Dorset Project Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Project Manager role in IT contracts within the Dorset region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Project Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chesham Cheshire Cheshunt Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Crowthorne Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Tyneside North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	25
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	31	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	7.789 %	4.535 %
Daily rates quoted	23	14
Average minimum daily rate	£393	£368
Average daily rate	£410	£392
% change on same period last year	+4.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£427	£416
UK excluding London average daily rate	£410	£405
% change on same period last year	+1.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.30	£36.25
% change on same period last year	+0.13 %
Job Titles Dorset
Matching contract IT job ads	398	441
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.560 %	0.446 %
Daily rates quoted	118	177
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£315
Average daily rate	£343	£335
% change on same period last year	+2.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	95	60
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.70	£25.08
Average hourly rate	£29.48	£26.62
% change on same period last year	+10.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.25	£28.16
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
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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 Dorset 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 Dorset 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 Dorset region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Dorset region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Manager within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Bournemouth	+6	13	£389	-9.49 %
Poole	+3	8	£447	+31.98 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 39 (51.32 %) Project Management 2 33 (43.42 %) PRINCE2 3 30 (39.47 %) Finance 4 20 (26.32 %) Banking 5 14 (18.42 %) Retail 5 14 (18.42 %) Change Management 6 13 (17.11 %) Stakeholder Management 6 13 (17.11 %) Insurance 7 11 (14.47 %) Pensions 7 11 (14.47 %) PRINCE2 Certification 8 9 (11.84 %) Migration 9 6 (7.895 %) Avaya 9 6 (7.895 %) MS Excel 9 6 (7.895 %) PRINCE 9 6 (7.895 %) MS PowerPoint

10 5 (6.579 %) Investment Banking 10 5 (6.579 %) WFM 10 5 (6.579 %) CTI 10 5 (6.579 %) Back Office 10 5 (6.579 %) Multimedia 11 4 (5.263 %) Agile Software Development 11 4 (5.263 %) Programme Management 11 4 (5.263 %) Oracle 11 4 (5.263 %) Sybase 11 4 (5.263 %) Project Planning 11 4 (5.263 %) Retail Banking 11 4 (5.263 %) Data Migration 12 3 (3.947 %) WebSphere 12 3 (3.947 %) Google 12 3 (3.947 %) Pay per click

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 3 (3.947 %) WebSphere	Applications 1 6 (7.895 %) MS Excel 1 6 (7.895 %) MS PowerPoint 2 2 (2.632 %) Open Workbench 2 2 (2.632 %) MS Project 2 2 (2.632 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 5 (6.579 %) CTI	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (3.947 %) EDRMS 2 1 (1.316 %) DB2 2 1 (1.316 %) Adabas
General 1 30 (39.47 %) Finance 2 20 (26.32 %) Banking 3 14 (18.42 %) Retail 4 13 (17.11 %) Insurance 5 11 (14.47 %) Pensions 6 5 (6.579 %) Multimedia 6 5 (6.579 %) Investment Banking 6 5 (6.579 %) Back Office 7 4 (5.263 %) Retail Banking 8 3 (3.947 %) Advertising 9 2 (2.632 %) Telecoms 9 2 (2.632 %) Chemicals 9 2 (2.632 %) Government 9 2 (2.632 %) Health 9 2 (2.632 %) Local Government 10 1 (1.316 %) Corporate Banking 10 1 (1.316 %) Front Office	Miscellaneous 1 2 (2.632 %) Mainframe 2 1 (1.316 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 3 (3.947 %) Solaris 2 1 (1.316 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 39 (51.32 %) Project Management 2 33 (43.42 %) PRINCE2 3 14 (18.42 %) Change Management 4 13 (17.11 %) Stakeholder Management 5 9 (11.84 %) Migration 6 6 (7.895 %) PRINCE 7 5 (6.579 %) WFM 8 4 (5.263 %) Data Migration 8 4 (5.263 %) Project Planning 8 4 (5.263 %) Programme Management 8 4 (5.263 %) Agile Software Development 9 3 (3.947 %) Six Sigma 9 3 (3.947 %) Pay per click 10 2 (2.632 %) SC Cleared 10 2 (2.632 %) Security Cleared 10 2 (2.632 %) Matrix Management 10 2 (2.632 %) Asset Management 10 2 (2.632 %) Information Security 10 2 (2.632 %) Supplier Management 11 1 (1.316 %) Software Testing
Programming Languages 1 1 (1.316 %) C 1 1 (1.316 %) COBOL 1 1 (1.316 %) Java 1 1 (1.316 %) NATURAL	Qualifications 1 11 (14.47 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (1.316 %) PMP 2 1 (1.316 %) PMI Certification 2 1 (1.316 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.316 %) QA	Vendors 1 6 (7.895 %) Avaya 2 4 (5.263 %) Oracle 2 4 (5.263 %) Sybase 3 3 (3.947 %) Google 4 2 (2.632 %) Niku 5 1 (1.316 %) SAP 5 1 (1.316 %) Microsoft 5 1 (1.316 %) Citrix