Bristol Project Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Management skills within the Bristol 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	13	17
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	61	51
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.078 %	0.057 %
As % of the category below	13.32 %	12.81 %
Daily rates quoted	22	21
Average minimum daily rate	£365	£363
Average daily rate	£381	£390
% change on same period last year	-2.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£417
UK excluding London average daily rate	£398	£387
% change on same period last year	+2.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.00	£13.31
Average hourly rate	£16.00	£14.48
% change on same period last year	+10.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.00	£15.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.17	£29.75
% change on same period last year	-8.66 %
Processes & Methodologies Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	458	398
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.588 %	0.447 %
Daily rates quoted	177	137
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£350
Average daily rate	£353	£367
% change on same period last year	-3.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£385
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	51	66
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.67	£26.10
Average hourly rate	£25.11	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-8.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.55	£28.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.72	£29.49
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Project Management 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.

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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 Bristol 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 Bristol 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 Bristol 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 Bristol region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Bristol 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 40 (33.33 %) Finance 2 28 (23.33 %) PRINCE2 3 17 (14.17 %) Banking 4 13 (10.83 %) Insurance 5 10 (8.333 %) MS Project 6 9 (7.500 %) MS Excel 6 9 (7.500 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 9 (7.500 %) Pensions 7 8 (6.667 %) Agile Software Development 7 8 (6.667 %) Auditing 7 8 (6.667 %) Risk Management 8 7 (5.833 %) Stakeholder Management 8 7 (5.833 %) Retail 8 7 (5.833 %) Microsoft 8 7 (5.833 %) ITIL

8 7 (5.833 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 9 6 (5.000 %) Java 9 6 (5.000 %) CRM 9 6 (5.000 %) Change Management 10 5 (4.167 %) Telecoms 10 5 (4.167 %) Migration 10 5 (4.167 %) Scrum 10 5 (4.167 %) BPR 10 5 (4.167 %) Project Planning 10 5 (4.167 %) Supplier Management 11 4 (3.333 %) Mathematics 11 4 (3.333 %) Six Sigma 11 4 (3.333 %) MS Access 11 4 (3.333 %) SAP 11 4 (3.333 %) Citrix Certification

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Bristol 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 (1.667 %) WebServices 1 2 (1.667 %) XML 1 2 (1.667 %) .NET 2 1 (0.833 %) J2EE 2 1 (0.833 %) DOM 2 1 (0.833 %) XSLT 2 1 (0.833 %) XML Schema 2 1 (0.833 %) JAXP 2 1 (0.833 %) JAXB 2 1 (0.833 %) SAX 2 1 (0.833 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 2 (1.667 %) SharePoint 2 1 (0.833 %) CMS 2 1 (0.833 %) WebLogic 2 1 (0.833 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 10 (8.333 %) MS Project 2 9 (7.500 %) MS Excel 3 3 (2.500 %) MS Office 3 3 (2.500 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (0.833 %) Open Workbench 4 1 (0.833 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 2 (1.667 %) SAP SRM 2 1 (0.833 %) JDE EnterpriseOne
Communications & Networking 1 3 (2.500 %) Internet 2 2 (1.667 %) SAN 2 2 (1.667 %) LAN 3 1 (0.833 %) VoIP 3 1 (0.833 %) HTTP 3 1 (0.833 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (0.833 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.833 %) IP Telephony 3 1 (0.833 %) GPRS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (3.333 %) MS Access 2 3 (2.500 %) Datawarehouse 3 2 (1.667 %) SQL Server 4 1 (0.833 %) Data Cleansing
Development Applications 1 2 (1.667 %) WinRunner 1 2 (1.667 %) QuickTest Pro 1 2 (1.667 %) LoadRunner 1 2 (1.667 %) WATIR 1 2 (1.667 %) FitNesse 2 1 (0.833 %) ClearQuest 2 1 (0.833 %) NUnit 2 1 (0.833 %) QARun	General 1 40 (33.33 %) Finance 2 17 (14.17 %) Banking 3 13 (10.83 %) Insurance 4 9 (7.500 %) Pensions 5 8 (6.667 %) Auditing 6 7 (5.833 %) Retail 7 5 (4.167 %) Telecoms 8 3 (2.500 %) Aerospace 8 3 (2.500 %) Automotive 8 3 (2.500 %) Government 8 3 (2.500 %) Retail Banking 9 2 (1.667 %) Marketing 10 1 (0.833 %) International Banking 10 1 (0.833 %) Online Banking 10 1 (0.833 %) Construction 10 1 (0.833 %) Front Office
Job Titles 1 70 (58.33 %) Project Manager 2 9 (7.500 %) Programme Manager 3 8 (6.667 %) Quality Engineer 3 8 (6.667 %) Project Engineer 4 6 (5.000 %) Analyst 5 5 (4.167 %) Infrastructure Manager 6 4 (3.333 %) Technical Manager 6 4 (3.333 %) IT Manager 6 4 (3.333 %) Senior Project Manager 6 4 (3.333 %) Senior Manager 7 3 (2.500 %) Change Manager 7 3 (2.500 %) IT Project Manager 7 3 (2.500 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 7 3 (2.500 %) Implementation Manager 7 3 (2.500 %) Communications Manager 8 2 (1.667 %) Development Project Manager 8 2 (1.667 %) PMO Assistant 8 2 (1.667 %) Resource Manager 8 2 (1.667 %) Test Analyst 8 2 (1.667 %) Development Manager	Miscellaneous 1 4 (3.333 %) Mathematics 2 3 (2.500 %) Management Information System 3 2 (1.667 %) IVR 3 2 (1.667 %) Mainframe 4 1 (0.833 %) PMI 4 1 (0.833 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 3 (2.500 %) Windows 2 2 (1.667 %) Windows 2000 2 2 (1.667 %) Unix 3 1 (0.833 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 28 (23.33 %) PRINCE2 2 8 (6.667 %) Risk Management 2 8 (6.667 %) Agile Software Development 3 7 (5.833 %) Stakeholder Management 3 7 (5.833 %) ITIL 4 6 (5.000 %) CRM 4 6 (5.000 %) Change Management 5 5 (4.167 %) BPR 5 5 (4.167 %) Scrum 5 5 (4.167 %) Supplier Management 5 5 (4.167 %) Project Planning 5 5 (4.167 %) Migration 6 4 (3.333 %) Six Sigma 7 3 (2.500 %) Disaster Recovery 7 3 (2.500 %) Configuration Management 7 3 (2.500 %) Data Modelling 7 3 (2.500 %) Resource Management 7 3 (2.500 %) Matrix Management 7 3 (2.500 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 3 (2.500 %) Test Management
Programming Languages 1 6 (5.000 %) Java 2 3 (2.500 %) C 3 1 (0.833 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 9 (7.500 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 7 (5.833 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 4 (3.333 %) Citrix Certification 4 3 (2.500 %) Degree 5 2 (1.667 %) ISEB 5 2 (1.667 %) ITIL Certification 6 1 (0.833 %) PMP 6 1 (0.833 %) PMI Certification 6 1 (0.833 %) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.667 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (0.833 %) Active Directory 1 1 (0.833 %) VMware ESX
Vendors 1 7 (5.833 %) Microsoft 2 4 (3.333 %) SAP 3 1 (0.833 %) Cisco 3 1 (0.833 %) Compuware 3 1 (0.833 %) EMC 3 1 (0.833 %) BEA 3 1 (0.833 %) JDA 3 1 (0.833 %) Novell 3 1 (0.833 %) Lotus 3 1 (0.833 %) JD Edwards 3 1 (0.833 %) TIBCO 3 1 (0.833 %) VMware