Essex Project Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Management skills within the Essex 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 Management over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Aylesbury Baldock Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Billingham Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Daresbury Darlington Darwen Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Erskine Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Walsall Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	18
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	68	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.087 %	0.039 %
As % of the category below	16.50 %	11.78 %
Daily rates quoted	27	9
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£348
Average daily rate	£359	£363
% change on same period last year	-1.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£398	£387
% change on same period last year	+2.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.22	£24.10
Average hourly rate	£30.43	£25.00
% change on same period last year	+21.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.64	£25.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.22	£29.86
% change on same period last year	-8.83 %
Processes & Methodologies Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	412	297
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.529 %	0.334 %
Daily rates quoted	164	90
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£370
Average daily rate	£342	£395
% change on same period last year	-13.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£420
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£376
% change on same period last year	+2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	75	63
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.56	£29.65
Average hourly rate	£34.17	£30.71
% change on same period last year	+11.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.79	£31.76
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.61	£29.48
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
Project Management East of England

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Project Management across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Management across the Essex region over the past 3 months.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management within the Essex region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Chelmsford	-	6	£265	-
2	Brentwood	-	5	£275	-
3	Harlow	-	4	£375	-
4	Colchester	-	3	£325	-
4	Basildon	-7	3	£350	+16.66 %
5	Southend-on-Sea	-	2	-	-
6	Witham	-	1	£280	-

Project Management East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Essex region citing Project Management 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 Management.

1 37 (28.46 %) PRINCE2 2 22 (16.92 %) Finance 3 17 (13.08 %) MS Office 4 16 (12.31 %) MS Project 4 16 (12.31 %) Microsoft 4 16 (12.31 %) NHS 4 16 (12.31 %) Change Management 5 13 (10.00 %) Health 5 13 (10.00 %) MS Excel 6 12 (9.231 %) MS Visio 7 11 (8.462 %) Government 7 11 (8.462 %) PRINCE 8 10 (7.692 %) BCP 8 10 (7.692 %) CISSP 8 10 (7.692 %) Linux

8 10 (7.692 %) Business Continuity 8 10 (7.692 %) CISA 8 10 (7.692 %) CISM 8 10 (7.692 %) Business Analysis 9 9 (6.923 %) Project Planning 10 8 (6.154 %) Resource Management 10 8 (6.154 %) Insurance 10 8 (6.154 %) UML 10 8 (6.154 %) Unix 10 8 (6.154 %) Cisco 11 7 (5.385 %) PMI 11 7 (5.385 %) XML 11 7 (5.385 %) Client/Server 11 7 (5.385 %) Local Government 11 7 (5.385 %) WebSphere

Project Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 7 (5.385 %) XML 1 7 (5.385 %) WebSphere 2 3 (2.308 %) Middleware 2 3 (2.308 %) .NET 2 3 (2.308 %) J2EE 3 2 (1.538 %) ASP 3 2 (1.538 %) CSS 3 2 (1.538 %) MAPI 3 2 (1.538 %) XML Schema 4 1 (0.769 %) CGI 4 1 (0.769 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 2 (1.538 %) IIS 1 2 (1.538 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (0.769 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (0.769 %) Oracle Workflow
Applications 1 17 (13.08 %) MS Office 2 16 (12.31 %) MS Project 3 13 (10.00 %) MS Excel 4 12 (9.231 %) MS Visio 5 4 (3.077 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (0.769 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 2 (1.538 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 5 (3.846 %) Intranet 2 4 (3.077 %) Internet 2 4 (3.077 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (2.308 %) LAN 3 3 (2.308 %) Extranet 3 3 (2.308 %) Firewall 4 2 (1.538 %) VoIP 4 2 (1.538 %) SAN 5 1 (0.769 %) WAN 5 1 (0.769 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (3.077 %) MS Access 2 2 (1.538 %) DTS 2 2 (1.538 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (1.538 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 2 (1.538 %) SQL Server 2005 2 2 (1.538 %) SQL Server 3 1 (0.769 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 1 (0.769 %) Reference Data 3 1 (0.769 %) ETL 3 1 (0.769 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 1 (0.769 %) PVCS 1 1 (0.769 %) PowerDesigner 1 1 (0.769 %) COOL:Gen	General 1 22 (16.92 %) Finance 2 13 (10.00 %) Health 3 11 (8.462 %) Government 4 8 (6.154 %) Insurance 5 7 (5.385 %) Local Government 6 6 (4.615 %) Automotive 7 4 (3.077 %) Telecoms 7 4 (3.077 %) General Ledger 8 3 (2.308 %) Auditing 8 3 (2.308 %) Publishing 8 3 (2.308 %) Military 8 3 (2.308 %) Legal 9 2 (1.538 %) Education 10 1 (0.769 %) Manufacturing 10 1 (0.769 %) Pharmaceutical 10 1 (0.769 %) Construction 10 1 (0.769 %) Retail 10 1 (0.769 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 79 (60.77 %) Project Manager 2 26 (20.00 %) Analyst 3 13 (10.00 %) Senior Manager 4 12 (9.231 %) Business Analyst 4 12 (9.231 %) Senior Project Manager 5 7 (5.385 %) Security Analyst 6 5 (3.846 %) Business Manager 6 5 (3.846 %) Business Project Manager 7 4 (3.077 %) Technical Manager 7 4 (3.077 %) Administrator 7 4 (3.077 %) Technical Project Manager 8 3 (2.308 %) Systems Analyst 8 3 (2.308 %) Systems Administrator 8 3 (2.308 %) Coordinator 8 3 (2.308 %) Project Coordinator 8 3 (2.308 %) IT Security Analyst 9 2 (1.538 %) Facilities Manager 9 2 (1.538 %) Senior Business Manager 9 2 (1.538 %) Business Change Project Manager 9 2 (1.538 %) NHS Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 16 (12.31 %) NHS 2 7 (5.385 %) Client/Server 2 7 (5.385 %) PMI 3 4 (3.077 %) Mainframe 4 2 (1.538 %) French Language 4 2 (1.538 %) Italian Language 5 1 (0.769 %) IBM Mainframe 5 1 (0.769 %) German Language 5 1 (0.769 %) NPfIT 5 1 (0.769 %) PACS
Operating Systems 1 10 (7.692 %) Linux 2 8 (6.154 %) Unix 3 3 (2.308 %) Windows 4 2 (1.538 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 37 (28.46 %) PRINCE2 2 16 (12.31 %) Change Management 3 11 (8.462 %) PRINCE 4 10 (7.692 %) BCP 4 10 (7.692 %) Business Continuity 4 10 (7.692 %) Business Analysis 5 9 (6.923 %) Project Planning 6 8 (6.154 %) Resource Management 6 8 (6.154 %) UML 7 5 (3.846 %) Migration 7 5 (3.846 %) Time Management 8 4 (3.077 %) E-Commerce 8 4 (3.077 %) Disaster Recovery 9 3 (2.308 %) ITIL 9 3 (2.308 %) Agile Software Development 10 2 (1.538 %) Document Management 10 2 (1.538 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 2 (1.538 %) Data Modelling 10 2 (1.538 %) Risk Management 10 2 (1.538 %) Web Design
Programming Languages 1 4 (3.077 %) SQL 1 4 (3.077 %) Java 2 2 (1.538 %) JavaScript 2 2 (1.538 %) VBScript 2 2 (1.538 %) VB 2 2 (1.538 %) VBA 2 2 (1.538 %) Shell Script 3 1 (0.769 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (0.769 %) C#	Qualifications 1 10 (7.692 %) CISSP 1 10 (7.692 %) CISA 1 10 (7.692 %) CISM 2 7 (5.385 %) Degree 3 6 (4.615 %) ISEB 4 2 (1.538 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 2 (1.538 %) PMI Certification 5 1 (0.769 %) ITIL Certification 5 1 (0.769 %) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (3.846 %) SLA	System Software 1 2 (1.538 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (0.769 %) AutoSys	Vendors 1 16 (12.31 %) Microsoft 2 8 (6.154 %) Cisco 3 6 (4.615 %) Oracle 4 4 (3.077 %) Dell 5 1 (0.769 %) Interwoven 5 1 (0.769 %) IBM 5 1 (0.769 %) Sun 5 1 (0.769 %) HP