Hertfordshire Project Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Project Manager role in IT contracts within the Hertfordshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Project Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Andover Avon Banstead Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Crowthorne Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	14
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	60	132
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.096 %	0.142 %
As % of the category below	6.515 %	8.255 %
Daily rates quoted	26	68
Average minimum daily rate	£368	£369
Average daily rate	£394	£393
% change on same period last year	+0.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£419	£416
UK excluding London average daily rate	£410	£408
% change on same period last year	+0.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£46.67	£45.83
Average hourly rate	£46.67	£49.17
% change on same period last year	-5.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£46.67	£52.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.47	£36.12
% change on same period last year	-4.58 %
Job Titles Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	921	1599
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.480 %	1.717 %
Daily rates quoted	284	619
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£324
Average daily rate	£357	£344
% change on same period last year	+3.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	112	194
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.57	£23.77
Average hourly rate	£27.67	£24.98
% change on same period last year	+10.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.76	£26.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Project Manager 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.

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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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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 Hertfordshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Manager across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Manager within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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	+16	15	£313	-31.62 %
Rickmansworth	-	3	-	-
St Albans	+8	2	-	-
Potters Bar	-	1	£450	-

Project Manager East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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.

1 128 (52.89 %) Project Management 2 94 (38.84 %) PRINCE2 3 72 (29.75 %) Finance 4 32 (13.22 %) Telecoms 5 31 (12.81 %) Stakeholder Management 5 31 (12.81 %) Retail 6 27 (11.16 %) Migration 6 27 (11.16 %) Oracle 7 23 (9.504 %) MS Project 8 20 (8.264 %) Solaris 9 18 (7.438 %) Supplier Management 10 17 (7.025 %) Banking 10 17 (7.025 %) Microsoft 10 17 (7.025 %) PRINCE 11 16 (6.612 %) Configuration Management

12 14 (5.785 %) E-Commerce 12 14 (5.785 %) UNIX 13 13 (5.372 %) PRINCE2 Certification 13 13 (5.372 %) Time Management 14 11 (4.545 %) Insurance 14 11 (4.545 %) Change Management 14 11 (4.545 %) Firewall 14 11 (4.545 %) PMI 15 10 (4.132 %) BMC 15 10 (4.132 %) HP 15 10 (4.132 %) MS Excel 15 10 (4.132 %) SAP 15 10 (4.132 %) WebLogic 15 10 (4.132 %) CMDB 16 9 (3.719 %) ITIL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 9 (3.719 %) Middleware 2 4 (1.653 %) HTML 2 4 (1.653 %) .NET 2 4 (1.653 %) J2EE 3 3 (1.240 %) CSS 3 3 (1.240 %) Spring 3 3 (1.240 %) AJAX 4 2 (0.826 %) Hibernate 5 1 (0.413 %) JSP 5 1 (0.413 %) WebServices 5 1 (0.413 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 10 (4.132 %) WebLogic 2 2 (0.826 %) Lotus Notes 2 2 (0.826 %) SharePoint 2 2 (0.826 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (0.413 %) CMS
Applications 1 23 (9.504 %) MS Project 2 10 (4.132 %) MS Excel 3 5 (2.066 %) MS Office 4 2 (0.826 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 2 (0.826 %) Summit 1 2 (0.826 %) Academy Housing 1 2 (0.826 %) arcHouse 1 2 (0.826 %) SAP ERP 2 1 (0.413 %) Oracle Financials 2 1 (0.413 %) SAP HR
Communications & Networking 1 11 (4.545 %) Firewall 2 6 (2.479 %) 3G 3 5 (2.066 %) GPRS 4 2 (0.826 %) Internet 5 1 (0.413 %) GSM 5 1 (0.413 %) VoIP 5 1 (0.413 %) Cisco IPT 5 1 (0.413 %) GGSN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (1.653 %) SQL Server 2 2 (0.826 %) DB2 2 2 (0.826 %) OLAP 2 2 (0.826 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 2 (0.826 %) Data Mining 2 2 (0.826 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (0.826 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 2 2 (0.826 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 1 (0.413 %) GIS 3 1 (0.413 %) MS Access 3 1 (0.413 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 1 (0.413 %) Telelogic DOORS	General 1 72 (29.75 %) Finance 2 32 (13.22 %) Telecoms 3 31 (12.81 %) Retail 4 17 (7.025 %) Banking 5 11 (4.545 %) Insurance 6 9 (3.719 %) Games 7 6 (2.479 %) Marketing 7 6 (2.479 %) Financial Institution 8 4 (1.653 %) Legal 9 3 (1.240 %) Manufacturing 9 3 (1.240 %) Pharmaceutical 9 3 (1.240 %) Billing 10 2 (0.826 %) Government 11 1 (0.413 %) Construction 11 1 (0.413 %) Education
Miscellaneous 1 11 (4.545 %) PMI 2 10 (4.132 %) CMDB 3 4 (1.653 %) German Language 4 3 (1.240 %) Handset 5 2 (0.826 %) Mainframe 6 1 (0.413 %) EPoS	Operating Systems 1 20 (8.264 %) Solaris 2 14 (5.785 %) UNIX 3 4 (1.653 %) Windows 4 1 (0.413 %) Linux 4 1 (0.413 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (0.413 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 128 (52.89 %) Project Management 2 94 (38.84 %) PRINCE2 3 31 (12.81 %) Stakeholder Management 4 27 (11.16 %) Migration 5 18 (7.438 %) Supplier Management 6 17 (7.025 %) PRINCE 7 16 (6.612 %) Configuration Management 8 14 (5.785 %) E-Commerce 9 13 (5.372 %) Time Management 10 11 (4.545 %) Change Management 11 9 (3.719 %) ITIL 12 8 (3.306 %) Data Migration 13 7 (2.893 %) Performance Management 13 7 (2.893 %) Matrix Management 13 7 (2.893 %) Risk Management 14 6 (2.479 %) Service Delivery 14 6 (2.479 %) Project Planning 14 6 (2.479 %) Release Management 15 4 (1.653 %) Security Cleared 15 4 (1.653 %) Document Management	Programming Languages 1 3 (1.240 %) Java 1 3 (1.240 %) SQL 2 2 (0.826 %) VBA 3 1 (0.413 %) ABAP 3 1 (0.413 %) JavaScript 3 1 (0.413 %) C 3 1 (0.413 %) C++
Qualifications 1 13 (5.372 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 9 (3.719 %) PMP 2 9 (3.719 %) PMI Certification 3 4 (1.653 %) CCSA 4 3 (1.240 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 5 2 (0.826 %) Degree 6 1 (0.413 %) ISEB 6 1 (0.413 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (2.066 %) SLA 2 2 (0.826 %) QA 2 2 (0.826 %) PCI DSS
System Software 1 2 (0.826 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 2 (0.826 %) SCOM
Vendors 1 27 (11.16 %) Oracle 2 17 (7.025 %) Microsoft 3 10 (4.132 %) HP 3 10 (4.132 %) SAP 3 10 (4.132 %) BMC 4 7 (2.893 %) Cisco 4 7 (2.893 %) Serena 5 4 (1.653 %) Interwoven 5 4 (1.653 %) CheckPoint 6 3 (1.240 %) Hyperion 7 2 (0.826 %) Lotus 7 2 (0.826 %) Anite 7 2 (0.826 %) IBM 7 2 (0.826 %) EMC 7 2 (0.826 %) Citrix 7 2 (0.826 %) Northgate 7 2 (0.826 %) Civica 7 2 (0.826 %) Capita 7 2 (0.826 %) Orchard 7 2 (0.826 %) Google