The first table below looks at the demand for the Portfolio Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Portfolio Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Job Titles advertised for the City of London 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Portfolio Manager
Rank 202 208 234
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Portfolio Manager 3 7 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.047% 0.088% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.096% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 6
Average daily rate £500 £850 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-41.17% +61.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £395 £444
10% offered a daily rate of more than £620 £850 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £568 £463 £450
% change year-on-year
+22.70% +2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-21.87% -8.57%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5944 7299 8873
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.46% 91.48% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4372 5246 6461
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £278 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 182 195
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.50 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Portfolio Manager
London

Portfolio Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Portfolio Manager across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Portfolio Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Portfolio Manager
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Portfolio Manager across the City of London region.

City of London Portfolio Manager Daily Rate Trend

Portfolio Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Portfolio Manager across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London Portfolio Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Portfolio Manager
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Portfolio Manager 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 Portfolio Manager in their job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (25.00%) Demand Management
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL V3
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Front Office
2 1 (25.00%) MS Project
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft

Portfolio Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Portfolio Manager 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 Portfolio Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (25.00%) MS Project
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (25.00%) Demand Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL V3
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
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