Gloucestershire Project Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Management skills within the Gloucestershire 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 15 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 Darlington Darwen Deeside 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 Highland Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Inverness 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 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 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 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	32
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	51	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.065 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	23.50 %	6.360 %
Daily rates quoted	26	5
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£380
Average daily rate	£374	£380
% change on same period last year	-1.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£407	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£398	£387
% change on same period last year	+2.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£31.88	£30.00
% change on same period last year	+6.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.75	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.17	£29.75
% change on same period last year	-8.66 %
Processes & Methodologies Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	217	283
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.278 %	0.318 %
Daily rates quoted	68	97
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£387
Average daily rate	£376	£401
% change on same period last year	-6.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£402	£414
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.23	£28.35
Average hourly rate	£31.84	£29.55
% change on same period last year	+7.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.45	£30.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.72	£29.49
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Project Management South West

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 Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire 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	Cheltenham	+16	21	£406	+62.49 %
2	Gloucester	+10	3	£450	+12.50 %

Project Management South West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 88 (62.86 %) PRINCE2 2 53 (37.86 %) Configuration Management 3 28 (20.00 %) Finance 3 28 (20.00 %) Service Delivery 4 27 (19.29 %) MS Visio 5 23 (16.43 %) MS Office 6 22 (15.71 %) MS Project 7 18 (12.86 %) ISEB 8 15 (10.71 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 9 14 (10.00 %) Microsoft Certification 9 14 (10.00 %) MCSE 9 14 (10.00 %) Unix 10 13 (9.286 %) CCNA 10 13 (9.286 %) Cisco Certification 11 12 (8.571 %) PRINCE2 Certification

11 12 (8.571 %) Oracle 11 12 (8.571 %) Degree 12 11 (7.857 %) Windows 13 10 (7.143 %) Cisco 13 10 (7.143 %) Microsoft 13 10 (7.143 %) Government 13 10 (7.143 %) Pensions 14 9 (6.429 %) Chartered Engineer 14 9 (6.429 %) Automated Testing 14 9 (6.429 %) Risk Management 14 9 (6.429 %) RUP 14 9 (6.429 %) CCDA 14 9 (6.429 %) Linux 15 8 (5.714 %) Windows 2000 15 8 (5.714 %) J2EE

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 8 (5.714 %) J2EE 2 1 (0.714 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 4 (2.857 %) Oracle Application Server 2 1 (0.714 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 27 (19.29 %) MS Visio 2 23 (16.43 %) MS Office 3 22 (15.71 %) MS Project 4 8 (5.714 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (1.429 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (2.857 %) Oracle Reports 1 4 (2.857 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 4 (2.857 %) Oracle Forms 1 4 (2.857 %) Oracle Developer 2000
General 1 28 (20.00 %) Finance 2 10 (7.143 %) Government 2 10 (7.143 %) Pensions 3 3 (2.143 %) Health 4 2 (1.429 %) Banking 4 2 (1.429 %) Telecoms 5 1 (0.714 %) Retail 5 1 (0.714 %) Insurance 5 1 (0.714 %) Retail Banking 5 1 (0.714 %) Publishing 5 1 (0.714 %) Education	Job Titles 1 56 (40.00 %) Project Manager 2 34 (24.29 %) Project Support Officer 2 34 (24.29 %) Project Officer 3 19 (13.57 %) Analyst 4 16 (11.43 %) Business Project Manager 4 16 (11.43 %) Business Manager 5 9 (6.429 %) Test Analyst 5 9 (6.429 %) Architect 5 9 (6.429 %) Technical Architect 5 9 (6.429 %) Integration Test Analyst 5 9 (6.429 %) Integration Analyst 6 7 (5.000 %) Lead Architect 6 7 (5.000 %) NHS Project Manager 6 7 (5.000 %) Systems Support Engineer 6 7 (5.000 %) Systems Engineer 6 7 (5.000 %) Systems Support 6 7 (5.000 %) Support Engineer 6 7 (5.000 %) Programme Manager 6 7 (5.000 %) Lead Technical Architect 6 7 (5.000 %) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 7 (5.000 %) NHS 1 7 (5.000 %) CESG 1 7 (5.000 %) CESG CLAS 2 1 (0.714 %) Market Risk 2 1 (0.714 %) RMADS 2 1 (0.714 %) PMI	Operating Systems 1 14 (10.00 %) Unix 2 11 (7.857 %) Windows 3 9 (6.429 %) Linux 4 8 (5.714 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 88 (62.86 %) PRINCE2 2 53 (37.86 %) Configuration Management 3 28 (20.00 %) Service Delivery 4 9 (6.429 %) Risk Management 4 9 (6.429 %) RUP 4 9 (6.429 %) Automated Testing 5 8 (5.714 %) PRINCE 5 8 (5.714 %) Unified Process 6 7 (5.000 %) Requirements Management 7 5 (3.571 %) Project Planning 7 5 (3.571 %) Business Analysis 7 5 (3.571 %) Migration 8 4 (2.857 %) DSDM 8 4 (2.857 %) Wealth Management 9 3 (2.143 %) Service Management 9 3 (2.143 %) Stakeholder Management 10 2 (1.429 %) Risk Assessment 10 2 (1.429 %) Programme Management 10 2 (1.429 %) ITIL 10 2 (1.429 %) Supplier Management	Programming Languages 1 8 (5.714 %) C 2 4 (2.857 %) PL/SQL 2 4 (2.857 %) SQL 3 1 (0.714 %) Java
Qualifications 1 18 (12.86 %) ISEB 2 15 (10.71 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 14 (10.00 %) MCSE 3 14 (10.00 %) Microsoft Certification 4 13 (9.286 %) CCNA 4 13 (9.286 %) Cisco Certification 5 12 (8.571 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 12 (8.571 %) Degree 6 9 (6.429 %) Chartered Engineer 6 9 (6.429 %) CCDA 7 1 (0.714 %) PMP 7 1 (0.714 %) PMI Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.714 %) HMG Infosec 1 1 (0.714 %) JSP 440
Vendors 1 12 (8.571 %) Oracle 2 10 (7.143 %) Cisco 2 10 (7.143 %) Microsoft 3 8 (5.714 %) IBM 4 4 (2.857 %) Thunderhead 5 1 (0.714 %) Citrix