The first table below looks at the demand for Project Planning skills 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 Project Planning over the 3 months to 18 June 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Project Planning
Rank 128 160 129
Rank change year-on-year
+32 -31
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 90 62 124
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.305% 0.804% 1.236%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.762% 1.114% 1.737%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 39 92
Average daily rate £450 £450 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £300 £353
10% offered a daily rate of more than £603 £640 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.73% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Average hourly rate £22.50 - £32.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.34 £25.00 £33.75
% change year-on-year
+17.36% -25.92%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5107 5566 7140
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 74.07% 72.16% 71.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3861 4093 5266
Average daily rate £450 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 86 120
Average hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -3.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £16.60 £14.73
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £125.00 £47.50 £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Project Planning
London

Project Planning
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Project Planning Daily Rate Trend

Project Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Planning across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London Project Planning Daily Rate Histogram

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 City of London region.

City of London Project Planning Hourly Rate Trend

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Planning across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London Project Planning Hourly Rate Histogram

Project Planning
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 82 (59.42%) Finance
2 59 (42.75%) Project Management
3 45 (32.61%) Banking
4 33 (23.91%) PRINCE2
5 29 (21.01%) Investment Banking
6 21 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (13.04%) Change Management
7 18 (13.04%) MS Project
8 16 (11.59%) MS Excel
8 16 (11.59%) Agile Software Development
9 15 (10.87%) Business Analysis
9 15 (10.87%) Credit Risk
10 13 (9.420%) Mathematics
10 13 (9.420%) Economics
10 13 (9.420%) Microsoft
11 12 (8.696%) SQL
11 12 (8.696%) Migration
12 11 (7.971%) MS Office
12 11 (7.971%) Risk Management
13 10 (7.246%) Oracle
13 10 (7.246%) Scrum
14 9 (6.522%) Investment Management
14 9 (6.522%) PMI Certification
15 8 (5.797%) UNIX
15 8 (5.797%) Resource Management
15 8 (5.797%) QA
15 8 (5.797%) Retail
16 7 (5.072%) Workflow
16 7 (5.072%) Degree
16 7 (5.072%) Time Management

Project Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 Development
1 5 (3.623%) .NET
2 2 (1.449%) J2EE
2 2 (1.449%) XML
2 2 (1.449%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (1.449%) Velocity
3 1 (0.725%) jQuery
3 1 (0.725%) Ajax
3 1 (0.725%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.725%) COM
3 1 (0.725%) CSS
3 1 (0.725%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (0.725%) IIS
1 1 (0.725%) Apache
1 1 (0.725%) SharePoint
1 1 (0.725%) SAS
1 1 (0.725%) CMS
1 1 (0.725%) ESB
1 1 (0.725%) Drupal
1 1 (0.725%) Windows Azure
1 1 (0.725%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 18 (13.04%) MS Project
2 16 (11.59%) MS Excel
3 11 (7.971%) MS Office
4 7 (5.072%) MS Visio
5 6 (4.348%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.725%) SAP SD
1 1 (0.725%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.725%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.725%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.725%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.725%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.348%) OSPF
1 6 (4.348%) Wireless
1 6 (4.348%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (3.623%) LAN
2 5 (3.623%) Firewall
3 4 (2.899%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (2.899%) Junos
3 4 (2.899%) DHCP
3 4 (2.899%) Ethernet
3 4 (2.899%) HTTP
3 4 (2.899%) SNMP
3 4 (2.899%) DNS
3 4 (2.899%) IP Telephony
3 4 (2.899%) VLAN
3 4 (2.899%) BGP
3 4 (2.899%) MPLS
4 3 (2.174%) WAN
5 2 (1.449%) Internet
5 2 (1.449%) TACACS
6 1 (0.725%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.348%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.899%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.899%) QlikView
3 3 (2.174%) IBM InfoSphere
3 3 (2.174%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.449%) DB2
5 1 (0.725%) Oracle 9i
5 1 (0.725%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (0.725%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.725%) SQLPlus
5 1 (0.725%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.174%) Subversion
2 2 (1.449%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.725%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (0.725%) JIRA
3 1 (0.725%) Selenium
3 1 (0.725%) PHPUnit
3 1 (0.725%) GitHub
General
1 82 (59.42%) Finance
2 45 (32.61%) Banking
3 29 (21.01%) Investment Banking
4 8 (5.797%) Retail
5 6 (4.348%) Marketing
6 5 (3.623%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.899%) Back Office
8 3 (2.174%) Advertising
9 2 (1.449%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.449%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.449%) Front Office
9 2 (1.449%) Law
10 1 (0.725%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.725%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 64 (46.38%) Project Manager
2 32 (23.19%) Analyst
3 18 (13.04%) Business Analyst
4 15 (10.87%) Data Manager
5 13 (9.420%) Risk Manager
5 13 (9.420%) Credit Risk Project Manager
5 13 (9.420%) Strategic Project Manager
6 7 (5.072%) Technical Manager
6 7 (5.072%) Project Planner
6 7 (5.072%) Technical Project Manager
7 6 (4.348%) Network Engineer
7 6 (4.348%) Senior Manager
7 6 (4.348%) Senior Project Manager
7 6 (4.348%) IT Project Manager
7 6 (4.348%) PMO Analyst
8 4 (2.899%) Firewall Engineer
8 4 (2.899%) MI Analyst
8 4 (2.899%) Project Analyst
8 4 (2.899%) Infrastructure Manager
8 4 (2.899%) Implementation Manager
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.87%) Credit Risk
2 13 (9.420%) Economics
2 13 (9.420%) Mathematics
3 6 (4.348%) Derivative
4 5 (3.623%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.899%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (2.899%) PMI
6 3 (2.174%) Visualisation
6 3 (2.174%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.174%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.449%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.449%) Computer Science
7 2 (1.449%) Online Banking
7 2 (1.449%) FMCG
7 2 (1.449%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (0.725%) SWIFT
8 1 (0.725%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.725%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.725%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.725%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.797%) UNIX
2 6 (4.348%) Windows
3 4 (2.899%) Windows 7
4 3 (2.174%) Linux
5 1 (0.725%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.725%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (42.75%) Project Management
2 33 (23.91%) PRINCE2
3 21 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (13.04%) Change Management
5 16 (11.59%) Agile Software Development
6 15 (10.87%) Business Analysis
7 12 (8.696%) Migration
8 11 (7.971%) Risk Management
9 10 (7.246%) Scrum
10 9 (6.522%) Investment Management
11 8 (5.797%) Resource Management
12 7 (5.072%) Time Management
12 7 (5.072%) Workflow
13 6 (4.348%) ITIL
13 6 (4.348%) Waterfall
13 6 (4.348%) Use Case
13 6 (4.348%) Change Control
14 5 (3.623%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 5 (3.623%) Data Analysis
14 5 (3.623%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (8.696%) SQL
2 5 (3.623%) Java
3 4 (2.899%) C#
4 3 (2.174%) VBA
4 3 (2.174%) PHP
5 2 (1.449%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.449%) Perl
5 2 (1.449%) Python
5 2 (1.449%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.449%) C++
6 1 (0.725%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (6.522%) PMI Certification
2 7 (5.072%) Degree
2 7 (5.072%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.348%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (4.348%) PMP
4 4 (2.899%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 4 (2.899%) CCIE
4 4 (2.899%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.899%) MBA
4 4 (2.899%) JNCIE
5 2 (1.449%) CCNP
5 2 (1.449%) CCDP
5 2 (1.449%) ISEB
6 1 (0.725%) CISSP
6 1 (0.725%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.725%) CISA
6 1 (0.725%) CISM
6 1 (0.725%) CFA
6 1 (0.725%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.725%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.797%) QA
2 4 (2.899%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.725%) GxP
System Software
1 4 (2.899%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.449%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.899%) FortiGate
2 2 (1.449%) SolarWinds Orion
2 2 (1.449%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (9.420%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.246%) Oracle
3 7 (5.072%) Cisco
4 6 (4.348%) IBM
4 6 (4.348%) HP
4 6 (4.348%) Bloomberg
4 6 (4.348%) VMware
4 6 (4.348%) Aruba
5 4 (2.899%) F5
5 4 (2.899%) Polycom
5 4 (2.899%) Sourcefire
5 4 (2.899%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.899%) Cognos
5 4 (2.899%) Calypso
5 4 (2.899%) Juniper
5 4 (2.899%) Business Objects
6 3 (2.174%) SAP
6 3 (2.174%) Sybase
6 3 (2.174%) CheckPoint
6 3 (2.174%) Citrix
City, London
Own and drives the project planning framework, ensuring that plans are developed and tracked to appropriate standards, are integrated effectively across all work-streams, are unambiguous and achievable,...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £530.00 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Although the project is Oracle / ERP focused, we are essentially after a Business IT Project Manager as opposed to someone technical. However if the Senior Project Manager does...
Mint
Rate: £350 - £380 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
City of London
All candidates must have proven experience in change management... * Strong business analysis skills... * Experience in process improvement analysis and business process reengineering... * Experience within an Investment Bank.Business...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £501 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013