Worcestershire Service Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Service Manager role in IT contracts within the Worcestershire 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 Service Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Alderley Edge Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Cheltenham Chesham Cheshire City of London Coventry Crewe Derbyshire Dunstable East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Hastings Hertfordshire Home Counties Isle of Man Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Lewes London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Portsmouth Prescot Reading Scotland Sheffield Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staffordshire Stirling Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Witham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	3	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	4.545 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£475	-
Average daily rate	£538	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£600	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£420	£366
% change on same period last year	+14.68 %
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	£19.74	£31.66
% change on same period last year	-37.65 %
Job Titles Worcestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	66	65
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.107 %	0.071 %
Daily rates quoted	13	11
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£179
Average daily rate	£428	£206
% change on same period last year	+108.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£477	£233
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.58	£24.56
Average hourly rate	£17.28	£25.43
% change on same period last year	-32.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.99	£26.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.16	£23.97
% change on same period last year	-3.40 %
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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 Service Manager across the Worcestershire 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 Service Manager across the Worcestershire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Service Manager across the Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 3 December 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Manager within the Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 3 December 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
Worcester	-	1	-	-

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Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire region that cited Service 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 Service Manager in their job title.

1 3 (100.00 %) Service Management 2 2 (66.67 %) ITIL 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint 3 1 (33.33 %) C 3 1 (33.33 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (33.33 %) ITSM 3 1 (33.33 %) Education 3 1 (33.33 %) Government 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Vista 3 1 (33.33 %) Matrix Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Release Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire region that cited Service 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 Service Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Education 1 1 (33.33 %) Government
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (100.00 %) Service Management 2 2 (66.67 %) ITIL 3 1 (33.33 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (33.33 %) ITSM 3 1 (33.33 %) Matrix Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Release Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) C