Berkshire Project Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project 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 Project Management over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Argyll and Bute Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenwich Guernsey Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Musselburgh New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Tyneside North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rhyl Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	17
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	202	340
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.267 %	0.339 %
As % of the category below	9.941 %	12.75 %
Daily rates quoted	64	154
Average minimum daily rate	£364	£368
Average daily rate	£385	£383
% change on same period last year	+0.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£406	£398
UK excluding London average daily rate	£392	£385
% change on same period last year	+1.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.67	£35.34
Average hourly rate	£29.50	£37.43
% change on same period last year	-21.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.33	£39.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.41	£30.62
% change on same period last year	-7.20 %
Processes & Methodologies Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	2032	2666
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.682 %	2.655 %
Daily rates quoted	518	945
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£360
Average daily rate	£385	£382
% change on same period last year	+0.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£406	£405
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	98	196
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.75	£31.38
Average hourly rate	£30.44	£32.96
% change on same period last year	-7.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.13	£34.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.34	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
Project 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Management across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 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 Management across the Berkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Management across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management within the Berkshire 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
Reading	-31	41	£385	+4.89 %
Newbury	+10	23	£365	-13.40 %
Slough	0	22	£353	+9.49 %
Bracknell	+10	15	£393	+6.38 %
Maidenhead	+2	7	£475	+24.55 %
Windsor	-6	5	-	-
Wokingham	-	1	£450	-

Project Management South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 141 (34.14 %) Telecoms 2 115 (27.85 %) PRINCE2 3 89 (21.55 %) Finance 4 44 (10.65 %) MS Project 5 41 (9.927 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 38 (9.201 %) Microsoft 7 36 (8.717 %) PRINCE 7 36 (8.717 %) Oracle 8 33 (7.990 %) Migration 9 27 (6.538 %) Change Management 9 27 (6.538 %) MS Office 9 27 (6.538 %) ITIL 10 26 (6.295 %) Windows 10 26 (6.295 %) MS Excel 10 26 (6.295 %) SAP

11 25 (6.053 %) Marketing 12 23 (5.569 %) SQL 13 22 (5.327 %) MS Visio 13 22 (5.327 %) Government 14 21 (5.085 %) Matrix Management 15 18 (4.358 %) ERP 16 17 (4.116 %) MS PowerPoint 17 16 (3.874 %) Billing 17 16 (3.874 %) 3G 18 15 (3.632 %) UNIX 18 15 (3.632 %) Java 18 15 (3.632 %) Cisco 19 14 (3.390 %) IBM 19 14 (3.390 %) Service Management 19 14 (3.390 %) Stakeholder Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 13 (3.148 %) .NET 2 12 (2.906 %) XML 3 10 (2.421 %) J2EE 4 9 (2.179 %) WebSphere 5 8 (1.937 %) ASP.NET 6 7 (1.695 %) HTML 7 5 (1.211 %) CSS 7 5 (1.211 %) WebServices 7 5 (1.211 %) AJAX 8 4 (0.969 %) Spring 8 4 (0.969 %) Hibernate 8 4 (0.969 %) SOAP 8 4 (0.969 %) Struts 8 4 (0.969 %) JSP 9 3 (0.726 %) JMS 9 3 (0.726 %) Servlets 10 2 (0.484 %) MAPI 10 2 (0.484 %) JDBC 11 1 (0.242 %) XHTML 11 1 (0.242 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 6 (1.453 %) CMS 1 6 (1.453 %) IIS 1 6 (1.453 %) Lotus Notes 2 4 (0.969 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 2 (0.484 %) Office Project Server 3 2 (0.484 %) SAS 3 2 (0.484 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (0.242 %) SharePoint 4 1 (0.242 %) WebLogic 4 1 (0.242 %) ColdFusion 4 1 (0.242 %) Oracle Workflow 4 1 (0.242 %) ESB 4 1 (0.242 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 44 (10.65 %) MS Project 2 27 (6.538 %) MS Office 3 26 (6.295 %) MS Excel 4 22 (5.327 %) MS Visio 5 17 (4.116 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (0.242 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 3 (0.726 %) Oracle Financials 1 3 (0.726 %) Oracle Applications 2 2 (0.484 %) SAP CO 2 2 (0.484 %) SAP R/3 2 2 (0.484 %) SAP HR 3 1 (0.242 %) SAP SD 3 1 (0.242 %) BusinessWorks 3 1 (0.242 %) Hyperion Enterprise 3 1 (0.242 %) HFM
Communications & Networking 1 16 (3.874 %) 3G 2 10 (2.421 %) Firewall 2 10 (2.421 %) Internet 3 9 (2.179 %) SDH 4 8 (1.937 %) Broadband 5 7 (1.695 %) TCP/IP 5 7 (1.695 %) SAN 6 6 (1.453 %) HSDPA 6 6 (1.453 %) VoIP 6 6 (1.453 %) SMS 7 4 (0.969 %) BSS 7 4 (0.969 %) Wireless 7 4 (0.969 %) LAN 8 3 (0.726 %) ATM 9 2 (0.484 %) DVB 9 2 (0.484 %) MPLS 9 2 (0.484 %) UMTS 9 2 (0.484 %) WAN 9 2 (0.484 %) DNS 10 1 (0.242 %) HTTPS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (2.179 %) SQL Server 2 8 (1.937 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 7 (1.695 %) DB2 4 6 (1.453 %) BusinessObjects 4 6 (1.453 %) Datawarehouse 5 5 (1.211 %) Informix 5 5 (1.211 %) SQL Server 2005 6 4 (0.969 %) DB2 UDB 7 3 (0.726 %) MS Access 8 2 (0.484 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 2 (0.484 %) GIS 8 2 (0.484 %) ETL 9 1 (0.242 %) MySQL 9 1 (0.242 %) OLAP 9 1 (0.242 %) OLTP 9 1 (0.242 %) SQL Server 2000 9 1 (0.242 %) BusinessObjects XI 9 1 (0.242 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 9 1 (0.242 %) BODI 9 1 (0.242 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 1 (0.242 %) ClearCase 1 1 (0.242 %) TestDirector 1 1 (0.242 %) Synon	General 1 141 (34.14 %) Telecoms 2 89 (21.55 %) Finance 3 25 (6.053 %) Marketing 4 22 (5.327 %) Government 5 16 (3.874 %) Billing 6 11 (2.663 %) Retail 7 5 (1.211 %) Banking 8 4 (0.969 %) Multimedia 8 4 (0.969 %) General Ledger 8 4 (0.969 %) Manufacturing 8 4 (0.969 %) Construction 9 3 (0.726 %) Automotive 9 3 (0.726 %) Insurance 10 2 (0.484 %) FMCG 10 2 (0.484 %) Education 10 2 (0.484 %) Electric 10 2 (0.484 %) Health 11 1 (0.242 %) Pharmaceutical 11 1 (0.242 %) Law 11 1 (0.242 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 195 (47.22 %) Project Manager 2 38 (9.201 %) Analyst 3 32 (7.748 %) Consultant 4 22 (5.327 %) Coordinator 5 21 (5.085 %) Technical Manager 6 19 (4.600 %) Technical Project Manager 7 17 (4.116 %) Infrastructure Manager 8 16 (3.874 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 9 14 (3.390 %) Architect 9 14 (3.390 %) Business Analyst 9 14 (3.390 %) Project Coordinator 10 13 (3.148 %) Implementation Manager 11 10 (2.421 %) Business Manager 11 10 (2.421 %) Project Analyst 11 10 (2.421 %) Support Analyst 11 10 (2.421 %) Programme Manager 12 9 (2.179 %) Solutions Designer 12 9 (2.179 %) Administrator 12 9 (2.179 %) Business Project Manager 13 8 (1.937 %) Marketing Manager	Miscellaneous 1 13 (3.148 %) PMI 2 11 (2.663 %) Management Information System 3 5 (1.211 %) N-Tier 3 5 (1.211 %) Clustering 3 5 (1.211 %) CMDB 4 4 (0.969 %) Blackberry 5 3 (0.726 %) Client/Server 5 3 (0.726 %) IVR 6 2 (0.484 %) Economics 6 2 (0.484 %) Data Conversion 6 2 (0.484 %) Replication 6 2 (0.484 %) DTV 6 2 (0.484 %) EPoS 7 1 (0.242 %) NHS 7 1 (0.242 %) Mainframe 7 1 (0.242 %) AS400 7 1 (0.242 %) IPTV 7 1 (0.242 %) Copywriting 7 1 (0.242 %) Italian Language 7 1 (0.242 %) Spanish Language
Operating Systems 1 26 (6.295 %) Windows 2 15 (3.632 %) UNIX 3 13 (3.148 %) Windows Server 2003 4 8 (1.937 %) Linux 5 6 (1.453 %) Windows XP 6 5 (1.211 %) Windows 2000 7 4 (0.969 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 4 (0.969 %) VMS 8 3 (0.726 %) Solaris 8 3 (0.726 %) AIX 9 2 (0.484 %) Windows Vista 9 2 (0.484 %) HPUX 10 1 (0.242 %) Windows NT 10 1 (0.242 %) Windows Server 2008	Processes & Methodologies 1 115 (27.85 %) PRINCE2 2 36 (8.717 %) PRINCE 3 33 (7.990 %) Migration 4 27 (6.538 %) Change Management 4 27 (6.538 %) ITIL 5 21 (5.085 %) Matrix Management 6 18 (4.358 %) ERP 7 14 (3.390 %) Service Management 7 14 (3.390 %) Stakeholder Management 8 12 (2.906 %) Project Planning 9 11 (2.663 %) Programme Management 9 11 (2.663 %) Product Marketing 10 10 (2.421 %) Business Analysis 10 10 (2.421 %) Business Intelligence 10 10 (2.421 %) UML 10 10 (2.421 %) CRM 11 9 (2.179 %) Risk Management 11 9 (2.179 %) Problem Management 12 8 (1.937 %) Logistics 12 8 (1.937 %) Service Delivery
Programming Languages 1 23 (5.569 %) SQL 2 15 (3.632 %) Java 3 12 (2.906 %) C# 4 5 (1.211 %) Perl 4 5 (1.211 %) AWK 5 4 (0.969 %) VBScript 6 2 (0.484 %) VB 6 2 (0.484 %) JavaScript 6 2 (0.484 %) C 7 1 (0.242 %) VB.NET 7 1 (0.242 %) Shell Script 7 1 (0.242 %) PowerShell 7 1 (0.242 %) Ruby	Qualifications 1 41 (9.927 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 12 (2.906 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 8 (1.937 %) Degree 4 6 (1.453 %) Microsoft Certification 4 6 (1.453 %) MCSE 5 5 (1.211 %) PMP 5 5 (1.211 %) PMI Certification 6 4 (0.969 %) CIPD 6 4 (0.969 %) ITIL Certification 6 4 (0.969 %) Cisco Certification 6 4 (0.969 %) CCNA 7 2 (0.484 %) MAPM 8 1 (0.242 %) MCSA 8 1 (0.242 %) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (1.211 %) QA 2 4 (0.969 %) SLA 3 3 (0.726 %) ISO9000 4 1 (0.242 %) BS25999 4 1 (0.242 %) ISO27001	System Software 1 11 (2.663 %) Active Directory 2 2 (0.484 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 4 (0.969 %) HP Data Protector 1 4 (0.969 %) ZENworks 1 4 (0.969 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (0.726 %) Tivoli 2 3 (0.726 %) CONTROL-M 3 2 (0.484 %) Netcool/Proviso 3 2 (0.484 %) Netcool 4 1 (0.242 %) OpenView 4 1 (0.242 %) Unicenter 4 1 (0.242 %) OpenView Configuration Management 4 1 (0.242 %) MIIS 4 1 (0.242 %) OVSD	Vendors 1 38 (9.201 %) Microsoft 2 36 (8.717 %) Oracle 3 26 (6.295 %) SAP 4 15 (3.632 %) Cisco 5 14 (3.390 %) IBM 6 11 (2.663 %) PeopleSoft 7 9 (2.179 %) Siebel 8 7 (1.695 %) HP 9 6 (1.453 %) Lotus 9 6 (1.453 %) Business Objects 10 5 (1.211 %) Nortel 11 4 (0.969 %) VMware 11 4 (0.969 %) Cramer 11 4 (0.969 %) Novell 12 3 (0.726 %) Accenture 13 2 (0.484 %) Remedy 13 2 (0.484 %) Axiom 13 2 (0.484 %) BEA 13 2 (0.484 %) Ericsson 13 2 (0.484 %) Hyperion