The first table below looks at the demand for the Project Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Project Manager in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Cheshire 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
Project Manager
Rank 8 4 24
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 90 111 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 12.24% 13.79% 5.858%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.41% 15.12% 6.390%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 49 28
Average daily rate £370 £364 £348
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.71% +4.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £300 £321
10% offered a daily rate of more than £454 £455 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £403 £405
% change year-on-year
-0.62% -0.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £42.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £28.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year
+35.00% -18.75%
All Job Titles
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
671 734 892
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 91.29% 91.18% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 375 492
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £481 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 20 36
Average hourly rate £37.50 £25.00 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% +61.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £34.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Project Manager
North West

Project Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Project Manager across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Cheshire Project Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Project Manager across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Project Manager Daily Rate Trend

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Manager across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Cheshire Project Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Project Manager across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Project Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Manager across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Cheshire Project Manager Hourly Rate Histogram

Project Manager
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 Cheshire 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
Chester -3 23 £375 +3.44%
Knutsford +7 20 £365 +12.30%
Warrington -5 10 £345 -5.47%
Macclesfield 0 3 - -
Project Manager
North West

Project Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 85 (50.90%) Project Management
2 74 (44.31%) Finance
3 56 (33.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 53 (31.74%) PRINCE2
5 49 (29.34%) Banking
6 25 (14.97%) Windows
6 25 (14.97%) Migration
7 22 (13.17%) Retail
7 22 (13.17%) UNIX
7 22 (13.17%) ITIL
8 17 (10.18%) Change Management
8 17 (10.18%) Retail Banking
9 16 (9.581%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 15 (8.982%) Linux
10 15 (8.982%) Risk Management
11 14 (8.383%) VMware
11 14 (8.383%) PMI Certification
12 13 (7.784%) WAN
12 13 (7.784%) Information Security
13 12 (7.186%) Middleware
13 12 (7.186%) Citrix
14 11 (6.587%) AIX
14 11 (6.587%) Windows 8
15 10 (5.988%) Business Continuity
15 10 (5.988%) IBM
15 10 (5.988%) SharePoint
16 9 (5.389%) Oracle
16 9 (5.389%) BMC
16 9 (5.389%) PMI
16 9 (5.389%) Supplier Management

Project Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 12 (7.186%) Middleware
2 5 (2.994%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.599%) COM
Application Platforms
1 10 (5.988%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.395%) MS Exchange
2 4 (2.395%) CMS
3 3 (1.796%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (1.796%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 8 (4.790%) MS Project
2 7 (4.192%) MS Excel
3 3 (1.796%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.599%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.395%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.198%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.784%) WAN
2 7 (4.192%) LAN
3 5 (2.994%) Extranet
4 4 (2.395%) Internet
5 2 (1.198%) HTTP
5 2 (1.198%) Firewall
6 1 (0.599%) Intranet
6 1 (0.599%) SAN
6 1 (0.599%) LDAP
6 1 (0.599%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.198%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.599%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.599%) DB2
General
1 74 (44.31%) Finance
2 49 (29.34%) Banking
3 22 (13.17%) Retail
4 17 (10.18%) Retail Banking
5 8 (4.790%) Local Government
6 6 (3.593%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.796%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.796%) French Language
8 2 (1.198%) Marketing
8 2 (1.198%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.599%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.599%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.599%) Back Office
9 1 (0.599%) Corporate Banking
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.389%) PMI
2 8 (4.790%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.395%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.796%) SaaS
5 2 (1.198%) Online Banking
5 2 (1.198%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (0.599%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.599%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.97%) Windows
2 22 (13.17%) UNIX
3 15 (8.982%) Linux
4 11 (6.587%) AIX
4 11 (6.587%) Windows 8
5 7 (4.192%) Windows 7
6 3 (1.796%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (1.796%) Windows 2000
7 2 (1.198%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.599%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (50.90%) Project Management
2 56 (33.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 53 (31.74%) PRINCE2
4 25 (14.97%) Migration
5 22 (13.17%) ITIL
6 17 (10.18%) Change Management
7 15 (8.982%) Risk Management
8 13 (7.784%) Information Security
9 10 (5.988%) Business Continuity
10 9 (5.389%) Supplier Management
11 7 (4.192%) PRINCE
11 7 (4.192%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 6 (3.593%) Project Planning
13 5 (2.994%) Content Management
13 5 (2.994%) Workflow
13 5 (2.994%) E-Commerce
13 5 (2.994%) Resource Management
13 5 (2.994%) Time Management
14 4 (2.395%) Change Control
14 4 (2.395%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.395%) SQL
2 1 (0.599%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (9.581%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 14 (8.383%) PMI Certification
3 7 (4.192%) PMP
4 3 (1.796%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.198%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.198%) Degree
5 2 (1.198%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.599%) CIPD
6 1 (0.599%) CISM
6 1 (0.599%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.599%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.796%) QA
2 1 (0.599%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.796%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.198%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (2.395%) SCCM
2 3 (1.796%) BladeLogic
3 2 (1.198%) AppDNA
4 1 (0.599%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.599%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 14 (8.383%) VMware
2 12 (7.186%) Citrix
3 10 (5.988%) IBM
4 9 (5.389%) Oracle
4 9 (5.389%) BMC
5 8 (4.790%) Microsoft
6 7 (4.192%) SAP
6 7 (4.192%) Verint
7 5 (2.994%) Remedy
8 4 (2.395%) Siebel
8 4 (2.395%) Ariba
9 3 (1.796%) Nortel
9 3 (1.796%) Avaya
9 3 (1.796%) Genesys
10 2 (1.198%) Informatica
10 2 (1.198%) NetApp
10 2 (1.198%) BT
11 1 (0.599%) JD Edwards
11 1 (0.599%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.599%) Dell
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