Chester Project Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Management skills within the Chester region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Project Management over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Argyll and Bute Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Conwy Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenwich Guernsey Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Musselburgh New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Tyneside North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rhyl Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	5	21
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	33	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	25.78 %	6.061 %
Daily rates quoted	13	1
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£200
Average daily rate	£361	£200
% change on same period last year	+80.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£395	£382
% change on same period last year	+3.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.00	-
Average hourly rate	£25.25	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.19	£29.75
% change on same period last year	-8.59 %
Processes & Methodologies Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	128	66
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.170 %	0.068 %
Daily rates quoted	31	16
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£233
Average daily rate	£359	£246
% change on same period last year	+45.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£260
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£375
% change on same period last year	+1.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.64	£16.13
Average hourly rate	£23.66	£16.88
% change on same period last year	+40.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.67	£17.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.43	£30.35
% change on same period last year	-3.02 %
Project Management 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 Management across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies 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 Management across the Chester region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Management across the Chester region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Project Management across the Chester region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing Project Management 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 Project Management.

1 14 (30.43 %) Finance 2 10 (21.74 %) PRINCE2 3 7 (15.22 %) ITIL 3 7 (15.22 %) Service Delivery 3 7 (15.22 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 7 (15.22 %) Project Planning 3 7 (15.22 %) Matrix Management 4 6 (13.04 %) Banking 5 5 (10.87 %) PMI 5 5 (10.87 %) Change Management 5 5 (10.87 %) MS Project 5 5 (10.87 %) E-Commerce 6 4 (8.696 %) UNIX 6 4 (8.696 %) Windows 6 4 (8.696 %) Mainframe

6 4 (8.696 %) MS Excel 6 4 (8.696 %) Business Analysis 6 4 (8.696 %) Stakeholder Management 6 4 (8.696 %) International Banking 6 4 (8.696 %) Supplier Management 6 4 (8.696 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 3 (6.522 %) IBM Mainframe 7 3 (6.522 %) Auditing 7 3 (6.522 %) CMDB 7 3 (6.522 %) Risk Assessment 7 3 (6.522 %) VAX 7 3 (6.522 %) PRINCE 7 3 (6.522 %) SAP 7 3 (6.522 %) MS Visio 7 3 (6.522 %) IBM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing Project Management 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 Project Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 5 (10.87 %) MS Project 2 4 (8.696 %) MS Excel 3 3 (6.522 %) MS Visio 4 2 (4.348 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (2.174 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.174 %) LAN 1 1 (2.174 %) WAN 1 1 (2.174 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (2.174 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.174 %) Oracle Reports
General 1 14 (30.43 %) Finance 2 6 (13.04 %) Banking 3 4 (8.696 %) International Banking 4 3 (6.522 %) Auditing 5 2 (4.348 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (2.174 %) Back Office 6 1 (2.174 %) Government 6 1 (2.174 %) Marketing 6 1 (2.174 %) Local Government 6 1 (2.174 %) FMCG	Job Titles 1 28 (60.87 %) Project Manager 2 8 (17.39 %) Analyst 3 5 (10.87 %) Service Analyst 4 4 (8.696 %) Service Manager 4 4 (8.696 %) Services Delivery Analyst 5 3 (6.522 %) Technical Manager 5 3 (6.522 %) Change Consultant 5 3 (6.522 %) Technical Project Manager 5 3 (6.522 %) Project Leader 5 3 (6.522 %) Consultant 5 3 (6.522 %) Coordinator 6 2 (4.348 %) Business Analyst 6 2 (4.348 %) Project Coordinator 7 1 (2.174 %) Junior Project Manager 7 1 (2.174 %) IT Project Manager 7 1 (2.174 %) Project Support Officer 7 1 (2.174 %) Infrastructure Manager 7 1 (2.174 %) Services Delivery Manager 7 1 (2.174 %) Change Manager 7 1 (2.174 %) Junior
Miscellaneous 1 5 (10.87 %) PMI 2 4 (8.696 %) Mainframe 3 3 (6.522 %) VAX 3 3 (6.522 %) CMDB 3 3 (6.522 %) IBM Mainframe 4 1 (2.174 %) Asset Management	Operating Systems 1 4 (8.696 %) UNIX 1 4 (8.696 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (21.74 %) PRINCE2 2 7 (15.22 %) Service Delivery 2 7 (15.22 %) ITIL 2 7 (15.22 %) Project Planning 2 7 (15.22 %) Matrix Management 3 5 (10.87 %) Change Management 3 5 (10.87 %) E-Commerce 4 4 (8.696 %) Stakeholder Management 4 4 (8.696 %) Business Analysis 4 4 (8.696 %) Supplier Management 4 4 (8.696 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 3 (6.522 %) Risk Assessment 5 3 (6.522 %) PRINCE 6 2 (4.348 %) Six Sigma 6 2 (4.348 %) Migration 6 2 (4.348 %) Critical Path Analysis 6 2 (4.348 %) GAP Analysis 6 2 (4.348 %) QMS 7 1 (2.174 %) Data Migration 7 1 (2.174 %) Time Management	Qualifications 1 7 (15.22 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (2.174 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (2.174 %) PMP 2 1 (2.174 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.348 %) ISO9000	Vendors 1 3 (6.522 %) SAP 1 3 (6.522 %) IBM 1 3 (6.522 %) Microsoft 2 1 (2.174 %) Ab Initio 2 1 (2.174 %) Oracle