The first table below looks at the demand for the Project Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Project Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Hertfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Project Manager
Rank 9 15 10
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 78 73 75
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 12.13% 7.541% 8.641%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.72% 8.013% 9.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 55 34
Average daily rate £433 £425 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.76% +6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £325 £236
10% offered a daily rate of more than £462 £500 £518
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £405
% change year-on-year
- -1.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
Average hourly rate £21.50 £12.13 £33.93
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+77.31% -64.26%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -14.28%
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
613 911 828
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 95.33% 94.11% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 401 346
Average daily rate £400 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £250 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 87 106
Average hourly rate £17.47 £31.00 £16.20
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.64% +91.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.05 £11.00 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £40.00 £37.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Project Manager
East of England

Project Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Project Manager across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Hertfordshire Project Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Project Manager across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Project Manager Daily Rate Trend

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Manager across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Hertfordshire Project Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Project Manager across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Project Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Project Manager
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 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Watford +8 10 £433 +8.12%
St Albans +3 8 - -
Welwyn Garden City +6 7 - -
Stevenage - 3 £413 -
Rickmansworth -5 1 £448 +5.29%
Project Manager
East of England

Project Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 59 (45.38%) Project Management
2 54 (41.54%) Retail
3 51 (39.23%) PRINCE2
4 41 (31.54%) Finance
5 33 (25.38%) E-Commerce
6 22 (16.92%) Microsoft
7 21 (16.15%) Java
7 21 (16.15%) Waterfall
8 20 (15.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 17 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (13.08%) MS Excel
9 17 (13.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (12.31%) WebSphere
10 16 (12.31%) J2EE
10 16 (12.31%) IBM
11 15 (11.54%) Time Management
12 14 (10.77%) Change Control
12 14 (10.77%) Risk Management
13 13 (10.00%) Migration
14 12 (9.231%) Change Management
14 12 (9.231%) ITIL
14 12 (9.231%) Project Planning
15 11 (8.462%) ISEB
15 11 (8.462%) Service Management
15 11 (8.462%) Games
16 8 (6.154%) Remedy
16 8 (6.154%) Business Intelligence
16 8 (6.154%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 8 (6.154%) MS Project
16 8 (6.154%) Legal

Project Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 16 (12.31%) J2EE
1 16 (12.31%) WebSphere
2 5 (3.846%) .NET
3 3 (2.308%) Web Services
3 3 (2.308%) XML
4 1 (0.769%) OpenGL
4 1 (0.769%) HTML
4 1 (0.769%) COM
4 1 (0.769%) CSS
4 1 (0.769%) JSON
4 1 (0.769%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.769%) Qt
4 1 (0.769%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 3 (2.308%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.769%) SugarCRM
2 1 (0.769%) Lync
2 1 (0.769%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 17 (13.08%) MS Excel
2 8 (6.154%) MS Project
3 4 (3.077%) MS Office
3 4 (3.077%) MS PowerPoint
4 3 (2.308%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (0.769%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.769%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.769%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.615%) HTTP
2 4 (3.077%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.538%) WAN
3 2 (1.538%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.769%) Network Security
4 1 (0.769%) SAN
4 1 (0.769%) LAN
4 1 (0.769%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.615%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (4.615%) Big Data
2 1 (0.769%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 2 (1.538%) JIRA
2 1 (0.769%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (0.769%) Eclipse
General
1 54 (41.54%) Retail
2 41 (31.54%) Finance
3 11 (8.462%) Games
4 8 (6.154%) Legal
5 7 (5.385%) Marketing
6 6 (4.615%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.538%) Law
7 2 (1.538%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.538%) Dutch Language
7 2 (1.538%) French Language
7 2 (1.538%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.769%) Billing
8 1 (0.769%) Portuguese Language
8 1 (0.769%) Publishing
8 1 (0.769%) Banking
8 1 (0.769%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.846%) Mobile App
2 3 (2.308%) PMI
3 2 (1.538%) RIA
4 1 (0.769%) FMCG
4 1 (0.769%) Semantic Web
4 1 (0.769%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (0.769%) EPoS
4 1 (0.769%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.769%) Computer Science
4 1 (0.769%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.077%) Windows
2 2 (1.538%) Windows 7
2 2 (1.538%) Linux
2 2 (1.538%) UNIX
3 1 (0.769%) Windows 2000
3 1 (0.769%) Android
3 1 (0.769%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.769%) bada
3 1 (0.769%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.769%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (45.38%) Project Management
2 51 (39.23%) PRINCE2
3 33 (25.38%) E-Commerce
4 21 (16.15%) Waterfall
5 17 (13.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (11.54%) Time Management
7 14 (10.77%) Change Control
7 14 (10.77%) Risk Management
8 13 (10.00%) Migration
9 12 (9.231%) ITIL
9 12 (9.231%) Change Management
9 12 (9.231%) Project Planning
10 11 (8.462%) Service Management
11 8 (6.154%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (5.385%) Scrum
13 6 (4.615%) Agile Software Development
13 6 (4.615%) Supplier Management
14 4 (3.077%) Service Delivery
14 4 (3.077%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (16.15%) Java
2 3 (2.308%) SQL
3 2 (1.538%) C#
4 1 (0.769%) C
4 1 (0.769%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.769%) Perl
4 1 (0.769%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (15.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 11 (8.462%) ISEB
3 8 (6.154%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 5 (3.846%) Degree
5 4 (3.077%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.308%) PMP
7 2 (1.538%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 2 (1.538%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.769%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.077%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.538%) QA
Vendors
1 22 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.31%) IBM
3 8 (6.154%) Remedy
4 6 (4.615%) Teradata
5 5 (3.846%) SAP
6 4 (3.077%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.538%) Oracle
7 2 (1.538%) Business Objects
7 2 (1.538%) Tableau
8 1 (0.769%) Pega
8 1 (0.769%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.769%) Symbian
8 1 (0.769%) Lotus
8 1 (0.769%) Salesforce.com
8 1 (0.769%) Citrix
Hertfordshire
Immediate opportunities for EXPERIENCED E-Commerce Project Managers with lots of self-motivation, energy and drive!! If you have a demonstrable track record of driving projects through to...
IT Retail People Ltd
Rate: Unspecified
Posted: 17 May 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
Urgently recruiting for a Project Manager that has experience working on High Voltage Projects. This is a long term contract position, paying £30 - £32 per hour. The successful...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £30 - £32 per hour
Posted: 15 May 2013