Birmingham Project Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Management skills within the Birmingham 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 last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Aylesbury Baldock Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Billingham Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Darwen Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Erskine Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highland Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Walsall Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	12
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	55	61
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.071 %	0.069 %
As % of the category below	13.58 %	14.70 %
Daily rates quoted	18	20
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£354
Average daily rate	£349	£374
% change on same period last year	-6.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£369	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£398	£387
% change on same period last year	+2.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£41.44
Average hourly rate	-	£41.72
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.17	£29.75
% change on same period last year	-8.66 %
Processes & Methodologies Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	405	415
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.520 %	0.466 %
Daily rates quoted	115	82
Average minimum daily rate	£344	£349
Average daily rate	£369	£370
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	46
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.41	£23.91
Average hourly rate	£21.02	£25.13
% change on same period last year	-16.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.63	£26.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.72	£29.49
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Project Management West Midlands

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Project Management across the Birmingham 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Project Management across the Birmingham 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 Birmingham region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Project Management across the Birmingham region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Project Management also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Project Management.

1 26 (24.76 %) PRINCE2 2 19 (18.10 %) Finance 3 15 (14.29 %) Government 3 15 (14.29 %) ITIL 4 11 (10.48 %) PRINCE 4 11 (10.48 %) Oracle 4 11 (10.48 %) Change Management 5 9 (8.571 %) MS Project 5 9 (8.571 %) SAP 5 9 (8.571 %) CRM 5 9 (8.571 %) Windows 5 9 (8.571 %) Business Analysis 5 9 (8.571 %) Pensions 6 8 (7.619 %) SQL 6 8 (7.619 %) SQL Server

7 7 (6.667 %) NHS 7 7 (6.667 %) SAP PP 7 7 (6.667 %) Retail 7 7 (6.667 %) Asset Management 7 7 (6.667 %) Insurance 8 6 (5.714 %) CA Clarity 8 6 (5.714 %) Oracle RAC 8 6 (5.714 %) Remedy AR System 8 6 (5.714 %) Web Design 8 6 (5.714 %) Service Management 8 6 (5.714 %) Stakeholder Management 8 6 (5.714 %) Remedy 8 6 (5.714 %) Sybase 8 6 (5.714 %) Solaris 8 6 (5.714 %) Linux

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Project Management also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Project Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (1.905 %) JSP 1 2 (1.905 %) WebServices 1 2 (1.905 %) .NET 2 1 (0.952 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (0.952 %) CSS 2 1 (0.952 %) XHTML 2 1 (0.952 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 6 (5.714 %) Apache 1 6 (5.714 %) Tomcat 2 5 (4.762 %) SAS 3 3 (2.857 %) DOC1 4 2 (1.905 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 9 (8.571 %) MS Project 2 6 (5.714 %) CA Clarity 3 5 (4.762 %) MS Office 4 4 (3.810 %) MS Excel 5 3 (2.857 %) MS Visio 6 1 (0.952 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 7 (6.667 %) SAP PP 2 6 (5.714 %) Remedy AR System 3 1 (0.952 %) Navision
Communications & Networking 1 5 (4.762 %) PPP 2 2 (1.905 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (1.905 %) Broadband 2 2 (1.905 %) LAN 2 2 (1.905 %) WAN 2 2 (1.905 %) Internet 3 1 (0.952 %) Wireless 3 1 (0.952 %) Nortel Norstar 3 1 (0.952 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (7.619 %) SQL Server 2 6 (5.714 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (0.952 %) BusinessObjects 3 1 (0.952 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (0.952 %) SAP BI 3 1 (0.952 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (0.952 %) Oracle Reports
General 1 19 (18.10 %) Finance 2 15 (14.29 %) Government 3 9 (8.571 %) Pensions 4 7 (6.667 %) Insurance 4 7 (6.667 %) Retail 5 4 (3.810 %) Banking 6 3 (2.857 %) Manufacturing 6 3 (2.857 %) Education 7 2 (1.905 %) Legal 7 2 (1.905 %) Construction 7 2 (1.905 %) Home Office 7 2 (1.905 %) Billing 8 1 (0.952 %) Military 8 1 (0.952 %) Local Government 8 1 (0.952 %) Marketing 8 1 (0.952 %) Financial Institution 8 1 (0.952 %) Telecoms 8 1 (0.952 %) Health	Job Titles 1 48 (45.71 %) Project Manager 2 13 (12.38 %) Analyst 3 10 (9.524 %) Business Analyst 4 9 (8.571 %) Developer 4 9 (8.571 %) Consultant 5 7 (6.667 %) SAP Project Manager 5 7 (6.667 %) SAP Manager 6 6 (5.714 %) Support Manager 6 6 (5.714 %) IT Business Analyst 6 6 (5.714 %) Remedy Developer 7 5 (4.762 %) Applications Support 7 5 (4.762 %) Programme Manager 7 5 (4.762 %) Senior Consultant 7 5 (4.762 %) Applications Manager 8 3 (2.857 %) Applications Support Manager 8 3 (2.857 %) Transition Manager 8 3 (2.857 %) Coordinator 8 3 (2.857 %) IT Manager 8 3 (2.857 %) IT Project Manager 8 3 (2.857 %) Programme Office Manager
Miscellaneous 1 7 (6.667 %) NHS 1 7 (6.667 %) Asset Management 2 3 (2.857 %) Management Information System 3 2 (1.905 %) PMI 4 1 (0.952 %) W3C 4 1 (0.952 %) Fund Management 4 1 (0.952 %) Data Integration	Operating Systems 1 9 (8.571 %) Windows 2 6 (5.714 %) Solaris 2 6 (5.714 %) Linux 3 2 (1.905 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 26 (24.76 %) PRINCE2 2 15 (14.29 %) ITIL 3 11 (10.48 %) PRINCE 3 11 (10.48 %) Change Management 4 9 (8.571 %) CRM 4 9 (8.571 %) Business Analysis 5 6 (5.714 %) Stakeholder Management 5 6 (5.714 %) Web Design 5 6 (5.714 %) Service Management 6 5 (4.762 %) DSDM 6 5 (4.762 %) Scrum 6 5 (4.762 %) Supplier Management 7 4 (3.810 %) Programme Management 7 4 (3.810 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 4 (3.810 %) UML 7 4 (3.810 %) SSADM 7 4 (3.810 %) Service Delivery 8 3 (2.857 %) Risk Management 8 3 (2.857 %) Migration 8 3 (2.857 %) Integration Testing	Programming Languages 1 8 (7.619 %) SQL 2 5 (4.762 %) Java 3 1 (0.952 %) JavaScript 3 1 (0.952 %) C 3 1 (0.952 %) C#
Qualifications 1 4 (3.810 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 4 (3.810 %) PMP 1 4 (3.810 %) PMI Certification 2 2 (1.905 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (0.952 %) ISEB 3 1 (0.952 %) Citrix Certification 3 1 (0.952 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (4.762 %) SLA 2 3 (2.857 %) QA 3 2 (1.905 %) JSP 440 4 1 (0.952 %) COBIT
System Software 1 6 (5.714 %) Oracle RAC 2 1 (0.952 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 11 (10.48 %) Oracle 2 9 (8.571 %) SAP 3 6 (5.714 %) Sybase 3 6 (5.714 %) Remedy 4 5 (4.762 %) Microsoft 5 3 (2.857 %) Thunderhead 6 2 (1.905 %) VMware 6 2 (1.905 %) Geac 7 1 (0.952 %) LANDesk 7 1 (0.952 %) Nortel 7 1 (0.952 %) Business Objects