South West Supplier Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Supplier 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 Supplier Management over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Berkshire Bicester Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Dorset East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Rickmansworth Scotland Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South West South Yorkshire Staines Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	126	152
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	21	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	0.726 %	0.574 %
Daily rates quoted	4	8
Average minimum daily rate	£470	£379
Average daily rate	£514	£403
% change on same period last year	+27.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£558	£427
UK excluding London average daily rate	£457	£412
% change on same period last year	+10.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£30.50
Average hourly rate	-	£33.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£26.69
% change on same period last year	-
Processes & Methodologies South West
Matching contract IT job ads	2891	3312
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.120 %	3.425 %
Daily rates quoted	875	1017
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£351
Average daily rate	£389	£370
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£410	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	358	369
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.72	£29.39
Average hourly rate	£29.74	£31.32
% change on same period last year	-5.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.75	£33.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.30	£29.76
% change on same period last year	-1.54 %
Supplier 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 Supplier 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 Supplier Management 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 Supplier Management 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 Supplier Management within the South West region over the 3 months to 15 October 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	+14	8	£325	-31.57 %
Wiltshire	0	7	£615	+78.26 %
Gloucestershire	-9	2	-	-
Somerset	+2	2	£500	+35.13 %
Dorset	+7	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Supplier 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 Supplier Management.

1 10 (30.30 %) Project Management 2 9 (27.27 %) Finance 2 9 (27.27 %) PRINCE2 3 7 (21.21 %) Stakeholder Management 4 5 (15.15 %) Pensions 4 5 (15.15 %) ITIL 5 4 (12.12 %) Government 5 4 (12.12 %) Migration 5 4 (12.12 %) Disaster Recovery 5 4 (12.12 %) Service Management 6 3 (9.091 %) Service Delivery 6 3 (9.091 %) Windows 6 3 (9.091 %) Microsoft 6 3 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 3 (9.091 %) SC Cleared

6 3 (9.091 %) Security Cleared 7 2 (6.061 %) Data Migration 7 2 (6.061 %) Oracle BRM 7 2 (6.061 %) Matrix Management 7 2 (6.061 %) Time Management 7 2 (6.061 %) Performance Management 7 2 (6.061 %) Windows Vista 7 2 (6.061 %) Banking 7 2 (6.061 %) Amdocs 7 2 (6.061 %) Billing 7 2 (6.061 %) Novell 7 2 (6.061 %) Singl.eView 7 2 (6.061 %) Oracle 7 2 (6.061 %) Change Management 7 2 (6.061 %) GIS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Supplier 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 Supplier Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (3.030 %) MS Office 1 1 (3.030 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 2 (6.061 %) Singl.eView 1 2 (6.061 %) Oracle BRM
Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.030 %) Broadband 1 1 (3.030 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.061 %) GIS 2 1 (3.030 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (3.030 %) EDRMS
General 1 9 (27.27 %) Finance 2 5 (15.15 %) Pensions 3 4 (12.12 %) Government 4 2 (6.061 %) Banking 4 2 (6.061 %) Billing 5 1 (3.030 %) Local Government 5 1 (3.030 %) Telecoms 5 1 (3.030 %) Electric	Job Titles 1 16 (48.48 %) Project Manager 2 3 (9.091 %) Service Manager 2 3 (9.091 %) Contracts Manager 3 2 (6.061 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 4 1 (3.030 %) Buyer 4 1 (3.030 %) Technical Buyer 4 1 (3.030 %) Procurement Officer 4 1 (3.030 %) PMO Manager 4 1 (3.030 %) Service Continuity Manager 4 1 (3.030 %) Change Manager 4 1 (3.030 %) Business Change Manager 4 1 (3.030 %) IT Project Manager 4 1 (3.030 %) IT Support Engineer 4 1 (3.030 %) Project Office Manager 4 1 (3.030 %) Business Analyst 4 1 (3.030 %) Programme Manager 4 1 (3.030 %) Analyst 4 1 (3.030 %) Commercial Manager 4 1 (3.030 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (3.030 %) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.030 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 3 (9.091 %) Windows 2 2 (6.061 %) Windows Vista 3 1 (3.030 %) UNIX 3 1 (3.030 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (30.30 %) Project Management 2 9 (27.27 %) PRINCE2 3 7 (21.21 %) Stakeholder Management 4 5 (15.15 %) ITIL 5 4 (12.12 %) Migration 5 4 (12.12 %) Disaster Recovery 5 4 (12.12 %) Service Management 6 3 (9.091 %) Service Delivery 6 3 (9.091 %) SC Cleared 6 3 (9.091 %) Security Cleared 7 2 (6.061 %) Matrix Management 7 2 (6.061 %) Time Management 7 2 (6.061 %) Performance Management 7 2 (6.061 %) Data Migration 7 2 (6.061 %) Change Management 8 1 (3.030 %) CRM 8 1 (3.030 %) Business Intelligence 8 1 (3.030 %) PRINCE 8 1 (3.030 %) Six Sigma 8 1 (3.030 %) Configuration Management	Qualifications 1 3 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (3.030 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (3.030 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.030 %) QA	Vendors 1 3 (9.091 %) Microsoft 2 2 (6.061 %) Novell 2 2 (6.061 %) Amdocs 2 2 (6.061 %) Oracle