Halifax Project Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Management skills within the Halifax 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 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Project Management
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Argyll and Bute Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Conwy Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenwich Guernsey Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Musselburgh New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Tyneside North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rhyl Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	4
Rank change on same period last year	-15
Matching contract IT job ads	3	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	6.250 %	26.09 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£394	£385
% change on same period last year	+2.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.27	£29.55
% change on same period last year	-7.70 %
Processes & Methodologies Halifax
Matching contract IT job ads	48	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.064 %	0.023 %
Daily rates quoted	19	4
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£297
Average daily rate	£319	£311
% change on same period last year	+2.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£326
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.25	-
Average hourly rate	£12.25	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.25	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Project Management West Yorkshire

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 Management
Demand Trend

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

Project Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Project Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Project Management
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 6 (50.00 %) Finance 2 2 (16.67 %) Mainframe 2 2 (16.67 %) Retail 2 2 (16.67 %) Validation 2 2 (16.67 %) Stakeholder Management 3 1 (8.333 %) VMware 3 1 (8.333 %) SQL 3 1 (8.333 %) SAP 3 1 (8.333 %) UNIX 3 1 (8.333 %) Client/Server 3 1 (8.333 %) Dell 3 1 (8.333 %) SAN 3 1 (8.333 %) OS/390 3 1 (8.333 %) Middleware 3 1 (8.333 %) Business Analysis

3 1 (8.333 %) Supplier Management 3 1 (8.333 %) ESB 3 1 (8.333 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (8.333 %) Banking

Project Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 1 (8.333 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 1 (8.333 %) ESB
Communications & Networking 1 1 (8.333 %) SAN	General 1 6 (50.00 %) Finance 2 2 (16.67 %) Retail 3 1 (8.333 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 4 (33.33 %) Project Manager 1 4 (33.33 %) Project Leader 2 2 (16.67 %) Implementation Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) Infrastructure Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) Business Analyst 3 1 (8.333 %) Analyst 3 1 (8.333 %) Test Manager	Miscellaneous 1 2 (16.67 %) Mainframe 2 1 (8.333 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 1 (8.333 %) UNIX 1 1 (8.333 %) OS/390	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (16.67 %) Validation 1 2 (16.67 %) Stakeholder Management 2 1 (8.333 %) Business Analysis 2 1 (8.333 %) Supplier Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (8.333 %) SQL	System Software 1 1 (8.333 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 1 (8.333 %) SAP 1 1 (8.333 %) Dell 1 1 (8.333 %) VMware