Cambridgeshire Project Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Project Manager role in IT contracts within the Cambridgeshire 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 Project Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Project Manager
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chesham Cheshire Cheshunt Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Crowthorne Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Tyneside North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Weymouth Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	32
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	22	51
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.051 %
As % of the category below	3.338 %	4.890 %
Daily rates quoted	11	16
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£378
Average daily rate	£393	£408
% change on same period last year	-3.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£430	£438
UK excluding London average daily rate	£411	£406
% change on same period last year	+1.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.00	-
Average hourly rate	£28.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.66	£36.55
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Job Titles Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	659	1043
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.921 %	1.048 %
Daily rates quoted	133	189
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£307
Average daily rate	£337	£324
% change on same period last year	+3.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	147	185
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.77	£28.56
Average hourly rate	£21.26	£30.48
% change on same period last year	-30.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.76	£32.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.74	£25.24
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
Project Manager East of England

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 Manager across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Manager across the Cambridgeshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Manager across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Project Manager across the Cambridgeshire 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 Project Manager within the Cambridgeshire 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
Cambridge	-1	11	£336	-28.21 %
Peterborough	+3	4	£423	+25.43 %

Project Manager East of England

Project Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region that cited Project 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 Project Manager in their job title.

1 42 (65.63 %) Project Management 2 17 (26.56 %) PRINCE2 3 16 (25.00 %) Electronics 4 15 (23.44 %) MS Project 5 14 (21.88 %) Finance 6 12 (18.75 %) ASIC 7 7 (10.94 %) PRINCE 8 5 (7.813 %) PRINCE2 Certification 8 5 (7.813 %) Project Planning 8 5 (7.813 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 9 4 (6.250 %) Pensions 9 4 (6.250 %) Change Management 9 4 (6.250 %) Government 9 4 (6.250 %) Microsoft 9 4 (6.250 %) MS Excel

10 3 (4.688 %) OO 10 3 (4.688 %) MS Office 10 3 (4.688 %) ASP.NET 10 3 (4.688 %) C# 10 3 (4.688 %) .NET 10 3 (4.688 %) Manufacturing 10 3 (4.688 %) Back Office 10 3 (4.688 %) Quality Management 10 3 (4.688 %) Degree 10 3 (4.688 %) BC Cleared 10 3 (4.688 %) Security Cleared 10 3 (4.688 %) Stakeholder Management 10 3 (4.688 %) Insurance 11 2 (3.125 %) Asset Management 11 2 (3.125 %) Northgate

Project Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region that cited Project 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 Project Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (4.688 %) .NET 1 3 (4.688 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (3.125 %) XML 2 2 (3.125 %) HTML 3 1 (1.563 %) WAP 3 1 (1.563 %) LAMP	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.125 %) Lotus Notes 1 2 (3.125 %) Apache 1 2 (3.125 %) Tomcat 2 1 (1.563 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (1.563 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 15 (23.44 %) MS Project 2 4 (6.250 %) MS Excel 3 3 (4.688 %) MS Office 4 1 (1.563 %) MS Visio 4 1 (1.563 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (1.563 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 2 (3.125 %) Academy Housing 1 2 (3.125 %) arcHouse 2 1 (1.563 %) Dynamics AX 2 1 (1.563 %) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.125 %) SMTP 1 2 (3.125 %) FTP 1 2 (3.125 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (3.125 %) DNS 1 2 (3.125 %) Firewall 1 2 (3.125 %) SSH 1 2 (3.125 %) Intrusion Detection 2 1 (1.563 %) WAN 2 1 (1.563 %) SAN 2 1 (1.563 %) PPP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (3.125 %) MySQL 1 2 (3.125 %) SQL Server 1 2 (3.125 %) OLAP 1 2 (3.125 %) Data Mining 1 2 (3.125 %) SQL Server 2000 1 2 (3.125 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 1 2 (3.125 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
General 1 16 (25.00 %) Electronics 2 14 (21.88 %) Finance 3 4 (6.250 %) Government 3 4 (6.250 %) Pensions 4 3 (4.688 %) Manufacturing 4 3 (4.688 %) Insurance 4 3 (4.688 %) Back Office 5 2 (3.125 %) Pharmaceutical 5 2 (3.125 %) Health 6 1 (1.563 %) Construction 6 1 (1.563 %) Telecoms 6 1 (1.563 %) Local Government 6 1 (1.563 %) Advertising 6 1 (1.563 %) Marketing	Miscellaneous 1 12 (18.75 %) ASIC 2 2 (3.125 %) NHS 3 1 (1.563 %) DTV 3 1 (1.563 %) E-Learning 3 1 (1.563 %) STB 3 1 (1.563 %) IPTV
Operating Systems 1 2 (3.125 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 42 (65.63 %) Project Management 2 17 (26.56 %) PRINCE2 3 7 (10.94 %) PRINCE 4 5 (7.813 %) Project Planning 5 4 (6.250 %) Change Management 6 3 (4.688 %) Stakeholder Management 6 3 (4.688 %) OO 6 3 (4.688 %) Quality Management 6 3 (4.688 %) BC Cleared 6 3 (4.688 %) Security Cleared 7 2 (3.125 %) Asset Management 7 2 (3.125 %) ITIL 7 2 (3.125 %) ERP 7 2 (3.125 %) Migration 8 1 (1.563 %) Disaster Recovery 8 1 (1.563 %) Scrum 8 1 (1.563 %) Programme Management 8 1 (1.563 %) IC Design 8 1 (1.563 %) RAD 8 1 (1.563 %) RUP
Programming Languages 1 3 (4.688 %) C# 2 2 (3.125 %) C++ 2 2 (3.125 %) SQL 2 2 (3.125 %) VBA 2 2 (3.125 %) C 3 1 (1.563 %) Embedded C 3 1 (1.563 %) Java 3 1 (1.563 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 5 (7.813 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 5 (7.813 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 3 (4.688 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.563 %) SLA	Vendors 1 4 (6.250 %) Microsoft 2 2 (3.125 %) Lotus 2 2 (3.125 %) Anite 2 2 (3.125 %) Northgate 2 2 (3.125 %) Civica 2 2 (3.125 %) Capita 2 2 (3.125 %) Orchard 3 1 (1.563 %) Oracle