The first table below looks at the demand for Project Planning skills in IT contracts advertised for the Coventry 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 Coventry 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 25 25 24
Rank change year-on-year
0 -1
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 3 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 1.415% 1.167% 0.543%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.829% 1.705% 0.735%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £450 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +5.88%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £360 £368
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -2.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.34 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+17.36% -23.07%
All Processes & Methodologies
Coventry
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
164 176 136
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 77.36% 68.48% 73.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 68 58
Average daily rate £375 £340 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.29% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £250 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £555
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 18 4
Average hourly rate £37.80 £30.00 £31.15
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.00% -3.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Project Planning
West Midlands

Project Planning
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry Project Planning Hourly Rate Trend

Project Planning
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Semantic Web
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) MS Project
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) HND
3 1 (20.00%) UML
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (20.00%) Automotive
3 1 (20.00%) Zachman Framework
3 1 (20.00%) SysML
3 1 (20.00%) W3C
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) ERD

Project Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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.

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (20.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Environment Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Director
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Semantic Web
2 1 (20.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) UML
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) Zachman Framework
3 1 (20.00%) SysML
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) ERD
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) HND
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) SAP