Chester Project Leader Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Project Leader role in IT contracts within the Chester 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 Leader in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire Bristol Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry East of England England Glasgow Halifax Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds London Manchester North East North West Reading Scotland Slough South East South West Staines Surrey UK Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	4	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	2.454 %	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	£358	£351
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
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	£55.00	£30.71
% change on same period last year	+79.07 %
Job Titles Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	163	157
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.215 %	0.156 %
Daily rates quoted	40	23
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£202
Average daily rate	£341	£212
% change on same period last year	+61.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£221
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.41	£18.72
Average hourly rate	£25.65	£20.42
% change on same period last year	+25.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.89	£22.12
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Project Leader 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Project Leader across the Chester 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 Leader across the Chester region.

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Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region that cited Project Leader 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 Leader in their job title.

1 5 (83.33 %) Finance 2 4 (66.67 %) Ab Initio 3 3 (50.00 %) Banking 3 3 (50.00 %) Project Management 4 2 (33.33 %) MS Project 4 2 (33.33 %) MS Excel 4 2 (33.33 %) International Banking 4 2 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft 5 1 (16.67 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (16.67 %) Retail 5 1 (16.67 %) Retail Banking

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications 1 2 (33.33 %) MS Project 1 2 (33.33 %) MS Excel	General 1 5 (83.33 %) Finance 2 3 (50.00 %) Banking 3 2 (33.33 %) International Banking 4 1 (16.67 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (16.67 %) Retail 4 1 (16.67 %) Retail Banking
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (50.00 %) Project Management 2 2 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing	Vendors 1 4 (66.67 %) Ab Initio 2 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft