The first table below looks at the demand for Project Planning skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Project Planning 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Chester 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 Planning
Rank 21 14 -
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 4 8 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 2.817% 6.838% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.604% 10.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £360 £368
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -2.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £46.25 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.34 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+17.36% -23.07%
All Processes & Methodologies
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
111 79 111
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 78.17% 67.52% 68.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 32 38
Average daily rate £388 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.89% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £300 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £435 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 3
Average hourly rate £44.90 £14.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+220.71% -15.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Project Planning
Cheshire

Project Planning
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Project Planning across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Chester Project Planning Jobs Demand Trend

Project Planning
Daily Rate Trend

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

Chester Project Planning Daily Rate Trend

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Chester Project Planning Hourly Rate Trend

Project Planning
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing Project Planning 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 Planning.

1 4 (44.44%) PRINCE2
2 3 (33.33%) MS Project
2 3 (33.33%) Project Management
2 3 (33.33%) Local Government
3 2 (22.22%) Critical Path Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
3 2 (22.22%) MS Office
3 2 (22.22%) PL/SQL
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 2 (22.22%) Windows
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
3 2 (22.22%) Time Management
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (22.22%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (11.11%) AppDNA
4 1 (11.11%) XenApp
4 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (11.11%) CRM
4 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (11.11%) Citrix
4 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (11.11%) PRINCE
4 1 (11.11%) Remedy
4 1 (11.11%) VMware

Project Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing Project Planning 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 Planning. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) MS Project
2 2 (22.22%) MS Office
2 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
3 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (11.11%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
General
1 3 (33.33%) Local Government
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Project Coordinator
2 2 (22.22%) Project Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Coordinator
2 2 (22.22%) SharePoint Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Project Support Coordinator
3 1 (11.11%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Financials Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) PMO Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) PMO Manager
3 1 (11.11%) PMO Consultant
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) PRINCE2
2 3 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Critical Path Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Time Management
4 1 (11.11%) CRM
4 1 (11.11%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) PL/SQL
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) XenApp
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) AppDNA
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) Remedy
2 1 (11.11%) VMware