East of England Programme Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Programme Management skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Programme Management over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leeds London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	128	107
Rank change on same period last year	-21
Matching contract IT job ads	23	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.039 %
As % of the category below	1.034 %	1.708 %
Daily rates quoted	8	12
Average minimum daily rate	£563	£434
Average daily rate	£592	£455
% change on same period last year	+29.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£621	£477
UK excluding London average daily rate	£455	£454
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£35.00
Average hourly rate	-	£36.25
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.02	£34.35
% change on same period last year	-30.07 %
Processes & Methodologies East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	2224	2166
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.933 %	2.298 %
Daily rates quoted	857	749
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£360
Average daily rate	£399	£381
% change on same period last year	+4.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	189	213
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.65	£27.80
Average hourly rate	£31.80	£29.25
% change on same period last year	+8.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.95	£30.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Programme Management 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Programme Management across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies 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 Programme Management across the East of England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Programme Management across the East of England 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 Programme Management across the East of England 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 Programme Management 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	+10	8	£500	+53.84 %
Cambridgeshire	-7	6	-	-
Hertfordshire	-27	3	£650	+61.49 %
Norfolk	+5	3	£645	+27.37 %
Essex	-3	1	-	-
Bedfordshire	-	1	-	-
East Anglia	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Programme Management 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 Programme Management.

1 17 (33.33 %) Project Management 1 17 (33.33 %) Finance 2 16 (31.37 %) PRINCE2 3 10 (19.61 %) Service Delivery 3 10 (19.61 %) Stakeholder Management 4 7 (13.73 %) CheckPoint 5 6 (11.76 %) MS Project 6 5 (9.804 %) Office Project Server 7 4 (7.843 %) Microsoft 7 4 (7.843 %) Financial Institution 8 3 (5.882 %) Change Management 8 3 (5.882 %) CMMI 8 3 (5.882 %) MS Excel 8 3 (5.882 %) Resource Management 8 3 (5.882 %) Data Management

8 3 (5.882 %) Insurance 8 3 (5.882 %) Degree 9 2 (3.922 %) Retail 9 2 (3.922 %) Business Analysis 9 2 (3.922 %) SQL 9 2 (3.922 %) OLAP 9 2 (3.922 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 2 (3.922 %) Telecoms 9 2 (3.922 %) Management Information System 9 2 (3.922 %) Quality Management 9 2 (3.922 %) Government 10 1 (1.961 %) Health 10 1 (1.961 %) Legal 10 1 (1.961 %) Manufacturing 10 1 (1.961 %) Publishing

Programme Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 1 (1.961 %) .NET 1 1 (1.961 %) STL 1 1 (1.961 %) EDI 1 1 (1.961 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 5 (9.804 %) Office Project Server 2 1 (1.961 %) IIS 2 1 (1.961 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (1.961 %) SharePoint 2 1 (1.961 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 6 (11.76 %) MS Project 2 3 (5.882 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.961 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (1.961 %) MS Office	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (3.922 %) OLAP 2 1 (1.961 %) SQL Server
General 1 17 (33.33 %) Finance 2 4 (7.843 %) Financial Institution 3 3 (5.882 %) Insurance 4 2 (3.922 %) Telecoms 4 2 (3.922 %) Retail 4 2 (3.922 %) Government 5 1 (1.961 %) Health 5 1 (1.961 %) Legal 5 1 (1.961 %) Manufacturing 5 1 (1.961 %) Publishing 5 1 (1.961 %) Criminal Justice 5 1 (1.961 %) Police 5 1 (1.961 %) Games 5 1 (1.961 %) Banking 5 1 (1.961 %) Local Government 5 1 (1.961 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 16 (31.37 %) Programme Manager 2 13 (25.49 %) Project Manager 3 11 (21.57 %) Delivery Manager 4 4 (7.843 %) Senior Manager 5 2 (3.922 %) Junior 5 2 (3.922 %) Analyst 5 2 (3.922 %) Senior Project Manager 5 2 (3.922 %) Server Specialist 6 1 (1.961 %) Infrastructure Programme Manager 6 1 (1.961 %) Project Office Analyst 6 1 (1.961 %) PMO Manager 6 1 (1.961 %) Project Coordinator 6 1 (1.961 %) Junior Project Manager 6 1 (1.961 %) Project Analyst 6 1 (1.961 %) Infrastructure Manager 6 1 (1.961 %) Senior Programme Manager 6 1 (1.961 %) Programme Office Analyst 6 1 (1.961 %) Programme Director 6 1 (1.961 %) Portfolio Manager 6 1 (1.961 %) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.922 %) Management Information System 2 1 (1.961 %) STB 2 1 (1.961 %) DTV	Operating Systems 1 1 (1.961 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (33.33 %) Project Management 2 16 (31.37 %) PRINCE2 3 10 (19.61 %) Service Delivery 3 10 (19.61 %) Stakeholder Management 4 3 (5.882 %) Data Management 4 3 (5.882 %) Resource Management 4 3 (5.882 %) Change Management 4 3 (5.882 %) CMMI 5 2 (3.922 %) Quality Management 5 2 (3.922 %) Business Analysis 6 1 (1.961 %) Requirements Management 6 1 (1.961 %) Project Planning 6 1 (1.961 %) Web Development 6 1 (1.961 %) Risk Management 6 1 (1.961 %) Validation 6 1 (1.961 %) Migration 6 1 (1.961 %) Process Management 6 1 (1.961 %) ITIL 6 1 (1.961 %) RAD 6 1 (1.961 %) CRM	Programming Languages 1 2 (3.922 %) SQL 2 1 (1.961 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (5.882 %) Degree 2 2 (3.922 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (1.961 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.961 %) PCI DSS
Vendors 1 7 (13.73 %) CheckPoint 2 4 (7.843 %) Microsoft 3 1 (1.961 %) Citrix 3 1 (1.961 %) Peregrine 3 1 (1.961 %) Lotus 3 1 (1.961 %) Oracle