Edinburgh Project Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Project Manager role in IT contracts within the Edinburgh 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	5
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	113	146
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.149 %	0.155 %
As % of the category below	13.76 %	13.18 %
Daily rates quoted	42	40
Average minimum daily rate	£372	£323
Average daily rate	£392	£338
% change on same period last year	+15.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£413	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£416	£407
% change on same period last year	+2.30 %
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	£33.45	£35.43
% change on same period last year	-5.58 %
Job Titles Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	821	1108
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.083 %	1.175 %
Daily rates quoted	189	248
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£305
Average daily rate	£327	£320
% change on same period last year	+2.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£349	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	41
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.32	£24.48
Average hourly rate	£21.55	£25.04
% change on same period last year	-13.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.77	£25.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Project Manager 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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Project Manager across the Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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.

1 136 (64.76 %) Finance 2 60 (28.57 %) Project Management 3 48 (22.86 %) Banking 4 47 (22.38 %) PRINCE2 5 38 (18.10 %) Stakeholder Management 6 36 (17.14 %) Mainframe 7 32 (15.24 %) Pensions 8 22 (10.48 %) Retail 9 18 (8.571 %) Project Planning 10 14 (6.667 %) Retail Banking 11 12 (5.714 %) Insurance 11 12 (5.714 %) Financial Institution 12 11 (5.238 %) Agile Software Development 12 11 (5.238 %) Windows 13 10 (4.762 %) ITIL

13 10 (4.762 %) Java 13 10 (4.762 %) PRINCE2 Certification 13 10 (4.762 %) Migration 13 10 (4.762 %) Change Management 14 7 (3.333 %) DB2 14 7 (3.333 %) MS Project 14 7 (3.333 %) Investment Management 15 6 (2.857 %) Disaster Recovery 16 5 (2.381 %) .NET 16 5 (2.381 %) Oracle 16 5 (2.381 %) IBM 16 5 (2.381 %) CICS 16 5 (2.381 %) Matrix Management 16 5 (2.381 %) Degree 17 4 (1.905 %) zOS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 5 (2.381 %) .NET 2 3 (1.429 %) XML 2 3 (1.429 %) Middleware 3 2 (0.952 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 5 (2.381 %) CICS
Applications 1 7 (3.333 %) MS Project 2 3 (1.429 %) MS Excel 3 2 (0.952 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (0.476 %) MS Visio 4 1 (0.476 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 3 (1.429 %) Temenos Globus 1 3 (1.429 %) Temenos T24 2 1 (0.476 %) Misys Equation 2 1 (0.476 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 2 1 (0.476 %) HiInvest 2 1 (0.476 %) Pivotal CRM
Communications & Networking 1 3 (1.429 %) IP Telephony 2 1 (0.476 %) Network Security 2 1 (0.476 %) ATM 2 1 (0.476 %) SAN 2 1 (0.476 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (3.333 %) DB2 2 1 (0.476 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (0.476 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (0.476 %) DB2 UDB 2 1 (0.476 %) Data Cleansing 2 1 (0.476 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 2 (0.952 %) ClearCase	General 1 136 (64.76 %) Finance 2 48 (22.86 %) Banking 3 32 (15.24 %) Pensions 4 22 (10.48 %) Retail 5 14 (6.667 %) Retail Banking 6 12 (5.714 %) Insurance 6 12 (5.714 %) Financial Institution 7 4 (1.905 %) Front Office 8 2 (0.952 %) Telecoms 9 1 (0.476 %) International Banking 9 1 (0.476 %) Marketing 9 1 (0.476 %) Back Office 9 1 (0.476 %) Investment Banking 9 1 (0.476 %) Construction 9 1 (0.476 %) Education 9 1 (0.476 %) Government 9 1 (0.476 %) Health 9 1 (0.476 %) Legal
Miscellaneous 1 36 (17.14 %) Mainframe 2 4 (1.905 %) Management Information System 2 4 (1.905 %) Asset Management 3 3 (1.429 %) IBM Mainframe 4 2 (0.952 %) ASIC 4 2 (0.952 %) Fund Management 5 1 (0.476 %) Derivative 5 1 (0.476 %) Fixed Income 5 1 (0.476 %) Client/Server 5 1 (0.476 %) PMI	Operating Systems 1 11 (5.238 %) Windows 2 4 (1.905 %) zOS 2 4 (1.905 %) Unix 3 3 (1.429 %) AIX 4 2 (0.952 %) Windows NT 4 2 (0.952 %) Windows XP 4 2 (0.952 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 60 (28.57 %) Project Management 2 47 (22.38 %) PRINCE2 3 38 (18.10 %) Stakeholder Management 4 18 (8.571 %) Project Planning 5 11 (5.238 %) Agile Software Development 6 10 (4.762 %) Migration 6 10 (4.762 %) ITIL 6 10 (4.762 %) Change Management 7 7 (3.333 %) Investment Management 8 6 (2.857 %) Disaster Recovery 9 5 (2.381 %) Matrix Management 10 4 (1.905 %) CRM 10 4 (1.905 %) Business Continuity 11 3 (1.429 %) Scrum 11 3 (1.429 %) Business Analysis 11 3 (1.429 %) RDF 11 3 (1.429 %) PRINCE 11 3 (1.429 %) Volume Testing 12 2 (0.952 %) User Acceptance Testing 12 2 (0.952 %) Time Management	Programming Languages 1 10 (4.762 %) Java 2 4 (1.905 %) COBOL 3 2 (0.952 %) SQL 3 2 (0.952 %) C# 4 1 (0.476 %) C
Qualifications 1 10 (4.762 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 5 (2.381 %) Degree 3 4 (1.905 %) ITIL Certification 4 1 (0.476 %) PMP 4 1 (0.476 %) PMI Certification 4 1 (0.476 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.476 %) COBIT 1 1 (0.476 %) QA
Vendors 1 5 (2.381 %) Oracle 1 5 (2.381 %) IBM 2 4 (1.905 %) Genesys 3 3 (1.429 %) Misys 3 3 (1.429 %) Temenos 3 3 (1.429 %) Calypso 4 2 (0.952 %) Dell 4 2 (0.952 %) Sybase 4 2 (0.952 %) Microsoft 5 1 (0.476 %) Charles River 5 1 (0.476 %) LatentZero 5 1 (0.476 %) Onyx 5 1 (0.476 %) thinkFolio 5 1 (0.476 %) PeopleSoft 5 1 (0.476 %) Siebel 5 1 (0.476 %) EMC 5 1 (0.476 %) Citrix