Buckinghamshire Programme Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Programme Manager role in IT contracts within the Buckinghamshire 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 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Programme Manager
Location Aberdeen Andover Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury Camberley Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Croydon Darlington Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Rickmansworth Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Windsor Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	78	94
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	2	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.187 %	0.255 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£350	-
Average daily rate	£400	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£450	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£537	£519
% change on same period last year	+3.47 %
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	£53.75	£33.81
% change on same period last year	+58.97 %
Job Titles Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1069	1568
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.493 %	1.575 %
Daily rates quoted	337	386
Average minimum daily rate	£301	£300
Average daily rate	£321	£315
% change on same period last year	+1.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£342	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	131	235
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.91	£24.97
Average hourly rate	£21.02	£25.88
% change on same period last year	-18.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.14	£26.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.74	£25.24
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
Programme Manager South East

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.

Programme Manager
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Programme Manager across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Programme Manager
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Programme Manager across the Buckinghamshire region.

Programme Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Programme Manager across the Buckinghamshire region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Programme Manager within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Milton Keynes	+2	1	£400	-

Programme Manager South East

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Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 1 3 (37.50 %) Finance 2 2 (25.00 %) Project Management 2 2 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 2 2 (25.00 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (12.50 %) .NET 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows 3 1 (12.50 %) RUP 3 1 (12.50 %) Cisco 3 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 3 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory 3 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (12.50 %) Government 3 1 (12.50 %) Banking 3 1 (12.50 %) Retail

3 1 (12.50 %) Retail Banking 3 1 (12.50 %) Business Development 3 1 (12.50 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows Vista 3 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared

Programme Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 (12.50 %) .NET 1 1 (12.50 %) .NET Framework	General 1 3 (37.50 %) Finance 2 1 (12.50 %) Government 2 1 (12.50 %) Banking 2 1 (12.50 %) Retail 2 1 (12.50 %) Retail Banking 2 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms
Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 1 2 (25.00 %) Project Management 1 2 (25.00 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (12.50 %) Business Development 2 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (12.50 %) RUP
Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	System Software 1 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 2 1 (12.50 %) Cisco