Delivery Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Delivery Manager role in IT contracts across the UK compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Delivery 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 Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bracknell Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Dartford Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Knutsford Leeds Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Plymouth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Surrey Swansea Swindon Teddington Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	310	360
Rank change on same period last year	+50
Matching contract IT job ads	326	347
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.435 %	0.351 %
As % of the category below	0.483 %	0.383 %
Daily rates quoted	118	97
Average minimum daily rate	£421	£430
Average daily rate	£444	£451
% change on same period last year	-1.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£467	£472
UK excluding London average daily rate	£418	£457
% change on same period last year	-8.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£49.50	£25.40
Average hourly rate	£54.50	£27.28
% change on same period last year	+99.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£59.50	£29.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.00	£23.46
% change on same period last year	+66.22 %
Job Titles UK
Matching contract IT job ads	67526	90610
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	90.01 %	91.67 %
Daily rates quoted	22121	26824
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£390
Average daily rate	£404	£415
% change on same period last year	-2.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£430	£440
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	5680	7267
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.08	£24.52
Average hourly rate	£23.72	£26.04
% change on same period last year	-8.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.36	£27.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %

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 the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Delivery Manager within the UK 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 Delivery Manager within the UK.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Delivery Manager within the UK 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 Delivery Manager within the UK.

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Top 30 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Delivery Manager within the UK 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
England	+61	310	£446	-1.32 %
London	+70	149	£472	+6.81 %
South East	+48	57	£377	-21.96 %
City of London	0	35	£502	+50.52 %
Berkshire	+44	28	£413	-33.10 %
South West	+38	25	£412	-14.83 %
East of England	-17	18	£464	+5.12 %
North West	-3	16	£433	-12.26 %
Yorkshire	-9	14	£375	-16.20 %
East Midlands	+10	13	£445	+8.97 %
Hertfordshire	+4	11	£427	+8.12 %
Hampshire	+26	9	£340	-
Docklands, London	+34	8	£438	-
West Yorkshire	-15	8	£350	-26.31 %
Nottinghamshire	-4	8	£438	-
Wales	+1	8	£388	-
Nottingham	-7	8	£438	-
West Midlands	-1	7	£348	-
Buckinghamshire	+7	6	-	-
Cheshire	-	6	£404	-
Leeds	-19	6	£350	-24.99 %
Swansea	-	5	£425	-
Milton Keynes	-9	5	-	-
West Wales	-	5	£425	-
Surrey	-5	5	£425	+6.25 %
Wiltshire	+11	4	£371	-0.77 %
Norfolk	-13	4	£489	-1.46 %
Midlands	+9	4	-	-
Manchester	-11	4	£450	-10.00 %
Norwich	-9	4	£489	+0.85 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Delivery 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 Delivery Manager in their job title.

1 326 (46.91 %) Service Delivery 2 203 (29.21 %) ITIL 3 157 (22.59 %) Finance 4 154 (22.16 %) Project Management 5 145 (20.86 %) PRINCE2 6 99 (14.24 %) SLA 7 78 (11.22 %) Service Management 8 70 (10.07 %) ITIL Certification 9 63 (9.065 %) Banking 10 60 (8.633 %) Telecoms 11 54 (7.770 %) Government 12 53 (7.626 %) Windows 13 52 (7.482 %) Stakeholder Management 14 44 (6.331 %) Security Cleared 15 42 (6.043 %) Change Management

16 33 (4.748 %) SAP 17 32 (4.604 %) Degree 18 30 (4.317 %) PRINCE2 Certification 19 28 (4.029 %) PRINCE 19 28 (4.029 %) .NET 20 27 (3.885 %) Marketing 21 25 (3.597 %) Migration 21 25 (3.597 %) Programme Management 22 24 (3.453 %) Microsoft 23 23 (3.309 %) Oracle 24 22 (3.165 %) Retail 24 22 (3.165 %) Supplier Management 25 21 (3.022 %) C# 26 20 (2.878 %) NHS 26 20 (2.878 %) Insurance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Delivery 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 Delivery Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 28 (4.029 %) .NET 2 12 (1.727 %) NHibernate 2 12 (1.727 %) MonoRail 3 5 (0.719 %) J2EE 4 4 (0.576 %) ASP.NET 5 3 (0.432 %) Middleware 6 2 (0.288 %) XML 7 1 (0.144 %) XSLT 7 1 (0.144 %) WebSphere 7 1 (0.144 %) FIX Protocol 7 1 (0.144 %) Hibernate 7 1 (0.144 %) SAP XI 7 1 (0.144 %) Spring 7 1 (0.144 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 13 (1.871 %) SharePoint 1 13 (1.871 %) BizTalk Server 2 7 (1.007 %) MS Exchange 3 5 (0.719 %) Lotus Notes 4 3 (0.432 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 2 (0.288 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 2 (0.288 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 1 (0.144 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 1 (0.144 %) WebLogic 6 1 (0.144 %) Documentum
Applications 1 15 (2.158 %) MS Project 2 12 (1.727 %) MS Excel 2 12 (1.727 %) MS PowerPoint 3 9 (1.295 %) MS Office 4 5 (0.719 %) MS Visio 5 2 (0.288 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 4 (0.576 %) SAP FI 1 4 (0.576 %) SAP FI/CO 1 4 (0.576 %) SAP CO 1 4 (0.576 %) SAP HCM 2 3 (0.432 %) SAP ERP 2 3 (0.432 %) SAP SM 3 2 (0.288 %) Oracle Applications 3 2 (0.288 %) SAP APO 4 1 (0.144 %) Oracle Financials 4 1 (0.144 %) Oracle EBS 4 1 (0.144 %) SAP CRM 4 1 (0.144 %) Summit 4 1 (0.144 %) SAP IS-U
Communications & Networking 1 19 (2.734 %) WAN 2 14 (2.014 %) LAN 3 13 (1.871 %) Internet 4 9 (1.295 %) Firewall 5 7 (1.007 %) SMS 5 7 (1.007 %) VPN 6 5 (0.719 %) 3G 6 5 (0.719 %) SAN 7 4 (0.576 %) TCP/IP 7 4 (0.576 %) GGSN 8 3 (0.432 %) Intranet 8 3 (0.432 %) DHCP 8 3 (0.432 %) FTP 9 2 (0.288 %) Broadband 9 2 (0.288 %) Wireless 9 2 (0.288 %) Cisco PIX 9 2 (0.288 %) Network Security 10 1 (0.144 %) BSS 10 1 (0.144 %) SGSN 10 1 (0.144 %) ATM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (0.576 %) SQL Server 1 4 (0.576 %) Oracle 8/8i 1 4 (0.576 %) BusinessObjects 1 4 (0.576 %) GIS 2 2 (0.288 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (0.144 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (0.144 %) SQL Server 7 3 1 (0.144 %) EDRMS 3 1 (0.144 %) MS Access 3 1 (0.144 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 13 (1.871 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (0.432 %) ClearCase 3 1 (0.144 %) Rational Rose 3 1 (0.144 %) LoadRunner 3 1 (0.144 %) InstallShield	General 1 157 (22.59 %) Finance 2 63 (9.065 %) Banking 3 60 (8.633 %) Telecoms 4 54 (7.770 %) Government 5 27 (3.885 %) Marketing 6 22 (3.165 %) Retail 7 20 (2.878 %) Insurance 8 19 (2.734 %) Investment Banking 9 18 (2.590 %) Education 10 16 (2.302 %) Billing 11 15 (2.158 %) Health 12 12 (1.727 %) Pharmaceutical 12 12 (1.727 %) Financial Institution 13 10 (1.439 %) Criminal Justice 13 10 (1.439 %) Pensions 14 8 (1.151 %) Legal 14 8 (1.151 %) Back Office 14 8 (1.151 %) Automotive 15 5 (0.719 %) Retail Banking 16 4 (0.576 %) Local Government
Miscellaneous 1 20 (2.878 %) NHS 2 12 (1.727 %) PMI 3 10 (1.439 %) Equities 4 6 (0.863 %) Credit Risk 5 5 (0.719 %) Handset 6 3 (0.432 %) CMDB 6 3 (0.432 %) Derivative 6 3 (0.432 %) Mainframe 6 3 (0.432 %) Management Information System 7 2 (0.288 %) Client/Server 7 2 (0.288 %) French Language 7 2 (0.288 %) Replication 8 1 (0.144 %) Fixed Income 8 1 (0.144 %) IBM Mainframe 8 1 (0.144 %) N-Tier 8 1 (0.144 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 8 1 (0.144 %) DTV 8 1 (0.144 %) Equity Derivative 8 1 (0.144 %) Statistics 8 1 (0.144 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 53 (7.626 %) Windows 2 19 (2.734 %) UNIX 3 6 (0.863 %) Windows XP 4 3 (0.432 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (0.288 %) Symbian OS 5 2 (0.288 %) Windows Mobile 5 2 (0.288 %) Linux 5 2 (0.288 %) Windows NT 6 1 (0.144 %) VMS 6 1 (0.144 %) zOS
Processes & Methodologies 1 326 (46.91 %) Service Delivery 2 203 (29.21 %) ITIL 3 154 (22.16 %) Project Management 4 145 (20.86 %) PRINCE2 5 78 (11.22 %) Service Management 6 52 (7.482 %) Stakeholder Management 7 44 (6.331 %) Security Cleared 8 42 (6.043 %) Change Management 9 28 (4.029 %) PRINCE 10 25 (3.597 %) Migration 10 25 (3.597 %) Programme Management 11 22 (3.165 %) Supplier Management 12 19 (2.734 %) Scrum 13 17 (2.446 %) Matrix Management 13 17 (2.446 %) CRM 13 17 (2.446 %) SOA 14 15 (2.158 %) Risk Management 14 15 (2.158 %) Project Planning 15 14 (2.014 %) Release Management 15 14 (2.014 %) ITSM	Programming Languages 1 21 (3.022 %) C# 2 16 (2.302 %) SQL 3 9 (1.295 %) Java 4 8 (1.151 %) C 5 5 (0.719 %) ABAP 5 5 (0.719 %) C++ 6 2 (0.288 %) VB 7 1 (0.144 %) VB.NET 7 1 (0.144 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 70 (10.07 %) ITIL Certification 2 32 (4.604 %) Degree 3 30 (4.317 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 13 (1.871 %) Microsoft Certification 4 13 (1.871 %) MCSE 5 7 (1.007 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 5 7 (1.007 %) PMP 5 7 (1.007 %) PMI Certification 6 5 (0.719 %) Citrix Certification 7 4 (0.576 %) Cisco Certification 7 4 (0.576 %) CCNA 8 3 (0.432 %) ISEB 9 2 (0.288 %) Postgraduate 9 2 (0.288 %) MBCS 10 1 (0.144 %) CCDP 10 1 (0.144 %) CCNP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 99 (14.24 %) SLA 2 6 (0.863 %) Basel II 3 5 (0.719 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 5 (0.719 %) QA 4 2 (0.288 %) ISO27001 5 1 (0.144 %) BS7799 5 1 (0.144 %) ISO9000 5 1 (0.144 %) ISO9001
System Software 1 6 (0.863 %) Active Directory 2 1 (0.144 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 2 (0.288 %) SCCM 2 1 (0.144 %) BMC PATROL 2 1 (0.144 %) ServiceCenter
Vendors 1 33 (4.748 %) SAP 2 24 (3.453 %) Microsoft 3 23 (3.309 %) Oracle 4 11 (1.583 %) Remedy 5 7 (1.007 %) CheckPoint 6 6 (0.863 %) Cisco 7 5 (0.719 %) BMC 7 5 (0.719 %) Lotus 8 4 (0.576 %) Business Objects 8 4 (0.576 %) EMC 8 4 (0.576 %) IBM 8 4 (0.576 %) Siebel 9 3 (0.432 %) HP 9 3 (0.432 %) TIBCO 10 2 (0.288 %) Quark 10 2 (0.288 %) Wyse 10 2 (0.288 %) Amdocs 10 2 (0.288 %) Apple 10 2 (0.288 %) McAfee Security 10 2 (0.288 %) Symbian