The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Project Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IT Project Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Project Manager
Rank 265 324 315
Rank change year-on-year
+59 -9
Contract jobs requiring an IT Project Manager 116 91 128
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.536% 0.338% 0.412%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.582% 0.365% 0.445%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 59 93
Average daily rate £500 £450 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £275 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £620 £650 £645
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £380 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.63% +1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £40.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.75 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+27.77% -10.00%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19942 24907 28750
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.08% 92.46% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13399 16045 18461
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 624 677
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
IT Project Manager
England

IT Project Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing IT Project Manager across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London IT Project Manager Jobs Demand Trend

IT Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

London IT Project Manager Daily Rate Trend

IT Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IT Project Manager across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London IT Project Manager Daily Rate Histogram

IT Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London IT Project Manager Hourly Rate Trend

IT Project Manager
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Project Manager within the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
City of London +23 34 £500 -13.04%
Canary Wharf +4 6 £330 -
Ealing - 1 £325 -
IT Project Manager
England

IT Project Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited IT 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 IT Project Manager in their job title.

1 122 (62.24%) Project Management
2 87 (44.39%) PRINCE2
3 77 (39.29%) Finance
4 46 (23.47%) Banking
5 36 (18.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 26 (13.27%) Investment Banking
7 25 (12.76%) PMI Certification
8 22 (11.22%) Degree
9 20 (10.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 18 (9.184%) ITIL
10 18 (9.184%) Risk Management
11 17 (8.673%) MS Excel
11 17 (8.673%) PMP
12 16 (8.163%) Legal
13 15 (7.653%) Front Office
13 15 (7.653%) PRINCE
13 15 (7.653%) MS Office
14 14 (7.143%) Microsoft
14 14 (7.143%) Change Management
14 14 (7.143%) Project Planning
14 14 (7.143%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 13 (6.633%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 13 (6.633%) Agile Software Development
15 13 (6.633%) PMI
15 13 (6.633%) MS Project
15 13 (6.633%) Java
16 11 (5.612%) SQL
16 11 (5.612%) Waterfall
17 9 (4.592%) NHS
18 8 (4.082%) Management Information System

IT Project Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited IT 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 IT Project Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (3.061%) .NET
1 6 (3.061%) WebSphere
2 3 (1.531%) COM
3 2 (1.020%) ASP.NET
3 2 (1.020%) XML
3 2 (1.020%) J2EE
4 1 (0.510%) MapReduce
4 1 (0.510%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 7 (3.571%) MS Exchange
2 6 (3.061%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.020%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (1.020%) CMS
3 2 (1.020%) Lotus Notes
3 2 (1.020%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.510%) Exchange Server 2000
4 1 (0.510%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.510%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 17 (8.673%) MS Excel
2 15 (7.653%) MS Office
3 13 (6.633%) MS Project
4 6 (3.061%) MS PowerPoint
5 4 (2.041%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.510%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.020%) Endur
1 2 (1.020%) LatentZero
2 1 (0.510%) SAP FI-GL
2 1 (0.510%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.510%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.510%) SAP FI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.571%) WAN
2 6 (3.061%) HTTP
2 6 (3.061%) LAN
2 6 (3.061%) Network Security
3 5 (2.551%) Internet
4 3 (1.531%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.020%) Wireless
5 2 (1.020%) Firewall
5 2 (1.020%) FTP
6 1 (0.510%) 4G
6 1 (0.510%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.510%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.510%) LTE
6 1 (0.510%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.510%) BSS
6 1 (0.510%) Broadband
6 1 (0.510%) VoIP
6 1 (0.510%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.020%) MS Access
1 2 (1.020%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.510%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.510%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (0.510%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.510%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.510%) MarkLogic
2 1 (0.510%) Big Data
General
1 77 (39.29%) Finance
2 46 (23.47%) Banking
3 26 (13.27%) Investment Banking
4 16 (8.163%) Legal
5 15 (7.653%) Front Office
6 8 (4.082%) Law
6 8 (4.082%) Retail
7 7 (3.571%) Corporate Banking
7 7 (3.571%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.551%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.531%) French Language
9 3 (1.531%) General Ledger
9 3 (1.531%) Advertising
9 3 (1.531%) Back Office
10 2 (1.020%) Billing
10 2 (1.020%) Local Government
11 1 (0.510%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.510%) German Language
11 1 (0.510%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.510%) Polish Language
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.633%) PMI
2 9 (4.592%) NHS
3 8 (4.082%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.571%) FMCG
4 7 (3.571%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.041%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.531%) Derivative
7 2 (1.020%) Equities
7 2 (1.020%) Computer Science
7 2 (1.020%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.020%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.020%) Open Source
8 1 (0.510%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.510%) SWIFT
8 1 (0.510%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.510%) Data Conversion
8 1 (0.510%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.510%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.510%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.510%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.571%) UNIX
2 6 (3.061%) Windows
3 4 (2.041%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.510%) Solaris
4 1 (0.510%) Linux
4 1 (0.510%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (62.24%) Project Management
2 87 (44.39%) PRINCE2
3 36 (18.37%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (9.184%) ITIL
4 18 (9.184%) Risk Management
5 15 (7.653%) PRINCE
6 14 (7.143%) Change Management
6 14 (7.143%) Project Planning
6 14 (7.143%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 13 (6.633%) Agile Software Development
8 11 (5.612%) Waterfall
9 8 (4.082%) Migration
9 8 (4.082%) Matrix Management
10 7 (3.571%) Logistics
10 7 (3.571%) Business Analysis
10 7 (3.571%) Scrum
11 6 (3.061%) Asset Management
12 5 (2.551%) Identity Management
13 4 (2.041%) Service Delivery
13 4 (2.041%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.633%) Java
2 11 (5.612%) SQL
3 7 (3.571%) C#
4 4 (2.041%) C
5 3 (1.531%) Scala
5 3 (1.531%) Python
6 2 (1.020%) VBA
7 1 (0.510%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.510%) VBScript
7 1 (0.510%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 25 (12.76%) PMI Certification
2 22 (11.22%) Degree
3 20 (10.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 17 (8.673%) PMP
5 13 (6.633%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 6 (3.061%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.551%) CAPM
8 3 (1.531%) Security Cleared
8 3 (1.531%) ISEB
9 2 (1.020%) MBA
9 2 (1.020%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.020%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.510%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.061%) QA
2 3 (1.531%) HL7
3 2 (1.020%) EFQM
3 2 (1.020%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.510%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.510%) COBIT
System Software
1 1 (0.510%) XenApp
1 1 (0.510%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.510%) CA SiteMinder
Vendors
1 14 (7.143%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.082%) IBM
3 7 (3.571%) Oracle
4 6 (3.061%) Citrix
5 5 (2.551%) Fundtech
5 5 (2.551%) Informatica
6 3 (1.531%) Cisco
6 3 (1.531%) Cerner
6 3 (1.531%) Twitter
7 2 (1.020%) Hyperion
7 2 (1.020%) Lotus
7 2 (1.020%) OpenLink
7 2 (1.020%) PeopleSoft
7 2 (1.020%) Actimize
7 2 (1.020%) thinkFolio
8 1 (0.510%) 3PAR
8 1 (0.510%) Pega
8 1 (0.510%) Microgen
8 1 (0.510%) GoldenSource
8 1 (0.510%) SAP
London
As the IT Project Manager you will take the responsibility for IT investigative work to seek effective and best practice business solutions and manage all types of business...
Complete Tech Limited
Rate: From £450 to £550 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
City of London
The successful candidate will provide hands on project management for a portfolio of business-critical major projects, within the Brazil front to back remediation programme... - Project management experience...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £600 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
My client has an urgent requirement for an experienced. IT Project Manager to be a part of a key change programme. Skills Required Experience running Technology Projects within...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £65000.00 - £70000.00 per annum + Healthcare and Bonuses
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
A leading Investment Bank are seeking to hire an experienced IT PM with recent delivery on the Finrep/Corep regulations. The successful candidate would have a strong background...
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £600 - £650 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City of London
Skills and Experience required:- - Product Control - SDLC -Investment banking - Prince 2 qualified - Agile - Scrum - Sprint - Waterfall This role is for an experienced IT PROJECT MANAGER within investment banking.
Huxley Associates
Rate: £550 - £600 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
Our client an NHS Trust based in London are currently looking to recruit a Integrated Care IT Project manager.We are Looking for highly motivated Project manager to...
E-Resourcing
Rate: £280 - £300 per day
Posted: 1 May 2013
London
My client, a Tier 1 Bank in London is looking for a project manager to join their team for a rolling 6 month contract in London.
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £700 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
GSA Techsource are currently recruiting for a NHS Project Manager to deliver an Integrated Care IT system in London-The candidate must be able to start immediately with...
GSA Techsource
Rate: GBP250 to GBP300 per day
Posted: 1 May 2013
London
The best suited IT Project Manager for the role will have experience working in a financial services environment before. They must have strong technical knowledge of secure payment...
Annapurna HR
Rate: £400.00 - £500.00 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
The best suited IT Project Manager for the role will have experience working in a financial services environment before. They must have strong technical knowledge of secure payment...
Annapurna
Rate: £400.00 - £500.00 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City of London
Our client is one of the world's largest Energy Production & Energy Trading companies, trading on Gas, LNG, Power & Carbon is looking for an IT Project Manager for...
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
The successful candidate will be very familiar with industry standard methods and will have worked with industry standard processes relating to change management and governance such as Prince2...
ComputAppoint
Rate: £350 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
My Client delivers Market-leading software solutions to the banks global foreign exchange Business. There is now an opening for the FX IT Project manager to come in...
Real Staffing
Rate: £600 - £700 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013