Leeds Project Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Project Manager role in IT contracts within the Leeds 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	13
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	146	95
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.195 %	0.096 %
As % of the category below	12.83 %	9.415 %
Daily rates quoted	44	27
Average minimum daily rate	£401	£387
Average daily rate	£425	£406
% change on same period last year	+4.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£449	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£414	£405
% change on same period last year	+2.11 %
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	£34.41	£35.50
% change on same period last year	-3.05 %
Job Titles Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	1138	1009
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.517 %	1.021 %
Daily rates quoted	292	194
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£312
Average daily rate	£344	£332
% change on same period last year	+3.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£352
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	54	74
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.29	£22.09
Average hourly rate	£24.13	£23.54
% change on same period last year	+2.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.97	£24.99
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Project Manager 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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Project Manager across the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 Leeds 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 Leeds region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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.

1 121 (48.59 %) PRINCE2 2 102 (40.96 %) Project Management 3 95 (38.15 %) NHS 4 77 (30.92 %) Health 5 51 (20.48 %) Finance 6 38 (15.26 %) Stakeholder Management 7 34 (13.65 %) PRINCE2 Certification 8 21 (8.434 %) Oracle 9 20 (8.032 %) PRINCE 10 19 (7.631 %) Supplier Management 11 18 (7.229 %) Government 12 16 (6.426 %) Risk Management 12 16 (6.426 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 13 13 (5.221 %) Java 13 13 (5.221 %) Windows

14 12 (4.819 %) Microsoft 15 10 (4.016 %) Migration 15 10 (4.016 %) E-Learning 15 10 (4.016 %) Programme Management 16 9 (3.614 %) ITIL 16 9 (3.614 %) MS Project 16 9 (3.614 %) Business Analysis 17 8 (3.213 %) Knowledge Management 17 8 (3.213 %) Java EE 17 8 (3.213 %) SharePoint 17 8 (3.213 %) AS400 18 7 (2.811 %) Change Management 18 7 (2.811 %) Retail 18 7 (2.811 %) Solaris 18 7 (2.811 %) QA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 8 (3.213 %) Java EE 2 5 (2.008 %) .NET 3 4 (1.606 %) J2EE 4 2 (0.803 %) XML 5 1 (0.402 %) Middleware 5 1 (0.402 %) WebSphere 5 1 (0.402 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 8 (3.213 %) SharePoint 2 4 (1.606 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (0.402 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 9 (3.614 %) MS Project 2 5 (2.008 %) MS Excel 2 5 (2.008 %) MS Visio 3 3 (1.205 %) MS Office 4 2 (0.803 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (0.402 %) PeopleSoft HRMS
Communications & Networking 1 3 (1.205 %) WAN 1 3 (1.205 %) DNS 1 3 (1.205 %) Internet 2 2 (0.803 %) DHCP 2 2 (0.803 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (0.402 %) LAN 3 1 (0.402 %) PBX 3 1 (0.402 %) Firewall 3 1 (0.402 %) IMAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (1.205 %) SQL Server 1 3 (1.205 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (0.402 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (0.402 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (0.402 %) DataStage 2 1 (0.402 %) SQL Server 7 2 1 (0.402 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (0.402 %) Oracle Reports 2 1 (0.402 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (0.402 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 1 (0.402 %) WinRunner 1 1 (0.402 %) QuickTest Pro 1 1 (0.402 %) QARun	General 1 77 (30.92 %) Health 2 51 (20.48 %) Finance 3 18 (7.229 %) Government 4 7 (2.811 %) Retail 5 6 (2.410 %) Insurance 5 6 (2.410 %) Legal 5 6 (2.410 %) Education 5 6 (2.410 %) Telecoms 6 5 (2.008 %) Banking 7 3 (1.205 %) FMCG 8 2 (0.803 %) Pensions 9 1 (0.402 %) Billing 9 1 (0.402 %) Publishing 9 1 (0.402 %) Back Office 9 1 (0.402 %) Electric
Miscellaneous 1 95 (38.15 %) NHS 2 10 (4.016 %) E-Learning 3 8 (3.213 %) AS400 4 5 (2.008 %) NPfIT 5 2 (0.803 %) Management Information System 5 2 (0.803 %) Smartcard 5 2 (0.803 %) IVR 5 2 (0.803 %) Informatics 6 1 (0.402 %) German Language 6 1 (0.402 %) Data Extraction 6 1 (0.402 %) Data Integration 6 1 (0.402 %) PKI 6 1 (0.402 %) Mainframe 6 1 (0.402 %) N-Tier 6 1 (0.402 %) PMI 6 1 (0.402 %) SCORM	Operating Systems 1 13 (5.221 %) Windows 2 7 (2.811 %) Solaris 3 1 (0.402 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (0.402 %) Windows Vista 3 1 (0.402 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 121 (48.59 %) PRINCE2 2 102 (40.96 %) Project Management 3 38 (15.26 %) Stakeholder Management 4 20 (8.032 %) PRINCE 5 19 (7.631 %) Supplier Management 6 16 (6.426 %) Risk Management 7 10 (4.016 %) Programme Management 7 10 (4.016 %) Migration 8 9 (3.614 %) Business Analysis 8 9 (3.614 %) ITIL 9 8 (3.213 %) Knowledge Management 10 7 (2.811 %) Change Management 11 6 (2.410 %) E-Commerce 11 6 (2.410 %) Requirements Analysis 11 6 (2.410 %) Release Management 11 6 (2.410 %) Data Migration 12 5 (2.008 %) UML 12 5 (2.008 %) Quality Management 12 5 (2.008 %) Content Management 12 5 (2.008 %) Agile Software Development	Programming Languages 1 13 (5.221 %) Java 2 2 (0.803 %) SQL 3 1 (0.402 %) VB 3 1 (0.402 %) C
Qualifications 1 34 (13.65 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 16 (6.426 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 5 (2.008 %) Degree 4 3 (1.205 %) ITIL Certification 5 2 (0.803 %) CIPD 6 1 (0.402 %) ISEB 6 1 (0.402 %) PMP 6 1 (0.402 %) PMI Certification 6 1 (0.402 %) ISEB Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (2.811 %) QA 2 3 (1.205 %) SLA 3 1 (0.402 %) HL7
System Software 1 2 (0.803 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 21 (8.434 %) Oracle 2 12 (4.819 %) Microsoft 3 5 (2.008 %) Cisco 4 4 (1.606 %) SAP 5 3 (1.205 %) PeopleSoft 6 2 (0.803 %) Sage 6 2 (0.803 %) ATG 6 2 (0.803 %) Intershop 7 1 (0.402 %) BT 7 1 (0.402 %) Cognos 7 1 (0.402 %) Business Objects 7 1 (0.402 %) Sun 7 1 (0.402 %) HP 7 1 (0.402 %) Citrix