Chester PMP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Management Professional (PMP) in IT contracts within the Chester region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PMP over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Project Management Professional (PMP)
Location Berkshire Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cheshire Chester City of London Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Leicester Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Manchester Middlesex Midlands North West Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Reading Redditch Redhill Scotland Sheffield Slough South Coast South East South West South Yorkshire Staines Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon UK Wakefield Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	2.778 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£423	£469
% change on same period last year	-9.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£35.50
% change on same period last year	-
Qualifications Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	36	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.048 %	0.014 %
Daily rates quoted	9	1
Average minimum daily rate	£266	£200
Average daily rate	£278	£200
% change on same period last year	+38.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£289	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£329
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.72	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£18.94	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-24.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.15	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.48	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-4.69 %
PMP Cheshire

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.

PMP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PMP across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

PMP
Top 2 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing PMP 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 PMP.

1 1 (100.00 %) PMI Certification 1 1 (100.00 %) Project Management

PMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing PMP 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 PMP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Coordinator 1 1 (100.00 %) Project Manager 1 1 (100.00 %) Project Coordinator	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) Project Management
Qualifications 1 1 (100.00 %) PMI Certification