West Midlands Change Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Change Management skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Change Management over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Amersham Avon Aylesbury Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Billingham Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Huntingdon Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knottingley Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staines Stevenage Stourbridge Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	62	64
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	60	48
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.077 %	0.054 %
As % of the category below	3.750 %	3.558 %
Daily rates quoted	13	7
Average minimum daily rate	£396	£463
Average daily rate	£427	£509
% change on same period last year	-16.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£458	£555
UK excluding London average daily rate	£406	£392
% change on same period last year	+3.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.00	£23.98
Average hourly rate	£28.36	£26.02
% change on same period last year	+8.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.71	£28.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.26	£26.14
% change on same period last year	+0.45 %
Processes & Methodologies West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1600	1349
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.053 %	1.516 %
Daily rates quoted	401	302
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£345
Average daily rate	£369	£367
% change on same period last year	+0.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£389
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£376
% change on same period last year	+2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	115	181
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.78	£26.56
Average hourly rate	£26.67	£28.43
% change on same period last year	-6.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.55	£30.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.61	£29.48
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
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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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Change Management across the West Midlands 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Change Management across the West Midlands region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Change Management across the West Midlands region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Change Management across the West Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Change Management across the West Midlands region over the past 3 months.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Change Management within the West Midlands region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Birmingham	+9	14	£508	-7.72 %
2	Warwickshire	+6	12	£316	+9.95 %
3	Coventry	-	8	-	-
4	Herefordshire	+1	6	-	-
5	Shropshire	0	3	£425	-
6	Solihull	-	2	-	-
7	Stourbridge	-	1	-	-
7	Worcestershire	-10	1	£525	-
7	Dudley	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Change Management also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Change Management.

1 21 (18.58 %) Project Management 1 21 (18.58 %) Finance 2 20 (17.70 %) SQL 2 20 (17.70 %) PRINCE2 3 19 (16.81 %) ITIL 4 17 (15.04 %) Oracle 5 14 (12.39 %) Service Delivery 6 13 (11.50 %) Government 7 11 (9.735 %) Service Management 8 10 (8.850 %) Remedy 8 10 (8.850 %) SQL Server 8 10 (8.850 %) Unix 8 10 (8.850 %) Windows 9 9 (7.965 %) Asset Management 9 9 (7.965 %) Business Analysis

10 8 (7.080 %) Linux 10 8 (7.080 %) MS Project 10 8 (7.080 %) Apache 11 7 (6.195 %) CRM 11 7 (6.195 %) PL/SQL 11 7 (6.195 %) WebServices 11 7 (6.195 %) Stakeholder Management 11 7 (6.195 %) Pensions 12 6 (5.310 %) Telecoms 12 6 (5.310 %) Oracle RAC 12 6 (5.310 %) Remedy AR System 12 6 (5.310 %) Web Design 12 6 (5.310 %) Solaris 12 6 (5.310 %) MS Office 12 6 (5.310 %) Sybase

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Change Management also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Change Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (6.195 %) WebServices 2 4 (3.540 %) .NET 2 4 (3.540 %) ASP.NET 3 3 (2.655 %) SAP Basis 4 2 (1.770 %) Spring 4 2 (1.770 %) AJAX 4 2 (1.770 %) JSTL 4 2 (1.770 %) JSR 168 4 2 (1.770 %) SAML 4 2 (1.770 %) Middleware 4 2 (1.770 %) JAAS 4 2 (1.770 %) JSP 4 2 (1.770 %) SOAP 4 2 (1.770 %) Struts 4 2 (1.770 %) J2EE 5 1 (0.885 %) XML 5 1 (0.885 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 8 (7.080 %) Apache 2 6 (5.310 %) Tomcat 3 4 (3.540 %) IIS 4 2 (1.770 %) JBoss 4 2 (1.770 %) Tuxedo 4 2 (1.770 %) MS Exchange 4 2 (1.770 %) NetWeaver
Applications 1 8 (7.080 %) MS Project 2 6 (5.310 %) MS Office 3 4 (3.540 %) MS Visio 4 2 (1.770 %) MS PowerPoint 5 1 (0.885 %) MATLAB 5 1 (0.885 %) Simulink 5 1 (0.885 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 6 (5.310 %) Remedy AR System 2 1 (0.885 %) Nortel Periphonics 2 1 (0.885 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 2 (1.770 %) Internet 2 1 (0.885 %) Firewall 2 1 (0.885 %) Symposium 2 1 (0.885 %) IP Telephony 2 1 (0.885 %) Nortel Meridian 2 1 (0.885 %) Cisco ICM 2 1 (0.885 %) NGN 2 1 (0.885 %) CTI	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (8.850 %) SQL Server 2 4 (3.540 %) Oracle Reports 3 3 (2.655 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 2 (1.770 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 3 (2.655 %) Oracle Forms 2 2 (1.770 %) PVCS 2 2 (1.770 %) ChangeMan 3 1 (0.885 %) RequisitePro 3 1 (0.885 %) PowerBuilder	General 1 21 (18.58 %) Finance 2 13 (11.50 %) Government 3 7 (6.195 %) Pensions 4 6 (5.310 %) Telecoms 5 5 (4.425 %) Banking 5 5 (4.425 %) Retail 5 5 (4.425 %) Insurance 5 5 (4.425 %) Automotive 5 5 (4.425 %) Education 6 4 (3.540 %) Marketing 7 2 (1.770 %) Local Government 7 2 (1.770 %) Billing 8 1 (0.885 %) Auditing 8 1 (0.885 %) Electric 8 1 (0.885 %) Health 8 1 (0.885 %) Legal 8 1 (0.885 %) Criminal Justice
Job Titles 1 23 (20.35 %) Analyst 2 19 (16.81 %) Project Manager 3 18 (15.93 %) Change Manager 4 17 (15.04 %) Developer 5 14 (12.39 %) Business Analyst 6 13 (11.50 %) Consultant 7 7 (6.195 %) Programme Manager 8 6 (5.310 %) Applications Support 8 6 (5.310 %) Business Change Manager 8 6 (5.310 %) Remedy Developer 8 6 (5.310 %) Technical Manager 8 6 (5.310 %) Business Manager 9 5 (4.425 %) Support Analyst 9 5 (4.425 %) Architect 10 4 (3.540 %) Senior Consultant 10 4 (3.540 %) Programme Office Manager 10 4 (3.540 %) Senior Analyst 10 4 (3.540 %) Change Analyst 11 3 (2.655 %) SAP Technical Architect 11 3 (2.655 %) Change Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 9 (7.965 %) Asset Management 2 5 (4.425 %) NHS 3 2 (1.770 %) AS400 3 2 (1.770 %) Client/Server 4 1 (0.885 %) Statistics 4 1 (0.885 %) CMDB 4 1 (0.885 %) IVR 4 1 (0.885 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 10 (8.850 %) Unix 1 10 (8.850 %) Windows 2 8 (7.080 %) Linux 3 6 (5.310 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (18.58 %) Project Management 2 20 (17.70 %) PRINCE2 3 19 (16.81 %) ITIL 4 14 (12.39 %) Service Delivery 5 11 (9.735 %) Service Management 6 9 (7.965 %) Business Analysis 7 7 (6.195 %) Stakeholder Management 7 7 (6.195 %) CRM 8 6 (5.310 %) ERP 8 6 (5.310 %) Web Design 9 5 (4.425 %) Supply Chain Management 9 5 (4.425 %) Risk Management 10 4 (3.540 %) Six Sigma 11 3 (2.655 %) Data Modelling 11 3 (2.655 %) RDF 11 3 (2.655 %) PRINCE 11 3 (2.655 %) Programme Management 11 3 (2.655 %) Technical Architecture 11 3 (2.655 %) Release Management 11 3 (2.655 %) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages 1 20 (17.70 %) SQL 2 7 (6.195 %) PL/SQL 3 5 (4.425 %) RPG 4 4 (3.540 %) Transact-SQL 4 4 (3.540 %) C# 5 3 (2.655 %) Shell Script 6 2 (1.770 %) COBOL 6 2 (1.770 %) Java 6 2 (1.770 %) JavaScript 7 1 (0.885 %) C	Qualifications 1 3 (2.655 %) Degree 2 2 (1.770 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (1.770 %) ITIL Certification 3 1 (0.885 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (3.540 %) SLA 2 3 (2.655 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 2 (1.770 %) WAI 4 1 (0.885 %) QA 4 1 (0.885 %) Basel II	System Software 1 6 (5.310 %) Oracle RAC 2 2 (1.770 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 3 (2.655 %) Unicenter 2 2 (1.770 %) Tivoli 2 2 (1.770 %) Tivoli Remote Control	Vendors 1 17 (15.04 %) Oracle 2 10 (8.850 %) Remedy 3 6 (5.310 %) Sybase 4 4 (3.540 %) SAP 5 3 (2.655 %) Microsoft 5 3 (2.655 %) Retek 5 3 (2.655 %) CA 6 2 (1.770 %) BEA 6 2 (1.770 %) BMC 6 2 (1.770 %) Red Hat 6 2 (1.770 %) HP 6 2 (1.770 %) Serena 7 1 (0.885 %) Edify 7 1 (0.885 %) Nortel 7 1 (0.885 %) Avaya 7 1 (0.885 %) SunGard 7 1 (0.885 %) Cisco 7 1 (0.885 %) IBM 7 1 (0.885 %) Micro Focus 7 1 (0.885 %) Novell