Gloucestershire Project Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Project Manager role in IT contracts within the Gloucestershire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Project Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Argyll and Bute Aylesbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Darlington Deeside Denbigh Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Flintshire Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hayes Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Johnstone Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rhyl Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Ruislip Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	9	41
Rank change on same period last year	+32
Matching contract IT job ads	49	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.065 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	10.70 %	2.136 %
Daily rates quoted	23	6
Average minimum daily rate	£369	£296
Average daily rate	£395	£321
% change on same period last year	+23.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£422	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£415	£407
% change on same period last year	+2.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	-
Average hourly rate	£16.11	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.23	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.47	£35.63
% change on same period last year	-6.06 %
Job Titles Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	458	515
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.603 %	0.546 %
Daily rates quoted	155	133
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£331
Average daily rate	£342	£345
% change on same period last year	-1.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	103
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.86	£22.58
Average hourly rate	£25.86	£23.78
% change on same period last year	+8.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.85	£24.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.40	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.22 %
Project Manager 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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Project Manager across the Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 7 July 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 Gloucestershire 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 job ads citing Project Manager within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 7 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
Cheltenham	+14	16	£406	+54.50 %
Gloucester	+9	10	£366	+9.80 %

Project Manager South West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 86 (76.11 %) PRINCE2 2 60 (53.10 %) Project Management 3 47 (41.59 %) Security Cleared 4 40 (35.40 %) DV Cleared 5 37 (32.74 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 29 (25.66 %) MS Project 7 25 (22.12 %) Finance 8 24 (21.24 %) MS Visio 9 16 (14.16 %) MS Office 10 14 (12.39 %) Quality Management 11 13 (11.50 %) Government 12 12 (10.62 %) Pensions 13 10 (8.850 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 13 10 (8.850 %) NHS 13 10 (8.850 %) PRINCE

14 8 (7.080 %) ITIL 15 7 (6.195 %) Unix 16 6 (5.310 %) Configuration Management 16 6 (5.310 %) Migration 16 6 (5.310 %) Stakeholder Management 17 5 (4.425 %) SC Cleared 17 5 (4.425 %) Data Migration 17 5 (4.425 %) Health 17 5 (4.425 %) Telecoms 18 4 (3.540 %) Windows 18 4 (3.540 %) DSDM 18 4 (3.540 %) Service Delivery 18 4 (3.540 %) Thunderhead 18 4 (3.540 %) Business Analysis 18 4 (3.540 %) Project Planning

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 1 (0.885 %) WebServices	Applications 1 29 (25.66 %) MS Project 2 24 (21.24 %) MS Visio 3 16 (14.16 %) MS Office 4 2 (1.770 %) MS Excel 4 2 (1.770 %) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications 1 1 (0.885 %) SAP HR	Communications & Networking 1 2 (1.770 %) Intranet
General 1 25 (22.12 %) Finance 2 13 (11.50 %) Government 3 12 (10.62 %) Pensions 4 5 (4.425 %) Telecoms 4 5 (4.425 %) Health 5 2 (1.770 %) Retail 6 1 (0.885 %) Insurance 6 1 (0.885 %) Legal	Miscellaneous 1 10 (8.850 %) NHS 2 1 (0.885 %) NPfIT 2 1 (0.885 %) RMADS 2 1 (0.885 %) PMI
Operating Systems 1 7 (6.195 %) Unix 2 4 (3.540 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 86 (76.11 %) PRINCE2 2 60 (53.10 %) Project Management 3 47 (41.59 %) Security Cleared 4 40 (35.40 %) DV Cleared 5 14 (12.39 %) Quality Management 6 10 (8.850 %) PRINCE 7 8 (7.080 %) ITIL 8 6 (5.310 %) Configuration Management 8 6 (5.310 %) Migration 8 6 (5.310 %) Stakeholder Management 9 5 (4.425 %) Data Migration 9 5 (4.425 %) SC Cleared 10 4 (3.540 %) Project Planning 10 4 (3.540 %) Resource Management 10 4 (3.540 %) Wealth Management 10 4 (3.540 %) Business Analysis 10 4 (3.540 %) DSDM 10 4 (3.540 %) Service Delivery 11 2 (1.770 %) Change Management 11 2 (1.770 %) Service Management
Qualifications 1 37 (32.74 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 10 (8.850 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 3 (2.655 %) ISEB 4 2 (1.770 %) Degree 5 1 (0.885 %) PMP 5 1 (0.885 %) PMI Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.885 %) JSP 440
Vendors 1 4 (3.540 %) Thunderhead 2 2 (1.770 %) Microsoft 3 1 (0.885 %) CheckPoint 3 1 (0.885 %) Oracle 3 1 (0.885 %) PeopleSoft 3 1 (0.885 %) SAP