The first table below looks at the demand for Project Planning skills in IT contracts advertised for the Knutsford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Project Planning over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Knutsford 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Project Planning
Rank - - 27
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Knutsford - - 0.649%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 0.952%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £340
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.73% -2.66%
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
Knutsford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
86 35 105
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Knutsford 80.37% 50.00% 68.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 22 86
Average daily rate £363 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.53% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £275 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £388 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £30.00 - £70.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Project Planning
Cheshire

Project Planning
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Knutsford 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 Knutsford region.

Knutsford Project Planning Daily Rate Trend

Project Planning
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford 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 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Information Management
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) MS Project
2 1 (33.33%) AIX
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 2000
2 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) BMC
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware

Project Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford 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 (33.33%) Middleware
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Project
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (33.33%) PMO Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) AIX
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 2000
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Information Management
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Dell
1 1 (33.33%) BMC