West Midlands Release Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Release 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 Release Management over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Leeds London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	110	121
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	13	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	0.744 %	1.120 %
Daily rates quoted	3	5
Average minimum daily rate	£302	£297
Average daily rate	£314	£316
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£327	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£423	£364
% change on same period last year	+16.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.50	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£17.25	£45.00
% change on same period last year	-61.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.00	£50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.50	£35.40
% change on same period last year	-27.94 %
Processes & Methodologies West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1748	1697
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.363 %	1.673 %
Daily rates quoted	472	463
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£319
Average daily rate	£362	£340
% change on same period last year	+6.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	104	186
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.58	£24.78
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£26.97
% change on same period last year	+1.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.42	£29.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.41
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
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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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Release 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 IT contract jobs citing Release 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 Release Management across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 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 Release 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 Release Management across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 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 Release Management within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 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
Warwickshire	+3	5	-	-
Shropshire	-	3	£263	-
Birmingham	+12	2	£340	-
Herefordshire	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Release 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 Release Management.

1 15 (57.69 %) ITIL 2 6 (23.08 %) Change Management 3 5 (19.23 %) Incident Management 4 4 (15.38 %) Configuration Management 4 4 (15.38 %) PRINCE2 4 4 (15.38 %) Security Management 4 4 (15.38 %) Government 5 3 (11.54 %) Scrum 5 3 (11.54 %) Windows 5 3 (11.54 %) PRINCE 5 3 (11.54 %) Service Management 5 3 (11.54 %) DSDM 6 2 (7.692 %) SQL 6 2 (7.692 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 2 (7.692 %) ITIL Certification

6 2 (7.692 %) Security Cleared 7 1 (3.846 %) Pensions 7 1 (3.846 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 1 (3.846 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (3.846 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (3.846 %) QA 7 1 (3.846 %) CMDB 7 1 (3.846 %) Problem Management 7 1 (3.846 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 1 (3.846 %) Matrix Management 7 1 (3.846 %) Clustering 7 1 (3.846 %) Migration 7 1 (3.846 %) SAN 7 1 (3.846 %) Project Management 7 1 (3.846 %) Windows Server 2003

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Release 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 Release Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.846 %) HTML 1 1 (3.846 %) .NET 1 1 (3.846 %) J2EE 1 1 (3.846 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.846 %) Lotus Domino 1 1 (3.846 %) SharePoint 1 1 (3.846 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (3.846 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 1 (3.846 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 1 (3.846 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.846 %) SMS 1 1 (3.846 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.846 %) SQL Server 1 1 (3.846 %) Oracle 9i 1 1 (3.846 %) Oracle 10g 1 1 (3.846 %) SQL Server 7 1 1 (3.846 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 1 (3.846 %) PVCS
General 1 4 (15.38 %) Government 2 1 (3.846 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 10 (38.46 %) Applications Support 1 10 (38.46 %) Support Manager 1 10 (38.46 %) Applications Manager 2 6 (23.08 %) Applications Support Manager 3 5 (19.23 %) Analyst 4 3 (11.54 %) Operations Analyst 5 2 (7.692 %) Configuration Analyst 5 2 (7.692 %) Implementation Project Manager 5 2 (7.692 %) Change Analyst 5 2 (7.692 %) Implementation Manager 5 2 (7.692 %) Project Manager 6 1 (3.846 %) Coordinator 6 1 (3.846 %) DBA 6 1 (3.846 %) Release Manager 6 1 (3.846 %) Service Manager 6 1 (3.846 %) Helpdesk Support 6 1 (3.846 %) Data Modeller
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.846 %) Clustering 1 1 (3.846 %) CMDB	Operating Systems 1 3 (11.54 %) Windows 2 1 (3.846 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (3.846 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (57.69 %) ITIL 2 6 (23.08 %) Change Management 3 5 (19.23 %) Incident Management 4 4 (15.38 %) Security Management 4 4 (15.38 %) PRINCE2 4 4 (15.38 %) Configuration Management 5 3 (11.54 %) DSDM 5 3 (11.54 %) PRINCE 5 3 (11.54 %) Service Management 5 3 (11.54 %) Scrum 6 2 (7.692 %) Security Cleared 7 1 (3.846 %) Problem Management 7 1 (3.846 %) Matrix Management 7 1 (3.846 %) Migration 7 1 (3.846 %) Data Modelling 7 1 (3.846 %) Project Management 7 1 (3.846 %) RAD 7 1 (3.846 %) RUP	Programming Languages 1 2 (7.692 %) SQL 2 1 (3.846 %) VBScript 2 1 (3.846 %) Java 2 1 (3.846 %) JavaScript 2 1 (3.846 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (7.692 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 2 (7.692 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.846 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (3.846 %) Active Directory 1 1 (3.846 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 1 (3.846 %) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors 1 1 (3.846 %) Oracle 1 1 (3.846 %) Cisco 1 1 (3.846 %) Microsoft 1 1 (3.846 %) Citrix