Blackburn Project Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Project Management skills within the Blackburn 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 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Project Management
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Amersham Andover Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crowthorne Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Flint Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Ditton Thames Valley Trowbridge Truro Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	5	3
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	2	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	16.67 %	30.00 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£300
Average daily rate	£375	£338
% change on same period last year	+11.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£385
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
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	£31.44	£29.51
% change on same period last year	+6.53 %
Processes & Methodologies Blackburn
Matching contract IT job ads	12	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.013 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£294
Average daily rate	£375	£331
% change on same period last year	+13.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	-
Average hourly rate	£32.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.73	£28.90
% change on same period last year	-4.04 %
Project Management Lancashire

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 Blackburn 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 Blackburn region.

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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 Blackburn region.

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Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Blackburn 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 3 (100.00 %) PRINCE2 2 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 2 (66.67 %) MS Project 2 2 (66.67 %) MS Office 2 2 (66.67 %) Project Planning 3 1 (33.33 %) Degree 3 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 3 1 (33.33 %) Service Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Management Information System 3 1 (33.33 %) Government 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle RMAN 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle Certification 3 1 (33.33 %) NetApp 3 1 (33.33 %) Reuters

3 1 (33.33 %) Bloomberg 3 1 (33.33 %) SQLPlus 3 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) AIX 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (33.33 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (33.33 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Blackburn 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.

Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Project 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Office	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 9i 1 1 (33.33 %) Datawarehouse 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 10g 1 1 (33.33 %) SQLPlus
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Government	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Project Manager 2 1 (33.33 %) DBA 2 1 (33.33 %) Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (100.00 %) PRINCE2 2 2 (66.67 %) Project Planning 3 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 3 1 (33.33 %) Service Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) PL/SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle Certification 1 1 (33.33 %) Degree	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle RMAN
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) NetApp 2 1 (33.33 %) Reuters 2 1 (33.33 %) Bloomberg 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle