London MS Project Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Project skills within the London region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Project over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Project
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Beckenham Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Corsham Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Salford Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weymouth Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witney Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	82	76
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	647	1004
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.854 %	1.000 %
As % of the category below	16.79 %	18.86 %
Daily rates quoted	333	417
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£358
Average daily rate	£371	£376
% change on same period last year	-1.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£392	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£326
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.25	£20.18
Average hourly rate	£29.82	£21.27
% change on same period last year	+40.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.39	£22.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.06	£25.87
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Applications London
Matching contract IT job ads	3853	5323
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.085 %	5.301 %
Daily rates quoted	1542	1878
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£343
Average daily rate	£342	£362
% change on same period last year	-5.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£284
% change on same period last year	+4.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	468	612
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.61	£19.18
Average hourly rate	£20.10	£20.51
% change on same period last year	-2.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.58	£21.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.61	£19.30
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
MS Project England

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.

MS Project
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Project across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

MS Project
Daily Rate Trend

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

MS Project
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the London region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

MS Project
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Project
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the London region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Project within the London region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
City of London	0	156	£374	-0.48 %
Docklands, London	+27	30	£329	-14.90 %
Hammersmith	-	10	£418	-
Canary Wharf	+7	9	£317	-23.49 %
Uxbridge	-11	5	£450	-
Hounslow	+2	3	£220	-
Croydon	+2	2	£269	-
Feltham	-2	1	-	-
Beckenham	-	1	-	-
New Malden	-	1	-	-
Surbiton	-	1	£285	-
Southwark	-	1	-	-
Westminster	-	1	£160	-

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MS Project
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing MS Project 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 MS Project.

1 493 (38.49 %) PRINCE2 2 487 (38.02 %) Project Management 3 453 (35.36 %) MS Excel 4 393 (30.68 %) Finance 5 338 (26.39 %) Microsoft 6 316 (24.67 %) MS Office 7 245 (19.13 %) MS Visio 8 241 (18.81 %) Banking 9 195 (15.22 %) MS PowerPoint 10 161 (12.57 %) Investment Banking 11 153 (11.94 %) Project Planning 12 138 (10.77 %) Government 13 117 (9.133 %) SQL 14 110 (8.587 %) Oracle 15 106 (8.275 %) RUP

16 102 (7.963 %) Programme Management 17 96 (7.494 %) Business Analysis 18 89 (6.948 %) Windows 19 86 (6.714 %) Security Cleared 20 83 (6.479 %) XML 21 80 (6.245 %) PRINCE2 Certification 22 73 (5.699 %) SharePoint 23 69 (5.386 %) Change Management 24 66 (5.152 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 25 65 (5.074 %) ITIL 26 61 (4.762 %) PRINCE 27 58 (4.528 %) PMI 27 58 (4.528 %) Degree 28 57 (4.450 %) Derivative 29 56 (4.372 %) User Acceptance Testing

MS Project
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing MS Project 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 MS Project. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 83 (6.479 %) XML 2 42 (3.279 %) HTML 3 39 (3.044 %) .NET 4 32 (2.498 %) CSS 5 30 (2.342 %) XSL 6 27 (2.108 %) SOAP 7 23 (1.795 %) WebServices 8 22 (1.717 %) Hibernate 9 21 (1.639 %) JavaBeans 10 19 (1.483 %) ASP 11 17 (1.327 %) ASP.NET 12 14 (1.093 %) WebSphere 13 13 (1.015 %) J2EE 14 11 (0.859 %) XSLT 15 10 (0.781 %) ODBC 15 10 (0.781 %) JSP 16 9 (0.703 %) XHTML 17 8 (0.625 %) Struts 17 8 (0.625 %) EJB 18 7 (0.546 %) JDBC	Application Platforms 1 73 (5.699 %) SharePoint 2 49 (3.825 %) Office Project Server 3 29 (2.264 %) Apache 4 22 (1.717 %) Oracle Application Server 4 22 (1.717 %) Oracle 10gAS 5 18 (1.405 %) IIS 5 18 (1.405 %) Tomcat 6 17 (1.327 %) MS Exchange 7 16 (1.249 %) CMS 8 14 (1.093 %) WebLogic 9 10 (0.781 %) Documentum 10 9 (0.703 %) Lotus Notes 11 7 (0.546 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 6 (0.468 %) Exchange Server 2007 12 6 (0.468 %) SharePoint Server 2007 13 4 (0.312 %) NetWeaver 14 3 (0.234 %) SAS 15 2 (0.156 %) ColdFusion 16 1 (0.078 %) Exchange Server 2000 16 1 (0.078 %) Office Communications Server
Applications 1 453 (35.36 %) MS Excel 2 316 (24.67 %) MS Office 3 245 (19.13 %) MS Visio 4 195 (15.22 %) MS PowerPoint 5 22 (1.717 %) Spreadsheet 6 17 (1.327 %) CA Clarity 7 13 (1.015 %) Open Workbench 8 12 (0.937 %) Photoshop 9 3 (0.234 %) Acrobat 10 2 (0.156 %) Fireworks 10 2 (0.156 %) Paint Shop Pro 10 2 (0.156 %) DeltaView 11 1 (0.078 %) AutoCAD	Business Applications 1 11 (0.859 %) Hyperion Enterprise 1 11 (0.859 %) HFM 2 10 (0.781 %) Salerio 3 9 (0.703 %) Loan IQ 4 7 (0.546 %) Oracle ERP 5 6 (0.468 %) SAP ERP 6 5 (0.390 %) Oracle Financials 7 3 (0.234 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 7 3 (0.234 %) Algo Collateral 7 3 (0.234 %) Temenos Globus 7 3 (0.234 %) Summit 7 3 (0.234 %) Oracle EBS 7 3 (0.234 %) Oracle Applications 7 3 (0.234 %) HiPortfolio 8 2 (0.156 %) WebTrends 8 2 (0.156 %) Singl.eView 8 2 (0.156 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 8 2 (0.156 %) Google Analytics 9 1 (0.078 %) Siebel Analytics 9 1 (0.078 %) Thomson PORTIA
Communications & Networking 1 34 (2.654 %) Internet 2 30 (2.342 %) Intranet 3 26 (2.030 %) TCP/IP 4 20 (1.561 %) SAN 5 10 (0.781 %) DNS 6 9 (0.703 %) Firewall 7 8 (0.625 %) LAN 8 7 (0.546 %) WAN 9 6 (0.468 %) VoIP 9 6 (0.468 %) IIOP 9 6 (0.468 %) IP Telephony 10 5 (0.390 %) BSS 10 5 (0.390 %) MPLS 11 4 (0.312 %) VPN 11 4 (0.312 %) DHCP 11 4 (0.312 %) LLU 12 3 (0.234 %) HTTP 13 2 (0.156 %) SSL 13 2 (0.156 %) Extranet 13 2 (0.156 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 38 (2.966 %) SQL Server 2 31 (2.420 %) Oracle 10g 3 23 (1.795 %) TOAD 4 21 (1.639 %) SQL Server 2005 5 17 (1.327 %) MS Access 6 15 (1.171 %) MySQL 6 15 (1.171 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 11 (0.859 %) Reference Data 7 11 (0.859 %) Oracle 9i 7 11 (0.859 %) Oracle Reports 7 11 (0.859 %) Datawarehouse 8 10 (0.781 %) SAP BW 8 10 (0.781 %) SQL Server 2000 9 9 (0.703 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 10 7 (0.546 %) Data Cleansing 10 7 (0.546 %) ETL 11 6 (0.468 %) RDBMS 12 5 (0.390 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 12 5 (0.390 %) OLAP 12 5 (0.390 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 48 (3.747 %) RequisitePro 2 47 (3.669 %) Rational Rose 3 28 (2.186 %) TestDirector 4 26 (2.030 %) ClearQuest 5 21 (1.639 %) JUnit 6 17 (1.327 %) Flash 7 15 (1.171 %) ClearCase 8 9 (0.703 %) Eclipse 9 7 (0.546 %) Bugzilla 9 7 (0.546 %) Visual Studio 10 6 (0.468 %) PowerBuilder 10 6 (0.468 %) WebLogic Workshop 10 6 (0.468 %) JIRA 11 5 (0.390 %) Subversion 11 5 (0.390 %) Rational Robot 11 5 (0.390 %) LoadRunner 12 4 (0.312 %) Dreamweaver 13 3 (0.234 %) Telelogic DOORS 14 2 (0.156 %) PVCS 14 2 (0.156 %) Ant	General 1 393 (30.68 %) Finance 2 241 (18.81 %) Banking 3 161 (12.57 %) Investment Banking 4 138 (10.77 %) Government 5 43 (3.357 %) Insurance 6 33 (2.576 %) Health 7 30 (2.342 %) Front Office 8 29 (2.264 %) Back Office 8 29 (2.264 %) Financial Institution 8 29 (2.264 %) Telecoms 8 29 (2.264 %) Retail 9 20 (1.561 %) Education 10 19 (1.483 %) Marketing 11 16 (1.249 %) Criminal Justice 11 16 (1.249 %) Construction 12 14 (1.093 %) Retail Banking 13 12 (0.937 %) Publishing 13 12 (0.937 %) Local Government 14 10 (0.781 %) Billing 15 9 (0.703 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 359 (28.02 %) Project Manager 2 262 (20.45 %) Analyst 3 116 (9.055 %) Business Analyst 4 70 (5.464 %) Coordinator 5 66 (5.152 %) Project Planner 6 59 (4.606 %) Administrator 7 49 (3.825 %) Project Coordinator 8 46 (3.591 %) PMO Analyst 9 45 (3.513 %) Project Analyst 10 44 (3.435 %) Project Officer 11 43 (3.357 %) Consultant 11 43 (3.357 %) Programme Manager 12 37 (2.888 %) Developer 13 36 (2.810 %) Junior 14 33 (2.576 %) Project Administrator 15 32 (2.498 %) Project Support Officer 16 30 (2.342 %) Support Analyst 17 26 (2.030 %) Programme Planner 18 25 (1.952 %) Junior Project Manager 19 23 (1.795 %) Technical Manager	Miscellaneous 1 58 (4.528 %) PMI 2 57 (4.450 %) Derivative 3 53 (4.137 %) Fixed Income 4 23 (1.795 %) Interest Rate Derivative 5 22 (1.717 %) Management Information System 6 19 (1.483 %) NHS 7 17 (1.327 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 8 14 (1.093 %) Web 2.0 9 13 (1.015 %) Equities 10 12 (0.937 %) W3C 11 9 (0.703 %) Credit Derivative 12 8 (0.625 %) Credit Risk 13 7 (0.546 %) Clustering 14 6 (0.468 %) French Language 14 6 (0.468 %) German Language 14 6 (0.468 %) Equity Derivative 15 5 (0.390 %) Statistics 16 4 (0.312 %) Client/Server 17 3 (0.234 %) Market Risk 17 3 (0.234 %) Mathematics
Operating Systems 1 89 (6.948 %) Windows 2 23 (1.795 %) Linux 3 22 (1.717 %) UNIX 4 20 (1.561 %) Windows XP 5 17 (1.327 %) Windows Server 2003 6 16 (1.249 %) Windows Vista 7 9 (0.703 %) Windows 2000 8 5 (0.390 %) Red Hat Linux 8 5 (0.390 %) Solaris 9 4 (0.312 %) AIX 9 4 (0.312 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 3 (0.234 %) Windows Server 2008 10 3 (0.234 %) HPUX 11 2 (0.156 %) Mac OS X 11 2 (0.156 %) VMS 12 1 (0.078 %) Windows Mobile 12 1 (0.078 %) pSOS 12 1 (0.078 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 493 (38.49 %) PRINCE2 2 487 (38.02 %) Project Management 3 153 (11.94 %) Project Planning 4 106 (8.275 %) RUP 5 102 (7.963 %) Programme Management 6 96 (7.494 %) Business Analysis 7 86 (6.714 %) Security Cleared 8 69 (5.386 %) Change Management 9 65 (5.074 %) ITIL 10 61 (4.762 %) PRINCE 11 56 (4.372 %) User Acceptance Testing 12 54 (4.215 %) UML 13 52 (4.059 %) Risk Management 14 49 (3.825 %) OO 15 48 (3.747 %) Migration 16 43 (3.357 %) SC Cleared 17 38 (2.966 %) OOA/OOD 17 38 (2.966 %) ERP 18 37 (2.888 %) Asset Management 19 35 (2.732 %) Use Case
Programming Languages 1 117 (9.133 %) SQL 2 55 (4.294 %) Java 3 40 (3.123 %) JavaScript 4 32 (2.498 %) PL/SQL 5 30 (2.342 %) VB 6 22 (1.717 %) VBA 6 22 (1.717 %) C 7 19 (1.483 %) C# 8 16 (1.249 %) PHP 9 15 (1.171 %) VB6 10 14 (1.093 %) C++ 11 11 (0.859 %) VB.NET 12 10 (0.781 %) Perl 13 4 (0.312 %) Transact-SQL 13 4 (0.312 %) PHP5 13 4 (0.312 %) PHP4 14 3 (0.234 %) VBScript 14 3 (0.234 %) JCL 14 3 (0.234 %) Shell Script 15 2 (0.156 %) Tcl	Qualifications 1 80 (6.245 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 66 (5.152 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 58 (4.528 %) Degree 4 35 (2.732 %) PMI Certification 5 29 (2.264 %) PMP 6 11 (0.859 %) CIMA 6 11 (0.859 %) ACCA 6 11 (0.859 %) Microsoft Certification 7 10 (0.781 %) ISEB 8 9 (0.703 %) MCSE 8 9 (0.703 %) ITIL Certification 9 4 (0.312 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 10 3 (0.234 %) ISEB Practitioner 10 3 (0.234 %) Cisco Certification 11 2 (0.156 %) CCNA 11 2 (0.156 %) MCSA 12 1 (0.078 %) CISA 12 1 (0.078 %) CCDA 12 1 (0.078 %) CCNP 12 1 (0.078 %) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 33 (2.576 %) QA 2 26 (2.030 %) ISO9001 3 10 (0.781 %) Basel II 4 5 (0.390 %) ISO27001 5 4 (0.312 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 6 2 (0.156 %) SLA 6 2 (0.156 %) ISO9000 7 1 (0.078 %) BS7799	System Software 1 11 (0.859 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 9 (0.703 %) Active Directory 3 2 (0.156 %) Terminal Services 3 2 (0.156 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 4 1 (0.078 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 1 (0.078 %) SAP ITS 4 1 (0.078 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 6 (0.468 %) Tivoli 2 3 (0.234 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 2 (0.156 %) MOM 3 2 (0.156 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 1 (0.078 %) Tivoli Monitoring 4 1 (0.078 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 338 (26.39 %) Microsoft 2 110 (8.587 %) Oracle 3 52 (4.059 %) IBM 4 50 (3.903 %) SAP 5 24 (1.874 %) Altova 6 22 (1.717 %) Planview 7 19 (1.483 %) Primavera 8 17 (1.327 %) Niku 8 17 (1.327 %) HP 9 13 (1.015 %) VMware 9 13 (1.015 %) Actuate 10 12 (0.937 %) CA 10 12 (0.937 %) Citrix 11 11 (0.859 %) Macromedia 11 11 (0.859 %) Hyperion 12 10 (0.781 %) GoldenSource 13 9 (0.703 %) Remedy 13 9 (0.703 %) Lotus 14 8 (0.625 %) Cisco 14 8 (0.625 %) Chordiant