Cheshire Project Planning Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Planning skills within the Cheshire 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 15 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 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 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 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	67	50
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching contract IT job ads	11	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	2.079 %	1.061 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£125
Average daily rate	£328	£138
% change on same period last year	+138.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£331	£150
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£349
% change on same period last year	-1.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£42.50
Average hourly rate	£40.50	£42.50
% change on same period last year	-4.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.00	£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.52	£41.49
% change on same period last year	-31.25 %
Processes & Methodologies Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	529	377
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.679 %	0.424 %
Daily rates quoted	185	132
Average minimum daily rate	£330	£317
Average daily rate	£344	£330
% change on same period last year	+4.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	49	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.11	£28.40
Average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.71	£31.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.72	£29.49
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Project Planning North West

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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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	Chester	-	3	£405	-
2	Warrington	-	1	-	-
2	Wilmslow	-	1	£210	-
2	Alderley Edge	-	1	-	-

Project Planning North West

Project Planning
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 5 (41.67 %) Project Management 1 5 (41.67 %) Finance 2 3 (25.00 %) Document Management 2 3 (25.00 %) CheckPoint 2 3 (25.00 %) Intranet 3 2 (16.67 %) CMS 3 2 (16.67 %) Banking 3 2 (16.67 %) QMS 3 2 (16.67 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (8.333 %) Microsoft 4 1 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (8.333 %) PMI 4 1 (8.333 %) Internet 4 1 (8.333 %) TIBCO 4 1 (8.333 %) ClearQuest

4 1 (8.333 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (8.333 %) C 4 1 (8.333 %) C++ 4 1 (8.333 %) Java 4 1 (8.333 %) MS Project 4 1 (8.333 %) HNC 4 1 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (8.333 %) Unix 4 1 (8.333 %) Windows 4 1 (8.333 %) ClearCase 4 1 (8.333 %) Ada 4 1 (8.333 %) Data Analysis 4 1 (8.333 %) Insurance 4 1 (8.333 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (8.333 %) Requirements Analysis

Project Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 Platforms 1 2 (16.67 %) CMS	Applications 1 1 (8.333 %) MS Project 1 1 (8.333 %) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications 1 1 (8.333 %) Staffware	Communications & Networking 1 3 (25.00 %) Intranet 2 1 (8.333 %) Internet
Development Applications 1 1 (8.333 %) ClearCase 1 1 (8.333 %) ClearQuest	General 1 5 (41.67 %) Finance 2 2 (16.67 %) Banking 3 1 (8.333 %) Insurance 3 1 (8.333 %) International Banking 3 1 (8.333 %) Marketing 3 1 (8.333 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 4 (33.33 %) Project Manager 2 3 (25.00 %) Project Coordinator 2 3 (25.00 %) Coordinator 3 1 (8.333 %) Delivery Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) Applications Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) PMO Analyst 3 1 (8.333 %) Software Engineer 3 1 (8.333 %) Analyst 3 1 (8.333 %) Test Manager	Miscellaneous 1 1 (8.333 %) PMI
Operating Systems 1 1 (8.333 %) Unix 1 1 (8.333 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (41.67 %) Project Management 2 3 (25.00 %) Document Management 3 2 (16.67 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (16.67 %) QMS 4 1 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (8.333 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (8.333 %) Information Management 4 1 (8.333 %) Data Analysis 4 1 (8.333 %) Requirements Analysis 4 1 (8.333 %) Direct Marketing 4 1 (8.333 %) Test Management 4 1 (8.333 %) Performance Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (8.333 %) C 1 1 (8.333 %) C++ 1 1 (8.333 %) Java 1 1 (8.333 %) Ada	Qualifications 1 1 (8.333 %) HNC 1 1 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 1 (8.333 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (8.333 %) Basel II	Vendors 1 3 (25.00 %) CheckPoint 2 1 (8.333 %) TIBCO 2 1 (8.333 %) Microsoft