoS	Operating Systems 1 3 (6.522 %) Windows 2 2 (4.348 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (28.26 %) Project Management 2 12 (26.09 %) PRINCE2 3 10 (21.74 %) ITIL 4 6 (13.04 %) Service Management 5 5 (10.87 %) Security Cleared 6 4 (8.696 %) DV Cleared 6 4 (8.696 %) ITSM 6 4 (8.696 %) Service Delivery 7 2 (4.348 %) Quality Management 7 2 (4.348 %) Programme Management 7 2 (4.348 %) Project Planning 7 2 (4.348 %) Matrix Management 7 2 (4.348 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 1 (2.174 %) SC Cleared 8 1 (2.174 %) Business Development 8 1 (2.174 %) WFM 8 1 (2.174 %) Validation 8 1 (2.174 %) Stakeholder Management 8 1 (2.174 %) Asset Management 8 1 (2.174 %) Systems Analysis	Programming Languages 1 1 (2.174 %) C
Qualifications 1 4 (8.696 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (2.174 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (2.174 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.174 %) ISO9001 1 1 (2.174 %) SLA 1 1 (2.174 %) JSP 440
System Software 1 1 (2.174 %) Active Directory 1 1 (2.174 %) Terminal Services 1 1 (2.174 %) VMware ESX 1 1 (2.174 %) Citrix Presentation Server 1 1 (2.174 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 3 (6.522 %) Oracle 1 3 (6.522 %) SAP 2 1 (2.174 %) Cisco 2 1 (2.174 %) Microsoft 2 1 (2.174 %) EMC 2 1 (2.174 %) Citrix 2 1 (2.174 %) VMware