West Midlands Supplier Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Supplier 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 Supplier Management over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Grays Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds London Lytham St Annes Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Preston Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Romford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	104	117
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	18	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	1.007 %	0.769 %
Daily rates quoted	7	6
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£364
Average daily rate	£333	£389
% change on same period last year	-14.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£414
UK excluding London average daily rate	£425	£403
% change on same period last year	+5.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.50	£31.07
% change on same period last year	-27.58 %
Processes & Methodologies West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1787	1691
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.382 %	1.711 %
Daily rates quoted	447	401
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£345
Average daily rate	£360	£364
% change on same period last year	-1.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£384
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	95	195
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.17	£25.72
Average hourly rate	£27.72	£28.13
% change on same period last year	-1.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.27	£30.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
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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 Supplier 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 Supplier 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 Supplier Management across the West Midlands region 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 Supplier Management across the West Midlands region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Supplier Management within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham	+17	7	£275	-28.94 %
Herefordshire	-	2	-	-
Worcestershire	-	1	-	-
Coventry	-17	1	£463	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Supplier 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 Supplier Management.

1 6 (18.18 %) Project Management 1 6 (18.18 %) Finance 2 5 (15.15 %) Legal 2 5 (15.15 %) VMware 2 5 (15.15 %) Resource Management 2 5 (15.15 %) PRINCE2 3 4 (12.12 %) ITIL 3 4 (12.12 %) NPfIT 3 4 (12.12 %) Financial Modelling 3 4 (12.12 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis 3 4 (12.12 %) Programme Management 4 3 (9.091 %) Migration 4 3 (9.091 %) Stakeholder Management 4 3 (9.091 %) Government 4 3 (9.091 %) User Acceptance Testing

4 3 (9.091 %) Integration Testing 4 3 (9.091 %) Data Migration 4 3 (9.091 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 3 (9.091 %) Front Office 4 3 (9.091 %) SLA 4 3 (9.091 %) Active Directory 4 3 (9.091 %) NHS 5 2 (6.061 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 2 (6.061 %) Oracle 5 2 (6.061 %) MS Office 5 2 (6.061 %) Remedy 5 2 (6.061 %) Telecoms 5 2 (6.061 %) Insurance 6 1 (3.030 %) Health 6 1 (3.030 %) Education

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Supplier 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 Supplier Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (3.030 %) SharePoint	Applications 1 2 (6.061 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 1 (3.030 %) Oracle Financials	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.030 %) WAN 1 1 (3.030 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.030 %) BusinessObjects	General 1 6 (18.18 %) Finance 2 5 (15.15 %) Legal 3 3 (9.091 %) Government 3 3 (9.091 %) Front Office 4 2 (6.061 %) Telecoms 4 2 (6.061 %) Insurance 5 1 (3.030 %) Health 5 1 (3.030 %) Education
Job Titles 1 13 (39.39 %) Project Manager 2 4 (12.12 %) Technical Project Manager 2 4 (12.12 %) Procurement Manager 2 4 (12.12 %) Technical Manager 2 4 (12.12 %) Contracts Manager 3 3 (9.091 %) Test Manager 3 3 (9.091 %) Service Manager 4 2 (6.061 %) Records Manager 4 2 (6.061 %) Buyer 4 2 (6.061 %) Analyst 5 1 (3.030 %) Coordinator 5 1 (3.030 %) Programme Manager 5 1 (3.030 %) Junior 5 1 (3.030 %) Support Analyst 5 1 (3.030 %) Network Support Analyst 5 1 (3.030 %) Network Analyst 5 1 (3.030 %) Consultant 5 1 (3.030 %) Project Coordinator 5 1 (3.030 %) Junior Project Manager 5 1 (3.030 %) Transition Manager	Miscellaneous 1 4 (12.12 %) NPfIT 2 3 (9.091 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 1 (3.030 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (18.18 %) Project Management 2 5 (15.15 %) PRINCE2 2 5 (15.15 %) Resource Management 3 4 (12.12 %) Programme Management 3 4 (12.12 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis 3 4 (12.12 %) ITIL 3 4 (12.12 %) Financial Modelling 4 3 (9.091 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 3 (9.091 %) Integration Testing 4 3 (9.091 %) Data Migration 4 3 (9.091 %) Migration 4 3 (9.091 %) Stakeholder Management 5 1 (3.030 %) CRM 5 1 (3.030 %) PRINCE 5 1 (3.030 %) Change Management 5 1 (3.030 %) Risk Management 5 1 (3.030 %) Workflow 5 1 (3.030 %) Requirements Management 5 1 (3.030 %) Project Planning 5 1 (3.030 %) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages 1 1 (3.030 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (6.061 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (3.030 %) CCNA 2 1 (3.030 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (9.091 %) SLA	System Software 1 3 (9.091 %) Active Directory 1 3 (9.091 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 5 (15.15 %) VMware 2 2 (6.061 %) Remedy 2 2 (6.061 %) Oracle 3 1 (3.030 %) Business Objects 3 1 (3.030 %) Cisco 3 1 (3.030 %) Juniper 3 1 (3.030 %) BT