Essex Project Planning Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Planning skills within the Essex region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Project Planning over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Project Planning
Location Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Corsham Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Witham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	50	53
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	11	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	3.056 %	1.695 %
Daily rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum daily rate	£386	£511
Average daily rate	£411	£519
% change on same period last year	-20.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£435	£528
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£351
% change on same period last year	-5.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.00	£22.50
Average hourly rate	£26.00	£24.75
% change on same period last year	+5.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	£27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.66	£31.40
% change on same period last year	-24.66 %
Processes & Methodologies Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	360	354
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.475 %	0.376 %
Daily rates quoted	143	115
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£393
Average daily rate	£380	£417
% change on same period last year	-8.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£398	£442
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	52	77
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.46	£31.96
Average hourly rate	£35.70	£32.57
% change on same period last year	+9.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.93	£33.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Project Planning 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.

Project Planning
Demand Trend

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

Project Planning
Daily Rate Trend

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

Project Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Planning across the Essex region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Project Planning
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Project Planning within the Essex 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
Witham	-	1	£280	-
Chelmsford	-	1	£388	-
Southend-on-Sea	-	1	£575	-

Project Planning East of England

Project Planning
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Project Planning 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 Planning.

1 10 (58.82 %) Project Management 2 7 (41.18 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (17.65 %) MS Project 3 3 (17.65 %) Government 4 2 (11.76 %) SC Cleared 4 2 (11.76 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (11.76 %) Java 4 2 (11.76 %) DSDM 4 2 (11.76 %) E-Commerce 4 2 (11.76 %) Client/Server 4 2 (11.76 %) Microsoft 4 2 (11.76 %) Oracle 4 2 (11.76 %) Internet 5 1 (5.882 %) Retail 5 1 (5.882 %) Insurance

5 1 (5.882 %) Supplier Management 5 1 (5.882 %) Enterprise Architecture 5 1 (5.882 %) WebSphere 5 1 (5.882 %) Quantitative Analysis 5 1 (5.882 %) Risk Analysis 5 1 (5.882 %) Matrix Management 5 1 (5.882 %) Use Case 5 1 (5.882 %) Release Management 5 1 (5.882 %) Quality Management 5 1 (5.882 %) Change Management 5 1 (5.882 %) Data Security 5 1 (5.882 %) Risk Management 5 1 (5.882 %) Finance 5 1 (5.882 %) Mainframe 5 1 (5.882 %) NHS

Project Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Project Planning 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 Planning. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (5.882 %) J2EE 1 1 (5.882 %) XML 1 1 (5.882 %) WebSphere	Applications 1 3 (17.65 %) MS Project
Communications & Networking 1 2 (11.76 %) Internet	General 1 3 (17.65 %) Government 2 1 (5.882 %) Health 2 1 (5.882 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (5.882 %) Retail 2 1 (5.882 %) Insurance 2 1 (5.882 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 11 (64.71 %) Project Manager 2 4 (23.53 %) Senior Manager 3 3 (17.65 %) Senior Project Manager 3 3 (17.65 %) Business Analyst 3 3 (17.65 %) Analyst 4 2 (11.76 %) Systems Analyst 4 2 (11.76 %) Technical Project Manager 4 2 (11.76 %) Technical Manager 5 1 (5.882 %) Project Officer 5 1 (5.882 %) Campaign Analyst 5 1 (5.882 %) Project Support Officer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (11.76 %) Client/Server 2 1 (5.882 %) NHS 2 1 (5.882 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 1 (5.882 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (58.82 %) Project Management 2 7 (41.18 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (11.76 %) DSDM 3 2 (11.76 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (11.76 %) SC Cleared 3 2 (11.76 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (5.882 %) Quality Management 4 1 (5.882 %) Change Management 4 1 (5.882 %) Data Security 4 1 (5.882 %) Risk Management 4 1 (5.882 %) Information Security 4 1 (5.882 %) Supplier Management 4 1 (5.882 %) Enterprise Architecture 4 1 (5.882 %) Quantitative Analysis 4 1 (5.882 %) Risk Analysis 4 1 (5.882 %) Matrix Management 4 1 (5.882 %) Use Case 4 1 (5.882 %) Release Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (11.76 %) Java	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (5.882 %) ISO9001
Vendors 1 2 (11.76 %) Oracle 1 2 (11.76 %) Microsoft