The first table below looks at the demand for the Project Leader role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Project Leader in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Project Lead
Rank 473 531 529
Rank change year-on-year
+58 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Project Leader 40 28 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.096% 0.052% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.104% 0.057% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 20
Average daily rate £400 £422 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -11.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £229 £373
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £539 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £418 £294 £431
% change year-on-year
+42.12% -31.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Average hourly rate £21.50 - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 - £35.00
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1983 2412 2765
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Project Leader
UK

Project Leader
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Project Leader across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England Project Leader Jobs Demand Trend

Project Leader
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Project Leader Daily Rate Trend

Project Leader
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Leader across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Project Leader Daily Rate Histogram

Project Leader
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Project Leader Hourly Rate Trend

Project Leader
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Leader across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Project Leader Hourly Rate Histogram

Project Leader
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Leader within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +41 15 £400 -17.94%
South East +21 10 £400 -
Yorkshire +4 6 - -
East of England +19 4 £435 -
West Midlands +8 2 - -
Midlands - 1 £550 -
North West - 1 - -
Project Leader
UK

Project Leader
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Project Leader 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 Leader in their job title.

1 25 (31.65%) Finance
2 22 (27.85%) Windows
3 19 (24.05%) Project Management
4 16 (20.25%) PRINCE2
5 14 (17.72%) ITIL
5 14 (17.72%) SQL
6 13 (16.46%) Migration
7 12 (15.19%) ITIL V3
8 11 (13.92%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (13.92%) Oracle
9 10 (12.66%) SAN
9 10 (12.66%) PRINCE
10 9 (11.39%) VMware
10 9 (11.39%) Telecoms
10 9 (11.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 8 (10.13%) Apache
11 8 (10.13%) Linux
12 7 (8.861%) Data Integration
12 7 (8.861%) Scrum
13 6 (7.595%) Clustering
13 6 (7.595%) Retail
13 6 (7.595%) UNIX
13 6 (7.595%) VMware Infrastructure
14 5 (6.329%) Windows 7
14 5 (6.329%) Banking
14 5 (6.329%) ERP
14 5 (6.329%) SAP
14 5 (6.329%) Data Modelling
14 5 (6.329%) SOA
15 4 (5.063%) ETL

Project Leader
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Project Leader 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 Leader in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (5.063%) J2EE
2 1 (1.266%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.266%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.266%) HTML
2 1 (1.266%) .NET
2 1 (1.266%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.266%) CSS
2 1 (1.266%) DOM
Application Platforms
1 8 (10.13%) Apache
2 1 (1.266%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (1.266%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (1.266%) ESB
2 1 (1.266%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (1.266%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.266%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (5.063%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.532%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (1.266%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.266%) MS Project
3 1 (1.266%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.063%) PeopleSoft Financials
1 4 (5.063%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.797%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (2.532%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (2.532%) Taleo
4 1 (1.266%) SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.66%) SAN
2 2 (2.532%) Intranet
2 2 (2.532%) NAS
3 1 (1.266%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.266%) DVB
3 1 (1.266%) Firewall
3 1 (1.266%) Wireless
3 1 (1.266%) Broadband
3 1 (1.266%) DHCP
3 1 (1.266%) FTP
3 1 (1.266%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.797%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.532%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (1.266%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (1.266%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.266%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.266%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 1 (1.266%) ERwin
General
1 25 (31.65%) Finance
2 9 (11.39%) Telecoms
3 6 (7.595%) Retail
4 5 (6.329%) Banking
5 3 (3.797%) Marketing
6 2 (2.532%) Automotive
6 2 (2.532%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.532%) Front Office
6 2 (2.532%) Electronics
6 2 (2.532%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.266%) Local Government
7 1 (1.266%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.266%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.861%) Data Integration
2 6 (7.595%) Clustering
3 4 (5.063%) NHS
4 3 (3.797%) SaaS
5 2 (2.532%) STB
5 2 (2.532%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.532%) IPTV
5 2 (2.532%) FMCG
5 2 (2.532%) Video on Demand
5 2 (2.532%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.266%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.266%) Open Source
6 1 (1.266%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.266%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.266%) Animation
6 1 (1.266%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.266%) DTV
6 1 (1.266%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.266%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.266%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 22 (27.85%) Windows
2 8 (10.13%) Linux
3 6 (7.595%) UNIX
4 5 (6.329%) Windows 7
5 3 (3.797%) Windows 8
6 2 (2.532%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.266%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (24.05%) Project Management
2 16 (20.25%) PRINCE2
3 14 (17.72%) ITIL
4 13 (16.46%) Migration
5 12 (15.19%) ITIL V3
6 11 (13.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (12.66%) PRINCE
8 7 (8.861%) Scrum
9 5 (6.329%) ERP
9 5 (6.329%) Data Modelling
9 5 (6.329%) SOA
10 4 (5.063%) ETL
10 4 (5.063%) Data Management
10 4 (5.063%) Information Management
10 4 (5.063%) Risk Management
10 4 (5.063%) Waterfall
10 4 (5.063%) Master Data Management
11 3 (3.797%) Data Governance
11 3 (3.797%) Information Architecture
11 3 (3.797%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.72%) SQL
2 2 (2.532%) C++
2 2 (2.532%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.266%) Clojure
3 1 (1.266%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.266%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.266%) C
3 1 (1.266%) C#
3 1 (1.266%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.266%) VBScript
3 1 (1.266%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (11.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 4 (5.063%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.797%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.797%) CCNA
4 2 (2.532%) CNA
4 2 (2.532%) CNE
4 2 (2.532%) Novell Certification
4 2 (2.532%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.532%) MCSE
4 2 (2.532%) Degree
4 2 (2.532%) APMP
5 1 (1.266%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.266%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.266%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.266%) JNCIA
5 1 (1.266%) CCSE
5 1 (1.266%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.266%) CCSA
5 1 (1.266%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.266%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.266%) QA
System Software
1 6 (7.595%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.532%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.266%) XenDesktop
3 1 (1.266%) VMware ESX
3 1 (1.266%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (1.266%) SCCM
1 1 (1.266%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 11 (13.92%) Oracle
2 9 (11.39%) VMware
3 5 (6.329%) SAP
4 4 (5.063%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.063%) PeopleSoft
5 3 (3.797%) AccuRev
5 3 (3.797%) Cisco
6 2 (2.532%) Murex
6 2 (2.532%) IBM
6 2 (2.532%) Citrix
6 2 (2.532%) DoubleClick
6 2 (2.532%) Google
7 1 (1.266%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.266%) Crossbeam
7 1 (1.266%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.266%) webMethods
7 1 (1.266%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.266%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.266%) AppSense
7 1 (1.266%) Software AG
Hereford and Worcester
300 a DAY - 6 MONTHS NHS - MIDLANDS My client an NHS organisation within the west midlands is currently looking for an experienced ESR Project Lead for a period...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £300 to £301 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bradford, West Yorkshire
6 months contract Bradford, West Yorkshire £negotiable rates on offer Fruition IT are currently looking to recruit an IT Implementation/Project Lead to work on an exciting Windows...
Fruition IT Resources Limited
Posted: 20 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
6 MONTH CONTRACT Manchester - Cheadle Hulme My client in the financial sector is looking for a project lead/ workstream Lead to join their team for at least a...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £350 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Middlesbrough, Cleveland
Resource Pool Manager. Middlesbrough Up to £22 per hour Our client, a rapidly expanding Public Sector Organisation based in Teesside are seeking a Resource Pool Manager to lead...
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Rate: £19 - £22 per hour
Posted: 21 May 2013
Middlesbrough, North East
Resource Pool Manager Middlesbrough Up to £22 per hour Our client, a rapidly expanding Public Sector Organisation based in Teesside are seeking a Resource Pool Manager to lead...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £19 - £22 per hour
Posted: 22 May 2013
Barrow-In-Furness, North West
using appropriate tools such as Earned Value Management (EVM)Develop, maintain and manage key relationships with sub-contractors, customers and other stakeholders to ensure all deliverables are achieved...
JAM
Rate: £35 - £38 per hour
Posted: 9 May 2013