West Yorkshire IT Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the IT Manager role in IT contracts within the West Yorkshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited IT Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Denbighshire Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Hove Ilford Ipswich Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Lincolnshire London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North Wales North West Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rhyl Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	84
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	13	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.762 %	0.550 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£400
Average daily rate	£505	£425
% change on same period last year	+18.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£560	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£395	£401
% change on same period last year	-1.53 %
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	£23.45	£27.55
% change on same period last year	-14.88 %
Job Titles West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1705	1819
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.270 %	1.844 %
Daily rates quoted	414	322
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£300
Average daily rate	£344	£319
% change on same period last year	+7.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£352
% change on same period last year	+1.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	129	149
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.54	£21.28
Average hourly rate	£22.62	£22.86
% change on same period last year	-1.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.70	£24.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.50	£25.85
% change on same period last year	-9.09 %
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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 IT Manager across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 IT Manager 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 IT Manager across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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 IT Manager across the West Yorkshire 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 IT Manager within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Leeds	-1	8	£500	+17.64 %
Bradford	+6	2	£550	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited IT Manager in their job title 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 with IT Manager in their job title.

1 13 (54.17 %) Project Management 2 6 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 2 6 (25.00 %) Retail 3 5 (20.83 %) E-Commerce 4 4 (16.67 %) NHS 5 3 (12.50 %) ITIL 5 3 (12.50 %) Windows 5 3 (12.50 %) Health 5 3 (12.50 %) Finance 6 2 (8.333 %) Risk Management 6 2 (8.333 %) ATG 6 2 (8.333 %) Intershop 6 2 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 2 (8.333 %) WebSphere 6 2 (8.333 %) MS Office

6 2 (8.333 %) Internet 6 2 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 1 (4.167 %) FMCG 7 1 (4.167 %) Service Management 7 1 (4.167 %) Change Management 7 1 (4.167 %) ITSM 7 1 (4.167 %) AS400 7 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 7 7 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2000 7 1 (4.167 %) Symantec 7 1 (4.167 %) Norton AntiVirus 7 1 (4.167 %) HNC 7 1 (4.167 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (4.167 %) SAP 7 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited IT Manager in their job title 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 with IT Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (8.333 %) WebSphere 2 1 (4.167 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 2 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (4.167 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) MS Office 2 1 (4.167 %) MS Excel 2 1 (4.167 %) MS Visio 2 1 (4.167 %) MS PowerPoint 2 1 (4.167 %) CA Clarity 2 1 (4.167 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) SAP CRM 1 1 (4.167 %) SAP Retail 1 1 (4.167 %) SAP IS-U
Communications & Networking 1 2 (8.333 %) Internet 2 1 (4.167 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 7 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2000
General 1 6 (25.00 %) Retail 2 3 (12.50 %) Finance 2 3 (12.50 %) Health 3 1 (4.167 %) Legal 3 1 (4.167 %) Government 3 1 (4.167 %) FMCG 3 1 (4.167 %) Telecoms	Miscellaneous 1 4 (16.67 %) NHS 2 1 (4.167 %) AS400 2 1 (4.167 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 3 (12.50 %) Windows 2 1 (4.167 %) Windows XP 2 1 (4.167 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (54.17 %) Project Management 2 6 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 3 5 (20.83 %) E-Commerce 4 3 (12.50 %) ITIL 5 2 (8.333 %) Risk Management 6 1 (4.167 %) Programme Management 6 1 (4.167 %) Agile Software Development 6 1 (4.167 %) Logistics 6 1 (4.167 %) Business Analysis 6 1 (4.167 %) Performance Management 6 1 (4.167 %) CRM 6 1 (4.167 %) Service Management 6 1 (4.167 %) Change Management 6 1 (4.167 %) ITSM
Qualifications 1 2 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (4.167 %) HNC 2 1 (4.167 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.167 %) SLA
System Software 1 1 (4.167 %) Active Directory 1 1 (4.167 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 1 (4.167 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 2 (8.333 %) ATG 1 2 (8.333 %) Intershop 2 1 (4.167 %) Mitel 2 1 (4.167 %) Altiris 2 1 (4.167 %) SAP 2 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft 2 1 (4.167 %) Symantec