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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Project Management skills 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 Management over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the England region.

 Project Management
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank171417
Rank change year-on-year
Down-3Up+3
Matching contract IT job ads332326245097
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England7.415 %7.179 %6.641 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category12.51 %13.46 %13.22 %
Daily rates quoted173611002015
Average daily rate£415£380£413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.210 %-7.870 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£255£230£268
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£363£357£380
% change year-on-year
+1.540 %-6.050 %
Hourly rates quoted105128161
Average hourly rate£26.25£27.50£29.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.540 %-7.540 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.85£15.00£16.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.75£44.88£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£22.50£27.00£25.24
% change year-on-year
-16.66 %+6.970 %
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
265721949338549
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England59.29 %53.33 %50.22 %
Daily rates quoted13105707013494
Average daily rate£413£400£410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.120 %-2.430 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£238£265
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£360£375
% change year-on-year
-2.770 %-4.000 %
Hourly rates quoted110211572320
Average hourly rate£25.00£27.50£29.90
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.090 %-8.010 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.50£13.00£13.54
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£42.50£42.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£27.50£30.00
% change year-on-year
-10.90 %-8.330 %
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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.

Project Management
Demand Trend

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

England Project Management Demand Trend

Project Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Project Management Daily Rate Trend

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Management across the England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

England Project Management Daily Rate Histogram

Project Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Project Management Hourly Rate Trend

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Management across the England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

England Project Management Hourly Rate Histogram

Project Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management within the England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
LondonDown-22005£450+12.50 %
South EastDown-1535£375-
North WestDown-1181£275-26.66 %
South WestUp+8169£388+11.51 %
YorkshireUp+2160£388+10.71 %
East of EnglandDown-693£345-1.42 %
West MidlandsDown-483£375+1.01 %
East MidlandsDown-658£438+90.21 %
MidlandsUp+515£278-63.00 %
North EastDown-1114£306-4.29 %
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UK

Project Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Project Management 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 Project Management.

11897 (30.77 %)Finance
21542 (25.01 %)PRINCE2
31345 (21.81 %)Banking
4825 (13.38 %)Investment Banking
5678 (11.00 %)Business Analysis
6515 (8.352 %)Stakeholder Management
7500 (8.109 %)MS Project
8438 (7.103 %)Microsoft
9408 (6.617 %)Government
10403 (6.536 %)Migration
11393 (6.374 %)Risk Management
12390 (6.325 %)ITIL
13386 (6.260 %)Change Management
14382 (6.195 %)MS Excel
15348 (5.644 %)Oracle
16330 (5.352 %)SQL
17324 (5.255 %)Derivative
18309 (5.011 %)Retail
19295 (4.784 %)MS Office
20293 (4.752 %)Security Cleared
21287 (4.655 %)Front Office
22274 (4.444 %)NHS
23272 (4.411 %)SAP
24271 (4.395 %)PMI Certification
25261 (4.233 %)PRINCE2 Certification
26258 (4.184 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
27256 (4.152 %)Java
28254 (4.119 %)Windows
28254 (4.119 %)Programme Management
28254 (4.119 %)Degree

Project Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Project Management 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 Project Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1182 (2.952 %).NET
2109 (1.768 %)XML
379 (1.281 %)HTML
466 (1.070 %)Web Services
565 (1.054 %)ASP.NET
664 (1.038 %)Middleware
749 (0.795 %)WebSphere
847 (0.762 %)CSS
943 (0.697 %)Flash
1037 (0.600 %)J2EE
1124 (0.389 %)ASP
1218 (0.292 %)Spring
1218 (0.292 %)EDI
1218 (0.292 %).NET Framework
1317 (0.276 %)AJAX
1317 (0.276 %)XSLT
1416 (0.259 %)JSP
1416 (0.259 %)Java EE
1515 (0.243 %)JMS
1515 (0.243 %)XSL
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1223 (3.617 %)SharePoint
290 (1.460 %)CMS
335 (0.568 %)IIS
431 (0.503 %)SharePoint Server 2007
527 (0.438 %)MS Exchange
624 (0.389 %)SAS
721 (0.341 %)Office Project Server
721 (0.341 %)Apache
816 (0.259 %)Lotus Notes
915 (0.243 %)Exchange Server 2007
915 (0.243 %)BizTalk Server
915 (0.243 %)Tomcat
1014 (0.227 %)WebLogic
1014 (0.227 %)Exchange Server 2003
1113 (0.211 %)SharePoint Portal Server
1113 (0.211 %)WebSphere Application Server
1113 (0.211 %)Documentum
1211 (0.178 %)WebSphere MQ
139 (0.146 %)ESB
148 (0.130 %)JCAPS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1500 (8.109 %)MS Project
2382 (6.195 %)MS Excel
3295 (4.784 %)MS Office
4216 (3.503 %)MS Visio
5206 (3.341 %)MS PowerPoint
672 (1.168 %)CA Clarity
745 (0.730 %)Spreadsheet
817 (0.276 %)InfoPath
916 (0.259 %)Photoshop
107 (0.114 %)Open Workbench
115 (0.081 %)Adobe Illustrator
124 (0.065 %)Fireworks
133 (0.049 %)Acrobat
133 (0.049 %)MATLAB
133 (0.049 %)CATIA
142 (0.032 %)InDesign
142 (0.032 %)SPSS
151 (0.016 %)FastStats
151 (0.016 %)Casewise Corporate Modeler Suite
151 (0.016 %)Niku Workbench
England IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
147 (0.762 %)Endur
241 (0.665 %)Summit
329 (0.470 %)RMDS
426 (0.422 %)SAP HR
522 (0.357 %)SAP FI
621 (0.341 %)SAP CO
720 (0.324 %)SAP FI/CO
817 (0.276 %)Oracle EBS
916 (0.259 %)Oracle Financials
916 (0.259 %)Dynamics CRM
916 (0.259 %)Oracle EBS R12
1013 (0.211 %)SAP ERP
1013 (0.211 %)SAP CRM
1112 (0.195 %)SAP SD
1112 (0.195 %)SAP R/3
1112 (0.195 %)GL Clearvision
1211 (0.178 %)SAP Oil and Gas
139 (0.146 %)Remedy ITSM
139 (0.146 %)Oracle Applications
147 (0.114 %)CODA-Financials
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1124 (2.011 %)Internet
294 (1.524 %)LAN
294 (1.524 %)WAN
384 (1.362 %)Firewall
476 (1.233 %)Intranet
560 (0.973 %)SAN
638 (0.616 %)TCP/IP
638 (0.616 %)Network Security
731 (0.503 %)VPN
830 (0.487 %)DNS
925 (0.405 %)MPLS
1023 (0.373 %)VoIP
1120 (0.324 %)UMTS
1219 (0.308 %)GSM
1219 (0.308 %)BSS
1219 (0.308 %)IP Telephony
1318 (0.292 %)Wireless
1318 (0.292 %)3G
1416 (0.259 %)SMS
1514 (0.227 %)Broadband
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1207 (3.357 %)SQL Server
2106 (1.719 %)Datawarehouse
361 (0.989 %)ETL
459 (0.957 %)BusinessObjects
544 (0.714 %)Reference Data
635 (0.568 %)SQL Server 2005
732 (0.519 %)MS Access
830 (0.487 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
927 (0.438 %)SAP BW
1026 (0.422 %)RDBMS
1124 (0.389 %)DB2
1223 (0.373 %)Oracle 8/8i
1320 (0.324 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1418 (0.292 %)Oracle Reports
1516 (0.259 %)Oracle 10g
1615 (0.243 %)Oracle BI EE
1615 (0.243 %)Crystal Reports
1713 (0.211 %)Oracle Discoverer
1713 (0.211 %)MySQL
1713 (0.211 %)Essbase
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
132 (0.519 %)Visual Studio
228 (0.454 %)ClearCase
324 (0.389 %)Team Foundation Server
415 (0.243 %)Rational Rose
514 (0.227 %)JIRA
613 (0.211 %)TestDirector
613 (0.211 %)Oracle Forms
710 (0.162 %)Dreamweaver
710 (0.162 %)LoadRunner
89 (0.146 %)Eclipse
96 (0.097 %)QuickTest Pro
105 (0.081 %)Subversion
114 (0.065 %)ClearQuest
114 (0.065 %)FrontPage
123 (0.049 %)ProC
123 (0.049 %)RequisitePro
123 (0.049 %)VSS/SourceSafe
132 (0.032 %)Maven
132 (0.032 %)WinRunner
132 (0.032 %)ERwin
England IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11897 (30.77 %)Finance
21345 (21.81 %)Banking
3825 (13.38 %)Investment Banking
4408 (6.617 %)Government
5309 (5.011 %)Retail
6287 (4.655 %)Front Office
7237 (3.844 %)Insurance
8212 (3.438 %)Telecoms
9201 (3.260 %)Health
10198 (3.211 %)Back Office
11130 (2.108 %)Retail Banking
12112 (1.816 %)Education
13100 (1.622 %)Marketing
1490 (1.460 %)Financial Institution
1576 (1.233 %)Local Government
1672 (1.168 %)Legal
1765 (1.054 %)Pensions
1861 (0.989 %)Pharmaceutical
1941 (0.665 %)Construction
2035 (0.568 %)Manufacturing
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12727 (44.23 %)Project Manager
21193 (19.35 %)Analyst
3818 (13.27 %)Business Analyst
4262 (4.249 %)Consultant
5228 (3.698 %)Developer
6217 (3.519 %)Technical Manager
7207 (3.357 %)Senior Manager
7207 (3.357 %)Programme Manager
8195 (3.163 %)Business Manager
9183 (2.968 %)Technical Project Manager
10182 (2.952 %)Senior Project Manager
11150 (2.433 %)Business Project Manager
12127 (2.060 %)IT Project Manager
13124 (2.011 %)Architect
14120 (1.946 %)Delivery Manager
15113 (1.833 %)Infrastructure Manager
16108 (1.752 %)Project Analyst
17107 (1.735 %)Coordinator
18105 (1.703 %)Infrastructure Project Manager
1997 (1.573 %)Change Manager
England IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1324 (5.255 %)Derivative
2274 (4.444 %)NHS
3258 (4.184 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4222 (3.600 %)Fixed Income
5162 (2.627 %)PMI
6146 (2.368 %)Management Information System
7127 (2.060 %)Equities
890 (1.460 %)Credit Risk
977 (1.249 %)Equity Derivative
1070 (1.135 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1160 (0.973 %)Market Risk
1252 (0.843 %)Credit Derivative
1347 (0.762 %)Mainframe
1430 (0.487 %)French Language
1528 (0.454 %)Client/Server
1625 (0.405 %)NPfIT
1724 (0.389 %)FMCG
1724 (0.389 %)German Language
1724 (0.389 %)Open Source
1822 (0.357 %)Computer Science
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1254 (4.119 %)Windows
2228 (3.698 %)UNIX
3114 (1.849 %)Linux
464 (1.038 %)Solaris
556 (0.908 %)Windows Server 2003
646 (0.746 %)AIX
736 (0.584 %)Windows Server 2008
827 (0.438 %)Windows XP
915 (0.243 %)Windows 2000
1013 (0.211 %)Red Hat Linux
1110 (0.162 %)Windows 7
129 (0.146 %)Windows Vista
129 (0.146 %)HPUX
137 (0.114 %)Windows NT
144 (0.065 %)Windows 2000 Server
152 (0.032 %)OpenVMS
152 (0.032 %)zOS
161 (0.016 %)Ubuntu
161 (0.016 %)MVS
161 (0.016 %)NetWare
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11542 (25.01 %)PRINCE2
2678 (11.00 %)Business Analysis
3515 (8.352 %)Stakeholder Management
4403 (6.536 %)Migration
5393 (6.374 %)Risk Management
6390 (6.325 %)ITIL
7386 (6.260 %)Change Management
8254 (4.119 %)Programme Management
9251 (4.071 %)Project Planning
10237 (3.844 %)PRINCE
11213 (3.454 %)E-Commerce
12171 (2.773 %)User Acceptance Testing
13166 (2.692 %)Agile Software Development
14143 (2.319 %)Service Management
15142 (2.303 %)Resource Management
16129 (2.092 %)Service Delivery
17125 (2.027 %)UML
18124 (2.011 %)CRM
19122 (1.979 %)Business Intelligence
19122 (1.979 %)Scrum
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1330 (5.352 %)SQL
2256 (4.152 %)Java
3212 (3.438 %)C
4169 (2.741 %)C#
576 (1.233 %)JavaScript
657 (0.924 %)C++
749 (0.795 %)Perl
835 (0.568 %)VB
932 (0.519 %)PL/SQL
1029 (0.470 %)PHP
1122 (0.357 %)VBA
1221 (0.341 %)T-SQL
1320 (0.324 %)Shell Script
1412 (0.195 %)VB.NET
1510 (0.162 %)VBScript
169 (0.146 %)ABAP
178 (0.130 %)COBOL
178 (0.130 %)Korn
185 (0.081 %)C-shell
185 (0.081 %)ActionScript
England IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1293 (4.752 %)Security Cleared
2271 (4.395 %)PMI Certification
3261 (4.233 %)PRINCE2 Certification
4254 (4.119 %)Degree
5166 (2.692 %)SC Cleared
6154 (2.498 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
7133 (2.157 %)PMP
868 (1.103 %)ITIL Certification
966 (1.070 %)DV Cleared
1056 (0.908 %)ISEB
1153 (0.860 %)Cisco Certification
1247 (0.762 %)Microsoft Certification
1331 (0.503 %)MCSE
1429 (0.470 %)CCIE
1522 (0.357 %)ACCA
1522 (0.357 %)CCNP
1522 (0.357 %)CTC Cleared
1619 (0.308 %)CCNA
1715 (0.243 %)CIMA
1814 (0.227 %)APMP
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1192 (3.114 %)QA
248 (0.778 %)SLA
343 (0.697 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
343 (0.697 %)Basel II
418 (0.292 %)PCI DSS
517 (0.276 %)ISO27001
69 (0.146 %)ISO9001
78 (0.130 %)MiFID
86 (0.097 %)COBIT
95 (0.081 %)HL7
95 (0.081 %)GxP
104 (0.065 %)ISO17799
104 (0.065 %)GAAP
112 (0.032 %)GAMP
112 (0.032 %)ISO9000
112 (0.032 %)SNOMED CT
112 (0.032 %)WAI
121 (0.016 %)WCAG
121 (0.016 %)ISO/IEC 20000
121 (0.016 %)JSP 440
England IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
171 (1.151 %)Active Directory
224 (0.389 %)VMware Infrastructure
310 (0.162 %)Hyper-V
47 (0.114 %)vSphere
47 (0.114 %)Oracle RAC
56 (0.097 %)VMware ESX
56 (0.097 %)XenApp
64 (0.065 %)Terminal Services
73 (0.049 %)ISA Server
82 (0.032 %)Terminal Server
82 (0.032 %)SAP ITS
82 (0.032 %)Veritas Volume Manager
82 (0.032 %)Veritas File System
82 (0.032 %)SRDF
91 (0.016 %)XenServer
91 (0.016 %)ClearTrust
91 (0.016 %)Xen
91 (0.016 %)Citrix Presentation Server
91 (0.016 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
91 (0.016 %)NFS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
112 (0.195 %)Tivoli
112 (0.195 %)Netcool
112 (0.195 %)SCCM
112 (0.195 %)Netcool/Webtop
29 (0.146 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
37 (0.114 %)SCOM
46 (0.097 %)CiscoWorks
46 (0.097 %)ServiceCenter
55 (0.081 %)HP Quality Center
55 (0.081 %)Nagios
55 (0.081 %)BMC PATROL
64 (0.065 %)NetBackup
64 (0.065 %)MSI
73 (0.049 %)WSUS
73 (0.049 %)EMC NetWorker
73 (0.049 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
73 (0.049 %)AutoSys
82 (0.032 %)EMC Navisphere
82 (0.032 %)OpenView
82 (0.032 %)MIMEsweeper
England IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1438 (7.103 %)Microsoft
2348 (5.644 %)Oracle
3272 (4.411 %)SAP
4112 (1.816 %)Cisco
571 (1.151 %)Sybase
663 (1.022 %)Citrix
761 (0.989 %)VMware
859 (0.957 %)HP
859 (0.957 %)IBM
859 (0.957 %)Business Objects
952 (0.843 %)TIBCO
1048 (0.778 %)OpenLink
1143 (0.697 %)Siebel
1235 (0.568 %)Reuters
1333 (0.535 %)Juniper
1429 (0.470 %)Cognos
1429 (0.470 %)Remedy
1429 (0.470 %)CheckPoint
1526 (0.422 %)Wall Street Systems
1526 (0.422 %)Hyperion