Leeds MS Project Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Project skills within the Leeds region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Project over the last 3 months to 22 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Project
Location Aberdeen Andover Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Bracknell Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Darwen Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Liversedge London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Witham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 22 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	42	40
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	29	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	16.11 %	21.97 %
Daily rates quoted	9	8
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£300
Average daily rate	£368	£313
% change on same period last year	+17.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£306
% change on same period last year	+1.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£42.00	-
Average hourly rate	£42.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£42.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.19	£22.68
% change on same period last year	+11.04 %
Applications Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	180	132
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.233 %	0.148 %
Daily rates quoted	46	23
Average minimum daily rate	£235	£255
Average daily rate	£248	£268
% change on same period last year	-7.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£261	£282
UK excluding London average daily rate	£298	£284
% change on same period last year	+5.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.35	£15.60
Average hourly rate	£23.01	£16.16
% change on same period last year	+42.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.68	£16.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.32	£18.59
% change on same period last year	-6.79 %
MS Project West Yorkshire

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.

MS Project
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing MS Project across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

MS Project
Daily Rate Trend

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

MS Project
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the Leeds region over the past 3 months.

MS Project
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing MS Project across the Leeds region.

MS Project
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Leeds region citing MS Project 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 MS Project.

1 27 (49.09 %) PRINCE2 2 25 (45.45 %) Project Management 3 23 (41.82 %) MS Excel 4 14 (25.45 %) NHS 4 14 (25.45 %) Microsoft 4 14 (25.45 %) Health 5 11 (20.00 %) Primavera 6 10 (18.18 %) Finance 7 9 (16.36 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 9 (16.36 %) ITIL 8 8 (14.55 %) MS Office 9 7 (12.73 %) Oracle 9 7 (12.73 %) Quality Management 9 7 (12.73 %) MS PowerPoint 10 6 (10.91 %) MS Visio

11 5 (9.091 %) PRINCE 11 5 (9.091 %) Project Planning 11 5 (9.091 %) Supplier Management 11 5 (9.091 %) Matrix Management 12 4 (7.273 %) Problem Management 12 4 (7.273 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 12 4 (7.273 %) Degree 12 4 (7.273 %) Windows 13 3 (5.455 %) Siebel 13 3 (5.455 %) Six Sigma 13 3 (5.455 %) Service Delivery 13 3 (5.455 %) Government 13 3 (5.455 %) Time Management 13 3 (5.455 %) Software Testing 13 3 (5.455 %) Release Management

MS Project
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Leeds region citing MS Project 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 MS Project. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (3.636 %) .NET 1 2 (3.636 %) WebServices 1 2 (3.636 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.636 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 23 (41.82 %) MS Excel 2 8 (14.55 %) MS Office 3 7 (12.73 %) MS PowerPoint 4 6 (10.91 %) MS Visio	Development Applications 1 2 (3.636 %) Visual Studio
General 1 14 (25.45 %) Health 2 10 (18.18 %) Finance 3 3 (5.455 %) Government 4 2 (3.636 %) Insurance 5 1 (1.818 %) Home Office 5 1 (1.818 %) Legal 5 1 (1.818 %) Banking 5 1 (1.818 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 13 (23.64 %) Project Manager 2 6 (10.91 %) Programme Planner 3 5 (9.091 %) Project Planner 3 5 (9.091 %) Technical Manager 3 5 (9.091 %) Implementation Manager 3 5 (9.091 %) Release Manager 3 5 (9.091 %) Coordinator 3 5 (9.091 %) Project Coordinator 4 4 (7.273 %) Resource Manager 4 4 (7.273 %) Support Manager 4 4 (7.273 %) Analyst 5 3 (5.455 %) IT Manager 5 3 (5.455 %) Problem Manager 5 3 (5.455 %) Business Analyst 5 3 (5.455 %) IT Project Manager 5 3 (5.455 %) PMO Manager 6 2 (3.636 %) Project Support Officer 6 2 (3.636 %) Team Leader 6 2 (3.636 %) Project Officer 6 2 (3.636 %) .NET Team Leader
Miscellaneous 1 14 (25.45 %) NHS 2 1 (1.818 %) NPfIT 2 1 (1.818 %) AS400 2 1 (1.818 %) Informatics	Operating Systems 1 4 (7.273 %) Windows 2 1 (1.818 %) HPUX 2 1 (1.818 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 27 (49.09 %) PRINCE2 2 25 (45.45 %) Project Management 3 9 (16.36 %) ITIL 4 7 (12.73 %) Quality Management 5 5 (9.091 %) PRINCE 5 5 (9.091 %) Project Planning 5 5 (9.091 %) Supplier Management 5 5 (9.091 %) Matrix Management 6 4 (7.273 %) Problem Management 7 3 (5.455 %) Six Sigma 7 3 (5.455 %) Service Delivery 7 3 (5.455 %) Time Management 7 3 (5.455 %) Software Testing 7 3 (5.455 %) Release Management 8 2 (3.636 %) Use Case 8 2 (3.636 %) Test Management 8 2 (3.636 %) Risk Management 8 2 (3.636 %) GAP Analysis 8 2 (3.636 %) Service Management 8 2 (3.636 %) Stakeholder Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (1.818 %) SQL 1 1 (1.818 %) VB
Qualifications 1 9 (16.36 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 4 (7.273 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 4 (7.273 %) Degree 3 1 (1.818 %) ITIL Certification	Vendors 1 14 (25.45 %) Microsoft 2 11 (20.00 %) Primavera 3 7 (12.73 %) Oracle 4 3 (5.455 %) Siebel 5 2 (3.636 %) Cisco