The first table below looks at the demand for Change Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Change Management over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the West Yorkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Change Management
Rank 38 32 42
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +10
Contract jobs citing Change Management 55 69 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 4.321% 4.265% 2.798%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.098% 5.887% 4.258%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 42 19
Average daily rate £375 £365 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.73% -5.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £269 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £486 £440 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £363
% change year-on-year
- +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £13.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £15.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year
+152.00% -36.17%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
902 1172 728
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 70.86% 72.44% 65.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 676 350
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £459 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 26 29
Average hourly rate £23.75 £18.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.94% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.78 £12.00 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £61.20 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Change Management
Yorkshire

Change Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Change Management across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

West Yorkshire Change Management Jobs Demand Trend

Change Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Change Management across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Change Management Daily Rate Trend

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Change Management across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Yorkshire Change Management Daily Rate Histogram

Change Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Change Management across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Change Management Hourly Rate Trend

Change Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Change Management within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Leeds -6 29 £400 +6.66%
Halifax +7 9 £350 +9.37%
Bradford -4 2 - -
Change Management
Yorkshire

Change Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Change 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 Change Management.

1 34 (34.34%) Finance
2 29 (29.29%) ITIL
3 21 (21.21%) Retail
4 19 (19.19%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (17.17%) MS Office
6 16 (16.16%) Project Management
6 16 (16.16%) Banking
7 13 (13.13%) Configuration Management
7 13 (13.13%) Service Management
7 13 (13.13%) Linux
7 13 (13.13%) Oracle
7 13 (13.13%) SLA
8 12 (12.12%) PRINCE2
9 11 (11.11%) MS Excel
10 9 (9.091%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (9.091%) SQL
11 8 (8.081%) HPUX
11 8 (8.081%) Telecoms
11 8 (8.081%) Degree
11 8 (8.081%) Oracle 11g
12 7 (7.071%) Project Planning
12 7 (7.071%) Migration
12 7 (7.071%) Games
12 7 (7.071%) Service Delivery
12 7 (7.071%) Windows
12 7 (7.071%) Microsoft
13 6 (6.061%) HP
13 6 (6.061%) SharePoint
13 6 (6.061%) UNIX
13 6 (6.061%) WebLogic

Change Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Change 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 Change Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (4.040%) Middleware
2 3 (3.030%) XML
3 2 (2.020%) SOAP
3 2 (2.020%) HTML
3 2 (2.020%) jQuery
3 2 (2.020%) REST
3 2 (2.020%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (2.020%) BREW
3 2 (2.020%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.020%) UIKit
4 1 (1.010%) Application Packaging
4 1 (1.010%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 6 (6.061%) SharePoint
1 6 (6.061%) WebLogic
2 4 (4.040%) Oracle 10gAS
2 4 (4.040%) Oracle Application Server
2 4 (4.040%) ESB
2 4 (4.040%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (3.030%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (2.020%) IIS
5 1 (1.010%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (1.010%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 17 (17.17%) MS Office
2 11 (11.11%) MS Excel
3 5 (5.051%) MS PowerPoint
3 5 (5.051%) MS Project
3 5 (5.051%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.010%) InfoPath
4 1 (1.010%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (4.040%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (1.010%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.010%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.010%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.010%) JDE OneWorld
2 1 (1.010%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.010%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.030%) Intranet
2 2 (2.020%) Internet
2 2 (2.020%) Firewall
2 2 (2.020%) ATM
3 1 (1.010%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.010%) LAN
3 1 (1.010%) WAN
3 1 (1.010%) HTTP
3 1 (1.010%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.081%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (4.040%) Oracle 10g
2 4 (4.040%) CouchDB
2 4 (4.040%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.030%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (3.030%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.020%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.020%) MySQL
4 2 (2.020%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.020%) SQLite
5 1 (1.010%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.010%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (1.010%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.010%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.010%) MS Access
5 1 (1.010%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.010%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.010%) GIS
Development Applications
1 4 (4.040%) Git (software)
2 2 (2.020%) Ant
2 2 (2.020%) Capistrano
2 2 (2.020%) Hudson
2 2 (2.020%) CruiseControl
2 2 (2.020%) Subversion
2 2 (2.020%) Maven
2 2 (2.020%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.010%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.010%) ERwin
General
1 34 (34.34%) Finance
2 21 (21.21%) Retail
3 16 (16.16%) Banking
4 8 (8.081%) Telecoms
5 7 (7.071%) Games
6 6 (6.061%) Retail Banking
7 5 (5.051%) Marketing
8 2 (2.020%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.010%) Legal
9 1 (1.010%) Electronics
9 1 (1.010%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 31 (31.31%) Analyst
2 12 (12.12%) Project Manager
3 11 (11.11%) Service Manager
4 8 (8.081%) Business Analyst
4 8 (8.081%) PMO Analyst
5 7 (7.071%) Change Manager
5 7 (7.071%) Release Analyst
6 5 (5.051%) Transition Manager
6 5 (5.051%) Developer
7 4 (4.040%) Programme Manager
7 4 (4.040%) DBA
7 4 (4.040%) Senior Manager
7 4 (4.040%) Administrator
8 3 (3.030%) Senior Project Manager
8 3 (3.030%) Oracle DBA
8 3 (3.030%) PMO Manager
8 3 (3.030%) Service Analyst
8 3 (3.030%) Coordinator
9 2 (2.020%) Configuration Manager
9 2 (2.020%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.051%) CMDB
2 4 (4.040%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.020%) NHS
3 2 (2.020%) iPhone
3 2 (2.020%) iPad
3 2 (2.020%) Heroku
4 1 (1.010%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.010%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.010%) Statistics
4 1 (1.010%) Data Conversion
4 1 (1.010%) Data Extraction
4 1 (1.010%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.010%) Mathematics
4 1 (1.010%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.010%) Firmware
4 1 (1.010%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.010%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.13%) Linux
2 8 (8.081%) HPUX
3 7 (7.071%) Windows
4 6 (6.061%) UNIX
5 4 (4.040%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (2.020%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (2.020%) Windows 7
6 2 (2.020%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.010%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (29.29%) ITIL
2 19 (19.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (16.16%) Project Management
4 13 (13.13%) Configuration Management
4 13 (13.13%) Service Management
5 12 (12.12%) PRINCE2
6 7 (7.071%) Project Planning
6 7 (7.071%) Migration
6 7 (7.071%) Service Delivery
7 6 (6.061%) Incident Management
7 6 (6.061%) Change Control
8 5 (5.051%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (5.051%) PRINCE
9 4 (4.040%) RDF
9 4 (4.040%) SOA
9 4 (4.040%) E-Commerce
9 4 (4.040%) Release Management
9 4 (4.040%) Refactoring
9 4 (4.040%) BPEL
9 4 (4.040%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.091%) SQL
2 3 (3.030%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.020%) Java
3 2 (2.020%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.020%) XPath
3 2 (2.020%) Ruby
4 1 (1.010%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.010%) VB
4 1 (1.010%) VBA
4 1 (1.010%) C#
4 1 (1.010%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (9.091%) ITIL Certification
2 8 (8.081%) Degree
3 5 (5.051%) PMP
3 5 (5.051%) PMI Certification
4 4 (4.040%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (2.020%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.020%) ISEB
6 1 (1.010%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.010%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.010%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.010%) CCSP
6 1 (1.010%) CCNP
6 1 (1.010%) CCNA
6 1 (1.010%) MCP
6 1 (1.010%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.13%) SLA
2 2 (2.020%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.010%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.040%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (2.020%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.020%) vSphere
3 1 (1.010%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.040%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (1.010%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.010%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.010%) Business Desktop Deployment
2 1 (1.010%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 13 (13.13%) Oracle
2 7 (7.071%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.061%) HP
4 4 (4.040%) Remedy
5 3 (3.030%) SAP
6 2 (2.020%) Informatica
6 2 (2.020%) VMware
7 1 (1.010%) Siebel
7 1 (1.010%) Cisco
7 1 (1.010%) Juniper
7 1 (1.010%) Business Objects
7 1 (1.010%) Novell
7 1 (1.010%) Lotus
7 1 (1.010%) JD Edwards
Leeds, Yorkshire
Service Change Analyst required for an initial 6 month contract working for my client based in Leeds.
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £100.00 - £120.00 per day
Posted: 8 May 2013
West Yorkshire
You will have Change management experience and will be have the ability to delivery to tight deadlines. You will be working in a complex, multi-discipline corporate environment...
Interquest Group PLC
Posted: 7 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
Change and Configuration Manager required for an initial 3 month contractMy client this year has en enormous challenge to deliver significant process change to align with ISO20k and...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £400.00 - £430.00 per day
Posted: 4 May 2013
Bradford, West Yorkshire
Key Words: Data Quality, Data Quality Reporting, Automated Checking, Data Profiling, Data Quality rules and reports, Metadata, Data Quality Tools, Oracle EDQ, Informatica DQ, DataFlux, Data Governance Practices,...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £250 - £340 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bradford, West Yorkshire
Key Words: Data Modeller, Data Architect, Data Modelling, Data, Data modelling tools, Erwin, Enterprise Architect, Financial Services Logical Data Model, Data Warehousing, Metadata, Data Governance, Corporate Metadata model,...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £250 - £340 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013