England Senior Project Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Senior Project Manager role in IT contracts within the England 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 Senior 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 Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Dundee East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Reading Redditch Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Street Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Trowbridge UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	281	334
Rank change on same period last year	+53
Matching contract IT job ads	343	337
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.452 %	0.357 %
As % of the category below	0.537 %	0.420 %
Daily rates quoted	148	126
Average minimum daily rate	£514	£490
Average daily rate	£544	£527
% change on same period last year	+3.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£574	£564
UK excluding London average daily rate	£508	£468
% change on same period last year	+8.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.00	£37.50
Average hourly rate	£24.88	£45.00
% change on same period last year	-44.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.75	£52.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.50	£58.75
% change on same period last year	-61.70 %
Job Titles England
Matching contract IT job ads	63872	80323
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	84.22 %	85.20 %
Daily rates quoted	21073	23956
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£394
Average daily rate	£406	£419
% change on same period last year	-3.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£433	£445
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	5574	6600
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.97	£24.72
Average hourly rate	£23.59	£26.24
% change on same period last year	-10.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.20	£27.76
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
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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 Senior Project Manager across the England 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 Senior Project Manager across the England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Project Manager across the England 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 Senior Project Manager across the England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Project Manager across the England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Senior Project Manager within the England region over the 3 months to 4 July 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	+54	155	£583	-0.30 %
East of England	+8	53	£531	+16.66 %
Yorkshire	+24	39	£485	+12.90 %
South East	+14	36	£537	+11.83 %
South West	+23	17	£438	-5.49 %
West Midlands	+2	15	£517	+13.98 %
North West	-7	13	£520	+48.57 %
East Midlands	+2	10	£492	-13.20 %
Midlands	+4	8	£500	+25.00 %
North East	+8	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Senior 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 Senior Project Manager in their job title.

1 293 (38.40 %) Project Management 1 293 (38.40 %) PRINCE2 2 265 (34.73 %) Finance 3 128 (16.78 %) Stakeholder Management 4 122 (15.99 %) Banking 5 81 (10.62 %) Government 6 61 (7.995 %) Retail 7 58 (7.602 %) PRINCE2 Certification 8 55 (7.208 %) Investment Banking 9 53 (6.946 %) Insurance 10 43 (5.636 %) Security Cleared 11 41 (5.374 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 12 39 (5.111 %) Health 13 38 (4.980 %) Pensions 14 37 (4.849 %) PRINCE

15 35 (4.587 %) Change Management 15 35 (4.587 %) Migration 16 33 (4.325 %) Risk Management 16 33 (4.325 %) NHS 17 30 (3.932 %) Retail Banking 18 28 (3.670 %) Marketing 18 28 (3.670 %) Internet 18 28 (3.670 %) Microsoft 19 27 (3.539 %) Business Analysis 20 24 (3.145 %) Telecoms 20 24 (3.145 %) ITIL 20 24 (3.145 %) MS Project 20 24 (3.145 %) Oracle 20 24 (3.145 %) Derivative 21 23 (3.014 %) Programme Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Senior 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 Senior Project Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 20 (2.621 %) .NET 2 18 (2.359 %) J2EE 3 9 (1.180 %) WebServices 4 7 (0.917 %) HTML 5 6 (0.786 %) XML 6 5 (0.655 %) CSS 7 4 (0.524 %) Middleware 7 4 (0.524 %) ASP.NET 8 3 (0.393 %) XHTML 8 3 (0.393 %) WebSphere 9 2 (0.262 %) AJAX 9 2 (0.262 %) ASP 10 1 (0.131 %) EDI 10 1 (0.131 %) XSLT 10 1 (0.131 %) .NET Framework 10 1 (0.131 %) WSRP 10 1 (0.131 %) Drupal	Application Platforms 1 11 (1.442 %) SharePoint 2 6 (0.786 %) CMS 3 4 (0.524 %) MS Exchange 3 4 (0.524 %) IIS 4 2 (0.262 %) Apache 4 2 (0.262 %) BizTalk Server 4 2 (0.262 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 2 (0.262 %) Office Project Server 5 1 (0.131 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 1 (0.131 %) WebLogic 5 1 (0.131 %) ESB 5 1 (0.131 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 1 (0.131 %) Commerce Server 5 1 (0.131 %) WebLogic Portal 5 1 (0.131 %) SmartSockets 5 1 (0.131 %) SAS
Applications 1 24 (3.145 %) MS Project 2 14 (1.835 %) MS Excel 3 10 (1.311 %) MS Visio 4 6 (0.786 %) MS Office 5 2 (0.262 %) CA Clarity 6 1 (0.131 %) Photoshop 6 1 (0.131 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 5 (0.655 %) Oracle Financials 1 5 (0.655 %) SAP Oil and Gas 2 4 (0.524 %) Loan IQ 3 1 (0.131 %) SAP ERP 3 1 (0.131 %) InvestOne 3 1 (0.131 %) Eagle PACE 3 1 (0.131 %) Eagle STAR 3 1 (0.131 %) Oracle BRM 3 1 (0.131 %) SAP HR 3 1 (0.131 %) SAP SD 3 1 (0.131 %) HiPortfolio 3 1 (0.131 %) Oracle CRM 3 1 (0.131 %) Oracle Applications 3 1 (0.131 %) Tesseract 3 1 (0.131 %) Minerva 3 1 (0.131 %) MultiFonds 3 1 (0.131 %) SimCorp Dimension
Communications & Networking 1 28 (3.670 %) Internet 2 8 (1.048 %) WAN 2 8 (1.048 %) Intranet 3 7 (0.917 %) LAN 4 6 (0.786 %) ATM 5 5 (0.655 %) SAN 6 4 (0.524 %) Extranet 6 4 (0.524 %) Network Security 6 4 (0.524 %) Wireless 7 3 (0.393 %) Firewall 7 3 (0.393 %) VoIP 7 3 (0.393 %) GPRS 8 2 (0.262 %) GSM 8 2 (0.262 %) Broadband 8 2 (0.262 %) UMTS 8 2 (0.262 %) 3G 8 2 (0.262 %) MPLS 8 2 (0.262 %) IP Telephony 9 1 (0.131 %) HSUPA 9 1 (0.131 %) LLU	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (1.048 %) Datawarehouse 2 4 (0.524 %) OLAP 2 4 (0.524 %) Data Cleansing 3 3 (0.393 %) RDBMS 3 3 (0.393 %) SQL Server 4 2 (0.262 %) BusinessObjects 4 2 (0.262 %) EDRMS 5 1 (0.131 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (0.131 %) BusinessObjects XI 5 1 (0.131 %) DataStage 5 1 (0.131 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (0.131 %) MySQL 5 1 (0.131 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 1 (0.131 %) ETL 5 1 (0.131 %) SQL Navigator 5 1 (0.131 %) OLTP
Development Applications 1 6 (0.786 %) Flash 2 1 (0.131 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (0.131 %) RequisitePro	General 1 265 (34.73 %) Finance 2 122 (15.99 %) Banking 3 81 (10.62 %) Government 4 61 (7.995 %) Retail 5 55 (7.208 %) Investment Banking 6 53 (6.946 %) Insurance 7 39 (5.111 %) Health 8 38 (4.980 %) Pensions 9 30 (3.932 %) Retail Banking 10 28 (3.670 %) Marketing 11 24 (3.145 %) Telecoms 12 16 (2.097 %) Front Office 13 13 (1.704 %) Back Office 14 11 (1.442 %) Publishing 15 9 (1.180 %) Financial Institution 15 9 (1.180 %) Local Government 16 8 (1.048 %) Education 17 7 (0.917 %) Legal 18 6 (0.786 %) Games 19 5 (0.655 %) Advertising
Miscellaneous 1 33 (4.325 %) NHS 2 24 (3.145 %) Derivative 3 19 (2.490 %) Asset Management 4 15 (1.966 %) PMI 5 11 (1.442 %) Fixed Income 6 7 (0.917 %) Management Information System 6 7 (0.917 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 7 6 (0.786 %) Credit Derivative 7 6 (0.786 %) Credit Risk 8 5 (0.655 %) Interest Rate Derivative 8 5 (0.655 %) DTV 9 4 (0.524 %) NPfIT 9 4 (0.524 %) STB 9 4 (0.524 %) Computer Science 9 4 (0.524 %) Fund Management 10 3 (0.393 %) Social Network 10 3 (0.393 %) German Language 10 3 (0.393 %) BBC 10 3 (0.393 %) iDTV 11 2 (0.262 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 11 (1.442 %) Windows 2 10 (1.311 %) AIX 2 10 (1.311 %) Unix 3 7 (0.917 %) Solaris 4 4 (0.524 %) Linux 5 1 (0.131 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (0.131 %) Windows NT 5 1 (0.131 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (0.131 %) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies 1 293 (38.40 %) PRINCE2 1 293 (38.40 %) Project Management 2 128 (16.78 %) Stakeholder Management 3 43 (5.636 %) Security Cleared 4 37 (4.849 %) PRINCE 5 35 (4.587 %) Change Management 5 35 (4.587 %) Migration 6 33 (4.325 %) Risk Management 7 27 (3.539 %) Business Analysis 8 24 (3.145 %) ITIL 9 23 (3.014 %) Programme Management 10 21 (2.752 %) Supplier Management 11 19 (2.490 %) E-Commerce 12 17 (2.228 %) Matrix Management 13 14 (1.835 %) CRM 14 13 (1.704 %) Service Delivery 14 13 (1.704 %) SC Cleared 15 12 (1.573 %) Project Planning 16 11 (1.442 %) Service Management 16 11 (1.442 %) ERP	Programming Languages 1 22 (2.883 %) Java 2 12 (1.573 %) SQL 3 11 (1.442 %) C 4 6 (0.786 %) C# 5 4 (0.524 %) JavaScript 6 3 (0.393 %) C++ 6 3 (0.393 %) PL/SQL 7 2 (0.262 %) PowerHouse 7 2 (0.262 %) PHP 7 2 (0.262 %) VB.NET 8 1 (0.131 %) ActionScript 8 1 (0.131 %) SQR 8 1 (0.131 %) Transact-SQL 8 1 (0.131 %) Korn 8 1 (0.131 %) PHP5
Qualifications 1 58 (7.602 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 41 (5.374 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 19 (2.490 %) Degree 4 14 (1.835 %) PMI Certification 5 12 (1.573 %) PMP 6 8 (1.048 %) ISEB 7 5 (0.655 %) Citrix Certification 7 5 (0.655 %) ITIL Certification 8 2 (0.262 %) Microsoft Certification 8 2 (0.262 %) SAP Certification 8 2 (0.262 %) MCSE 8 2 (0.262 %) ISEB Practitioner 9 1 (0.131 %) MAPM 9 1 (0.131 %) HNC 9 1 (0.131 %) ACCA 9 1 (0.131 %) CCIE 9 1 (0.131 %) CCNP 9 1 (0.131 %) Cisco Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (0.524 %) QA 2 3 (0.393 %) GMP 2 3 (0.393 %) SLA 3 2 (0.262 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 2 (0.262 %) Basel II 4 1 (0.131 %) CESG Infosec 4 1 (0.131 %) JSP 440
System Software 1 2 (0.262 %) Active Directory 1 2 (0.262 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 1 (0.131 %) VMware ESX	Vendors 1 28 (3.670 %) Microsoft 2 24 (3.145 %) Oracle 3 21 (2.752 %) Cisco 4 19 (2.490 %) SAP 5 10 (1.311 %) Agresso 6 9 (1.180 %) Siebel 7 5 (0.655 %) Citrix 7 5 (0.655 %) VMware 8 4 (0.524 %) Hyperion 8 4 (0.524 %) Sybase 8 4 (0.524 %) Northgate 9 3 (0.393 %) IBM 9 3 (0.393 %) Sun 9 3 (0.393 %) Informatica 9 3 (0.393 %) Interwoven 9 3 (0.393 %) Primavera 10 2 (0.262 %) Motorola 10 2 (0.262 %) HP 10 2 (0.262 %) EMC 10 2 (0.262 %) Business Objects