West Yorkshire Change Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Change Management skills within the West Yorkshire 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 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen 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 Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone 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 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 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	59	51
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	33	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.042 %	0.048 %
As % of the category below	3.556 %	5.000 %
Daily rates quoted	11	11
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£304
Average daily rate	£362	£310
% change on same period last year	+16.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£316
UK excluding London average daily rate	£405	£392
% change on same period last year	+3.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.00	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£21.50	£45.00
% change on same period last year	-52.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.00	£50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.03	£26.82
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
Processes & Methodologies West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	928	860
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.190 %	0.966 %
Daily rates quoted	220	184
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£312
Average daily rate	£356	£325
% change on same period last year	+9.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£338
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	50	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.99	£25.30
Average hourly rate	£20.93	£27.41
% change on same period last year	-23.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.88	£29.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.72	£29.49
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
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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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

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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 Yorkshire 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	Leeds	-11	24	£333	+7.73 %
2	Halifax	0	2	£330	-
3	Bradford	+4	1	£400	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 23 (41.07 %) Finance 2 14 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 3 12 (21.43 %) Project Management 4 9 (16.07 %) Health 5 8 (14.29 %) ITIL 6 7 (12.50 %) NHS 6 7 (12.50 %) Service Management 7 5 (8.929 %) Government 7 5 (8.929 %) Banking 7 5 (8.929 %) Document Management 7 5 (8.929 %) Windows 8 4 (7.143 %) BPR 8 4 (7.143 %) ITIL Certification 8 4 (7.143 %) Supplier Management 8 4 (7.143 %) Incident Management

8 4 (7.143 %) Stakeholder Management 8 4 (7.143 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 9 3 (5.357 %) Data Protection 9 3 (5.357 %) CA Clarity 9 3 (5.357 %) BS15000 9 3 (5.357 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 3 (5.357 %) Data Protection Act 9 3 (5.357 %) Freedom of Information Act 9 3 (5.357 %) Freedom of Information 9 3 (5.357 %) Retail 9 3 (5.357 %) EDRMS 9 3 (5.357 %) Six Sigma 9 3 (5.357 %) Windows Server 2003 9 3 (5.357 %) MS Project 9 3 (5.357 %) Oracle

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 Platforms 1 3 (5.357 %) SharePoint 2 2 (3.571 %) WebLogic 3 1 (1.786 %) Apache 3 1 (1.786 %) Tomcat	Applications 1 3 (5.357 %) MS Project 1 3 (5.357 %) CA Clarity 2 2 (3.571 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.786 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.786 %) MS Visio 3 1 (1.786 %) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications 1 1 (1.786 %) Oracle EBS 1 1 (1.786 %) Oracle Applications 1 1 (1.786 %) assyst 1 1 (1.786 %) TIBCO iProcess	Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.571 %) SAN 2 1 (1.786 %) Internet 2 1 (1.786 %) Firewall 2 1 (1.786 %) IPsec 2 1 (1.786 %) LAN 2 1 (1.786 %) WAN 2 1 (1.786 %) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (5.357 %) EDRMS 2 2 (3.571 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (1.786 %) DB2 3 1 (1.786 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (1.786 %) MS Access	General 1 23 (41.07 %) Finance 2 9 (16.07 %) Health 3 5 (8.929 %) Government 3 5 (8.929 %) Banking 4 3 (5.357 %) Retail 5 2 (3.571 %) Insurance 5 2 (3.571 %) Telecoms 5 2 (3.571 %) Retail Banking 5 2 (3.571 %) Publishing 6 1 (1.786 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (1.786 %) Education 6 1 (1.786 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 21 (37.50 %) Project Manager 2 10 (17.86 %) Analyst 3 5 (8.929 %) Business Analyst 3 5 (8.929 %) Consultant 4 3 (5.357 %) Management Consultant 4 3 (5.357 %) Change Manager 5 2 (3.571 %) Senior Business Analyst 5 2 (3.571 %) Project Leader 5 2 (3.571 %) Senior Analyst 5 2 (3.571 %) Senior Project Manager 5 2 (3.571 %) Change Analyst 5 2 (3.571 %) Change Consultant 5 2 (3.571 %) Business Project Manager 5 2 (3.571 %) Programme Manager 5 2 (3.571 %) Senior Manager 5 2 (3.571 %) Business Manager 5 2 (3.571 %) Service Management Consultant 6 1 (1.786 %) Process Engineer 6 1 (1.786 %) Business Change Project Manager 6 1 (1.786 %) Change Management Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 7 (12.50 %) NHS 2 3 (5.357 %) Freedom of Information 2 3 (5.357 %) Data Protection Act 2 3 (5.357 %) Freedom of Information Act 3 2 (3.571 %) Mainframe 3 2 (3.571 %) Management Information System 4 1 (1.786 %) AS400 4 1 (1.786 %) E-Learning 4 1 (1.786 %) NPfIT 4 1 (1.786 %) PMI
Operating Systems 1 5 (8.929 %) Windows 2 3 (5.357 %) Unix 2 3 (5.357 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (3.571 %) AIX 3 2 (3.571 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (1.786 %) zOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 2 12 (21.43 %) Project Management 3 8 (14.29 %) ITIL 4 7 (12.50 %) Service Management 5 5 (8.929 %) Document Management 6 4 (7.143 %) Stakeholder Management 6 4 (7.143 %) BPR 6 4 (7.143 %) Supplier Management 6 4 (7.143 %) Incident Management 7 3 (5.357 %) Data Protection 7 3 (5.357 %) Six Sigma 8 2 (3.571 %) PRINCE 8 2 (3.571 %) Risk Management 8 2 (3.571 %) Use Case 9 1 (1.786 %) Test Management 9 1 (1.786 %) Test Scripting 9 1 (1.786 %) Project Planning 9 1 (1.786 %) Risk Analysis 9 1 (1.786 %) Knowledge Management 9 1 (1.786 %) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages 1 1 (1.786 %) Java 1 1 (1.786 %) SQL 1 1 (1.786 %) VBA 1 1 (1.786 %) Assembly Language 1 1 (1.786 %) REXX 1 1 (1.786 %) JCL	Qualifications 1 4 (7.143 %) ITIL Certification 1 4 (7.143 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 3 (5.357 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 2 (3.571 %) Degree 4 1 (1.786 %) CCNA 4 1 (1.786 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (5.357 %) ISO17799 1 3 (5.357 %) BS15000 2 2 (3.571 %) SLA	System Software 1 2 (3.571 %) NetBackup 2 1 (1.786 %) RACF
Systems Management 1 1 (1.786 %) OpenView 1 1 (1.786 %) TIBCO Hawk	Vendors 1 3 (5.357 %) Oracle 1 3 (5.357 %) Microsoft 2 2 (3.571 %) HP 2 2 (3.571 %) CA 2 2 (3.571 %) VERITAS 2 2 (3.571 %) Cisco 3 1 (1.786 %) TIBCO 3 1 (1.786 %) Adobe 3 1 (1.786 %) SAP