West Sussex Release Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Release Management skills within the West Sussex 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England England Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Kent Lancashire Leeds London M4 Corridor Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	48
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	4	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	1.418 %	0.576 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£393	£275
Average daily rate	£393	£288
% change on same period last year	+36.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£414	£383
% change on same period last year	+7.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	-
Average hourly rate	£43.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£47.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.76	£27.88
% change on same period last year	+10.33 %
Processes & Methodologies West Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	282	347
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.376 %	0.351 %
Daily rates quoted	118	113
Average minimum daily rate	£383	£358
Average daily rate	£401	£373
% change on same period last year	+7.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£418	£388
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.13	£24.94
Average hourly rate	£25.91	£27.35
% change on same period last year	-5.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.70	£29.76
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 Release Management across the West Sussex 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 Sussex region.

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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 Sussex 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 Release Management within the West Sussex 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
Gatwick	+6	2	£393	+36.52 %
Crawley	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 10 (52.63 %) SQL 1 10 (52.63 %) Transact-SQL 1 10 (52.63 %) .NET 1 10 (52.63 %) SQL Server 1 10 (52.63 %) VB 1 10 (52.63 %) DTS 1 10 (52.63 %) SQL Server 2000 2 9 (47.37 %) VB6 2 9 (47.37 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 2 9 (47.37 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 9 (47.37 %) SQL Server 2005 2 9 (47.37 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 8 (42.11 %) Service Management 3 8 (42.11 %) Microsoft 3 8 (42.11 %) Windows

4 7 (36.84 %) ITIL 5 6 (31.58 %) Service Delivery 5 6 (31.58 %) WSH 5 6 (31.58 %) Intranet 5 6 (31.58 %) Internet 5 6 (31.58 %) VBScript 6 3 (15.79 %) Migration 6 3 (15.79 %) VB.NET 7 2 (10.53 %) Configuration Management 8 1 (5.263 %) Change Management 8 1 (5.263 %) Ruby 8 1 (5.263 %) Insurance 8 1 (5.263 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 1 (5.263 %) Incident Management 8 1 (5.263 %) MS Visio

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 10 (52.63 %) .NET 2 6 (31.58 %) WSH	Application Platforms 1 1 (5.263 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 1 (5.263 %) MS Office 1 1 (5.263 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 6 (31.58 %) Intranet 1 6 (31.58 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (52.63 %) SQL Server 1 10 (52.63 %) DTS 1 10 (52.63 %) SQL Server 2000 2 9 (47.37 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 2 9 (47.37 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 9 (47.37 %) SQL Server 2005 2 9 (47.37 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 1 (5.263 %) SQL Server Integration Services	Development Applications 1 1 (5.263 %) Visual Studio
General 1 1 (5.263 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 8 (42.11 %) Analyst 2 7 (36.84 %) Support Analyst 2 7 (36.84 %) Transition Manager 3 6 (31.58 %) Applications Support 4 5 (26.32 %) Server Support 5 4 (21.05 %) Applications Support Analyst 6 3 (15.79 %) SQL DBA 6 3 (15.79 %) Server Support Analyst 6 3 (15.79 %) Server Analyst 6 3 (15.79 %) SQL Server DBA 6 3 (15.79 %) DBA 7 2 (10.53 %) Release Manager 8 1 (5.263 %) Service Manager 8 1 (5.263 %) Service Analyst 8 1 (5.263 %) Systems Engineer 8 1 (5.263 %) Configuration Management Engineer 8 1 (5.263 %) Service Desk Analyst
Operating Systems 1 8 (42.11 %) Windows 2 1 (5.263 %) Linux 2 1 (5.263 %) Windows NT 2 1 (5.263 %) NetWare 2 1 (5.263 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (42.11 %) Service Management 2 7 (36.84 %) ITIL 3 6 (31.58 %) Service Delivery 4 3 (15.79 %) Migration 5 2 (10.53 %) Configuration Management 6 1 (5.263 %) Change Management 6 1 (5.263 %) Incident Management
Programming Languages 1 10 (52.63 %) SQL 1 10 (52.63 %) Transact-SQL 1 10 (52.63 %) VB 2 9 (47.37 %) VB6 3 6 (31.58 %) VBScript 4 3 (15.79 %) VB.NET 5 1 (5.263 %) Python 5 1 (5.263 %) Ruby 5 1 (5.263 %) C 5 1 (5.263 %) C++ 5 1 (5.263 %) Perl	System Software 1 1 (5.263 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 8 (42.11 %) Microsoft 2 1 (5.263 %) Citrix 2 1 (5.263 %) Novell 2 1 (5.263 %) Lotus