East of England Office Project Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office Project Server skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Office Project Server over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office Project Server
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bridgend Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff City of London Coventry Durham East Anglia East of England England Glasgow Harrogate Hertfordshire Hounslow Ipswich London Manchester Marlow Middlesex Midlands North East North West North Yorkshire Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Scotland South East South Wales Suffolk Thames Valley UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	143	139
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	8	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	1.054 %	0.718 %
Daily rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum daily rate	£500	£275
Average daily rate	£513	£283
% change on same period last year	+80.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£525	£292
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£299
% change on same period last year	+16.79 %
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	£27.50	£42.50
% change on same period last year	-35.29 %
Application Platforms East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	759	696
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.001 %	0.738 %
Daily rates quoted	192	223
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£337
Average daily rate	£374	£352
% change on same period last year	+6.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£347
% change on same period last year	+3.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	104	91
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.74	£27.78
Average hourly rate	£21.45	£29.23
% change on same period last year	-26.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.16	£30.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.43	£24.21
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
Office Project Server England

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.

Office Project Server
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Office Project Server across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Office Project Server
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Office Project Server across the East of England region.

Office Project Server
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Office Project Server across the East of England region.

Office Project Server
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Office Project Server within the East of England 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
Suffolk	-	5	£513	-
Hertfordshire	-8	2	-	-
East Anglia	-	1	-	-

Office Project Server England

Office Project Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Office Project Server 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 Office Project Server.

1 17 (77.27 %) Project Management 2 14 (63.64 %) ClearQuest 2 14 (63.64 %) MS Office 2 14 (63.64 %) ClearCase 3 13 (59.09 %) MS Excel 3 13 (59.09 %) Microsoft 4 11 (50.00 %) MS Project 4 11 (50.00 %) Business Development 5 10 (45.45 %) Finance 6 8 (36.36 %) PRINCE2 6 8 (36.36 %) MS PowerPoint 7 5 (22.73 %) Programme Management 7 5 (22.73 %) Project Planning 8 3 (13.64 %) Windows 8 3 (13.64 %) ITIL

8 3 (13.64 %) SQL Server 9 2 (9.091 %) OLAP 9 2 (9.091 %) IIS 9 2 (9.091 %) PL/SQL 9 2 (9.091 %) SQL 9 2 (9.091 %) Oracle 10 1 (4.545 %) TDD 10 1 (4.545 %) NUnit 10 1 (4.545 %) Banking 10 1 (4.545 %) SQL Server 2005 10 1 (4.545 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 1 (4.545 %) Marketing 10 1 (4.545 %) .NET Framework 10 1 (4.545 %) WSUS 10 1 (4.545 %) SharePoint Server 2007

Office Project Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Office Project Server 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 Office Project Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (4.545 %) .NET 1 1 (4.545 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (4.545 %) AJAX 1 1 (4.545 %) .NET Framework 1 1 (4.545 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 2 (9.091 %) IIS 2 1 (4.545 %) SharePoint 2 1 (4.545 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (4.545 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (4.545 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 14 (63.64 %) MS Office 2 13 (59.09 %) MS Excel 3 11 (50.00 %) MS Project 4 8 (36.36 %) MS PowerPoint	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (13.64 %) SQL Server 2 2 (9.091 %) OLAP 3 1 (4.545 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 14 (63.64 %) ClearCase 1 14 (63.64 %) ClearQuest 2 1 (4.545 %) NUnit	General 1 10 (45.45 %) Finance 2 1 (4.545 %) Banking 2 1 (4.545 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 6 (27.27 %) Analyst 1 6 (27.27 %) Support Analyst 1 6 (27.27 %) Project Analyst 1 6 (27.27 %) Project Support Analyst 2 4 (18.18 %) Project Manager 3 2 (9.091 %) Project Office Support 3 2 (9.091 %) Server Specialist 4 1 (4.545 %) Coordinator 4 1 (4.545 %) Senior Server Engineer 4 1 (4.545 %) Project Engineer 4 1 (4.545 %) Server Engineer 4 1 (4.545 %) Developer 4 1 (4.545 %) Consultant 4 1 (4.545 %) Support Consultant 4 1 (4.545 %) Administrator 4 1 (4.545 %) .NET Developer 4 1 (4.545 %) Project Coordinator 4 1 (4.545 %) ASP.NET Developer	Operating Systems 1 3 (13.64 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (77.27 %) Project Management 2 11 (50.00 %) Business Development 3 8 (36.36 %) PRINCE2 4 5 (22.73 %) Programme Management 4 5 (22.73 %) Project Planning 5 3 (13.64 %) ITIL 6 1 (4.545 %) TDD 6 1 (4.545 %) OO	Programming Languages 1 2 (9.091 %) PL/SQL 1 2 (9.091 %) SQL 2 1 (4.545 %) C#
Qualifications 1 1 (4.545 %) MCSE 1 1 (4.545 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 1 (4.545 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (4.545 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 13 (59.09 %) Microsoft 2 2 (9.091 %) Oracle 3 1 (4.545 %) Peregrine