Lancashire Project Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Project Manager role in IT contracts within the Lancashire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Project Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Argyll and Bute Avon Aylesbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Denbigh Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Ipswich Jersey Johnstone Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Tyneside North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rhyl Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Ruislip Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	16
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	30	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.040 %	0.037 %
As % of the category below	9.585 %	7.312 %
Daily rates quoted	13	22
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£347
Average daily rate	£366	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£414	£405
% change on same period last year	+2.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.38	-
Average hourly rate	£19.45	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.52	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.41	£35.50
% change on same period last year	-3.05 %
Job Titles Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	313	506
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.417 %	0.512 %
Daily rates quoted	63	119
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£327
Average daily rate	£326	£337
% change on same period last year	-3.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	66	80
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.11	£24.44
Average hourly rate	£24.19	£26.33
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.27	£28.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Project Manager 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 Manager across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Manager across the Lancashire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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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 Manager across the Lancashire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Manager within the Lancashire 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
Blackpool	+10	7	£409	-
Lytham St Annes	+7	5	£350	+36.36 %
Preston	+7	5	£340	-
Lancaster	-	4	£475	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region that cited Project Manager in their job title 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 with Project Manager in their job title.

1 20 (34.48 %) PRINCE2 2 18 (31.03 %) Finance 3 16 (27.59 %) Project Management 4 13 (22.41 %) Oracle 5 12 (20.69 %) Government 6 6 (10.34 %) PRINCE 7 5 (8.621 %) Mainframe 7 5 (8.621 %) MS Project 7 5 (8.621 %) ERP 7 5 (8.621 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 5 (8.621 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 8 4 (6.897 %) Logistics 8 4 (6.897 %) MS Excel 8 4 (6.897 %) EDRMS 8 4 (6.897 %) EDMS

9 3 (5.172 %) Microsoft 9 3 (5.172 %) Service Management 9 3 (5.172 %) Disaster Recovery 9 3 (5.172 %) Education 10 2 (3.448 %) Firewall 10 2 (3.448 %) Change Management 10 2 (3.448 %) Health 10 2 (3.448 %) Stakeholder Management 10 2 (3.448 %) Military 10 2 (3.448 %) PMI 10 2 (3.448 %) PMP 10 2 (3.448 %) PMI Certification 10 2 (3.448 %) NHS 10 2 (3.448 %) WAN 10 2 (3.448 %) ITIL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region that cited Project Manager in their job title 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 with Project Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (1.724 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.724 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 5 (8.621 %) MS Project 2 4 (6.897 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (3.448 %) Academy Housing 2 1 (1.724 %) arcHouse 2 1 (1.724 %) Oracle Financials 2 1 (1.724 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.448 %) WAN 1 2 (3.448 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (6.897 %) EDRMS 1 4 (6.897 %) EDMS 2 1 (1.724 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (1.724 %) SQL Server
General 1 18 (31.03 %) Finance 2 12 (20.69 %) Government 3 3 (5.172 %) Education 4 2 (3.448 %) Health 4 2 (3.448 %) Military 5 1 (1.724 %) Banking 5 1 (1.724 %) Local Government 5 1 (1.724 %) Manufacturing 5 1 (1.724 %) Telecoms 5 1 (1.724 %) Automotive	Miscellaneous 1 5 (8.621 %) Mainframe 2 2 (3.448 %) PMI 2 2 (3.448 %) NHS 3 1 (1.724 %) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 1 (1.724 %) Windows 1 1 (1.724 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (34.48 %) PRINCE2 2 16 (27.59 %) Project Management 3 6 (10.34 %) PRINCE 4 5 (8.621 %) ERP 5 4 (6.897 %) Logistics 6 3 (5.172 %) Service Management 6 3 (5.172 %) Disaster Recovery 7 2 (3.448 %) ITIL 7 2 (3.448 %) Stakeholder Management 7 2 (3.448 %) SC Cleared 7 2 (3.448 %) Security Cleared 7 2 (3.448 %) Change Management 8 1 (1.724 %) Programme Management 8 1 (1.724 %) Supplier Management 8 1 (1.724 %) Business Intelligence 8 1 (1.724 %) Data Security 8 1 (1.724 %) Service Delivery
Programming Languages 1 1 (1.724 %) Java	Qualifications 1 5 (8.621 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 5 (8.621 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 2 (3.448 %) PMP 2 2 (3.448 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.448 %) PCI DSS	System Software 1 1 (1.724 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 13 (22.41 %) Oracle 2 3 (5.172 %) Microsoft 3 2 (3.448 %) Northgate 3 2 (3.448 %) Orchard 4 1 (1.724 %) Fujitsu 4 1 (1.724 %) IBM 4 1 (1.724 %) Civica 4 1 (1.724 %) Comino 4 1 (1.724 %) Capita 4 1 (1.724 %) Citrix 4 1 (1.724 %) BT 4 1 (1.724 %) Anite