Berkshire MS Project Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Project skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Project over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Project
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Beckenham Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Corsham Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Salford Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weymouth Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witney Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	74	48
Rank change on same period last year	-26
Matching contract IT job ads	58	154
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.077 %	0.153 %
As % of the category below	11.60 %	25.16 %
Daily rates quoted	13	65
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£336
Average daily rate	£353	£354
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£326
% change on same period last year	+0.37 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£43.33	£29.54
Average hourly rate	£45.83	£30.52
% change on same period last year	+50.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£48.33	£31.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.73	£25.87
% change on same period last year	-0.56 %
Applications Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	500	612
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.660 %	0.610 %
Daily rates quoted	95	184
Average minimum daily rate	£281	£295
Average daily rate	£295	£313
% change on same period last year	-5.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£284
% change on same period last year	+4.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	63	96
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.32	£21.24
Average hourly rate	£19.59	£22.51
% change on same period last year	-12.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.86	£23.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.62	£19.30
% change on same period last year	-3.53 %
MS Project South East

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.

MS Project
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Project across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

MS Project
Daily Rate Trend

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

MS Project
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

MS Project
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Project
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Project within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Reading	-45	14	£250	-29.47 %
Slough	+1	8	£338	+15.38 %
Newbury	+10	6	£325	-5.56 %
Windsor	-	4	£125	-
Bracknell	+4	4	£479	+74.79 %

MS Project South East

MS Project
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing MS Project 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 MS Project.

1 44 (39.64 %) PRINCE2 2 43 (38.74 %) Project Management 3 40 (36.04 %) MS Office 4 38 (34.23 %) MS Excel 5 36 (32.43 %) Microsoft 6 28 (25.23 %) MS Visio 7 27 (24.32 %) Telecoms 8 23 (20.72 %) Finance 9 18 (16.22 %) MS PowerPoint 10 15 (13.51 %) Government 11 12 (10.81 %) Security Cleared 12 10 (9.009 %) ITIL 12 10 (9.009 %) Windows 13 9 (8.108 %) VBScript 13 9 (8.108 %) PRINCE2 Certification

13 9 (8.108 %) Project Planning 14 8 (7.207 %) VB 14 8 (7.207 %) Oracle 14 8 (7.207 %) PRINCE 15 7 (6.306 %) Programme Management 15 7 (6.306 %) SQL 15 7 (6.306 %) HP 15 7 (6.306 %) ISEB 16 6 (5.405 %) Business Analysis 16 6 (5.405 %) Office Project Server 16 6 (5.405 %) Lotus 16 6 (5.405 %) ERP 16 6 (5.405 %) Lotus Notes 16 6 (5.405 %) Solaris 16 6 (5.405 %) Change Management

MS Project
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing MS Project 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 MS Project. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (4.505 %) WebSphere 2 3 (2.703 %) Software Packaging 3 2 (1.802 %) MAPI 3 2 (1.802 %) .NET 4 1 (0.901 %) HTML 4 1 (0.901 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (0.901 %) WSH 4 1 (0.901 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 6 (5.405 %) Office Project Server 1 6 (5.405 %) Lotus Notes 2 3 (2.703 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (1.802 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (0.901 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 1 (0.901 %) ESB 4 1 (0.901 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (0.901 %) Office Communications Server
Applications 1 40 (36.04 %) MS Office 2 38 (34.23 %) MS Excel 3 28 (25.23 %) MS Visio 4 18 (16.22 %) MS PowerPoint 5 1 (0.901 %) CA Clarity 5 1 (0.901 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 1 (0.901 %) BusinessWorks 1 1 (0.901 %) Oracle ERP 1 1 (0.901 %) SAP SD 1 1 (0.901 %) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking 1 5 (4.505 %) SAN 2 4 (3.604 %) LAN 2 4 (3.604 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (2.703 %) 3G 3 3 (2.703 %) WAN 3 3 (2.703 %) iSCSI 4 2 (1.802 %) RNC 4 2 (1.802 %) ATM 4 2 (1.802 %) VPN 4 2 (1.802 %) 2G 4 2 (1.802 %) Wireless 5 1 (0.901 %) Internet 5 1 (0.901 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (2.703 %) Oracle Reports 1 3 (2.703 %) MS Access 1 3 (2.703 %) SQL Server 2 2 (1.802 %) GIS 3 1 (0.901 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (0.901 %) OLAP 3 1 (0.901 %) OLTP 3 1 (0.901 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 2 (1.802 %) TestDirector 2 1 (0.901 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (0.901 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 27 (24.32 %) Telecoms 2 23 (20.72 %) Finance 3 15 (13.51 %) Government 4 5 (4.505 %) Retail 5 4 (3.604 %) Automotive 6 2 (1.802 %) Marketing 6 2 (1.802 %) Pharmaceutical 7 1 (0.901 %) Retail Banking 7 1 (0.901 %) Banking 7 1 (0.901 %) FMCG
Job Titles 1 25 (22.52 %) Coordinator 2 23 (20.72 %) Analyst 3 22 (19.82 %) Project Manager 4 14 (12.61 %) Project Coordinator 5 13 (11.71 %) Business Analyst 6 8 (7.207 %) Programme Coordinator 7 7 (6.306 %) Consultant 7 7 (6.306 %) Project Analyst 8 4 (3.604 %) Oracle Development Manager 8 4 (3.604 %) Oracle Consultant 8 4 (3.604 %) Oracle Functional Consultant 8 4 (3.604 %) Functional Consultant 8 4 (3.604 %) Administrator 8 4 (3.604 %) Development Manager 9 3 (2.703 %) Project Planner 9 3 (2.703 %) PMO Analyst 9 3 (2.703 %) Team Leader 10 2 (1.802 %) RNC Engineer 10 2 (1.802 %) Change Analyst 10 2 (1.802 %) Deployment Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 5 (4.505 %) PMI 2 4 (3.604 %) Management Information System 3 2 (1.802 %) Data Conversion 3 2 (1.802 %) Client/Server 3 2 (1.802 %) Mainframe 4 1 (0.901 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 10 (9.009 %) Windows 2 6 (5.405 %) Solaris 3 5 (4.505 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (4.505 %) Linux 3 5 (4.505 %) UNIX 4 1 (0.901 %) AIX 4 1 (0.901 %) Windows Vista 4 1 (0.901 %) Windows Server 2008	Processes & Methodologies 1 44 (39.64 %) PRINCE2 2 43 (38.74 %) Project Management 3 12 (10.81 %) Security Cleared 4 10 (9.009 %) ITIL 5 9 (8.108 %) Project Planning 6 8 (7.207 %) PRINCE 7 7 (6.306 %) Programme Management 8 6 (5.405 %) Business Analysis 8 6 (5.405 %) ERP 8 6 (5.405 %) Change Management 9 5 (4.505 %) Risk Management 9 5 (4.505 %) Service Management 9 5 (4.505 %) Migration 9 5 (4.505 %) RUP 10 4 (3.604 %) SC Cleared 10 4 (3.604 %) Use Case 10 4 (3.604 %) UML 10 4 (3.604 %) OO 10 4 (3.604 %) SSADM 10 4 (3.604 %) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages 1 9 (8.108 %) VBScript 2 8 (7.207 %) VB 3 7 (6.306 %) SQL 4 4 (3.604 %) Java 5 3 (2.703 %) Perl 6 2 (1.802 %) C 6 2 (1.802 %) C# 7 1 (0.901 %) VB.NET 7 1 (0.901 %) PowerShell	Qualifications 1 9 (8.108 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 7 (6.306 %) ISEB 3 5 (4.505 %) ISEB Practitioner 4 2 (1.802 %) Degree 5 1 (0.901 %) MCSE 5 1 (0.901 %) Microsoft Certification 5 1 (0.901 %) ITIL Certification 5 1 (0.901 %) CIPD 5 1 (0.901 %) MCTS 5 1 (0.901 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (4.505 %) QA 2 1 (0.901 %) ISO8583 2 1 (0.901 %) SLA	System Software 1 3 (2.703 %) NetBackup 1 3 (2.703 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 1 (0.901 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 6 (5.405 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 4 (3.604 %) OpenView 3 2 (1.802 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 1 (0.901 %) MIIS 4 1 (0.901 %) CONTROL-M 4 1 (0.901 %) Unicenter 4 1 (0.901 %) OVSD	Vendors 1 36 (32.43 %) Microsoft 2 8 (7.207 %) Oracle 3 7 (6.306 %) HP 4 6 (5.405 %) Lotus 5 5 (4.505 %) SAP 6 3 (2.703 %) NetApp 6 3 (2.703 %) VMware 7 2 (1.802 %) IBM 8 1 (0.901 %) Remedy 8 1 (0.901 %) TIBCO 8 1 (0.901 %) Accenture 8 1 (0.901 %) Siebel 8 1 (0.901 %) Adobe 8 1 (0.901 %) Dell 8 1 (0.901 %) CA 8 1 (0.901 %) Quark 8 1 (0.901 %) Mapinfo 8 1 (0.901 %) Planview 8 1 (0.901 %) Atos Origin