Lancashire Project Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Project Management skills within the Lancashire 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 Management over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Amersham Andover Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crowthorne Croydon Cumbria Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Fleetwood Flint Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Ditton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	16
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	13	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.034 %
As % of the category below	6.878 %	10.58 %
Daily rates quoted	2	9
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£349
Average daily rate	£228	£366
% change on same period last year	-37.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£255	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£377
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.00	£25.20
Average hourly rate	£29.75	£26.30
% change on same period last year	+13.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.50	£27.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.80	£29.47
% change on same period last year	+4.52 %
Processes & Methodologies Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	189	293
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.307 %	0.320 %
Daily rates quoted	37	56
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£325
Average daily rate	£353	£341
% change on same period last year	+3.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£373
% change on same period last year	+2.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	59	49
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.88	£25.11
Average hourly rate	£27.09	£27.32
% change on same period last year	-0.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.30	£29.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.22	£29.56
% change on same period last year	-4.53 %
Project Management 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 4 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
Blackpool	-4	3	-	-
Preston	-5	2	-	-
Lancaster	-	1	-	-
Fleetwood	-	1	-	-
Blackburn	0	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing Project Management 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 Management.

1 10 (29.41 %) PRINCE2 2 9 (26.47 %) Finance 3 8 (23.53 %) Government 4 7 (20.59 %) Oracle 5 4 (11.76 %) HTML 5 4 (11.76 %) Java 5 4 (11.76 %) MS Office 5 4 (11.76 %) Information Security 5 4 (11.76 %) Stakeholder Management 5 4 (11.76 %) Project Planning 6 3 (8.824 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 3 (8.824 %) Network Security 6 3 (8.824 %) Security Cleared 6 3 (8.824 %) Information Security Management 6 3 (8.824 %) Security Management

6 3 (8.824 %) Management Information System 6 3 (8.824 %) Oracle EBS 6 3 (8.824 %) Health 6 3 (8.824 %) Aerospace 6 3 (8.824 %) Education 6 3 (8.824 %) MS Project 6 3 (8.824 %) NHS 7 2 (5.882 %) Microsoft 7 2 (5.882 %) ASP 7 2 (5.882 %) ASP.NET 7 2 (5.882 %) Windows NT 7 2 (5.882 %) Adabas 7 2 (5.882 %) PHP 7 2 (5.882 %) .NET 7 2 (5.882 %) SQL Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing Project Management 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 Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (11.76 %) HTML 2 2 (5.882 %) .NET 2 2 (5.882 %) ASP 2 2 (5.882 %) ASP.NET	Applications 1 4 (11.76 %) MS Office 2 3 (8.824 %) MS Project 3 1 (2.941 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 3 (8.824 %) Oracle EBS 2 2 (5.882 %) Teamcenter 3 1 (2.941 %) Oracle Financials 3 1 (2.941 %) SAP APO	Communications & Networking 1 3 (8.824 %) Network Security 2 1 (2.941 %) LAN 2 1 (2.941 %) VoIP 2 1 (2.941 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (5.882 %) SQL Server 1 2 (5.882 %) Adabas 2 1 (2.941 %) Datawarehouse	General 1 9 (26.47 %) Finance 2 8 (23.53 %) Government 3 3 (8.824 %) Health 3 3 (8.824 %) Aerospace 3 3 (8.824 %) Education 4 1 (2.941 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 14 (41.18 %) Project Manager 2 4 (11.76 %) Programme Manager 2 4 (11.76 %) Software Engineer 3 3 (8.824 %) Lead Test Analyst 3 3 (8.824 %) Junior 3 3 (8.824 %) Analyst 3 3 (8.824 %) Test Analyst 3 3 (8.824 %) Junior Project Manager 3 3 (8.824 %) IT Project Manager 4 2 (5.882 %) IT Auditor 4 2 (5.882 %) .NET Developer 4 2 (5.882 %) C# Developer 4 2 (5.882 %) Web Developer 4 2 (5.882 %) Architect 4 2 (5.882 %) Auditor 4 2 (5.882 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 4 2 (5.882 %) Developer 4 2 (5.882 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 2 (5.882 %) C# Web Developer 4 2 (5.882 %) .NET Web Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (8.824 %) NHS 1 3 (8.824 %) Management Information System 2 1 (2.941 %) NPfIT
Operating Systems 1 2 (5.882 %) UNIX 1 2 (5.882 %) Windows 1 2 (5.882 %) Linux 1 2 (5.882 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (29.41 %) PRINCE2 2 4 (11.76 %) Stakeholder Management 2 4 (11.76 %) Information Security 2 4 (11.76 %) Project Planning 3 3 (8.824 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 3 (8.824 %) Information Security Management 3 3 (8.824 %) Security Management 3 3 (8.824 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (5.882 %) Risk Management 4 2 (5.882 %) UML 4 2 (5.882 %) Service Delivery 4 2 (5.882 %) Matrix Management 4 2 (5.882 %) Systems Analysis 4 2 (5.882 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (2.941 %) Requirements Management 5 1 (2.941 %) Risk Analysis 5 1 (2.941 %) Data Protection 5 1 (2.941 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (2.941 %) CRM 5 1 (2.941 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 4 (11.76 %) Java 2 2 (5.882 %) PHP 2 2 (5.882 %) C 2 2 (5.882 %) C# 2 2 (5.882 %) C++	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.941 %) PCI DSS
Vendors 1 7 (20.59 %) Oracle 2 2 (5.882 %) Microsoft 3 1 (2.941 %) SAP