Leeds Project Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Management skills within the Leeds 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Aylesbury Baldock Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Billingham Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Daresbury Darlington Darwen Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Erskine Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Walsall Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	14
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	100	89
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.128 %	0.100 %
As % of the category below	16.64 %	16.64 %
Daily rates quoted	26	14
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£332
Average daily rate	£361	£360
% change on same period last year	+0.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£387
UK excluding London average daily rate	£398	£387
% change on same period last year	+2.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.50	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£34.25	£20.00
% change on same period last year	+71.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.22	£29.86
% change on same period last year	-8.83 %
Processes & Methodologies Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	601	535
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.771 %	0.601 %
Daily rates quoted	129	122
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£305
Average daily rate	£352	£319
% change on same period last year	+10.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£332
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£376
% change on same period last year	+2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.90	£23.17
Average hourly rate	£18.66	£24.59
% change on same period last year	-24.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.42	£26.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.61	£29.48
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
Project Management 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Project Management across the Leeds 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Project Management across the Leeds region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 97 (42.54 %) PRINCE2 2 80 (35.09 %) NHS 3 72 (31.58 %) Health 4 48 (21.05 %) Finance 5 38 (16.67 %) Government 6 36 (15.79 %) Stakeholder Management 7 25 (10.96 %) MS Project 8 23 (10.09 %) Microsoft 9 22 (9.649 %) ITIL 9 22 (9.649 %) PRINCE 10 19 (8.333 %) Supplier Management 11 18 (7.895 %) Windows 12 17 (7.456 %) Firewall 12 17 (7.456 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 13 16 (7.018 %) Oracle

14 15 (6.579 %) PRINCE2 Certification 14 15 (6.579 %) DNS 15 14 (6.140 %) MS Excel 15 14 (6.140 %) Degree 16 12 (5.263 %) MS Office 17 11 (4.825 %) MS Visio 17 11 (4.825 %) Quality Management 17 11 (4.825 %) Banking 18 10 (4.386 %) Programme Management 18 10 (4.386 %) Data Migration 18 10 (4.386 %) Service Delivery 18 10 (4.386 %) Migration 18 10 (4.386 %) Smartcard 19 9 (3.947 %) SharePoint 20 8 (3.509 %) Business Analysis

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 3 (1.316 %) Middleware 2 2 (0.877 %) WebSphere 2 2 (0.877 %) XML 2 2 (0.877 %) .NET 3 1 (0.439 %) J2EE 3 1 (0.439 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (0.439 %) EJB 3 1 (0.439 %) CSS 3 1 (0.439 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 9 (3.947 %) SharePoint 2 6 (2.632 %) SAS 3 5 (2.193 %) MS Exchange 4 3 (1.316 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 2 (0.877 %) CMS 5 2 (0.877 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 1 (0.439 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 25 (10.96 %) MS Project 2 14 (6.140 %) MS Excel 3 12 (5.263 %) MS Office 4 11 (4.825 %) MS Visio 5 2 (0.877 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (0.439 %) Photoshop 6 1 (0.439 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 17 (7.456 %) Firewall 2 15 (6.579 %) DNS 3 7 (3.070 %) WAN 4 5 (2.193 %) VPN 5 4 (1.754 %) LAN 6 3 (1.316 %) DHCP 6 3 (1.316 %) TCP/IP 6 3 (1.316 %) WINS 7 2 (0.877 %) SAN 7 2 (0.877 %) IMAP 7 2 (0.877 %) Internet 7 2 (0.877 %) MPLS 8 1 (0.439 %) LDAP 8 1 (0.439 %) Intranet 8 1 (0.439 %) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (3.509 %) Datawarehouse 2 7 (3.070 %) SQL Server 3 6 (2.632 %) EDRMS 4 4 (1.754 %) SQL Server 2000 5 2 (0.877 %) EDMS 5 2 (0.877 %) SQL Server 2005 5 2 (0.877 %) ETL 5 2 (0.877 %) BusinessObjects 6 1 (0.439 %) SQL Server 7 6 1 (0.439 %) Reference Data	Development Applications 1 3 (1.316 %) Flash 2 1 (0.439 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 72 (31.58 %) Health 2 48 (21.05 %) Finance 3 38 (16.67 %) Government 4 11 (4.825 %) Banking 5 6 (2.632 %) Retail 6 5 (2.193 %) Insurance 7 4 (1.754 %) Telecoms 8 3 (1.316 %) Education 8 3 (1.316 %) Retail Banking 8 3 (1.316 %) International Banking 8 3 (1.316 %) Legal 9 2 (0.877 %) Billing 9 2 (0.877 %) Pensions 9 2 (0.877 %) Law 9 2 (0.877 %) Construction 10 1 (0.439 %) Pharmaceutical 10 1 (0.439 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 106 (46.49 %) Project Manager 2 48 (21.05 %) Analyst 3 21 (9.211 %) Business Analyst 4 16 (7.018 %) Technical Manager 5 13 (5.702 %) NHS Project Manager 6 11 (4.825 %) Service Manager 7 10 (4.386 %) Senior Manager 8 9 (3.947 %) Technical Project Manager 8 9 (3.947 %) Applications Manager 8 9 (3.947 %) Senior Project Manager 8 9 (3.947 %) Deployment Analyst 9 8 (3.509 %) Data Analyst 10 6 (2.632 %) Release Manager 10 6 (2.632 %) Senior Analyst 10 6 (2.632 %) IT Manager 10 6 (2.632 %) Support Manager 11 5 (2.193 %) Problem Manager 11 5 (2.193 %) IT Project Manager 11 5 (2.193 %) Implementation Manager 11 5 (2.193 %) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous 1 80 (35.09 %) NHS 2 10 (4.386 %) Smartcard 3 8 (3.509 %) Data Protection Act 3 8 (3.509 %) PKI 4 6 (2.632 %) NPfIT 5 5 (2.193 %) Management Information System 5 5 (2.193 %) E-Learning 5 5 (2.193 %) Statistics 5 5 (2.193 %) Freedom of Information 5 5 (2.193 %) Freedom of Information Act 6 3 (1.316 %) SCORM 7 2 (0.877 %) Asset Management 7 2 (0.877 %) AS400 8 1 (0.439 %) N-Tier 8 1 (0.439 %) IVR 8 1 (0.439 %) Informatics 8 1 (0.439 %) Data Conversion 8 1 (0.439 %) Data Integration	Operating Systems 1 18 (7.895 %) Windows 2 8 (3.509 %) Unix 3 4 (1.754 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (1.316 %) Linux 5 2 (0.877 %) Solaris 6 1 (0.439 %) HPUX 6 1 (0.439 %) NetWare 6 1 (0.439 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (0.439 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 97 (42.54 %) PRINCE2 2 36 (15.79 %) Stakeholder Management 3 22 (9.649 %) ITIL 3 22 (9.649 %) PRINCE 4 19 (8.333 %) Supplier Management 5 11 (4.825 %) Quality Management 6 10 (4.386 %) Service Delivery 6 10 (4.386 %) Programme Management 6 10 (4.386 %) Migration 6 10 (4.386 %) Data Migration 7 8 (3.509 %) Data Protection 7 8 (3.509 %) Service Management 7 8 (3.509 %) Business Analysis 7 8 (3.509 %) UML 8 7 (3.070 %) Data Mapping 8 7 (3.070 %) Time Management 8 7 (3.070 %) Project Planning 9 6 (2.632 %) Problem Management 9 6 (2.632 %) Matrix Management 9 6 (2.632 %) Data Modelling	Programming Languages 1 7 (3.070 %) SQL 2 3 (1.316 %) VB 3 2 (0.877 %) Java 4 1 (0.439 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 17 (7.456 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 15 (6.579 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 14 (6.140 %) Degree 4 3 (1.316 %) ISEB 5 1 (0.439 %) Microsoft Certification 5 1 (0.439 %) MCSE 5 1 (0.439 %) ITIL Certification 5 1 (0.439 %) PMP 5 1 (0.439 %) PMI Certification 5 1 (0.439 %) ECDL 5 1 (0.439 %) CIPD	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (1.754 %) SLA 1 4 (1.754 %) Basel II 2 3 (1.316 %) QA 3 2 (0.877 %) ISO17799 3 2 (0.877 %) ISO27001
System Software 1 4 (1.754 %) Active Directory 2 2 (0.877 %) VMware ESX	Vendors 1 23 (10.09 %) Microsoft 2 16 (7.018 %) Oracle 3 7 (3.070 %) Primavera 4 4 (1.754 %) Cisco 4 4 (1.754 %) IBM 5 3 (1.316 %) Siebel 6 2 (0.877 %) VMware 6 2 (0.877 %) Teradata 6 2 (0.877 %) Hyperion 6 2 (0.877 %) Business Objects 6 2 (0.877 %) Sun 7 1 (0.439 %) HP 7 1 (0.439 %) EMC 7 1 (0.439 %) Nokia 7 1 (0.439 %) Novell