Kent Project Planning Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Planning skills within the Kent region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Project Planning over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Project Planning
Location Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Witham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	51
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	8	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	3.347 %	1.832 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£205	-
Average daily rate	£205	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£205	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£349
% change on same period last year	-5.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.00	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£27.00	£42.50
% change on same period last year	-36.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.36	£30.65
% change on same period last year	-23.79 %
Processes & Methodologies Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	239	273
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.319 %	0.276 %
Daily rates quoted	71	57
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£285
Average daily rate	£358	£311
% change on same period last year	+15.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.48	£36.42
Average hourly rate	£21.62	£42.03
% change on same period last year	-48.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.76	£47.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Project Planning 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.

Project Planning
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Project Planning across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Project Planning
Daily Rate Trend

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

Project Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Planning across the Kent region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Project Planning
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Planning within the Kent region over the 3 months to 25 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
Dover	-	1	£210	-

Project Planning South East

Project Planning
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 9 (56.25 %) Pharmaceutical 2 8 (50.00 %) MS Project 3 6 (37.50 %) Degree 4 4 (25.00 %) Microsoft 5 3 (18.75 %) MS Office 5 3 (18.75 %) Project Management 6 2 (12.50 %) NHS 6 2 (12.50 %) SAP 6 2 (12.50 %) MS Excel 6 2 (12.50 %) MS Visio 6 2 (12.50 %) Resource Management 6 2 (12.50 %) Change Management 6 2 (12.50 %) Telecoms 6 2 (12.50 %) Finance 6 2 (12.50 %) MS PowerPoint

7 1 (6.250 %) Validation 7 1 (6.250 %) Management Information System 7 1 (6.250 %) Use Case 7 1 (6.250 %) ITIL Certification 7 1 (6.250 %) PMI 7 1 (6.250 %) ITIL 7 1 (6.250 %) UML 7 1 (6.250 %) Service Delivery

Project Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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.

Applications 1 8 (50.00 %) MS Project 2 3 (18.75 %) MS Office 3 2 (12.50 %) MS Excel 3 2 (12.50 %) MS Visio 3 2 (12.50 %) MS PowerPoint	General 1 9 (56.25 %) Pharmaceutical 2 2 (12.50 %) Telecoms 2 2 (12.50 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 10 (62.50 %) Project Planner 2 2 (12.50 %) Administrator 2 2 (12.50 %) Project Administrator 3 1 (6.250 %) Project Support Officer 3 1 (6.250 %) Project Officer 3 1 (6.250 %) Analyst 3 1 (6.250 %) Project Manager 3 1 (6.250 %) Business Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2 (12.50 %) NHS 2 1 (6.250 %) Management Information System 2 1 (6.250 %) PMI
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (18.75 %) Project Management 2 2 (12.50 %) Change Management 2 2 (12.50 %) Resource Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Use Case 3 1 (6.250 %) Validation 3 1 (6.250 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (6.250 %) ITIL 3 1 (6.250 %) UML	Qualifications 1 6 (37.50 %) Degree 2 1 (6.250 %) ITIL Certification
Vendors 1 4 (25.00 %) Microsoft 2 2 (12.50 %) SAP