The first table below looks at the demand for Project Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Project Management over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Leicestershire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Project Management
Rank 19 13 18
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +5
Contract jobs citing Project Management 15 15 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 6.818% 6.550% 6.881%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.20% 10.42% 10.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 6
Average daily rate £450 £275 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+63.63% -37.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £235 £388
10% offered a daily rate of more than £595 £315 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £380 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.63% +1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.11 £25.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+40.23% -20.76%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
147 144 139
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 66.82% 62.88% 63.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 45 62
Average daily rate £413 £328 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.95% -11.48%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £196 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £413 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 6
Average hourly rate £13.50 £20.00 £28.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.50% -29.20%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.50 £26.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.10 £35.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Project Management
East Midlands

Project Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Project Management across the Leicestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Leicestershire Project Management Jobs Demand Trend

Project Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leicestershire Project Management Daily Rate Trend

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Management across the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Leicestershire Project Management Daily Rate Histogram

Project Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leicestershire Project Management Hourly Rate Trend

Project Management
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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Leicester -1 13 £463 - 4
Hinckley -1 1 £425 -
Loughborough - - - - 3
Project Management
East Midlands

Project Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
1 7 (29.17%) Retail
2 5 (20.83%) Banking
2 5 (20.83%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (20.83%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) C#
2 5 (20.83%) .NET
2 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.83%) MS Excel
2 5 (20.83%) PRINCE2
3 4 (16.67%) SAP
4 2 (8.333%) ITIL
4 2 (8.333%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.333%) Data Analysis
4 2 (8.333%) Software Engineering
4 2 (8.333%) Market Research
4 2 (8.333%) Social Media
4 2 (8.333%) Smartphone
4 2 (8.333%) Retail Banking
4 2 (8.333%) Credit Risk
4 2 (8.333%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.333%) PRINCE
4 2 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (4.167%) B2B
5 1 (4.167%) Cisco
5 1 (4.167%) OO
5 1 (4.167%) Python
5 1 (4.167%) ERP
5 1 (4.167%) PBX

Project Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 5 (20.83%) .NET
2 1 (4.167%) CSS
2 1 (4.167%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (4.167%) jQuery
2 1 (4.167%) HTML5
2 1 (4.167%) CSS3
2 1 (4.167%) Backbone.js
2 1 (4.167%) Sass
2 1 (4.167%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.167%) Lync
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.167%) SAP PM
1 1 (4.167%) SAP IS-U
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.167%) PBX
1 1 (4.167%) VoIP
1 1 (4.167%) IP Telephony
1 1 (4.167%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server 2005
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (4.167%) MySQL
General
1 7 (29.17%) Retail
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Banking
3 2 (8.333%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.333%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.333%) Retail Banking
4 1 (4.167%) French Language
4 1 (4.167%) Billing
Job Titles
1 16 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 5 (20.83%) PMO Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Technical Manager
4 2 (8.333%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (8.333%) Web Engineer
4 2 (8.333%) Service Manager
4 2 (8.333%) SAP Manager
4 2 (8.333%) SAP Project Manager
5 1 (4.167%) Telecoms Project Manager
5 1 (4.167%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (4.167%) ERP Manager
5 1 (4.167%) Credit Risk Project Manager
5 1 (4.167%) ERP Project Manager
5 1 (4.167%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
5 1 (4.167%) Senior Manager
5 1 (4.167%) Delivery Project Manager
5 1 (4.167%) Services Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.333%) Smartphone
1 2 (8.333%) Credit Risk
1 2 (8.333%) Social Media
2 1 (4.167%) Data Conversion
2 1 (4.167%) EPoS
2 1 (4.167%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) PRINCE2
2 2 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (8.333%) Data Analysis
2 2 (8.333%) Software Engineering
2 2 (8.333%) ITIL
2 2 (8.333%) Market Research
2 2 (8.333%) PRINCE
3 1 (4.167%) Configuration Management
3 1 (4.167%) Service Management
3 1 (4.167%) Service Delivery
3 1 (4.167%) Change Management
3 1 (4.167%) Migration
3 1 (4.167%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (4.167%) TDD
3 1 (4.167%) Problem Management
3 1 (4.167%) B2B
3 1 (4.167%) OO
3 1 (4.167%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) C#
2 1 (4.167%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.167%) PHP
2 1 (4.167%) Python
2 1 (4.167%) CoffeeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.167%) Degree
1 1 (4.167%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (4.167%) Security Cleared
1 1 (4.167%) APMP
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (4.167%) Cisco