Lancashire PMP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Management Professional (PMP) in IT contracts within the Lancashire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PMP over the last 3 months to 9 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Project Management Professional (PMP)
Location Aberdeenshire Amersham Basingstoke Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cheltenham City of London Devon East Anglia East of England England Essex Exeter Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North West Scotland Shropshire South East South West Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 9 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	4.348 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£448	£439
% change on same period last year	+1.91 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£48.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Qualifications Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	46	55
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.059 %	0.062 %
Daily rates quoted	11	7
Average minimum daily rate	£360	£314
Average daily rate	£363	£319
% change on same period last year	+13.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£330
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	13	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.64	£20.97
Average hourly rate	£21.26	£22.82
% change on same period last year	-6.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.88	£24.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.29	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-5.43 %
PMP North West

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.

PMP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing PMP across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

PMP
Top 4 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Lancashire region citing PMP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing PMP.

1 2 (100.00 %) PRINCE2 1 2 (100.00 %) PMI 1 2 (100.00 %) PMI Certification 1 2 (100.00 %) Military

PMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Lancashire region citing PMP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing PMP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 2 (100.00 %) Military	Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (100.00 %) PMI	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) PRINCE2
Qualifications 1 2 (100.00 %) PMI Certification