Cambridge Project Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Management skills within the Cambridge 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 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Argyll and Bute Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Conwy Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenwich Guernsey Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Musselburgh New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Tyneside North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rhyl Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	20
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	18	39
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.039 %
As % of the category below	9.783 %	15.98 %
Daily rates quoted	1	12
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£348
Average daily rate	£325	£359
% change on same period last year	-9.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£394	£385
% change on same period last year	+2.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£22.50
Average hourly rate	£38.33	£24.75
% change on same period last year	+54.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.67	£27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.27	£29.55
% change on same period last year	-7.70 %
Processes & Methodologies Cambridge
Matching contract IT job ads	184	244
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.245 %	0.247 %
Daily rates quoted	40	73
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£335
Average daily rate	£351	£357
% change on same period last year	-1.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.20	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£29.54	£37.30
% change on same period last year	-20.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.88	£39.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Project Management Cambridgeshire

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Project Management across the Cambridge 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 IT contract jobs citing Project Management across the Cambridge region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Project Management across the Cambridge region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Management across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Project 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 Project Management.

1 16 (32.65 %) Electronics 2 15 (30.61 %) MS Project 3 12 (24.49 %) ASIC 4 9 (18.37 %) PRINCE2 5 8 (16.33 %) Microsoft 6 6 (12.24 %) SharePoint 6 6 (12.24 %) Oracle 6 6 (12.24 %) Degree 7 5 (10.20 %) SQL Server 7 5 (10.20 %) Windows 7 5 (10.20 %) Tomcat 7 5 (10.20 %) Internet 8 4 (8.163 %) DNS 8 4 (8.163 %) MS Visio 8 4 (8.163 %) Linux

8 4 (8.163 %) .NET 8 4 (8.163 %) PL/SQL 8 4 (8.163 %) SQL 8 4 (8.163 %) Transact-SQL 8 4 (8.163 %) Marketing 8 4 (8.163 %) Agile Software Development 9 3 (6.122 %) Retail 9 3 (6.122 %) Content Management 9 3 (6.122 %) Spring 9 3 (6.122 %) Hibernate 9 3 (6.122 %) Education 9 3 (6.122 %) J2EE 9 3 (6.122 %) JUnit 9 3 (6.122 %) Windows 2000 9 3 (6.122 %) Struts

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Project 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 Project Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (8.163 %) .NET 2 3 (6.122 %) J2EE 2 3 (6.122 %) Struts 2 3 (6.122 %) WebServices 2 3 (6.122 %) Hibernate 2 3 (6.122 %) Spring 3 2 (4.082 %) HTML 3 2 (4.082 %) XML 4 1 (2.041 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 6 (12.24 %) SharePoint 2 5 (10.20 %) Tomcat 3 3 (6.122 %) BizTalk Server 3 3 (6.122 %) Content Management Server 4 2 (4.082 %) Apache 4 2 (4.082 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 1 (2.041 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 1 (2.041 %) Smallworld
Applications 1 15 (30.61 %) MS Project 2 4 (8.163 %) MS Visio 3 1 (2.041 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (2.041 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 5 (10.20 %) Internet 2 4 (8.163 %) DNS 3 3 (6.122 %) Intranet 4 2 (4.082 %) SSH 4 2 (4.082 %) Intrusion Detection 4 2 (4.082 %) Firewall 4 2 (4.082 %) SMTP 4 2 (4.082 %) DHCP 4 2 (4.082 %) FTP 4 2 (4.082 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (2.041 %) CDMA 5 1 (2.041 %) GPRS 5 1 (2.041 %) GSM 5 1 (2.041 %) UMTS 5 1 (2.041 %) Wi-Fi 5 1 (2.041 %) Wireless 5 1 (2.041 %) HSDPA 5 1 (2.041 %) HSUPA
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (10.20 %) SQL Server 2 2 (4.082 %) MySQL 3 1 (2.041 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (2.041 %) GIS	Development Applications 1 3 (6.122 %) JUnit 2 1 (2.041 %) Visual Studio
General 1 16 (32.65 %) Electronics 2 4 (8.163 %) Marketing 3 3 (6.122 %) Retail 3 3 (6.122 %) Education 4 2 (4.082 %) Health 4 2 (4.082 %) Telecoms 4 2 (4.082 %) Finance 5 1 (2.041 %) Construction 5 1 (2.041 %) Banking 5 1 (2.041 %) Government 5 1 (2.041 %) Pensions 5 1 (2.041 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 29 (59.18 %) Project Manager 2 5 (10.20 %) Analyst 2 5 (10.20 %) Applications Support 3 4 (8.163 %) Applications Support Analyst 3 4 (8.163 %) Support Analyst 4 3 (6.122 %) Senior Software Engineer 4 3 (6.122 %) Technical Manager 4 3 (6.122 %) J2EE Software Engineer 4 3 (6.122 %) Senior J2EE Software Engineer 4 3 (6.122 %) Software Engineer 4 3 (6.122 %) Developer 5 2 (4.082 %) Architect 5 2 (4.082 %) Senior Developer 5 2 (4.082 %) Operations Manager 5 2 (4.082 %) IT Manager 5 2 (4.082 %) C++ Team Leader 5 2 (4.082 %) Enterprise Architect 5 2 (4.082 %) C++ Developer 5 2 (4.082 %) Team Leader 5 2 (4.082 %) IT Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 12 (24.49 %) ASIC 2 2 (4.082 %) Management Information System 2 2 (4.082 %) Mathematics 2 2 (4.082 %) Computer Science 3 1 (2.041 %) STB 3 1 (2.041 %) IPTV 3 1 (2.041 %) DTV	Operating Systems 1 5 (10.20 %) Windows 2 4 (8.163 %) Linux 3 3 (6.122 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (4.082 %) Windows NT 5 1 (2.041 %) AIX 5 1 (2.041 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (18.37 %) PRINCE2 2 4 (8.163 %) Agile Software Development 3 3 (6.122 %) Content Management 4 2 (4.082 %) Software Engineering 4 2 (4.082 %) ITIL 4 2 (4.082 %) IC Design 4 2 (4.082 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (2.041 %) PRINCE 5 1 (2.041 %) Change Management 5 1 (2.041 %) Migration 5 1 (2.041 %) OO 5 1 (2.041 %) RUP 5 1 (2.041 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (2.041 %) Enterprise Architecture 5 1 (2.041 %) Product Marketing 5 1 (2.041 %) Logistics 5 1 (2.041 %) Zachman Framework 5 1 (2.041 %) TOGAF	Programming Languages 1 4 (8.163 %) PL/SQL 1 4 (8.163 %) SQL 1 4 (8.163 %) Transact-SQL 2 2 (4.082 %) VB 2 2 (4.082 %) C# 2 2 (4.082 %) C++ 2 2 (4.082 %) VB6 3 1 (2.041 %) C 3 1 (2.041 %) Java 3 1 (2.041 %) Magik
Qualifications 1 6 (12.24 %) Degree 2 1 (2.041 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (2.041 %) MCSE 2 1 (2.041 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.082 %) SLA
Vendors 1 8 (16.33 %) Microsoft 2 6 (12.24 %) Oracle 3 1 (2.041 %) IBM 3 1 (2.041 %) Primavera