Edinburgh Project Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Management skills within the Edinburgh region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Project Management over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Aylesbury Baldock Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Billingham Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Darwen Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Erskine Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highland Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Walsall Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	9	13
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	64	68
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.082 %	0.076 %
As % of the category below	15.96 %	16.31 %
Daily rates quoted	21	11
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£293
Average daily rate	£377	£305
% change on same period last year	+23.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£317
UK excluding London average daily rate	£398	£387
% change on same period last year	+2.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£28.00
Average hourly rate	-	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.17	£29.75
% change on same period last year	-8.66 %
Processes & Methodologies Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	401	417
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.514 %	0.468 %
Daily rates quoted	105	91
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£304
Average daily rate	£326	£315
% change on same period last year	+3.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£339	£326
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£27.13
Average hourly rate	£25.17	£28.46
% change on same period last year	-11.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.33	£29.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.72	£29.49
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Project Management Scotland

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Project Management across the Edinburgh 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Project Management across the Edinburgh region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Management across the Edinburgh region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Project Management across the Edinburgh region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Project Management also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Project Management.

1 54 (52.43 %) Finance 2 24 (23.30 %) Banking 3 23 (22.33 %) PRINCE2 4 17 (16.50 %) Stakeholder Management 5 11 (10.68 %) Pensions 6 8 (7.767 %) Project Planning 6 8 (7.767 %) SAP 7 7 (6.796 %) SAP R/3 8 6 (5.825 %) Retail 8 6 (5.825 %) Mainframe 8 6 (5.825 %) MS Project 9 5 (4.854 %) Oracle 9 5 (4.854 %) ITIL 9 5 (4.854 %) Management Information System 9 5 (4.854 %) Front Office

9 5 (4.854 %) Asset Management 9 5 (4.854 %) Business Analysis 9 5 (4.854 %) Degree 9 5 (4.854 %) Financial Institution 10 4 (3.883 %) Change Management 10 4 (3.883 %) Investment Banking 10 4 (3.883 %) Insurance 10 4 (3.883 %) .NET 10 4 (3.883 %) WebServices 10 4 (3.883 %) MS Office 10 4 (3.883 %) VPN 10 4 (3.883 %) ITIL Certification 11 3 (2.913 %) Microsoft 11 3 (2.913 %) Misys 11 3 (2.913 %) Temenos

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Project Management also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Project Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (3.883 %) WebServices 1 4 (3.883 %) .NET 2 1 (0.971 %) ASP 2 1 (0.971 %) XML 2 1 (0.971 %) XSL 2 1 (0.971 %) Middleware 2 1 (0.971 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 3 (2.913 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 6 (5.825 %) MS Project 2 4 (3.883 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.971 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 7 (6.796 %) SAP R/3 2 3 (2.913 %) Temenos Globus 2 3 (2.913 %) Temenos T24 3 1 (0.971 %) Misys Equation 3 1 (0.971 %) HiInvest
Communications & Networking 1 4 (3.883 %) VPN 2 2 (1.942 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.971 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (2.913 %) SAP BW 2 2 (1.942 %) Data Cleansing 3 1 (0.971 %) Reference Data 3 1 (0.971 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (0.971 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (0.971 %) DB2 UDB 3 1 (0.971 %) SQL Server 3 1 (0.971 %) DB2 3 1 (0.971 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (0.971 %) RDBMS
General 1 54 (52.43 %) Finance 2 24 (23.30 %) Banking 3 11 (10.68 %) Pensions 4 6 (5.825 %) Retail 5 5 (4.854 %) Financial Institution 5 5 (4.854 %) Front Office 6 4 (3.883 %) Investment Banking 6 4 (3.883 %) Insurance 7 3 (2.913 %) Retail Banking 8 1 (0.971 %) International Banking 8 1 (0.971 %) Telecoms 8 1 (0.971 %) Health 8 1 (0.971 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 53 (51.46 %) Project Manager 2 12 (11.65 %) Analyst 3 10 (9.709 %) Consultant 4 9 (8.738 %) Business Analyst 4 9 (8.738 %) Infrastructure Manager 5 7 (6.796 %) SAP Consultant 5 7 (6.796 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 6 6 (5.825 %) Coordinator 6 6 (5.825 %) Project Coordinator 6 6 (5.825 %) Business Manager 6 6 (5.825 %) Business Project Manager 7 5 (4.854 %) Implementation Manager 8 4 (3.883 %) Project Administrator 8 4 (3.883 %) Systems Manager 8 4 (3.883 %) Administrator 8 4 (3.883 %) Security Consultant 8 4 (3.883 %) SAP Security Consultant 9 3 (2.913 %) SAP Functional Consultant 9 3 (2.913 %) Project Office Administrator 9 3 (2.913 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 6 (5.825 %) Mainframe 2 5 (4.854 %) Management Information System 2 5 (4.854 %) Asset Management 3 2 (1.942 %) ASIC 4 1 (0.971 %) e-Health 4 1 (0.971 %) Derivative 4 1 (0.971 %) Fixed Income 4 1 (0.971 %) Client/Server 4 1 (0.971 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 2 (1.942 %) Unix 2 1 (0.971 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (22.33 %) PRINCE2 2 17 (16.50 %) Stakeholder Management 3 8 (7.767 %) Project Planning 4 5 (4.854 %) Business Analysis 4 5 (4.854 %) ITIL 5 4 (3.883 %) Change Management 6 3 (2.913 %) PRINCE 6 3 (2.913 %) RUP 6 3 (2.913 %) Migration 6 3 (2.913 %) Data Management 6 3 (2.913 %) Matrix Management 6 3 (2.913 %) Test Management 7 2 (1.942 %) Investment Management 7 2 (1.942 %) Agile Software Development 7 2 (1.942 %) Disaster Recovery 7 2 (1.942 %) Risk Management 8 1 (0.971 %) Service Management 8 1 (0.971 %) CRM 8 1 (0.971 %) Data Modelling 8 1 (0.971 %) Information Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (0.971 %) C# 1 1 (0.971 %) SQL 1 1 (0.971 %) VB
Qualifications 1 5 (4.854 %) Degree 2 4 (3.883 %) ITIL Certification 3 3 (2.913 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (0.971 %) ISEB	Systems Management 1 1 (0.971 %) OpenView 1 1 (0.971 %) ServiceCenter
Vendors 1 8 (7.767 %) SAP 2 5 (4.854 %) Oracle 3 3 (2.913 %) Microsoft 3 3 (2.913 %) Misys 3 3 (2.913 %) Temenos 3 3 (2.913 %) Calypso 4 2 (1.942 %) Dell 5 1 (0.971 %) Peregrine 5 1 (0.971 %) Charles River 5 1 (0.971 %) Algorithmics 5 1 (0.971 %) LatentZero 5 1 (0.971 %) GoldenSource 5 1 (0.971 %) thinkFolio 5 1 (0.971 %) Sybase