The first table below looks at the demand for Resource Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Resource Management over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Buckinghamshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Resource Management
Rank 71 70 73
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +3
Contract jobs citing Resource Management 2 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.247% 0.398% 0.285%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.354% 0.598% 0.467%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £394 £203 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+94.44% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £390 £375
% change year-on-year
-3.84% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.58 £32.50 £19.72
% change year-on-year
-39.76% +64.80%
All Processes & Methodologies
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
565 669 643
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 69.75% 66.63% 61.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 316 269
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £186 £200 £198
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £508
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 31 47
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.58 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.60 £18.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Resource Management
South East

Resource Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Resource Management across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Buckinghamshire Resource Management Jobs Demand Trend

Resource Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Resource Management across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Resource Management Daily Rate Trend

Resource Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Resource Management across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Resource Management Hourly Rate Trend

Resource Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Resource Management within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes - 2 £394 -
Resource Management
South East

Resource Management
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Resource Management also 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 that cited Resource Management.

1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (50.00%) Test Management
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (25.00%) Automotive

Resource Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Resource Management also 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 that cited Resource Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (25.00%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Testing Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior QA Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (25.00%) QA Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
1 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 2 (50.00%) Test Management
1 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA