Bedfordshire Project Planning Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Planning skills within the Bedfordshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Project Planning over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Project Planning
Location Alderley Edge Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	36
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	3	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	4.412 %	0.581 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£354
% change on same period last year	-5.31 %
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	£24.90	£29.81
% change on same period last year	-16.48 %
Processes & Methodologies Bedfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	68	172
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.090 %	0.171 %
Daily rates quoted	21	24
Average minimum daily rate	£354	£290
Average daily rate	£372	£307
% change on same period last year	+21.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£390	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£30.50
Average hourly rate	£23.17	£30.94
% change on same period last year	-25.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.33	£31.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.34	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
Project Planning 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.

Project Planning
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Project Planning across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Project Planning
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Project Planning across the Bedfordshire region.

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Project Planning across the Bedfordshire region.

Project Planning
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Planning within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Bedford	-	1	-	-

Project Planning East of England

Project Planning
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Project Planning 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 Project Planning.

1 4 (57.14 %) Finance 1 4 (57.14 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (42.86 %) Business Development 2 3 (42.86 %) SAP ERP 2 3 (42.86 %) Risk Analysis 2 3 (42.86 %) SAP 2 3 (42.86 %) ERP 2 3 (42.86 %) SAP PS 2 3 (42.86 %) Project Management 3 2 (28.57 %) Government 4 1 (14.29 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (14.29 %) Police 4 1 (14.29 %) Military 4 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (14.29 %) Aerospace

4 1 (14.29 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (14.29 %) DV Cleared

Project Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Project Planning 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 Project Planning. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications 1 3 (42.86 %) SAP ERP 1 3 (42.86 %) SAP PS	General 1 4 (57.14 %) Finance 2 2 (28.57 %) Government 3 1 (14.29 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (14.29 %) Police 3 1 (14.29 %) Military 3 1 (14.29 %) Aerospace
Job Titles 1 3 (42.86 %) SAP Team Leader 1 3 (42.86 %) Analyst 1 3 (42.86 %) Support Analyst 1 3 (42.86 %) Team Leader 1 3 (42.86 %) Project Analyst 1 3 (42.86 %) Project Support Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Project Officer 2 1 (14.29 %) Project Support Officer	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (57.14 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (42.86 %) Business Development 2 3 (42.86 %) Risk Analysis 2 3 (42.86 %) ERP 2 3 (42.86 %) Project Management 3 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (14.29 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (14.29 %) DV Cleared
Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) SAP