Bristol Programme Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Programme Manager role in IT contracts within the Bristol region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Programme Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	51
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	15	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	1.854 %	1.946 %
Daily rates quoted	6	5
Average minimum daily rate	£425	£410
Average daily rate	£429	£410
% change on same period last year	+4.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£433	£410
UK excluding London average daily rate	£547	£504
% change on same period last year	+8.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£75.00
Average hourly rate	£42.50	£85.00
% change on same period last year	-50.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£95.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£50.08	£45.06
% change on same period last year	+11.14 %
Job Titles Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	809	1028
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.078 %	1.040 %
Daily rates quoted	287	366
Average minimum daily rate	£309	£326
Average daily rate	£333	£341
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	123	147
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.48	£24.04
Average hourly rate	£26.18	£26.65
% change on same period last year	-1.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.87	£29.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
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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 Programme Manager across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Programme Manager across the Bristol region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region that cited Programme Manager in their job title 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 with Programme Manager in their job title.

1 28 (75.68 %) Finance 2 7 (18.92 %) Project Management 2 7 (18.92 %) Pensions 3 6 (16.22 %) Wealth Management 4 4 (10.81 %) Insurance 4 4 (10.81 %) Programme Management 4 4 (10.81 %) SAP 4 4 (10.81 %) Business Intelligence 4 4 (10.81 %) Internet 5 3 (8.108 %) PRINCE2 5 3 (8.108 %) Legal 5 3 (8.108 %) Matrix Management 5 3 (8.108 %) Marketing 6 2 (5.405 %) Aerospace 6 2 (5.405 %) Regression Testing

6 2 (5.405 %) Banking 6 2 (5.405 %) SQL 6 2 (5.405 %) ABAP 6 2 (5.405 %) MS Project 6 2 (5.405 %) Cognos 6 2 (5.405 %) SAPscript 7 1 (2.703 %) SAP HR 7 1 (2.703 %) Configuration Management 7 1 (2.703 %) Microsoft 7 1 (2.703 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 1 (2.703 %) Novell 7 1 (2.703 %) EDI 7 1 (2.703 %) ERP 7 1 (2.703 %) Windows 7 1 (2.703 %) Windows NT

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region that cited Programme Manager in their job title 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 with Programme Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (2.703 %) EDI	Applications 1 2 (5.405 %) MS Project
Business Applications 1 1 (2.703 %) SAP HR	Communications & Networking 1 4 (10.81 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.703 %) IDMS	General 1 28 (75.68 %) Finance 2 7 (18.92 %) Pensions 3 4 (10.81 %) Insurance 4 3 (8.108 %) Marketing 4 3 (8.108 %) Legal 5 2 (5.405 %) Banking 5 2 (5.405 %) Aerospace 6 1 (2.703 %) Government 6 1 (2.703 %) Wholesale Banking
Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.703 %) Management Information System 1 1 (2.703 %) French Language 1 1 (2.703 %) German Language	Operating Systems 1 1 (2.703 %) Windows 1 1 (2.703 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (18.92 %) Project Management 2 6 (16.22 %) Wealth Management 3 4 (10.81 %) Business Intelligence 3 4 (10.81 %) Programme Management 4 3 (8.108 %) PRINCE2 4 3 (8.108 %) Matrix Management 5 2 (5.405 %) Regression Testing 6 1 (2.703 %) Migration 6 1 (2.703 %) ERP 6 1 (2.703 %) Configuration Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (5.405 %) SQL 1 2 (5.405 %) ABAP 1 2 (5.405 %) SAPscript 2 1 (2.703 %) C
Qualifications 1 1 (2.703 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 1 (2.703 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Vendors 1 4 (10.81 %) SAP 2 2 (5.405 %) Cognos 3 1 (2.703 %) Microsoft 3 1 (2.703 %) Novell