The first table below looks at the demand for MS Project skills in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Project over the 3 months to 24 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 Applications category for the Crawley 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Project
Rank 17 26 20
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -6
Contract jobs citing MS Project 8 9 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 5.369% 3.249% 5.738%
As % of the Applications category 22.22% 18.37% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 3
Average daily rate £381 £380 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.32% +1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £303 £371
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £500 £383
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.75 £23.75 £28.25
% change year-on-year
+37.89% -15.92%
All Applications
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
36 49 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 24.16% 17.69% 23.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 22 5
Average daily rate £375 £350 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -5.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £336 £200 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £428 £500 £385
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 5
Average hourly rate £26.00 £18.31 £50.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+41.97% -63.37%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.12%
MS Project
West Sussex

MS Project
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MS Project across the Crawley region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

Crawley MS Project Jobs Demand Trend

MS Project
Daily Rate Trend

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

Crawley MS Project Daily Rate Trend

MS Project
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the Crawley region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Crawley MS Project Daily Rate Histogram

MS Project
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Crawley MS Project Hourly Rate Trend

MS Project
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley region citing MS Project 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 MS Project.

1 12 (80.00%) PRINCE2
2 10 (66.67%) Project Management
3 7 (46.67%) Finance
4 5 (33.33%) MS Office
4 5 (33.33%) MS Excel
4 5 (33.33%) MS Visio
4 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 5 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 4 (26.67%) Budget Control
6 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (20.00%) Scrum
6 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
7 2 (13.33%) Change Control
7 2 (13.33%) Project Planning
8 1 (6.667%) Technical Architecture
8 1 (6.667%) Resource Management
8 1 (6.667%) Risk Analysis
8 1 (6.667%) Umbraco
8 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (6.667%) PCI DSS
8 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
8 1 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (6.667%) Banking
8 1 (6.667%) Investment Banking
8 1 (6.667%) Waterfall
8 1 (6.667%) MS PowerPoint

MS Project
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley region citing MS Project 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 MS Project. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.667%) COM
1 1 (6.667%) .NET
1 1 (6.667%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) Umbraco
1 1 (6.667%) Apache
1 1 (6.667%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) MS Office
1 5 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 5 (33.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (6.667%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle 11i
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.667%) Banking
2 1 (6.667%) Investment Banking
2 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Agile Project Manager
2 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Software Manager
4 1 (6.667%) PMO Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) PMO Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Junior Project Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Software Project Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Junior
4 1 (6.667%) Project Planner
4 1 (6.667%) Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (6.667%) Windows
1 1 (6.667%) Solaris
1 1 (6.667%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) PRINCE2
2 10 (66.67%) Project Management
3 5 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 4 (26.67%) Budget Control
5 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (20.00%) Scrum
6 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
6 2 (13.33%) Change Control
6 2 (13.33%) Project Planning
7 1 (6.667%) Technical Architecture
7 1 (6.667%) Resource Management
7 1 (6.667%) Risk Analysis
7 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (6.667%) Waterfall
7 1 (6.667%) Change Management
7 1 (6.667%) Data Security
7 1 (6.667%) Programme Management
7 1 (6.667%) SOA
7 1 (6.667%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.667%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (6.667%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.667%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (6.667%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.667%) VMware
2 1 (6.667%) NetApp
2 1 (6.667%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.667%) EMC
2 1 (6.667%) SAP
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle