Kent MS Project Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Project skills within the Kent 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Project
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Basildon Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Hull Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Reading Rickmansworth Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	43
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	10	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	11.76 %	9.783 %
Daily rates quoted	4	3
Average minimum daily rate	£248	£250
Average daily rate	£260	£250
% change on same period last year	+4.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£273	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£305
% change on same period last year	+4.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£27.00
Average hourly rate	£20.00	£27.00
% change on same period last year	-25.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.33	£29.31
% change on same period last year	-20.41 %
Applications Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	85	92
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.137 %	0.099 %
Daily rates quoted	14	14
Average minimum daily rate	£246	£185
Average daily rate	£258	£190
% change on same period last year	+35.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£270	£195
UK excluding London average daily rate	£306	£275
% change on same period last year	+11.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.36	£18.44
Average hourly rate	£17.28	£19.97
% change on same period last year	-13.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.19	£21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.14	£19.14
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
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 Kent 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 Kent region.

MS Project
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the Kent region over the 3 months to 2 December 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 Kent region.

MS Project
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Project within the Kent 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
Tunbridge Wells	-	1	£310	-

MS Project South East

MS Project
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 11 (45.83 %) Microsoft 2 10 (41.67 %) MS PowerPoint 3 8 (33.33 %) Project Management 3 8 (33.33 %) MS Excel 4 6 (25.00 %) MS Office 4 6 (25.00 %) Finance 5 5 (20.83 %) PRINCE2 6 4 (16.67 %) Health 6 4 (16.67 %) French Language 6 4 (16.67 %) Spanish Language 7 3 (12.50 %) Degree 7 3 (12.50 %) NHS 7 3 (12.50 %) Pharmaceutical 7 3 (12.50 %) Statistical Analysis 7 3 (12.50 %) MS Visio

8 2 (8.333 %) SharePoint 8 2 (8.333 %) Marketing 8 2 (8.333 %) Government 8 2 (8.333 %) Resource Management 9 1 (4.167 %) Lean Manufacturing 9 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 9 1 (4.167 %) iSCSI 9 1 (4.167 %) VMware Infrastructure 9 1 (4.167 %) Office Project Server 9 1 (4.167 %) Open Workbench 9 1 (4.167 %) CA Clarity 9 1 (4.167 %) Project Planning 9 1 (4.167 %) .NET Framework 9 1 (4.167 %) Education 9 1 (4.167 %) Agile Software Development

MS Project
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 1 (4.167 %) .NET 1 1 (4.167 %) WebServices 1 1 (4.167 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 2 (8.333 %) SharePoint 2 1 (4.167 %) Office Project Server
Applications 1 10 (41.67 %) MS PowerPoint 2 8 (33.33 %) MS Excel 3 6 (25.00 %) MS Office 4 3 (12.50 %) MS Visio 5 1 (4.167 %) Open Workbench 5 1 (4.167 %) CA Clarity	Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.167 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (4.167 %) SAN 1 1 (4.167 %) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.167 %) Oracle Reports	General 1 6 (25.00 %) Finance 2 4 (16.67 %) Health 3 3 (12.50 %) Pharmaceutical 4 2 (8.333 %) Government 4 2 (8.333 %) Marketing 5 1 (4.167 %) Education 5 1 (4.167 %) Legal 5 1 (4.167 %) Manufacturing 5 1 (4.167 %) Banking 5 1 (4.167 %) Insurance 5 1 (4.167 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 8 (33.33 %) Project Manager 2 3 (12.50 %) Project Coordinator 2 3 (12.50 %) Coordinator 3 2 (8.333 %) Project Consultant 3 2 (8.333 %) Analyst 3 2 (8.333 %) Consultant 3 2 (8.333 %) Support Consultant 4 1 (4.167 %) Administrator 4 1 (4.167 %) Services Delivery Manager 4 1 (4.167 %) Service Manager 4 1 (4.167 %) Change Manager 4 1 (4.167 %) Business Analyst 4 1 (4.167 %) Junior 4 1 (4.167 %) Project Planner 4 1 (4.167 %) Project Administrator 4 1 (4.167 %) Project Support Officer 4 1 (4.167 %) Project Analyst 4 1 (4.167 %) Delivery Manager 4 1 (4.167 %) Project Officer 4 1 (4.167 %) Storage Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (16.67 %) French Language 1 4 (16.67 %) Spanish Language 2 3 (12.50 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 1 (4.167 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (33.33 %) Project Management 2 5 (20.83 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (12.50 %) Statistical Analysis 4 2 (8.333 %) Resource Management 5 1 (4.167 %) Lean Manufacturing 5 1 (4.167 %) Project Planning 5 1 (4.167 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (4.167 %) Programme Management 5 1 (4.167 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (4.167 %) Systems Analysis 5 1 (4.167 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 1 (4.167 %) Perl 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 3 (12.50 %) Degree 2 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (4.167 %) ISEB 2 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software 1 1 (4.167 %) NetBackup 1 1 (4.167 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 11 (45.83 %) Microsoft 2 1 (4.167 %) CA 2 1 (4.167 %) NetApp 2 1 (4.167 %) VMware 2 1 (4.167 %) Oracle 2 1 (4.167 %) IBM