Edinburgh Project Planning Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Planning 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 Planning over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Project Planning
Location Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Croydon Darlington Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Witham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	52
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	21	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	5.237 %	0.959 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum daily rate	£258	£400
Average daily rate	£263	£425
% change on same period last year	-38.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£268	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£349
% change on same period last year	-1.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	-
Average hourly rate	£30.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.52	£41.49
% change on same period last year	-31.25 %
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 Planning 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.

Project Planning
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Project Planning across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Project Planning
Daily Rate Trend

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

Project Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Project Planning
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Project Planning 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 Planning.

1 16 (43.24 %) Finance 2 14 (37.84 %) Stakeholder Management 3 9 (24.32 %) Oracle 3 9 (24.32 %) PRINCE2 3 9 (24.32 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis 4 8 (21.62 %) Project Management 5 7 (18.92 %) Business Analysis 5 7 (18.92 %) Mainframe 6 5 (13.51 %) MS Project 6 5 (13.51 %) Informix 6 5 (13.51 %) Oracle 11i 6 5 (13.51 %) MySQL 6 5 (13.51 %) JavaScript 6 5 (13.51 %) PHP 6 5 (13.51 %) Subversion

7 4 (10.81 %) Oracle Payroll 7 4 (10.81 %) Pensions 8 3 (8.108 %) Government 8 3 (8.108 %) Oracle HRMS 8 3 (8.108 %) MS Excel 9 2 (5.405 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 2 (5.405 %) Planview 9 2 (5.405 %) Northgate 9 2 (5.405 %) Matrix Management 10 1 (2.703 %) Data Migration 10 1 (2.703 %) MS PowerPoint 10 1 (2.703 %) SQL Server 2005 10 1 (2.703 %) Resource Management 10 1 (2.703 %) Requirements Analysis 10 1 (2.703 %) Retail Banking

Project Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Project Planning 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 Planning. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (2.703 %) .NET 1 1 (2.703 %) ASP 1 1 (2.703 %) XML 1 1 (2.703 %) XSL	Applications 1 5 (13.51 %) MS Project 2 3 (8.108 %) MS Excel 3 1 (2.703 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (2.703 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 5 (13.51 %) Oracle 11i 2 4 (10.81 %) Oracle Payroll 3 3 (8.108 %) Oracle HRMS	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.703 %) Intranet 1 1 (2.703 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (13.51 %) Informix 1 5 (13.51 %) MySQL 2 1 (2.703 %) SQL Server 2 1 (2.703 %) RDBMS 2 1 (2.703 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (2.703 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (2.703 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 5 (13.51 %) Subversion 2 1 (2.703 %) TestDirector
General 1 16 (43.24 %) Finance 2 4 (10.81 %) Pensions 3 3 (8.108 %) Government 4 1 (2.703 %) Banking 4 1 (2.703 %) Retail 4 1 (2.703 %) Insurance 4 1 (2.703 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (2.703 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (2.703 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 14 (37.84 %) Project Manager 2 12 (32.43 %) Analyst 3 8 (21.62 %) Oracle Analyst 4 5 (13.51 %) Functional Analyst 5 4 (10.81 %) Programmer 6 2 (5.405 %) Project Planner 6 2 (5.405 %) Analyst Programmer 6 2 (5.405 %) Business Manager 6 2 (5.405 %) Web Manager 6 2 (5.405 %) Business Project Manager 7 1 (2.703 %) Software Manager 7 1 (2.703 %) Web Programmer 7 1 (2.703 %) Web Analyst 7 1 (2.703 %) Oracle HR Consultant 7 1 (2.703 %) MySQL Developer 7 1 (2.703 %) PHP Programmer 7 1 (2.703 %) Web Project Manager 7 1 (2.703 %) Business Analyst 7 1 (2.703 %) Developer 7 1 (2.703 %) IT Manager
Miscellaneous 1 7 (18.92 %) Mainframe 2 1 (2.703 %) W3C	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (37.84 %) Stakeholder Management 2 9 (24.32 %) PRINCE2 2 9 (24.32 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis 3 8 (21.62 %) Project Management 4 7 (18.92 %) Business Analysis 5 2 (5.405 %) Matrix Management 6 1 (2.703 %) Data Migration 6 1 (2.703 %) Requirements Analysis 6 1 (2.703 %) Resource Management 6 1 (2.703 %) Supplier Management 6 1 (2.703 %) Programme Management 6 1 (2.703 %) Change Management 6 1 (2.703 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 5 (13.51 %) JavaScript 1 5 (13.51 %) PHP 2 1 (2.703 %) VB 2 1 (2.703 %) C#	Qualifications 1 2 (5.405 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.703 %) SLA	Vendors 1 9 (24.32 %) Oracle 2 2 (5.405 %) Northgate 2 2 (5.405 %) Planview 3 1 (2.703 %) Business Objects 3 1 (2.703 %) Microsoft