Hertfordshire MS Project Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Project skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited MS Project over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Project
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ipswich Jersey Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire Windsor Witham Witney Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	43
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	44	55
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.058 %	0.058 %
As % of the category below	19.73 %	20.00 %
Daily rates quoted	17	29
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£267
Average daily rate	£306	£277
% change on same period last year	+10.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£313	£287
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£322
% change on same period last year	+0.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£9.25
Average hourly rate	-	£9.63
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.00	£23.44
% change on same period last year	+6.62 %
Applications Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	223	275
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.294 %	0.288 %
Daily rates quoted	64	133
Average minimum daily rate	£278	£256
Average daily rate	£296	£265
% change on same period last year	+11.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£314	£274
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£283
% change on same period last year	+5.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	62	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.15	£15.62
Average hourly rate	£21.81	£16.79
% change on same period last year	+29.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.48	£17.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.91	£19.06
% change on same period last year	-6.04 %
MS Project East of England

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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

MS Project
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 July 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 Hertfordshire region.

MS Project
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing MS Project within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 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
Watford	-4	8	£354	+33.95 %
Welwyn Garden City	-	3	£145	-
Stevenage	-	2	-	-
Rickmansworth	-14	2	-	-
St Albans	-	1	-	-

MS Project East of England

MS Project
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 55 (56.70 %) Project Management 2 53 (54.64 %) PRINCE2 3 45 (46.39 %) Finance 4 30 (30.93 %) MS Excel 5 22 (22.68 %) MS Office 6 20 (20.62 %) Oracle 7 19 (19.59 %) Solaris 7 19 (19.59 %) Project Planning 8 17 (17.53 %) Microsoft 9 16 (16.49 %) Unix 10 14 (14.43 %) WebLogic 10 14 (14.43 %) PMI 11 13 (13.40 %) Financial Institution 12 12 (12.37 %) Retail 13 11 (11.34 %) Risk Management

13 11 (11.34 %) Middleware 14 9 (9.278 %) Supplier Management 14 9 (9.278 %) Time Management 15 7 (7.216 %) Configuration Management 15 7 (7.216 %) Games 16 6 (6.186 %) Data Analysis 16 6 (6.186 %) Banking 16 6 (6.186 %) Pharmaceutical 16 6 (6.186 %) SAP 16 6 (6.186 %) Windows 16 6 (6.186 %) MS Visio 17 5 (5.155 %) Oracle 8/8i 17 5 (5.155 %) Perl 17 5 (5.155 %) SQL 17 5 (5.155 %) PRINCE2 Certification

MS Project
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 11 (11.34 %) Middleware 2 1 (1.031 %) COM 2 1 (1.031 %) SAP BSP 2 1 (1.031 %) SAP ALE 2 1 (1.031 %) SAP Smart Forms 2 1 (1.031 %) SAP XI 2 1 (1.031 %) Web Dynpro	Application Platforms 1 14 (14.43 %) WebLogic 2 4 (4.124 %) Office Project Server 3 3 (3.093 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (1.031 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 30 (30.93 %) MS Excel 2 22 (22.68 %) MS Office 3 6 (6.186 %) MS Visio 4 4 (4.124 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 3 (3.093 %) TCP/IP 1 3 (3.093 %) SAN 1 3 (3.093 %) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (5.155 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (1.031 %) Oracle 9i 2 1 (1.031 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (1.031 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.031 %) DB2 2 1 (1.031 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (1.031 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 4 (4.124 %) ClearQuest 1 4 (4.124 %) ClearCase 2 2 (2.062 %) TestDirector 2 2 (2.062 %) PVCS 3 1 (1.031 %) LSMW
General 1 45 (46.39 %) Finance 2 13 (13.40 %) Financial Institution 3 12 (12.37 %) Retail 4 7 (7.216 %) Games 5 6 (6.186 %) Banking 5 6 (6.186 %) Pharmaceutical 6 5 (5.155 %) Telecoms 7 3 (3.093 %) Education 7 3 (3.093 %) Health 8 1 (1.031 %) Investment Banking 8 1 (1.031 %) Graphic Design 8 1 (1.031 %) Government 8 1 (1.031 %) FMCG	Job Titles 1 38 (39.18 %) Project Manager 2 19 (19.59 %) Analyst 3 12 (12.37 %) Project Planner 4 11 (11.34 %) Project Analyst 4 11 (11.34 %) Infrastructure Manager 4 11 (11.34 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 5 10 (10.31 %) Programme Planner 6 8 (8.247 %) Support Analyst 6 8 (8.247 %) Coordinator 7 7 (7.216 %) Project Coordinator 7 7 (7.216 %) Project Support Analyst 8 4 (4.124 %) Senior Manager 9 3 (3.093 %) Financial Analyst 9 3 (3.093 %) Storage Engineer 9 3 (3.093 %) Project Office Analyst 9 3 (3.093 %) Project Office Support 9 3 (3.093 %) Technical Analyst 9 3 (3.093 %) Senior Project Manager 10 2 (2.062 %) Development Project Manager 10 2 (2.062 %) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous 1 14 (14.43 %) PMI 2 2 (2.062 %) EPoS 3 1 (1.031 %) Mainframe 3 1 (1.031 %) Chip and PIN 3 1 (1.031 %) NHS 3 1 (1.031 %) Credit Derivative 3 1 (1.031 %) Derivative 3 1 (1.031 %) Informatics 3 1 (1.031 %) Fixed Income 3 1 (1.031 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 19 (19.59 %) Solaris 2 16 (16.49 %) Unix 3 6 (6.186 %) Windows 4 3 (3.093 %) Linux 5 2 (2.062 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (2.062 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 55 (56.70 %) Project Management 2 53 (54.64 %) PRINCE2 3 19 (19.59 %) Project Planning 4 11 (11.34 %) Risk Management 5 9 (9.278 %) Supplier Management 5 9 (9.278 %) Time Management 6 7 (7.216 %) Configuration Management 7 6 (6.186 %) Data Analysis 8 4 (4.124 %) Business Development 9 3 (3.093 %) E-Commerce 9 3 (3.093 %) Resource Management 9 3 (3.093 %) CMMI 9 3 (3.093 %) QMS 10 2 (2.062 %) ERP 10 2 (2.062 %) ITIL 10 2 (2.062 %) CRM 11 1 (1.031 %) OO 11 1 (1.031 %) RUP 11 1 (1.031 %) PRINCE 11 1 (1.031 %) Information Management	Programming Languages 1 5 (5.155 %) Perl 1 5 (5.155 %) SQL 2 3 (3.093 %) Java 3 2 (2.062 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (1.031 %) ABAP 4 1 (1.031 %) SAPscript
Qualifications 1 5 (5.155 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 3 (3.093 %) Degree 3 2 (2.062 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 1 (1.031 %) OCP 4 1 (1.031 %) Oracle Certification 4 1 (1.031 %) PMP 4 1 (1.031 %) PMI Certification 4 1 (1.031 %) MCITP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (4.124 %) QA 2 3 (3.093 %) GMP 2 3 (3.093 %) ISO9001
System Software 1 3 (3.093 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 1 (1.031 %) NetBackup 2 1 (1.031 %) Oracle RMAN	Systems Management 1 1 (1.031 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 1 1 (1.031 %) SCOM
Vendors 1 20 (20.62 %) Oracle 2 17 (17.53 %) Microsoft 3 6 (6.186 %) SAP 4 3 (3.093 %) NetApp 4 3 (3.093 %) VMware 5 1 (1.031 %) IBM 5 1 (1.031 %) EMC 5 1 (1.031 %) Primavera 5 1 (1.031 %) CheckPoint 5 1 (1.031 %) Infoflex