Bedfordshire Project Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Project Manager role in IT contracts within the Bedfordshire 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 Project 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 Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Andover Avon Banstead Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Crowthorne Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	9	13
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	12	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	9.091 %	7.950 %
Daily rates quoted	7	9
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£311
Average daily rate	£396	£333
% change on same period last year	+18.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£413	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£410	£407
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£18.00	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-28.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.47	£36.12
% change on same period last year	-4.58 %
Job Titles Bedfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	132	239
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.213 %	0.261 %
Daily rates quoted	41	64
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£339
Average daily rate	£297	£360
% change on same period last year	-17.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	52
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.17	£23.81
Average hourly rate	£17.51	£25.28
% change on same period last year	-30.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.85	£26.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.16	£23.97
% change on same period last year	-3.40 %
Project Manager East of England

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 Project Manager across the Bedfordshire 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 Project Manager across the Bedfordshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 11 (42.31 %) PRINCE2 2 8 (30.77 %) Project Management 3 6 (23.08 %) Oracle 4 5 (19.23 %) Finance 4 5 (19.23 %) Government 4 5 (19.23 %) Local Government 4 5 (19.23 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 5 4 (15.38 %) Marketing 5 4 (15.38 %) Retail 6 3 (11.54 %) Agile Software Development 6 3 (11.54 %) Migration 6 3 (11.54 %) Programme Management 6 3 (11.54 %) Data Migration 6 3 (11.54 %) Chip and PIN 6 3 (11.54 %) Oracle Financials

7 2 (7.692 %) Datawarehouse 7 2 (7.692 %) Business Intelligence 7 2 (7.692 %) Microsoft 7 2 (7.692 %) EPoS 8 1 (3.846 %) Asset Management 8 1 (3.846 %) Workflow Management 8 1 (3.846 %) Business Continuity 8 1 (3.846 %) Release Management 8 1 (3.846 %) Business Analysis 8 1 (3.846 %) VLAN 8 1 (3.846 %) Data Mapping 8 1 (3.846 %) Project Planning 8 1 (3.846 %) Service Delivery 8 1 (3.846 %) Financial Institution 8 1 (3.846 %) Workflow

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 1 (3.846 %) .NET 1 1 (3.846 %) EDI	Applications 1 1 (3.846 %) MS Project 1 1 (3.846 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 3 (11.54 %) Oracle Financials	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.846 %) LAN 1 1 (3.846 %) WAN 1 1 (3.846 %) VPN 1 1 (3.846 %) Internet 1 1 (3.846 %) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (7.692 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (3.846 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (3.846 %) MS Access	General 1 5 (19.23 %) Finance 1 5 (19.23 %) Government 1 5 (19.23 %) Local Government 2 4 (15.38 %) Marketing 2 4 (15.38 %) Retail 3 1 (3.846 %) Education 3 1 (3.846 %) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous 1 3 (11.54 %) Chip and PIN 2 2 (7.692 %) EPoS 3 1 (3.846 %) NHS	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (42.31 %) PRINCE2 2 8 (30.77 %) Project Management 3 3 (11.54 %) Programme Management 3 3 (11.54 %) Agile Software Development 3 3 (11.54 %) Migration 3 3 (11.54 %) Data Migration 4 2 (7.692 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (3.846 %) BPR 5 1 (3.846 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (3.846 %) Workflow 5 1 (3.846 %) RAD 5 1 (3.846 %) DSDM 5 1 (3.846 %) CRM 5 1 (3.846 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (3.846 %) ERP 5 1 (3.846 %) Data Mapping 5 1 (3.846 %) Business Continuity 5 1 (3.846 %) Asset Management 5 1 (3.846 %) Workflow Management 5 1 (3.846 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 1 (3.846 %) C#	Qualifications 1 5 (19.23 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (3.846 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Vendors 1 6 (23.08 %) Oracle 2 2 (7.692 %) Microsoft 3 1 (3.846 %) JD Edwards 3 1 (3.846 %) SAP