Bristol Project Planning Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Planning 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 Planning over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Project Planning
Location Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Croydon Darlington Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Witham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	45
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	24	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	5.240 %	4.786 %
Daily rates quoted	8	7
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£314
Average daily rate	£356	£326
% change on same period last year	+9.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£349
% change on same period last year	-1.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£20.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.52	£42.99
% change on same period last year	-33.64 %
Processes & Methodologies Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	458	397
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.588 %	0.446 %
Daily rates quoted	170	139
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£353
Average daily rate	£353	£371
% change on same period last year	-4.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£376
% change on same period last year	+2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	53	66
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.25	£26.19
Average hourly rate	£24.71	£27.60
% change on same period last year	-10.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.18	£29.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.61	£29.48
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
Project Planning 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.

Project Planning
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Project Planning across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Project Planning
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Project Planning across the Bristol region.

Project Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Planning across the Bristol region over the past 3 months.

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Project Planning
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Bristol region citing Project Planning 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 Planning.

1 10 (33.33 %) MS Project 2 9 (30.00 %) Finance 3 7 (23.33 %) Disaster Recovery 3 7 (23.33 %) VMware 3 7 (23.33 %) HP 4 6 (20.00 %) MS Office 5 5 (16.67 %) MS Excel 5 5 (16.67 %) Project Management 5 5 (16.67 %) Government 5 5 (16.67 %) MS PowerPoint 6 4 (13.33 %) Banking 6 4 (13.33 %) Insurance 7 3 (10.00 %) Citrix 7 3 (10.00 %) SharePoint 7 3 (10.00 %) PRINCE2

7 3 (10.00 %) Test Management 7 3 (10.00 %) Resource Management 7 3 (10.00 %) QA 7 3 (10.00 %) Retail 7 3 (10.00 %) Telecoms 7 3 (10.00 %) Retail Banking 8 2 (6.667 %) Credit Risk 8 2 (6.667 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 8 2 (6.667 %) Risk Management 8 2 (6.667 %) Microsoft 8 2 (6.667 %) CRM 8 2 (6.667 %) ITIL 9 1 (3.333 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 1 (3.333 %) ERP 9 1 (3.333 %) MS Visio

Project Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Bristol region citing Project Planning 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 Planning. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 3 (10.00 %) SharePoint	Applications 1 10 (33.33 %) MS Project 2 6 (20.00 %) MS Office 3 5 (16.67 %) MS Excel 3 5 (16.67 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (3.333 %) MS Visio
Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.333 %) Wireless	General 1 9 (30.00 %) Finance 2 5 (16.67 %) Government 3 4 (13.33 %) Banking 3 4 (13.33 %) Insurance 4 3 (10.00 %) Telecoms 4 3 (10.00 %) Retail Banking 4 3 (10.00 %) Retail 5 1 (3.333 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 6 (20.00 %) Project Manager 2 5 (16.67 %) Architect 2 5 (16.67 %) Technical Architect 3 4 (13.33 %) Project Planner 3 4 (13.33 %) Lead Technical Architect 3 4 (13.33 %) Lead Architect 3 4 (13.33 %) Technical Assurance Architect 4 3 (10.00 %) Coordinator 4 3 (10.00 %) Release Manager 4 3 (10.00 %) Project Coordinator 5 2 (6.667 %) Analyst 5 2 (6.667 %) Credit Risk Project Manager 6 1 (3.333 %) Project Officer 6 1 (3.333 %) Support Analyst 6 1 (3.333 %) Administrator 6 1 (3.333 %) Business Analyst 6 1 (3.333 %) Project Support Officer 6 1 (3.333 %) Project Analyst 6 1 (3.333 %) IT Administrator 6 1 (3.333 %) Programme Planner	Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.667 %) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (23.33 %) Disaster Recovery 2 5 (16.67 %) Project Management 3 3 (10.00 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (10.00 %) Resource Management 3 3 (10.00 %) Test Management 4 2 (6.667 %) Risk Management 4 2 (6.667 %) CRM 4 2 (6.667 %) ITIL 5 1 (3.333 %) ERP 5 1 (3.333 %) Stakeholder Management	Qualifications 1 2 (6.667 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (3.333 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (3.333 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (10.00 %) QA	Vendors 1 7 (23.33 %) HP 1 7 (23.33 %) VMware 2 3 (10.00 %) Citrix 3 2 (6.667 %) Microsoft