Devon Project Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Project Manager role in IT contracts within the Devon region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Project Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Argyll and Bute Aylesbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Darlington Deeside Denbigh Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Flintshire Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hayes Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Johnstone Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rhyl Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Ruislip Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	5	12
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	27	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	17.31 %	8.230 %
Daily rates quoted	20	12
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£349
Average daily rate	£332	£358
% change on same period last year	-7.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£416	£407
% change on same period last year	+2.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£18.00
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£24.00
% change on same period last year	+35.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.45	£35.43
% change on same period last year	-5.58 %
Job Titles Devon
Matching contract IT job ads	156	243
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.206 %	0.258 %
Daily rates quoted	49	51
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£338
Average daily rate	£347	£350
% change on same period last year	-0.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	60
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.77	£16.92
Average hourly rate	£26.48	£18.63
% change on same period last year	+42.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.19	£20.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Project Manager South West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Project Manager across the Devon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Project Manager across the Devon region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Manager across the Devon region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Project Manager across the Devon region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Project Manager within the Devon region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Exeter	+7	13	£360	-3.47 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon region that cited Project 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 Project Manager in their job title.

1 22 (56.41 %) Project Management 2 21 (53.85 %) PRINCE2 3 12 (30.77 %) Government 4 11 (28.21 %) Health 4 11 (28.21 %) Change Management 5 8 (20.51 %) Local Government 6 7 (17.95 %) Migration 7 5 (12.82 %) Oracle HRMS 7 5 (12.82 %) Oracle 7 5 (12.82 %) MS Office 8 4 (10.26 %) MS Excel 8 4 (10.26 %) Finance 8 4 (10.26 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 4 (10.26 %) Data Migration 9 3 (7.692 %) Project Planning

9 3 (7.692 %) MS PowerPoint 9 3 (7.692 %) Summit 9 3 (7.692 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 9 3 (7.692 %) Service Delivery 9 3 (7.692 %) Programme Management 9 3 (7.692 %) ITIL 9 3 (7.692 %) MS Visio 9 3 (7.692 %) Microsoft 10 2 (5.128 %) WAN 10 2 (5.128 %) PMP 10 2 (5.128 %) NHS 10 2 (5.128 %) MS Project 10 2 (5.128 %) Client/Server 10 2 (5.128 %) Military 10 2 (5.128 %) Risk Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon region that cited Project 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 Project Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (2.564 %) .NET	Applications 1 5 (12.82 %) MS Office 2 4 (10.26 %) MS Excel 3 3 (7.692 %) MS Visio 3 3 (7.692 %) MS PowerPoint 4 2 (5.128 %) MS Project
Business Applications 1 5 (12.82 %) Oracle HRMS 2 3 (7.692 %) Summit	Communications & Networking 1 2 (5.128 %) WAN
General 1 12 (30.77 %) Government 2 11 (28.21 %) Health 3 8 (20.51 %) Local Government 4 4 (10.26 %) Finance 5 2 (5.128 %) Military 6 1 (2.564 %) Telecoms	Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.128 %) Client/Server 1 2 (5.128 %) NHS
Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (56.41 %) Project Management 2 21 (53.85 %) PRINCE2 3 11 (28.21 %) Change Management 4 7 (17.95 %) Migration 5 4 (10.26 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 4 (10.26 %) Data Migration 6 3 (7.692 %) Programme Management 6 3 (7.692 %) Project Planning 6 3 (7.692 %) ITIL 6 3 (7.692 %) Service Delivery 7 2 (5.128 %) Risk Management 7 2 (5.128 %) SC Cleared 7 2 (5.128 %) Security Cleared 8 1 (2.564 %) Time Management 8 1 (2.564 %) Resource Management 8 1 (2.564 %) Business Analysis 8 1 (2.564 %) Supplier Management 8 1 (2.564 %) Service Management 8 1 (2.564 %) E-Commerce 8 1 (2.564 %) PRINCE	Qualifications 1 3 (7.692 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 2 (5.128 %) PMP 3 1 (2.564 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (2.564 %) ITIL Certification
Vendors 1 5 (12.82 %) Oracle 2 3 (7.692 %) Microsoft