The first table below looks at the demand for Project Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Project Management over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Glasgow region.

Note that 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Project Management
Rank 30 10 33
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +23
Contract jobs citing Project Management 55 80 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 5.895% 10.17% 4.467%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.661% 15.01% 6.526%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 58 13
Average daily rate £338 £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -18.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £225 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £377 £375
% change year-on-year
+3.51% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £32.50 £175.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -81.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.11 £26.28 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+33.59% -16.57%
All Processes & Methodologies
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
635 533 475
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 68.06% 67.73% 68.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 284 275
Average daily rate £338 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £254 £235 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 14
Average hourly rate £9.25 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-63.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Project Management
Scotland

Project Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Project Management across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Glasgow Project Management Jobs Demand Trend

Project Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Project Management Daily Rate Trend

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Management across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Glasgow Project Management Daily Rate Histogram

Project Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Project Management Hourly Rate Trend

Project Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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.

1 40 (40.00%) Finance
2 36 (36.00%) PRINCE2
3 20 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (10.00%) Change Management
4 10 (10.00%) ITIL
4 10 (10.00%) MS Project
4 10 (10.00%) MS Office
4 10 (10.00%) MS Excel
5 8 (8.000%) Project Planning
5 8 (8.000%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 8 (8.000%) Java
6 7 (7.000%) Banking
6 7 (7.000%) Risk Management
6 7 (7.000%) Migration
7 6 (6.000%) Windows
7 6 (6.000%) RDBMS
7 6 (6.000%) Microsoft
7 6 (6.000%) MS PowerPoint
7 6 (6.000%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (5.000%) Business Analysis
8 5 (5.000%) Retail Banking
8 5 (5.000%) QA
8 5 (5.000%) Middleware
8 5 (5.000%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (5.000%) Retail
9 4 (4.000%) Telecoms
9 4 (4.000%) Oracle
9 4 (4.000%) SAP
9 4 (4.000%) Resource Management
9 4 (4.000%) Supplier Management

Project Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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.

Application Development
1 5 (5.000%) Middleware
2 1 (1.000%) jQuery
2 1 (1.000%) Spring
2 1 (1.000%) Ajax
2 1 (1.000%) HTML
2 1 (1.000%) .NET
2 1 (1.000%) J2EE
2 1 (1.000%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.000%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.000%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (1.000%) Alfresco
2 1 (1.000%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (1.000%) Lotus Domino
2 1 (1.000%) Apache
2 1 (1.000%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.000%) Documentum
2 1 (1.000%) CMS
2 1 (1.000%) LiveLink
Applications
1 10 (10.00%) MS Project
1 10 (10.00%) MS Office
1 10 (10.00%) MS Excel
2 6 (6.000%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (1.000%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (1.000%) SAP ECC
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.000%) Intranet
2 1 (1.000%) HSRP
2 1 (1.000%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (1.000%) NAS
2 1 (1.000%) ADSL
2 1 (1.000%) LAN
2 1 (1.000%) WLAN
2 1 (1.000%) HTTP
2 1 (1.000%) VPN
2 1 (1.000%) EIGRP
2 1 (1.000%) Extranet
2 1 (1.000%) MPLS
2 1 (1.000%) BGP
2 1 (1.000%) SAN
2 1 (1.000%) Firewall
2 1 (1.000%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.000%) RDBMS
2 5 (5.000%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.000%) MS Access
3 1 (1.000%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.000%) EDRMS
3 1 (1.000%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 2 (2.000%) Subversion
1 2 (2.000%) CruiseControl
1 2 (2.000%) Ant
1 2 (2.000%) JIRA
1 2 (2.000%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.000%) MSBuild
General
1 40 (40.00%) Finance
2 7 (7.000%) Banking
3 5 (5.000%) Retail Banking
3 5 (5.000%) Retail
4 4 (4.000%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.000%) Marketing
5 3 (3.000%) Billing
5 3 (3.000%) Legal
6 2 (2.000%) Front Office
6 2 (2.000%) Local Government
7 1 (1.000%) German Language
7 1 (1.000%) Back Office
7 1 (1.000%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 49 (49.00%) Project Manager
2 23 (23.00%) Analyst
3 9 (9.000%) Business Analyst
3 9 (9.000%) PMO Analyst
4 8 (8.000%) Consultant
4 8 (8.000%) Technical Project Manager
4 8 (8.000%) Technical Manager
5 6 (6.000%) Release Manager
6 5 (5.000%) IT Project Manager
6 5 (5.000%) Business Systems Analyst
6 5 (5.000%) Systems Analyst
6 5 (5.000%) Programme Manager
7 4 (4.000%) Change Manager
8 3 (3.000%) Senior Business Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.000%) PMO Manager
8 3 (3.000%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.000%) Senior Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.000%) Business Manager
8 3 (3.000%) Developer
8 3 (3.000%) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.000%) LIMS
1 3 (3.000%) NHS
2 2 (2.000%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.000%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.000%) Ergonomics
3 1 (1.000%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.000%) Smartcard
3 1 (1.000%) EPoS
3 1 (1.000%) EMV
3 1 (1.000%) Equities
3 1 (1.000%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.000%) Windows
2 3 (3.000%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.000%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.000%) Windows XP
3 1 (1.000%) AIX
3 1 (1.000%) Linux
3 1 (1.000%) UNIX
3 1 (1.000%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (36.00%) PRINCE2
2 20 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (10.00%) Change Management
3 10 (10.00%) ITIL
4 8 (8.000%) Project Planning
5 7 (7.000%) Risk Management
5 7 (7.000%) Migration
6 6 (6.000%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (5.000%) Business Analysis
8 4 (4.000%) Resource Management
8 4 (4.000%) Supplier Management
8 4 (4.000%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (4.000%) Data Migration
8 4 (4.000%) Change Control
9 3 (3.000%) Wealth Management
9 3 (3.000%) Time Management
10 2 (2.000%) Asset Management
10 2 (2.000%) Business Continuity
10 2 (2.000%) Business Intelligence
10 2 (2.000%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.000%) Java
2 2 (2.000%) SQL
3 1 (1.000%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (8.000%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 3 (3.000%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 3 (3.000%) ISEB
2 3 (3.000%) PMP
2 3 (3.000%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.000%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.000%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.000%) MCDST
3 1 (1.000%) Degree
3 1 (1.000%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.000%) QA
2 1 (1.000%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.000%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.000%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.000%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.000%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.000%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (1.000%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (6.000%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.000%) Oracle
2 4 (4.000%) SAP
3 3 (3.000%) iSOFT
4 2 (2.000%) Sybase
5 1 (1.000%) SonicWALL
5 1 (1.000%) Cisco
5 1 (1.000%) Lotus
5 1 (1.000%) Sage
5 1 (1.000%) VMware