Management Information System Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Management Information Systems skills across the UK with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Management Information System over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Management Information Systems
Location Abingdon Amersham Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dunfermline East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Fareham Farnborough Fife Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Redcar Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Torfaen Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Wells West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	194	236
Rank change on same period last year	+42
Matching contract IT job ads	589	629
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.785 %	0.636 %
As % of the category below	3.795 %	3.005 %
Daily rates quoted	197	187
Average minimum daily rate	£381	£369
Average daily rate	£411	£393
% change on same period last year	+4.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£441	£417
UK excluding London average daily rate	£369	£356
% change on same period last year	+3.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	64	94
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.56	£24.12
Average hourly rate	£27.90	£25.79
% change on same period last year	+8.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.23	£27.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.21	£25.84
% change on same period last year	+13.05 %
Miscellaneous UK
Matching contract IT job ads	15522	20930
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	20.69 %	21.18 %
Daily rates quoted	5740	7609
Average minimum daily rate	£446	£471
Average daily rate	£480	£505
% change on same period last year	-5.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£514	£539
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£354
% change on same period last year	-0.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	1318	1462
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.39	£26.69
Average hourly rate	£24.40	£28.45
% change on same period last year	-14.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.42	£30.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.44	£29.20
% change on same period last year	-16.30 %

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.

Management Information System
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Management Information System within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Management Information System
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Management Information System within the UK.

Management Information System
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Management Information System within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Management Information System
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Management Information System within the UK.

Management Information System
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Management Information System within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Management Information System
Top 30 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Management Information System 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	+44	561	£415	+5.84 %
London	+27	247	£445	+6.53 %
South East	+46	106	£383	+6.35 %
City of London	-11	72	£438	+2.64 %
South West	+24	54	£404	+17.11 %
East of England	+20	31	£276	-20.89 %
East Midlands	+25	29	£505	+16.61 %
Yorkshire	+13	28	£222	-50.74 %
North West	-3	27	£445	+163.05 %
Surrey	+1	24	£388	+40.58 %
Hampshire	+18	23	£369	-3.32 %
Berkshire	+41	21	£440	+18.51 %
West Midlands	-4	18	£229	-35.56 %
Wales	+6	15	£300	-42.16 %
North Yorkshire	+7	13	£143	-52.22 %
West Yorkshire	-1	13	£300	-41.17 %
Wiltshire	+6	11	£348	+9.15 %
Docklands, London	+27	11	£480	+44.21 %
South Wales	+4	11	-	-
Dorset	-	11	£442	-
Reading	+11	11	£305	-
Bristol	+6	11	£567	+67.90 %
Buckinghamshire	+13	10	£350	-13.17 %
Bournemouth	-	9	£446	-
Leeds	-3	9	£300	-47.82 %
Midlands	+13	9	£225	-10.00 %
Essex	-	8	£253	-
Hertfordshire	+9	8	-	-
Coventry	-16	8	£158	-61.74 %
Preston	-	7	-	-

Management Information System
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Management Information System 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 Management Information System.

1 323 (25.84 %) Finance 2 197 (15.76 %) SQL 3 195 (15.60 %) Project Management 4 171 (13.68 %) Oracle 5 141 (11.28 %) Government 6 110 (8.800 %) Information Management 7 107 (8.560 %) Microsoft 8 106 (8.480 %) Banking 9 104 (8.320 %) PRINCE2 10 103 (8.240 %) Datawarehouse 11 98 (7.840 %) MS Excel 12 97 (7.760 %) Business Analysis 13 93 (7.440 %) SQL Server 14 88 (7.040 %) MS Office 15 85 (6.800 %) Security Cleared

16 83 (6.640 %) Windows 17 75 (6.000 %) NHS 17 75 (6.000 %) Degree 17 75 (6.000 %) Data Management 18 74 (5.920 %) BusinessObjects 18 74 (5.920 %) Business Objects 19 73 (5.840 %) Information Security 19 73 (5.840 %) Content Management 20 72 (5.760 %) Business Intelligence 21 71 (5.680 %) UNIX 22 70 (5.600 %) .NET 23 67 (5.360 %) ITIL 24 66 (5.280 %) Data Modelling 25 65 (5.200 %) Health 26 60 (4.800 %) Change Management

Management Information System
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Management Information System 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 Management Information System. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 70 (5.600 %) .NET 2 48 (3.840 %) ASP 3 41 (3.280 %) ASP.NET 4 34 (2.720 %) XML 5 30 (2.400 %) HTML 6 20 (1.600 %) WebServices 7 10 (0.800 %) WebSphere 7 10 (0.800 %) MDX 8 8 (0.640 %) .NET Framework 8 8 (0.640 %) CSS 9 7 (0.560 %) J2EE 10 5 (0.400 %) ADO.NET 10 5 (0.400 %) XSLT 10 5 (0.400 %) WinForms 11 4 (0.320 %) XHTML 11 4 (0.320 %) Middleware 11 4 (0.320 %) SOAP 12 3 (0.240 %) Struts 12 3 (0.240 %) ODBC 12 3 (0.240 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 37 (2.960 %) CMS 2 28 (2.240 %) SharePoint 3 18 (1.440 %) MS Exchange 3 18 (1.440 %) SAS 4 16 (1.280 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 10 (0.800 %) Documentum 6 9 (0.720 %) ArcGIS 7 8 (0.640 %) LiveLink 7 8 (0.640 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 7 (0.560 %) Apache 9 6 (0.480 %) GroupWise 9 6 (0.480 %) ArcSDE 10 5 (0.400 %) Oracle Spatial 10 5 (0.400 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 5 (0.400 %) IIS 11 4 (0.320 %) Lotus Notes 11 4 (0.320 %) Tomcat 11 4 (0.320 %) MQSeries 11 4 (0.320 %) MapXtreme 12 3 (0.240 %) CICS
Applications 1 98 (7.840 %) MS Excel 2 88 (7.040 %) MS Office 3 44 (3.520 %) MS Visio 4 39 (3.120 %) MS PowerPoint 5 35 (2.800 %) MS Project 6 21 (1.680 %) Spreadsheet 7 7 (0.560 %) Photoshop 8 6 (0.480 %) CA Clarity 9 5 (0.400 %) SPSS 10 2 (0.160 %) Fireworks 11 1 (0.080 %) ArcInfo 11 1 (0.080 %) DeltaView 11 1 (0.080 %) Windchill 11 1 (0.080 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 12 (0.960 %) Oracle Financials 2 10 (0.800 %) Oracle Applications 3 9 (0.720 %) SAP HR 4 6 (0.480 %) Microsoft CRM 5 5 (0.400 %) Oracle EBS 5 5 (0.400 %) Summit 5 5 (0.400 %) Oracle ERP 6 4 (0.320 %) Cerner Millennium 6 4 (0.320 %) Oracle iRecruitment 6 4 (0.320 %) Oracle CRM 6 4 (0.320 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 7 3 (0.240 %) Oracle HRMS 7 3 (0.240 %) SAP Oil and Gas 7 3 (0.240 %) assyst 8 2 (0.160 %) SAP R/3 8 2 (0.160 %) Decalog 8 2 (0.160 %) Oracle 11i 8 2 (0.160 %) Temenos T24 8 2 (0.160 %) SAP HCM 8 2 (0.160 %) Tesseract
Communications & Networking 1 56 (4.480 %) Internet 2 51 (4.080 %) Intranet 3 21 (1.680 %) SAN 3 21 (1.680 %) Firewall 4 20 (1.600 %) LAN 5 18 (1.440 %) TCP/IP 5 18 (1.440 %) VPN 6 11 (0.880 %) WAN 7 9 (0.720 %) Network Security 8 8 (0.640 %) SNMP 9 7 (0.560 %) DNS 10 6 (0.480 %) VoIP 10 6 (0.480 %) VLAN 10 6 (0.480 %) IP Telephony 11 5 (0.400 %) MPLS 12 4 (0.320 %) Extranet 12 4 (0.320 %) DEFINITY 12 4 (0.320 %) SMS 13 3 (0.240 %) SSL 13 3 (0.240 %) GSM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 103 (8.240 %) Datawarehouse 2 93 (7.440 %) SQL Server 3 74 (5.920 %) BusinessObjects 4 50 (4.000 %) Oracle Reports 5 33 (2.640 %) Crystal Reports 6 31 (2.480 %) OLAP 7 29 (2.320 %) MS Access 7 29 (2.320 %) Oracle Discoverer 8 28 (2.240 %) SQL Server 2005 9 26 (2.080 %) Oracle 10g 10 24 (1.920 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 11 22 (1.760 %) SQL Server 2000 11 22 (1.760 %) ETL 12 20 (1.600 %) Oracle 9i 13 18 (1.440 %) EDRMS 14 15 (1.200 %) OLTP 15 14 (1.120 %) SAP BW 15 14 (1.120 %) GIS 16 13 (1.040 %) Oracle OLAP 17 12 (0.960 %) SAP BI
Development Applications 1 20 (1.600 %) FrontPage 2 16 (1.280 %) Rational Rose 3 11 (0.880 %) Oracle Forms 4 9 (0.720 %) Visual Studio 4 9 (0.720 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 6 (0.480 %) Dreamweaver 5 6 (0.480 %) TestDirector 6 5 (0.400 %) ClearQuest 7 4 (0.320 %) ERwin 7 4 (0.320 %) Eclipse 8 3 (0.240 %) ClearCase 9 2 (0.160 %) RequisitePro 9 2 (0.160 %) StarTeam 9 2 (0.160 %) Flash 10 1 (0.080 %) QuickTest Pro 10 1 (0.080 %) CaliberRM 10 1 (0.080 %) Telelogic DOORS 10 1 (0.080 %) PowerBuilder	General 1 323 (25.84 %) Finance 2 141 (11.28 %) Government 3 106 (8.480 %) Banking 4 65 (5.200 %) Health 5 58 (4.640 %) Insurance 6 53 (4.240 %) Investment Banking 7 42 (3.360 %) Education 8 37 (2.960 %) Telecoms 9 34 (2.720 %) Legal 10 33 (2.640 %) Front Office 11 28 (2.240 %) Retail 12 25 (2.000 %) Billing 13 24 (1.920 %) Local Government 14 22 (1.760 %) Pharmaceutical 15 21 (1.680 %) Construction 15 21 (1.680 %) Marketing 16 17 (1.360 %) Financial Institution 17 15 (1.200 %) Publishing 18 12 (0.960 %) Pensions 19 10 (0.800 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 442 (35.36 %) Analyst 2 198 (15.84 %) Business Analyst 3 137 (10.96 %) Project Manager 4 113 (9.040 %) Developer 5 71 (5.680 %) Consultant 6 61 (4.880 %) Data Analyst 7 50 (4.000 %) Architect 8 34 (2.720 %) Information Analyst 9 33 (2.640 %) Administrator 10 32 (2.560 %) Systems Analyst 11 31 (2.480 %) Programme Manager 11 31 (2.480 %) Support Analyst 12 25 (2.000 %) Information Manager 13 24 (1.920 %) Senior Analyst 14 23 (1.840 %) Coordinator 15 22 (1.760 %) SQL Developer 16 20 (1.600 %) Technical Manager 17 18 (1.440 %) Project Officer 17 18 (1.440 %) Junior 17 18 (1.440 %) MI Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 75 (6.000 %) NHS 2 28 (2.240 %) Statistics 2 28 (2.240 %) Credit Risk 3 20 (1.600 %) Derivative 4 15 (1.200 %) Freedom of Information 4 15 (1.200 %) Data Protection Act 5 12 (0.960 %) Computer Science 6 10 (0.800 %) Mathematics 6 10 (0.800 %) Equity Derivative 6 10 (0.800 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 10 (0.800 %) Mainframe 6 10 (0.800 %) Fixed Income 7 9 (0.720 %) NPfIT 7 9 (0.720 %) LIMS 8 8 (0.640 %) Market Risk 9 7 (0.560 %) PACS 10 6 (0.480 %) Taxonomies 10 6 (0.480 %) Interest Rate Derivative 10 6 (0.480 %) Clustering 10 6 (0.480 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 83 (6.640 %) Windows 2 71 (5.680 %) UNIX 3 23 (1.840 %) Windows NT 4 21 (1.680 %) AIX 5 18 (1.440 %) Solaris 5 18 (1.440 %) Windows 2000 6 11 (0.880 %) Linux 7 7 (0.560 %) Windows Server 2003 8 6 (0.480 %) zOS 8 6 (0.480 %) Windows XP 9 5 (0.400 %) VMS 10 4 (0.320 %) MVS 11 3 (0.240 %) Windows Mobile 11 3 (0.240 %) Mac OS X 11 3 (0.240 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 195 (15.60 %) Project Management 2 110 (8.800 %) Information Management 3 104 (8.320 %) PRINCE2 4 97 (7.760 %) Business Analysis 5 85 (6.800 %) Security Cleared 6 75 (6.000 %) Data Management 7 73 (5.840 %) Information Security 7 73 (5.840 %) Content Management 8 72 (5.760 %) Business Intelligence 9 67 (5.360 %) ITIL 10 66 (5.280 %) Data Modelling 11 60 (4.800 %) Change Management 12 57 (4.560 %) UML 13 54 (4.320 %) Risk Management 14 53 (4.240 %) CRM 15 52 (4.160 %) Migration 16 51 (4.080 %) Data Analysis 17 44 (3.520 %) Performance Management 18 43 (3.440 %) Service Management 19 41 (3.280 %) Asset Management
Programming Languages 1 197 (15.76 %) SQL 2 46 (3.680 %) Java 3 40 (3.200 %) VBA 4 34 (2.720 %) VB 5 30 (2.400 %) C# 6 26 (2.080 %) JavaScript 6 26 (2.080 %) Transact-SQL 7 25 (2.000 %) PL/SQL 8 22 (1.760 %) VBScript 9 12 (0.960 %) C++ 10 10 (0.800 %) ABAP 11 8 (0.640 %) VB.NET 11 8 (0.640 %) PHP 11 8 (0.640 %) VB6 12 6 (0.480 %) Perl 13 5 (0.400 %) C 14 4 (0.320 %) Shell Script 15 3 (0.240 %) JCL 15 3 (0.240 %) XQuery 15 3 (0.240 %) VC++	Qualifications 1 75 (6.000 %) Degree 2 24 (1.920 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 19 (1.520 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 14 (1.120 %) Microsoft Certification 5 12 (0.960 %) CISSP 6 11 (0.880 %) ISEB 7 9 (0.720 %) MCSE 8 8 (0.640 %) ITIL Certification 8 8 (0.640 %) PMP 8 8 (0.640 %) CISA 9 6 (0.480 %) Cisco Certification 10 5 (0.400 %) CISM 11 4 (0.320 %) PMI Certification 12 3 (0.240 %) MCITP 12 3 (0.240 %) Oracle Certification 12 3 (0.240 %) MCSA 12 3 (0.240 %) HND 13 2 (0.160 %) CCNA 13 2 (0.160 %) CCIE 13 2 (0.160 %) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 26 (2.080 %) QA 2 22 (1.760 %) SLA 3 17 (1.360 %) ISO27001 4 14 (1.120 %) ISO17799 4 14 (1.120 %) BS7799 5 8 (0.640 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 8 (0.640 %) PCI DSS 6 5 (0.400 %) ISO9001 7 2 (0.160 %) COBIT 7 2 (0.160 %) SNOMED CT 7 2 (0.160 %) BS7666 8 1 (0.080 %) 21 CFR Part 11 8 1 (0.080 %) WAI 8 1 (0.080 %) JSP 440	System Software 1 30 (2.400 %) Active Directory 2 7 (0.560 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 3 (0.240 %) Oracle RAC 3 3 (0.240 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 3 (0.240 %) RACF 3 3 (0.240 %) VMware ESX 3 3 (0.240 %) NetBackup 4 2 (0.160 %) Oracle RMAN 4 2 (0.160 %) Squid 4 2 (0.160 %) ISA Server 5 1 (0.080 %) NFS 5 1 (0.080 %) Terminal Services 5 1 (0.080 %) VMware Workstation
Systems Management 1 3 (0.240 %) Tivoli 2 2 (0.160 %) MOM 2 2 (0.160 %) CONTROL-M 2 2 (0.160 %) WSUS 3 1 (0.080 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 3 1 (0.080 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (0.080 %) AutoSys	Vendors 1 171 (13.68 %) Oracle 2 107 (8.560 %) Microsoft 3 74 (5.920 %) Business Objects 4 45 (3.600 %) SAP 5 17 (1.360 %) Cisco 6 16 (1.280 %) HP 7 14 (1.120 %) Sun 7 14 (1.120 %) Sybase 8 12 (0.960 %) Cognos 9 11 (0.880 %) IBM 9 11 (0.880 %) Tridion 10 9 (0.720 %) Hyperion 11 8 (0.640 %) VMware 12 7 (0.560 %) Remedy 12 7 (0.560 %) Mapinfo 13 6 (0.480 %) ESRI 13 6 (0.480 %) Agresso 13 6 (0.480 %) Northgate 13 6 (0.480 %) EMC 13 6 (0.480 %) Intel