Essex Project Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Project Manager role in IT contracts within the Essex region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Project Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Argyll and Bute Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Cheshunt Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hayes Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Ipswich Jersey Johnstone Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Tyneside North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrew Renfrewshire Rhyl Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Weymouth Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	20
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	63	57
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.084 %	0.057 %
As % of the category below	9.211 %	7.873 %
Daily rates quoted	30	31
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£340
Average daily rate	£365	£366
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£412	£405
% change on same period last year	+1.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£38.08
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£38.08
% change on same period last year	-34.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£38.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.27	£36.13
% change on same period last year	-5.15 %
Job Titles Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	684	724
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.912 %	0.722 %
Daily rates quoted	247	209
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£313
Average daily rate	£304	£335
% change on same period last year	-9.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	90	161
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.48	£27.94
Average hourly rate	£26.35	£28.71
% change on same period last year	-8.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.21	£29.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
Project Manager 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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Project Manager across the Essex 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 Project Manager 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 Manager across the Essex region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Project Manager across the Essex region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Manager within the Essex region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Basildon	+5	10	£425	+17.24 %
Chelmsford	+8	6	£272	-29.83 %
Southend-on-Sea	-6	5	£490	-
Harlow	+10	3	£415	-
Colchester	-	3	£379	-
Brentwood	-	1	£350	-

Project Manager East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited 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 Project Manager in their job title.

1 81 (41.97 %) Project Management 2 63 (32.64 %) PRINCE2 3 53 (27.46 %) Finance 4 31 (16.06 %) Government 4 31 (16.06 %) MS Project 5 26 (13.47 %) Insurance 6 25 (12.95 %) NHS 7 23 (11.92 %) Oracle 8 20 (10.36 %) Client/Server 8 20 (10.36 %) PMI 9 19 (9.845 %) Internet 9 19 (9.845 %) E-Commerce 10 18 (9.326 %) DSDM 10 18 (9.326 %) Health 11 17 (8.808 %) Java

12 16 (8.290 %) PRINCE2 Certification 12 16 (8.290 %) PRINCE 13 14 (7.254 %) Change Management 14 12 (6.218 %) MS Excel 14 12 (6.218 %) Microsoft 15 11 (5.699 %) MS Office 15 11 (5.699 %) Stakeholder Management 15 11 (5.699 %) Local Government 16 9 (4.663 %) Business Analysis 16 9 (4.663 %) Project Planning 16 9 (4.663 %) Publishing 17 8 (4.145 %) PMI Certification 18 7 (3.627 %) Linux 18 7 (3.627 %) Telecoms 18 7 (3.627 %) Enterprise Architecture

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited 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 Project Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (2.591 %) Middleware 1 5 (2.591 %) WebSphere 2 2 (1.036 %) .NET 2 2 (1.036 %) XML 3 1 (0.518 %) EDI 3 1 (0.518 %) LAMP	Application Platforms 1 1 (0.518 %) SharePoint 1 1 (0.518 %) TeamSite 1 1 (0.518 %) BizTalk Server 1 1 (0.518 %) Site Server
Applications 1 31 (16.06 %) MS Project 2 12 (6.218 %) MS Excel 3 11 (5.699 %) MS Office 4 4 (2.073 %) MS Visio 4 4 (2.073 %) MS PowerPoint 5 1 (0.518 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 2 (1.036 %) HiInvest 1 2 (1.036 %) HiPortfolio 1 2 (1.036 %) Summit 1 2 (1.036 %) Sophis RISQUE 1 2 (1.036 %) Adaptiv 1 2 (1.036 %) FRONT ARENA 1 2 (1.036 %) SimCorp Dimension 1 2 (1.036 %) SunGard Martini 1 2 (1.036 %) SunGard AvantGard 1 2 (1.036 %) Thomson PORTIA 1 2 (1.036 %) Sophis VALUE 1 2 (1.036 %) InvestOne 1 2 (1.036 %) Advent Geneva 2 1 (0.518 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 19 (9.845 %) Internet 2 3 (1.554 %) Wireless 2 3 (1.554 %) VoIP 3 1 (0.518 %) WAN 3 1 (0.518 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (0.518 %) SAN 3 1 (0.518 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.518 %) IP Telephony 3 1 (0.518 %) Extranet 3 1 (0.518 %) Firewall 3 1 (0.518 %) LAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (1.036 %) Oracle 8/8i 1 2 (1.036 %) SQL Server 2 1 (0.518 %) DB2 2 1 (0.518 %) MS Access 2 1 (0.518 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (0.518 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 53 (27.46 %) Finance 2 31 (16.06 %) Government 3 26 (13.47 %) Insurance 4 18 (9.326 %) Health 5 11 (5.699 %) Local Government 6 9 (4.663 %) Publishing 7 7 (3.627 %) Telecoms 8 4 (2.073 %) Back Office 9 3 (1.554 %) Banking 10 2 (1.036 %) Auditing 10 2 (1.036 %) Education 10 2 (1.036 %) Games 10 2 (1.036 %) Financial Institution 10 2 (1.036 %) Legal 11 1 (0.518 %) Manufacturing 11 1 (0.518 %) Automotive 11 1 (0.518 %) Military 11 1 (0.518 %) Marketing	Miscellaneous 1 25 (12.95 %) NHS 2 20 (10.36 %) Client/Server 2 20 (10.36 %) PMI 3 3 (1.554 %) Mainframe 3 3 (1.554 %) IBM Mainframe 4 2 (1.036 %) NPfIT 4 2 (1.036 %) Smartcard 5 1 (0.518 %) DTV 5 1 (0.518 %) E-Learning 5 1 (0.518 %) STB
Operating Systems 1 7 (3.627 %) Linux 2 3 (1.554 %) Windows 3 2 (1.036 %) AIX 4 1 (0.518 %) MVS	Processes & Methodologies 1 81 (41.97 %) Project Management 2 63 (32.64 %) PRINCE2 3 19 (9.845 %) E-Commerce 4 18 (9.326 %) DSDM 5 16 (8.290 %) PRINCE 6 14 (7.254 %) Change Management 7 11 (5.699 %) Stakeholder Management 8 9 (4.663 %) Business Analysis 8 9 (4.663 %) Project Planning 9 7 (3.627 %) Enterprise Architecture 10 6 (3.109 %) Matrix Management 10 6 (3.109 %) Information Security 10 6 (3.109 %) Security Cleared 11 5 (2.591 %) Programme Management 11 5 (2.591 %) Data Security 11 5 (2.591 %) Migration 12 4 (2.073 %) ITIL 12 4 (2.073 %) UML 12 4 (2.073 %) Resource Management 12 4 (2.073 %) Time Management
Programming Languages 1 17 (8.808 %) Java 2 2 (1.036 %) SQL 3 1 (0.518 %) JCL 3 1 (0.518 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 16 (8.290 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 8 (4.145 %) PMI Certification 3 6 (3.109 %) Degree 4 5 (2.591 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 5 (2.591 %) ISEB 5 3 (1.554 %) PMP 6 2 (1.036 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (2.591 %) PCI DSS 2 3 (1.554 %) SLA 3 1 (0.518 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 2 (1.036 %) VMware Server 1 2 (1.036 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 1 (0.518 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (0.518 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 23 (11.92 %) Oracle 2 12 (6.218 %) Microsoft 3 4 (2.073 %) IBM 4 3 (1.554 %) Cisco 5 2 (1.036 %) Advent 5 2 (1.036 %) SunGard 5 2 (1.036 %) Intel 5 2 (1.036 %) Interwoven 5 2 (1.036 %) StatPro 5 2 (1.036 %) VMware 5 2 (1.036 %) Sophis 5 2 (1.036 %) SimCorp 6 1 (0.518 %) ARDENTIA 6 1 (0.518 %) Aprimo 6 1 (0.518 %) Anite