Leicestershire Project Planning Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Planning skills within the Leicestershire 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 Planning over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Project Planning
Location Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Witham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	36
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	2	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	1.190 %	1.093 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£375
Average daily rate	-	£425
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£475
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£349
% change on same period last year	-5.41 %
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	£23.36	£30.65
% change on same period last year	-23.79 %
Processes & Methodologies Leicestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	168	183
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.224 %	0.185 %
Daily rates quoted	48	46
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£355
Average daily rate	£338	£382
% change on same period last year	-11.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£410
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.38	£17.15
Average hourly rate	£22.21	£18.54
% change on same period last year	+19.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.04	£19.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Project Planning East Midlands

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.

Project Planning
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Project Planning across the Leicestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Project Planning
Daily Rate Trend

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

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Project Planning
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire region citing Project Planning 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 Planning.

1 8 (100.00 %) PRINCE2 2 6 (75.00 %) Project Management 3 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 3 3 (37.50 %) MS Project 3 3 (37.50 %) Data Analysis 3 3 (37.50 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 2 (25.00 %) Programme Management 4 2 (25.00 %) Resource Management 4 2 (25.00 %) Change Management 4 2 (25.00 %) MS Office 4 2 (25.00 %) ITIL 4 2 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 1 (12.50 %) Quality Management 5 1 (12.50 %) Risk Management 5 1 (12.50 %) Electric

5 1 (12.50 %) Programme Office Management 5 1 (12.50 %) QA 5 1 (12.50 %) Degree

Project Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire region citing Project Planning 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 Planning. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) MS Project 2 2 (25.00 %) MS Office	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Project Planner 2 2 (25.00 %) PMO Manager 2 2 (25.00 %) Project Manager	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (100.00 %) PRINCE2 2 6 (75.00 %) Project Management 3 3 (37.50 %) Data Analysis 4 2 (25.00 %) Resource Management 4 2 (25.00 %) ITIL 4 2 (25.00 %) Programme Management 4 2 (25.00 %) Change Management 5 1 (12.50 %) Risk Management 5 1 (12.50 %) Programme Office Management 5 1 (12.50 %) Quality Management
Qualifications 1 3 (37.50 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 2 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (12.50 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) QA
Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft