England MS Project Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Project skills within the England region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Project over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Project
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	89	78
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching contract IT job ads	1154	1815
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.640 %	1.833 %
As % of the category below	14.54 %	16.69 %
Daily rates quoted	503	704
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£337
Average daily rate	£338	£353
% change on same period last year	-4.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£301	£316
% change on same period last year	-4.91 %
Hourly rates quoted	76	106
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.14	£23.05
Average hourly rate	£21.41	£25.10
% change on same period last year	-14.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.68	£27.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.45	£28.57
% change on same period last year	-14.39 %
Applications England
Matching contract IT job ads	7939	10876
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	11.28 %	10.98 %
Daily rates quoted	2352	3163
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£311
Average daily rate	£323	£330
% change on same period last year	-2.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£343	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£294	£282
% change on same period last year	+4.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	1337	1887
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.41	£18.18
Average hourly rate	£18.66	£19.58
% change on same period last year	-4.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.91	£20.97
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.47	£19.51
% change on same period last year	-5.36 %
MS Project UK

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.

MS Project
Demand Trend

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

MS Project
Daily Rate Trend

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

MS Project
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the England region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

MS Project
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Project
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the England region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Project within the England region over the 3 months to 7 October 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
London	-11	575	£365	-4.12 %
South East	-10	215	£294	-10.40 %
South West	-7	91	£316	+5.80 %
East of England	+29	75	£337	-9.59 %
West Midlands	-7	58	£286	-7.39 %
Yorkshire	+11	55	£305	+13.14 %
North West	-3	51	£258	-20.65 %
East Midlands	-5	27	£288	+11.70 %
North East	+14	8	£151	-43.01 %
Midlands	+11	6	£435	+63.76 %

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MS Project
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing MS Project 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 MS Project.

1 943 (37.21 %) PRINCE2 2 937 (36.98 %) Project Management 3 838 (33.07 %) MS Excel 4 686 (27.07 %) Microsoft 5 680 (26.84 %) Finance 6 638 (25.18 %) MS Office 7 388 (15.31 %) MS PowerPoint 8 379 (14.96 %) MS Visio 9 349 (13.77 %) Project Planning 10 276 (10.89 %) Banking 11 250 (9.866 %) Government 12 209 (8.248 %) Security Cleared 13 199 (7.853 %) PRINCE2 Certification 14 177 (6.985 %) Programme Management 15 162 (6.393 %) Oracle

16 158 (6.235 %) PRINCE 17 152 (5.998 %) Windows 18 148 (5.841 %) ITIL 19 136 (5.367 %) SQL 20 130 (5.130 %) Business Analysis 21 126 (4.972 %) Investment Banking 22 125 (4.933 %) Change Management 23 118 (4.657 %) SC Cleared 24 116 (4.578 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 24 116 (4.578 %) Telecoms 25 111 (4.380 %) SAP 25 111 (4.380 %) SharePoint 26 106 (4.183 %) Risk Management 27 100 (3.946 %) RUP 28 99 (3.907 %) PMI

MS Project
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing MS Project 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 MS Project. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 81 (3.197 %) XML 2 58 (2.289 %) .NET 3 50 (1.973 %) HTML 4 31 (1.223 %) CSS 5 27 (1.066 %) WebSphere 6 24 (0.947 %) J2EE 6 24 (0.947 %) XSL 7 23 (0.908 %) SOAP 8 21 (0.829 %) WebServices 9 20 (0.789 %) Hibernate 10 19 (0.750 %) ASP.NET 10 19 (0.750 %) JavaBeans 11 16 (0.631 %) Middleware 12 13 (0.513 %) XSLT 13 12 (0.474 %) ASP 14 7 (0.276 %) COM 14 7 (0.276 %) SAP Basis 14 7 (0.276 %) XHTML 15 6 (0.237 %) JSP 16 5 (0.197 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 111 (4.380 %) SharePoint 2 90 (3.552 %) Office Project Server 3 40 (1.579 %) Lotus Notes 4 38 (1.500 %) MS Exchange 5 25 (0.987 %) Apache 6 22 (0.868 %) WebLogic 7 20 (0.789 %) CMS 7 20 (0.789 %) Oracle Application Server 7 20 (0.789 %) Oracle 10gAS 8 19 (0.750 %) IIS 9 18 (0.710 %) Exchange Server 2007 10 15 (0.592 %) Tomcat 11 12 (0.474 %) Documentum 11 12 (0.474 %) SharePoint Server 2007 12 10 (0.395 %) LiveLink 13 7 (0.276 %) JBoss 14 6 (0.237 %) BizTalk Server 15 5 (0.197 %) Exchange Server 2003 15 5 (0.197 %) SharePoint Portal Server 16 4 (0.158 %) NetWeaver
Applications 1 838 (33.07 %) MS Excel 2 638 (25.18 %) MS Office 3 388 (15.31 %) MS PowerPoint 4 379 (14.96 %) MS Visio 5 67 (2.644 %) CA Clarity 6 43 (1.697 %) Spreadsheet 7 24 (0.947 %) Open Workbench 8 10 (0.395 %) AutoCAD 9 8 (0.316 %) Acrobat 9 8 (0.316 %) Photoshop 10 6 (0.237 %) RoboHelp 10 6 (0.237 %) FrameMaker 11 4 (0.158 %) QuarkXPress 12 3 (0.118 %) InfoPath 13 2 (0.079 %) DeltaView 14 1 (0.039 %) Adobe Illustrator 14 1 (0.039 %) MATLAB 14 1 (0.039 %) Simulink 14 1 (0.039 %) Niku Workbench	Business Applications 1 10 (0.395 %) Hyperion Enterprise 1 10 (0.395 %) HFM 2 9 (0.355 %) Oracle ERP 3 8 (0.316 %) SAP ERP 4 7 (0.276 %) Oracle Financials 5 5 (0.197 %) Loan IQ 5 5 (0.197 %) Salerio 6 4 (0.158 %) SAP R/3 7 3 (0.118 %) SAP FI 7 3 (0.118 %) Oracle Applications 7 3 (0.118 %) SAP CRM 7 3 (0.118 %) SAP Oil and Gas 7 3 (0.118 %) SAP PS 7 3 (0.118 %) Oracle EBS 7 3 (0.118 %) SAP EBP 7 3 (0.118 %) Temenos Globus 7 3 (0.118 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 7 3 (0.118 %) Algo Collateral 8 2 (0.079 %) Siebel Analytics 8 2 (0.079 %) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking 1 48 (1.894 %) Intranet 2 36 (1.421 %) Internet 3 30 (1.184 %) TCP/IP 4 24 (0.947 %) SAN 5 14 (0.552 %) LAN 6 13 (0.513 %) WAN 7 12 (0.474 %) Firewall 8 11 (0.434 %) Broadband 8 11 (0.434 %) VPN 9 10 (0.395 %) MPLS 9 10 (0.395 %) Extranet 9 10 (0.395 %) iSCSI 10 9 (0.355 %) DNS 11 7 (0.276 %) IP Telephony 11 7 (0.276 %) VoIP 11 7 (0.276 %) LLU 12 6 (0.237 %) Wireless 12 6 (0.237 %) ATM 13 5 (0.197 %) DHCP 13 5 (0.197 %) BSS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 70 (2.762 %) SQL Server 2 36 (1.421 %) MS Access 3 28 (1.105 %) SQL Server 2005 4 27 (1.066 %) Oracle 10g 5 23 (0.908 %) Datawarehouse 6 20 (0.789 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 18 (0.710 %) TOAD 8 16 (0.631 %) Oracle Reports 9 13 (0.513 %) SAP BW 10 12 (0.474 %) SQL Server 2000 11 11 (0.434 %) BusinessObjects 12 10 (0.395 %) MySQL 13 9 (0.355 %) Crystal Reports 13 9 (0.355 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 14 8 (0.316 %) OLAP 14 8 (0.316 %) ETL 15 7 (0.276 %) Oracle 9i 16 6 (0.237 %) DB2 16 6 (0.237 %) RDBMS 16 6 (0.237 %) Reference Data
Development Applications 1 42 (1.657 %) RequisitePro 2 39 (1.539 %) Rational Rose 3 31 (1.223 %) ClearQuest 4 25 (0.987 %) TestDirector 5 24 (0.947 %) ClearCase 6 20 (0.789 %) Flash 7 19 (0.750 %) JUnit 8 9 (0.355 %) FrontPage 9 7 (0.276 %) Dreamweaver 10 6 (0.237 %) LoadRunner 10 6 (0.237 %) Rational Robot 10 6 (0.237 %) PowerBuilder 10 6 (0.237 %) WebLogic Workshop 10 6 (0.237 %) Bugzilla 10 6 (0.237 %) GoLive 10 6 (0.237 %) JIRA 10 6 (0.237 %) Subversion 11 5 (0.197 %) Visual Studio 11 5 (0.197 %) PVCS 12 4 (0.158 %) Eclipse	General 1 680 (26.84 %) Finance 2 276 (10.89 %) Banking 3 250 (9.866 %) Government 4 126 (4.972 %) Investment Banking 5 116 (4.578 %) Telecoms 6 85 (3.354 %) Insurance 7 73 (2.881 %) Health 8 68 (2.684 %) Retail 9 45 (1.776 %) Pharmaceutical 10 44 (1.736 %) Pensions 11 42 (1.657 %) Education 12 38 (1.500 %) Front Office 12 38 (1.500 %) Marketing 13 33 (1.302 %) Financial Institution 14 26 (1.026 %) Retail Banking 15 22 (0.868 %) Back Office 16 21 (0.829 %) Publishing 17 20 (0.789 %) Electronics 18 19 (0.750 %) Construction 19 18 (0.710 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 727 (28.69 %) Project Manager 2 458 (18.07 %) Analyst 3 215 (8.485 %) Coordinator 4 176 (6.946 %) Project Coordinator 5 171 (6.748 %) Business Analyst 6 155 (6.117 %) Project Planner 7 124 (4.893 %) Administrator 8 96 (3.788 %) Project Analyst 9 91 (3.591 %) Project Officer 10 85 (3.354 %) Consultant 11 82 (3.236 %) Programme Manager 12 80 (3.157 %) Programme Planner 12 80 (3.157 %) Project Support Officer 13 79 (3.118 %) Project Administrator 14 78 (3.078 %) PMO Analyst 15 66 (2.605 %) Junior 15 66 (2.605 %) Support Analyst 16 49 (1.934 %) Project Support Analyst 17 48 (1.894 %) Developer 18 44 (1.736 %) Junior Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 99 (3.907 %) PMI 2 64 (2.526 %) NHS 3 56 (2.210 %) Derivative 4 38 (1.500 %) Management Information System 5 35 (1.381 %) Fixed Income 6 25 (0.987 %) Interest Rate Derivative 7 16 (0.631 %) ASIC 8 15 (0.592 %) Mainframe 8 15 (0.592 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 9 13 (0.513 %) Equities 10 11 (0.434 %) Clustering 10 11 (0.434 %) Credit Risk 11 10 (0.395 %) German Language 12 9 (0.355 %) Statistics 12 9 (0.355 %) CCTV 13 8 (0.316 %) W3C 14 7 (0.276 %) NPfIT 14 7 (0.276 %) IBM Mainframe 14 7 (0.276 %) RMADS 15 6 (0.237 %) Spanish Language
Operating Systems 1 152 (5.998 %) Windows 2 46 (1.815 %) UNIX 3 41 (1.618 %) Solaris 4 36 (1.421 %) Windows Server 2003 5 34 (1.342 %) Linux 6 29 (1.144 %) Windows XP 7 18 (0.710 %) Windows Vista 8 15 (0.592 %) Windows 2000 9 8 (0.316 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 7 (0.276 %) AIX 11 6 (0.237 %) Red Hat Linux 12 4 (0.158 %) Windows Server 2008 13 3 (0.118 %) Windows Mobile 13 3 (0.118 %) HPUX 14 2 (0.079 %) Windows NT 14 2 (0.079 %) VME 14 2 (0.079 %) NetWare 15 1 (0.039 %) SUSE 15 1 (0.039 %) VMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 943 (37.21 %) PRINCE2 2 937 (36.98 %) Project Management 3 349 (13.77 %) Project Planning 4 209 (8.248 %) Security Cleared 5 177 (6.985 %) Programme Management 6 158 (6.235 %) PRINCE 7 148 (5.841 %) ITIL 8 130 (5.130 %) Business Analysis 9 125 (4.933 %) Change Management 10 118 (4.657 %) SC Cleared 11 106 (4.183 %) Risk Management 12 100 (3.946 %) RUP 13 95 (3.749 %) Stakeholder Management 14 90 (3.552 %) Migration 15 75 (2.960 %) ERP 16 65 (2.565 %) User Acceptance Testing 17 62 (2.447 %) Resource Management 18 60 (2.368 %) Configuration Management 19 57 (2.249 %) UML 20 50 (1.973 %) Use Case
Programming Languages 1 136 (5.367 %) SQL 2 55 (2.170 %) Java 3 33 (1.302 %) JavaScript 4 32 (1.263 %) PL/SQL 5 29 (1.144 %) C 6 28 (1.105 %) VBA 7 26 (1.026 %) VB 8 20 (0.789 %) C# 9 16 (0.631 %) Perl 10 13 (0.513 %) PHP 11 10 (0.395 %) VB.NET 12 9 (0.355 %) VB6 13 8 (0.316 %) Transact-SQL 13 8 (0.316 %) VBScript 14 7 (0.276 %) C++ 15 4 (0.158 %) PHP5 15 4 (0.158 %) PHP4 16 3 (0.118 %) PowerShell 16 3 (0.118 %) COBOL 16 3 (0.118 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 199 (7.853 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 116 (4.578 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 99 (3.907 %) Degree 4 46 (1.815 %) PMI Certification 5 38 (1.500 %) PMP 6 24 (0.947 %) ISEB 7 11 (0.434 %) CIMA 7 11 (0.434 %) ACCA 8 9 (0.355 %) ITIL Certification 8 9 (0.355 %) Cisco Certification 9 7 (0.276 %) CCNA 10 5 (0.197 %) HND 10 5 (0.197 %) Microsoft Certification 10 5 (0.197 %) ISEB Practitioner 11 3 (0.118 %) MCSE 12 1 (0.039 %) HNC 12 1 (0.039 %) OCP 12 1 (0.039 %) Oracle Certification 12 1 (0.039 %) SAP Certification 12 1 (0.039 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 60 (2.368 %) QA 2 22 (0.868 %) ISO9001 3 13 (0.513 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 13 (0.513 %) ISO27001 4 11 (0.434 %) SLA 5 8 (0.316 %) Basel II 6 4 (0.158 %) GMP 6 4 (0.158 %) ISO9000 7 3 (0.118 %) PCI DSS 7 3 (0.118 %) ISO8583 8 2 (0.079 %) EFQM 8 2 (0.079 %) COBIT 9 1 (0.039 %) BS7799	System Software 1 23 (0.908 %) Active Directory 2 21 (0.829 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 7 (0.276 %) VMware Server 4 5 (0.197 %) Backup Exec 5 4 (0.158 %) NFS 5 4 (0.158 %) NetBackup 6 2 (0.079 %) Terminal Services 6 2 (0.079 %) Samba 6 2 (0.079 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 7 1 (0.039 %) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management 1 8 (0.316 %) Tivoli 1 8 (0.316 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 6 (0.237 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 6 (0.237 %) OVPI 3 4 (0.158 %) SCCM 3 4 (0.158 %) OVSD 3 4 (0.158 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 4 (0.158 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 4 (0.158 %) OpenView 4 3 (0.118 %) CONTROL-M 5 2 (0.079 %) Tivoli Monitoring 5 2 (0.079 %) SCOM 6 1 (0.039 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 6 1 (0.039 %) MIIS 6 1 (0.039 %) Unicenter 6 1 (0.039 %) Legato 6 1 (0.039 %) MOM	Vendors 1 686 (27.07 %) Microsoft 2 162 (6.393 %) Oracle 3 111 (4.380 %) SAP 4 55 (2.170 %) IBM 5 45 (1.776 %) Primavera 6 42 (1.657 %) Niku 7 41 (1.618 %) Lotus 8 28 (1.105 %) VMware 9 27 (1.066 %) Citrix 10 25 (0.987 %) HP 10 25 (0.987 %) Planview 11 20 (0.789 %) Altova 12 19 (0.750 %) Cisco 13 18 (0.710 %) Adobe 14 16 (0.631 %) CA 14 16 (0.631 %) Remedy 15 13 (0.513 %) Actuate 16 11 (0.434 %) Cognos 16 11 (0.434 %) Business Objects 16 11 (0.434 %) Agresso