Berkshire Programme Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Programme Management skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Programme Management over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Programme Management
Location Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	103	112
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	25	51
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.052 %
As % of the category below	1.280 %	1.984 %
Daily rates quoted	5	17
Average minimum daily rate	£485	£479
Average daily rate	£499	£515
% change on same period last year	-3.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£513	£550
UK excluding London average daily rate	£460	£467
% change on same period last year	-1.47 %
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	£23.69	£34.16
% change on same period last year	-30.63 %
Processes & Methodologies Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1953	2570
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.603 %	2.600 %
Daily rates quoted	515	896
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£357
Average daily rate	£378	£378
% change on same period last year	-0.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£399
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	87	150
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.32	£31.30
Average hourly rate	£26.03	£33.05
% change on same period last year	-21.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.74	£34.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Programme Management 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.

Programme Management
Demand Trend

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

Programme Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Programme Management
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Programme Management within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 25 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
Newbury	+14	6	-	-
Reading	-7	3	£530	+22.89 %
Slough	-	2	£125	-
Bracknell	+18	1	-	-
Maidenhead	-	1	-	-

Programme Management South East

Programme Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Programme Management 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 Programme Management.

1 18 (45.00 %) PRINCE2 2 13 (32.50 %) Telecoms 3 11 (27.50 %) Project Management 4 9 (22.50 %) MS Project 4 9 (22.50 %) Finance 5 7 (17.50 %) MS Visio 6 6 (15.00 %) Broadband 6 6 (15.00 %) Risk Management 6 6 (15.00 %) Marketing 7 5 (12.50 %) Legal 7 5 (12.50 %) Product Marketing 8 4 (10.00 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 8 4 (10.00 %) MS PowerPoint 8 4 (10.00 %) Project Planning 8 4 (10.00 %) Microsoft

8 4 (10.00 %) MS Excel 9 3 (7.500 %) ISEB 9 3 (7.500 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 3 (7.500 %) PRINCE 9 3 (7.500 %) Change Management 9 3 (7.500 %) Government 9 3 (7.500 %) Stakeholder Management 10 2 (5.000 %) Health 10 2 (5.000 %) Migration 10 2 (5.000 %) Management Information System 10 2 (5.000 %) ISEB Practitioner 10 2 (5.000 %) Quality Management 10 2 (5.000 %) 3G 10 2 (5.000 %) SAN 10 2 (5.000 %) B2B

Programme Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Programme Management 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 Programme Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (5.000 %) Office Project Server 2 1 (2.500 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 9 (22.50 %) MS Project 2 7 (17.50 %) MS Visio 3 4 (10.00 %) MS PowerPoint 3 4 (10.00 %) MS Excel 4 2 (5.000 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 1 (2.500 %) Oracle HRMS 1 1 (2.500 %) Oracle Applications	Communications & Networking 1 6 (15.00 %) Broadband 2 2 (5.000 %) SAN 2 2 (5.000 %) 3G 3 1 (2.500 %) Firewall
General 1 13 (32.50 %) Telecoms 2 9 (22.50 %) Finance 3 6 (15.00 %) Marketing 4 5 (12.50 %) Legal 5 3 (7.500 %) Government 6 2 (5.000 %) Health 7 1 (2.500 %) Billing 7 1 (2.500 %) FMCG	Job Titles 1 8 (20.00 %) Project Manager 2 6 (15.00 %) Programme Manager 2 6 (15.00 %) Coordinator 3 4 (10.00 %) Marketing Manager 4 2 (5.000 %) Test Manager 4 2 (5.000 %) Project Coordinator 4 2 (5.000 %) Technical Project Manager 4 2 (5.000 %) Technical Manager 4 2 (5.000 %) Product Manager 5 1 (2.500 %) Project Support Analyst 5 1 (2.500 %) Programme Director 5 1 (2.500 %) Business Project Manager 5 1 (2.500 %) Change Consultant 5 1 (2.500 %) Support Analyst 5 1 (2.500 %) Engineering Manager 5 1 (2.500 %) Team Leader 5 1 (2.500 %) Implementation Consultant 5 1 (2.500 %) Project Analyst 5 1 (2.500 %) Project Office Manager 5 1 (2.500 %) Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.000 %) Management Information System 2 1 (2.500 %) Economics 2 1 (2.500 %) Computer Science 2 1 (2.500 %) French Language 2 1 (2.500 %) German Language 2 1 (2.500 %) Italian Language 2 1 (2.500 %) Polish Language 2 1 (2.500 %) Russian Language 2 1 (2.500 %) Spanish Language	Operating Systems 1 1 (2.500 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (45.00 %) PRINCE2 2 11 (27.50 %) Project Management 3 6 (15.00 %) Risk Management 4 5 (12.50 %) Product Marketing 5 4 (10.00 %) Project Planning 6 3 (7.500 %) Stakeholder Management 6 3 (7.500 %) Change Management 6 3 (7.500 %) PRINCE 7 2 (5.000 %) B2B 7 2 (5.000 %) Quality Management 7 2 (5.000 %) Release Management 7 2 (5.000 %) Migration 8 1 (2.500 %) ITIL 8 1 (2.500 %) SC Cleared 8 1 (2.500 %) DV Cleared 8 1 (2.500 %) Security Cleared 8 1 (2.500 %) Integration Testing 8 1 (2.500 %) Test Management 8 1 (2.500 %) Business Continuity 8 1 (2.500 %) Risk Assessment	Qualifications 1 4 (10.00 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 3 (7.500 %) ISEB 2 3 (7.500 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 2 (5.000 %) MAPM 3 2 (5.000 %) ISEB Practitioner 3 2 (5.000 %) Degree 4 1 (2.500 %) PMP 4 1 (2.500 %) PMI Certification 4 1 (2.500 %) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.500 %) ISO27001 1 1 (2.500 %) QA 1 1 (2.500 %) BS25999	Vendors 1 4 (10.00 %) Microsoft 2 2 (5.000 %) SAP 3 1 (2.500 %) Oracle 3 1 (2.500 %) Lotus 3 1 (2.500 %) VMware