Bristol MS Project Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Project skills within the Bristol 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Project
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corsham Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead 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 Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset 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 Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weymouth Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Witney Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	38
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	23	33
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	22.33 %	18.03 %
Daily rates quoted	9	12
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£381
Average daily rate	£354	£385
% change on same period last year	-8.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£326
% change on same period last year	+1.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£12.00	£36.67
% change on same period last year	-67.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.00	£43.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.34	£24.03
% change on same period last year	+5.46 %
Applications Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	103	183
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.137 %	0.185 %
Daily rates quoted	31	42
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£291
Average daily rate	£297	£297
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£304
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£285
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	35
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.39	£24.03
Average hourly rate	£18.57	£26.90
% change on same period last year	-30.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.75	£29.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.01	£18.99
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
MS Project South West

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 Bristol 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 Bristol region.

MS Project
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Bristol region.

MS Project
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MS Project
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 25 (46.30 %) MS Excel 2 22 (40.74 %) Finance 3 17 (31.48 %) MS Office 4 16 (29.63 %) MS PowerPoint 5 14 (25.93 %) Microsoft 6 11 (20.37 %) Project Management 7 10 (18.52 %) Project Planning 8 9 (16.67 %) PRINCE2 9 5 (9.259 %) Government 9 5 (9.259 %) Pensions 10 4 (7.407 %) Telecoms 10 4 (7.407 %) PRINCE2 Certification 10 4 (7.407 %) CA Clarity 10 4 (7.407 %) Spreadsheet 11 3 (5.556 %) Security Cleared

11 3 (5.556 %) VMware Infrastructure 11 3 (5.556 %) HP 11 3 (5.556 %) Citrix 11 3 (5.556 %) CRM 11 3 (5.556 %) SharePoint 11 3 (5.556 %) MS Visio 11 3 (5.556 %) VMware 11 3 (5.556 %) Insurance 12 2 (3.704 %) Banking 12 2 (3.704 %) Disaster Recovery 12 2 (3.704 %) MS Access 12 2 (3.704 %) Niku 12 2 (3.704 %) SC Cleared 12 2 (3.704 %) Time Management 12 2 (3.704 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner

MS Project
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 1 (1.852 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 3 (5.556 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 25 (46.30 %) MS Excel 2 17 (31.48 %) MS Office 3 16 (29.63 %) MS PowerPoint 4 4 (7.407 %) CA Clarity 4 4 (7.407 %) Spreadsheet 5 3 (5.556 %) MS Visio 6 1 (1.852 %) NASTRAN 6 1 (1.852 %) Open Workbench	Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.852 %) WAN 1 1 (1.852 %) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (3.704 %) MS Access 2 1 (1.852 %) Data Cleansing	General 1 22 (40.74 %) Finance 2 5 (9.259 %) Government 2 5 (9.259 %) Pensions 3 4 (7.407 %) Telecoms 4 3 (5.556 %) Insurance 5 2 (3.704 %) Banking 6 1 (1.852 %) Retail 6 1 (1.852 %) Aerospace 6 1 (1.852 %) Automotive 6 1 (1.852 %) Retail Banking 6 1 (1.852 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 10 (18.52 %) Analyst 2 8 (14.81 %) Project Manager 3 6 (11.11 %) Project Planner 3 6 (11.11 %) Project Analyst 4 5 (9.259 %) Programme Planner 5 3 (5.556 %) Project Office Analyst 5 3 (5.556 %) Coordinator 6 2 (3.704 %) Architect 6 2 (3.704 %) Trainer 6 2 (3.704 %) Programme Manager 6 2 (3.704 %) Technical Architect 6 2 (3.704 %) Support Analyst 6 2 (3.704 %) Project Coordinator 6 2 (3.704 %) Programme Office Manager 6 2 (3.704 %) Lead Technical Architect 6 2 (3.704 %) Project Officer 6 2 (3.704 %) Lead Architect 6 2 (3.704 %) Project Support Analyst 6 2 (3.704 %) Programme Office Analyst 6 2 (3.704 %) Programme Office Support	Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.852 %) Mathematics 1 1 (1.852 %) Credit Risk
Operating Systems 1 1 (1.852 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (20.37 %) Project Management 2 10 (18.52 %) Project Planning 3 9 (16.67 %) PRINCE2 4 3 (5.556 %) CRM 4 3 (5.556 %) Security Cleared 5 2 (3.704 %) SC Cleared 5 2 (3.704 %) Time Management 5 2 (3.704 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (1.852 %) GAP Analysis 6 1 (1.852 %) Risk Management 6 1 (1.852 %) Migration 6 1 (1.852 %) Stakeholder Management 6 1 (1.852 %) Programme Management 6 1 (1.852 %) Business Analysis 6 1 (1.852 %) Supplier Management 6 1 (1.852 %) Data Migration 6 1 (1.852 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 1 (1.852 %) Configuration Management 6 1 (1.852 %) Quality Management 6 1 (1.852 %) ITIL
Qualifications 1 4 (7.407 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (3.704 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (1.852 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 3 1 (1.852 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.852 %) QA
System Software 1 3 (5.556 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 14 (25.93 %) Microsoft 2 3 (5.556 %) HP 2 3 (5.556 %) Citrix 2 3 (5.556 %) VMware 3 2 (3.704 %) Niku 4 1 (1.852 %) Primavera 4 1 (1.852 %) Oracle 4 1 (1.852 %) SAP