The first table below looks at the demand for Project Planning skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Project Planning over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Kent 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Project Planning
Rank 37 36 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 0.336% 0.373% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.529% 0.529% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £525 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £360 £375
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.34 £25.00 £33.75
% change year-on-year
+17.36% -25.92%
All Processes & Methodologies
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
189 189 174
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 63.42% 70.52% 57.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 99 104
Average daily rate £303 £325 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.92% +9.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £138 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 15
Average hourly rate £19.39 £17.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.80% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.60 £8.75 £15.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.00 £67.50 £49.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Project Planning
South East

Project Planning
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Project Planning across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Kent Project Planning Jobs Demand Trend

Project Planning
Daily Rate Trend

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

Kent Project Planning Daily Rate Trend

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Kent Project Planning Hourly Rate Trend

Project Planning
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Project Planning 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 Project Planning.

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (50.00%) W3C
2 1 (50.00%) Fireworks
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) JSTL
2 1 (50.00%) Drupal
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) CM System
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) JSP
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) Flash
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse

Project Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Project Planning 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 Project Planning. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) JSTL
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) JSP
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XSLT
1 1 (50.00%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Drupal
1 1 (50.00%) CM System
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Fireworks
1 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics AX
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (50.00%) Dreamweaver
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Content Management
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe