Hampshire MS Project Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Project skills within the Hampshire region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Project over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Project
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Beckenham Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Corsham Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Salford Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weymouth Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witney Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	46	80
Rank change on same period last year	+34
Matching contract IT job ads	59	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.078 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	17.05 %	11.45 %
Daily rates quoted	28	30
Average minimum daily rate	£281	£320
Average daily rate	£296	£335
% change on same period last year	-11.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£311	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£326
% change on same period last year	+0.37 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.44	£24.55
Average hourly rate	£28.18	£25.68
% change on same period last year	+9.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.91	£26.82
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.73	£25.87
% change on same period last year	-0.56 %
Applications Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	346	393
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.457 %	0.391 %
Daily rates quoted	72	83
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£262
Average daily rate	£291	£276
% change on same period last year	+5.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£306	£290
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£284
% change on same period last year	+4.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	111	150
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.89	£20.33
Average hourly rate	£19.05	£21.70
% change on same period last year	-12.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.21	£23.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.62	£19.30
% change on same period last year	-3.53 %
MS Project South East

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.

MS Project
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Project across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

MS Project
Daily Rate Trend

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

MS Project
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

MS Project
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Project
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Project within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Southampton	+19	10	£284	-
Basingstoke	+9	8	£467	+12.00 %
Portsmouth	-5	6	£340	-
Havant	-1	4	£189	-
Fareham	-2	3	£135	-56.80 %
Andover	-	2	£150	-
Farnborough	+1	1	-	-
Winchester	-1	1	£305	+29.78 %

MS Project South East

MS Project
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing MS Project 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 MS Project.

1 40 (41.24 %) MS Excel 2 39 (40.21 %) Microsoft 3 28 (28.87 %) Finance 4 27 (27.84 %) PRINCE2 5 20 (20.62 %) MS Office 6 16 (16.49 %) SAP 6 16 (16.49 %) Project Management 7 12 (12.37 %) Project Planning 8 11 (11.34 %) Windows 9 10 (10.31 %) MS Visio 9 10 (10.31 %) MS PowerPoint 10 8 (8.247 %) PRINCE2 Certification 10 8 (8.247 %) Degree 10 8 (8.247 %) Open Workbench 11 7 (7.216 %) MS Exchange

11 7 (7.216 %) .NET 11 7 (7.216 %) Risk Management 12 6 (6.186 %) Government 12 6 (6.186 %) Symantec 12 6 (6.186 %) Lotus Notes 12 6 (6.186 %) Lotus 12 6 (6.186 %) Security Cleared 12 6 (6.186 %) Retail 13 5 (5.155 %) Banking 13 5 (5.155 %) Retail Banking 13 5 (5.155 %) Auditing 13 5 (5.155 %) VPN 13 5 (5.155 %) VERITAS 13 5 (5.155 %) ERP 13 5 (5.155 %) ITIL

MS Project
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing MS Project 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 MS Project. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (7.216 %) .NET 2 4 (4.124 %) HTML 2 4 (4.124 %) WCF 3 3 (3.093 %) ASP.NET 4 2 (2.062 %) CSS 4 2 (2.062 %) WebServices 4 2 (2.062 %) WebSphere 5 1 (1.031 %) ASP 5 1 (1.031 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 7 (7.216 %) MS Exchange 2 6 (6.186 %) Lotus Notes 3 2 (2.062 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 1 (1.031 %) Office Project Server 4 1 (1.031 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (1.031 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 40 (41.24 %) MS Excel 2 20 (20.62 %) MS Office 3 10 (10.31 %) MS Visio 3 10 (10.31 %) MS PowerPoint 4 8 (8.247 %) Open Workbench 5 4 (4.124 %) QuarkXPress 5 4 (4.124 %) Spreadsheet 6 2 (2.062 %) Acrobat 7 1 (1.031 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 3 (3.093 %) SAP PS 2 1 (1.031 %) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking 1 5 (5.155 %) VPN 2 3 (3.093 %) Intranet 2 3 (3.093 %) Internet 3 2 (2.062 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (1.031 %) LLU 4 1 (1.031 %) NGN 4 1 (1.031 %) ATM 4 1 (1.031 %) VoIP 4 1 (1.031 %) DSLAM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.031 %) EDRMS 1 1 (1.031 %) EDMS 1 1 (1.031 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 2 (2.062 %) TestDirector 2 1 (1.031 %) FrontPage 2 1 (1.031 %) ARTiSAN	General 1 28 (28.87 %) Finance 2 6 (6.186 %) Government 2 6 (6.186 %) Retail 3 5 (5.155 %) Banking 3 5 (5.155 %) Retail Banking 3 5 (5.155 %) Auditing 3 5 (5.155 %) Aerospace 4 3 (3.093 %) Local Government 4 3 (3.093 %) Manufacturing 5 2 (2.062 %) Health 5 2 (2.062 %) Telecoms 5 2 (2.062 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (1.031 %) Marketing 6 1 (1.031 %) Insurance 6 1 (1.031 %) Electronics 6 1 (1.031 %) Military 6 1 (1.031 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 15 (15.46 %) Coordinator 1 15 (15.46 %) Project Manager 2 12 (12.37 %) Project Coordinator 3 10 (10.31 %) Analyst 4 9 (9.278 %) Project Officer 4 9 (9.278 %) Project Planner 4 9 (9.278 %) Project Support Officer 5 8 (8.247 %) Administrator 6 6 (6.186 %) Project Analyst 6 6 (6.186 %) Project Support Analyst 6 6 (6.186 %) Support Analyst 6 6 (6.186 %) Developer 7 5 (5.155 %) Programme Planner 7 5 (5.155 %) Project Administrator 8 4 (4.124 %) Infrastructure Manager 8 4 (4.124 %) Team Leader 8 4 (4.124 %) Tester 8 4 (4.124 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 9 3 (3.093 %) Project Office Support 9 3 (3.093 %) Data Manager	Miscellaneous 1 3 (3.093 %) Mainframe 2 2 (2.062 %) Replication 2 2 (2.062 %) Management Information System 3 1 (1.031 %) IPTV 3 1 (1.031 %) NHS 3 1 (1.031 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 11 (11.34 %) Windows 2 4 (4.124 %) Windows XP 3 2 (2.062 %) AIX 3 2 (2.062 %) Solaris 3 2 (2.062 %) UNIX 4 1 (1.031 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (1.031 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (1.031 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 27 (27.84 %) PRINCE2 2 16 (16.49 %) Project Management 3 12 (12.37 %) Project Planning 4 7 (7.216 %) Risk Management 5 6 (6.186 %) Security Cleared 6 5 (5.155 %) ERP 6 5 (5.155 %) ITIL 6 5 (5.155 %) Configuration Management 6 5 (5.155 %) Programme Management 7 4 (4.124 %) Migration 7 4 (4.124 %) E-Commerce 7 4 (4.124 %) PRINCE 8 3 (3.093 %) SC Cleared 8 3 (3.093 %) Data Management 8 3 (3.093 %) Change Management 8 3 (3.093 %) PDM 9 2 (2.062 %) UML 9 2 (2.062 %) Document Management 9 2 (2.062 %) Software Testing 9 2 (2.062 %) Supplier Management
Programming Languages 1 4 (4.124 %) SQL 2 3 (3.093 %) C# 3 2 (2.062 %) VB 3 2 (2.062 %) VBA 4 1 (1.031 %) VB.NET 4 1 (1.031 %) VBScript 4 1 (1.031 %) C 4 1 (1.031 %) Java	Qualifications 1 8 (8.247 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 8 (8.247 %) Degree 2 2 (2.062 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (1.031 %) PMP 3 1 (1.031 %) PMI Certification 3 1 (1.031 %) ISEB 3 1 (1.031 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.093 %) QA 1 3 (3.093 %) ISO9000 1 3 (3.093 %) Basel II 2 2 (2.062 %) ISO8583	System Software 1 5 (5.155 %) Backup Exec 2 2 (2.062 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 4 (4.124 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 2 (2.062 %) CONTROL-M	Vendors 1 39 (40.21 %) Microsoft 2 16 (16.49 %) SAP 3 6 (6.186 %) Symantec 3 6 (6.186 %) Lotus 4 5 (5.155 %) VERITAS 4 5 (5.155 %) McAfee Security 4 5 (5.155 %) Hummingbird 5 4 (4.124 %) Adobe 5 4 (4.124 %) Quark 6 1 (1.031 %) Novell 6 1 (1.031 %) HP 6 1 (1.031 %) Dell 6 1 (1.031 %) Oracle 6 1 (1.031 %) Vignette 6 1 (1.031 %) Primavera