South Yorkshire Performance Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Performance Management skills within the South Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Performance Management over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Barking Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chippenham City of London Corby County Antrim Devon Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Exeter Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hounslow Inverness Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Luton Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Tadworth Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	49
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	11	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	5.314 %	0.394 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£370	-
Average daily rate	£376	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£383	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£392
% change on same period last year	-2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.27	£23.00
Average hourly rate	£30.09	£25.00
% change on same period last year	+20.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.92	£27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£22.68
% change on same period last year	+42.94 %
Processes & Methodologies South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	207	254
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.281 %	0.251 %
Daily rates quoted	52	52
Average minimum daily rate	£316	£316
Average daily rate	£344	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	57	41
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.66	£27.22
Average hourly rate	£27.61	£28.46
% change on same period last year	-2.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.57	£29.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.40	£30.42
% change on same period last year	-0.08 %
Performance Management Yorkshire

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 Performance Management across the South Yorkshire 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 Performance Management across the South Yorkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Performance Management across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 8 September 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 Performance Management across the South Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Performance Management across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 8 September 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 Performance Management within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 8 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
Sheffield	-	8	£376	-

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Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing Performance 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 Performance Management.

1 8 (57.14 %) ITIL 1 8 (57.14 %) Solaris 1 8 (57.14 %) VERITAS 1 8 (57.14 %) NetBackup 2 6 (42.86 %) Symantec 2 6 (42.86 %) Change Management 2 6 (42.86 %) SLA 2 6 (42.86 %) Sun 2 6 (42.86 %) UNIX 3 3 (21.43 %) Windows 3 3 (21.43 %) .NET 3 3 (21.43 %) Microsoft 3 3 (21.43 %) SharePoint 3 3 (21.43 %) Project Management 4 2 (14.29 %) InfoPath

4 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (14.29 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 2 (14.29 %) SAN 4 2 (14.29 %) WebServices 4 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 4 2 (14.29 %) C# 5 1 (7.143 %) SQL 5 1 (7.143 %) IIS 5 1 (7.143 %) ASP.NET 5 1 (7.143 %) MCSE 5 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft Certification 5 1 (7.143 %) Windows Server 2003

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing Performance 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 Performance Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (21.43 %) .NET 2 2 (14.29 %) WebServices 3 1 (7.143 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 3 (21.43 %) SharePoint 2 2 (14.29 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (7.143 %) IIS
Applications 1 2 (14.29 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 2 (14.29 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 1 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005	Job Titles 1 7 (50.00 %) Support Engineer 2 6 (42.86 %) Administrator 2 6 (42.86 %) Solaris Administrator 3 3 (21.43 %) Relationships Manager 4 1 (7.143 %) C# Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) Project Administrator 4 1 (7.143 %) Project Engineer 4 1 (7.143 %) Architect 4 1 (7.143 %) Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) Network Engineer 4 1 (7.143 %) Solutions Architect
Operating Systems 1 8 (57.14 %) Solaris 2 6 (42.86 %) UNIX 3 3 (21.43 %) Windows 4 1 (7.143 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (57.14 %) ITIL 2 6 (42.86 %) Change Management 3 3 (21.43 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (14.29 %) C# 2 1 (7.143 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (7.143 %) MCSE 1 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (42.86 %) SLA	System Software 1 8 (57.14 %) NetBackup
Vendors 1 8 (57.14 %) VERITAS 2 6 (42.86 %) Symantec 2 6 (42.86 %) Sun 3 3 (21.43 %) Microsoft