Buckinghamshire Project Planning Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Planning skills within the Buckinghamshire 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	57	77
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	33	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.042 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	4.286 %	1.464 %
Daily rates quoted	7	6
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£286
Average daily rate	£326	£298
% change on same period last year	+9.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£353	£311
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£349
% change on same period last year	-1.29 %
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	£28.52	£42.99
% change on same period last year	-33.64 %
Processes & Methodologies Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	770	683
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.988 %	0.767 %
Daily rates quoted	232	143
Average minimum daily rate	£379	£362
Average daily rate	£399	£390
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£419	£417
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£376
% change on same period last year	+2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	64	51
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.47	£30.49
Average hourly rate	£30.55	£31.98
% change on same period last year	-4.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.63	£33.47
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.61	£29.48
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
Project Planning 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.

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 Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Project Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Planning across the Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Project Planning
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Planning within the Buckinghamshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Milton Keynes	-8	17	£375	+23.45 %
2	Aylesbury	-	2	£210	-

Project Planning South East

Project Planning
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 15 (32.61 %) AIX 1 15 (32.61 %) IBM 1 15 (32.61 %) SAN 2 13 (28.26 %) Finance 3 12 (26.09 %) Stakeholder Management 4 9 (19.57 %) Banking 5 7 (15.22 %) Retail 5 7 (15.22 %) Sage 6 6 (13.04 %) Microsoft 6 6 (13.04 %) SQL 6 6 (13.04 %) Windows 6 6 (13.04 %) Retail Banking 7 5 (10.87 %) GoldMine 7 5 (10.87 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 5 (10.87 %) Web Design

7 5 (10.87 %) PHP 7 5 (10.87 %) ASP 7 5 (10.87 %) PRINCE2 7 5 (10.87 %) Business Objects 7 5 (10.87 %) Linux 7 5 (10.87 %) Windows 2000 7 5 (10.87 %) Active Directory 7 5 (10.87 %) BusinessObjects 7 5 (10.87 %) MS Exchange 8 4 (8.696 %) PRINCE2 Certification 8 4 (8.696 %) Project Management 8 4 (8.696 %) MS Project 8 4 (8.696 %) Government 9 3 (6.522 %) Programme Management 9 3 (6.522 %) Economics

Project Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 Development 1 5 (10.87 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 5 (10.87 %) MS Exchange 1 5 (10.87 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 2 (4.348 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 4 (8.696 %) MS Project 2 3 (6.522 %) MS Excel 3 1 (2.174 %) MS Visio 3 1 (2.174 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 5 (10.87 %) GoldMine
Communications & Networking 1 15 (32.61 %) SAN 2 2 (4.348 %) Internet 2 2 (4.348 %) Extranet 3 1 (2.174 %) CTI 3 1 (2.174 %) LAN 3 1 (2.174 %) VoIP 3 1 (2.174 %) WAN 3 1 (2.174 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (10.87 %) BusinessObjects 2 2 (4.348 %) MS Access
General 1 13 (28.26 %) Finance 2 9 (19.57 %) Banking 3 7 (15.22 %) Retail 4 6 (13.04 %) Retail Banking 5 4 (8.696 %) Government 6 2 (4.348 %) Telecoms 7 1 (2.174 %) Criminal Justice 7 1 (2.174 %) International Banking	Job Titles 1 15 (32.61 %) Storage Specialist 2 9 (19.57 %) Project Manager 3 6 (13.04 %) Analyst 4 4 (8.696 %) Project Support Officer 4 4 (8.696 %) Project Officer 4 4 (8.696 %) Programme Manager 5 3 (6.522 %) Administrator 5 3 (6.522 %) Network Administrator 5 3 (6.522 %) Business Analyst 6 2 (4.348 %) IT Manager 6 2 (4.348 %) Financial Services Business Analyst 6 2 (4.348 %) Financial Business Analyst 6 2 (4.348 %) Infrastructure Manager 7 1 (2.174 %) IT Programme Manager 7 1 (2.174 %) Risk Analyst 7 1 (2.174 %) Banking Analyst 7 1 (2.174 %) Banking Business Analyst 7 1 (2.174 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 7 1 (2.174 %) IT Project Manager 7 1 (2.174 %) Network Manager
Miscellaneous 1 3 (6.522 %) Economics 2 2 (4.348 %) Replication 3 1 (2.174 %) IVR 3 1 (2.174 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 15 (32.61 %) AIX 2 6 (13.04 %) Windows 3 5 (10.87 %) Linux 3 5 (10.87 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (2.174 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (26.09 %) Stakeholder Management 2 5 (10.87 %) Web Design 2 5 (10.87 %) PRINCE2 3 4 (8.696 %) Project Management 4 3 (6.522 %) Programme Management 5 2 (4.348 %) Change Management 5 2 (4.348 %) Risk Management 5 2 (4.348 %) Migration 5 2 (4.348 %) CRM 5 2 (4.348 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 2 (4.348 %) System Testing 6 1 (2.174 %) SOA 6 1 (2.174 %) Configuration Management 6 1 (2.174 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (2.174 %) Zachman Framework 6 1 (2.174 %) TOGAF 6 1 (2.174 %) Logistics 6 1 (2.174 %) Enterprise Architecture 6 1 (2.174 %) Resource Management	Programming Languages 1 6 (13.04 %) SQL 2 5 (10.87 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 4 (8.696 %) PRINCE2 Certification	System Software 1 5 (10.87 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 15 (32.61 %) IBM 2 7 (15.22 %) Sage 3 6 (13.04 %) Microsoft 4 5 (10.87 %) Business Objects 5 2 (4.348 %) Lotus 6 1 (2.174 %) Avaya