London PMI Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Management Institute (PMI) skills within the London region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PMI over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Project Management Institute (PMI)
Location Altrincham Basildon Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gloucestershire Guildford Hertfordshire Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Lewisham London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Poole Sandwich Scotland South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	315	348
Rank change on same period last year	+33
Matching contract IT job ads	100	95
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.128 %	0.107 %
As % of the category below	1.044 %	0.771 %
Daily rates quoted	45	31
Average minimum daily rate	£455	£509
Average daily rate	£486	£540
% change on same period last year	-9.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£517	£570
UK excluding London average daily rate	£397	£402
% change on same period last year	-1.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.00	-
Average hourly rate	£18.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£42.21	£37.48
% change on same period last year	+12.63 %
Miscellaneous London
Matching contract IT job ads	9582	12316
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	12.29 %	13.84 %
Daily rates quoted	4436	5447
Average minimum daily rate	£484	£500
Average daily rate	£522	£539
% change on same period last year	-3.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£560	£577
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£360
% change on same period last year	+0.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	415	372
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.87	£23.83
Average hourly rate	£25.48	£25.82
% change on same period last year	-1.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.08	£27.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.96	£25.02
% change on same period last year	-4.25 %
PMI 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.

PMI
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing PMI across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

PMI
Daily Rate Trend

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

PMI
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PMI across the London region over the past 3 months.

PMI
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing PMI across the London region.

PMI
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMI within the London region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	City of London	-25	21	£539	-5.15 %
2	Docklands, London	-	6	£500	-
3	Lewisham	-	1	£450	-
3	Canary Wharf	-4	1	£450	-

PMI England

PMI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the London region citing PMI also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing PMI.

1 136 (82.42 %) PRINCE2 2 92 (55.76 %) Project Management 3 75 (45.45 %) PMI Certification 4 57 (34.55 %) Finance 5 54 (32.73 %) Banking 6 45 (27.27 %) PMP 7 42 (25.45 %) MS Project 8 30 (18.18 %) Investment Banking 9 29 (17.58 %) PRINCE 10 22 (13.33 %) MS Excel 11 21 (12.73 %) MS Office 12 20 (12.12 %) ITIL 13 17 (10.30 %) Telecoms 13 17 (10.30 %) Stakeholder Management 13 17 (10.30 %) Project Planning

14 16 (9.697 %) Office Project Server 14 16 (9.697 %) MS PowerPoint 15 15 (9.091 %) Risk Management 16 14 (8.485 %) Microsoft 16 14 (8.485 %) Equities 16 14 (8.485 %) Programme Management 17 13 (7.879 %) Derivative 17 13 (7.879 %) PRINCE2 Certification 18 12 (7.273 %) SharePoint 18 12 (7.273 %) SQL 19 11 (6.667 %) Change Management 19 11 (6.667 %) Retail 20 10 (6.061 %) Asset Management 20 10 (6.061 %) Fixed Income 20 10 (6.061 %) Front Office

PMI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the London region citing PMI also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing PMI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (3.636 %) .NET 1 6 (3.636 %) J2EE 2 1 (0.606 %) JDBC 2 1 (0.606 %) JSP 2 1 (0.606 %) WebServices 2 1 (0.606 %) EDI 2 1 (0.606 %) ebXML 2 1 (0.606 %) Middleware 2 1 (0.606 %) JNDI 2 1 (0.606 %) jBPM 2 1 (0.606 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 16 (9.697 %) Office Project Server 2 12 (7.273 %) SharePoint 3 2 (1.212 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (1.212 %) JBoss 3 2 (1.212 %) CMS 3 2 (1.212 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (0.606 %) LiveLink 4 1 (0.606 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (0.606 %) WorkSite 4 1 (0.606 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (0.606 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 1 (0.606 %) IIS 4 1 (0.606 %) Documentum 4 1 (0.606 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (0.606 %) Commerce Server 4 1 (0.606 %) OpenROAD
Applications 1 42 (25.45 %) MS Project 2 22 (13.33 %) MS Excel 3 21 (12.73 %) MS Office 4 16 (9.697 %) MS PowerPoint 5 6 (3.636 %) MS Visio 6 2 (1.212 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 4 (2.424 %) Capstone 1 4 (2.424 %) Tesseract 1 4 (2.424 %) Minerva 2 1 (0.606 %) Changepoint 2 1 (0.606 %) Microsoft CRM 2 1 (0.606 %) Navision
Communications & Networking 1 3 (1.818 %) WAN 1 3 (1.818 %) Internet 1 3 (1.818 %) Firewall 2 2 (1.212 %) LAN 2 2 (1.212 %) PBX 2 2 (1.212 %) DNS 3 1 (0.606 %) SAN 3 1 (0.606 %) SMTP 3 1 (0.606 %) DHCP 3 1 (0.606 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (0.606 %) VPN 3 1 (0.606 %) WINS 3 1 (0.606 %) BSS 3 1 (0.606 %) 3G 3 1 (0.606 %) DSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (2.424 %) SQL Server 2 3 (1.818 %) BusinessObjects 3 1 (0.606 %) SAP BW 3 1 (0.606 %) QualityStage 3 1 (0.606 %) GIS 3 1 (0.606 %) DB2 3 1 (0.606 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (0.606 %) Ingres 3 1 (0.606 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 1 (0.606 %) ClearQuest	General 1 57 (34.55 %) Finance 2 54 (32.73 %) Banking 3 30 (18.18 %) Investment Banking 4 17 (10.30 %) Telecoms 5 11 (6.667 %) Retail 6 10 (6.061 %) Front Office 7 9 (5.455 %) Health 8 6 (3.636 %) Education 9 5 (3.030 %) Publishing 9 5 (3.030 %) Law 9 5 (3.030 %) Back Office 9 5 (3.030 %) Financial Institution 10 4 (2.424 %) Marketing 11 3 (1.818 %) Government 12 2 (1.212 %) Electric 12 2 (1.212 %) Electronics 12 2 (1.212 %) Retail Banking 13 1 (0.606 %) Legal 13 1 (0.606 %) Advertising 13 1 (0.606 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 104 (63.03 %) Project Manager 2 13 (7.879 %) Analyst 2 13 (7.879 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 2 13 (7.879 %) Technical Project Manager 2 13 (7.879 %) Infrastructure Manager 2 13 (7.879 %) Technical Manager 3 12 (7.273 %) Senior Manager 4 10 (6.061 %) Programme Manager 4 10 (6.061 %) Senior Project Manager 5 9 (5.455 %) PMO Manager 6 7 (4.242 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 7 6 (3.636 %) PMO Analyst 8 5 (3.030 %) Telecoms Project Manager 8 5 (3.030 %) Business Manager 8 5 (3.030 %) Coordinator 8 5 (3.030 %) Consultant 9 4 (2.424 %) Project Analyst 9 4 (2.424 %) Project Officer 10 3 (1.818 %) Senior Programme Manager 10 3 (1.818 %) IT Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 14 (8.485 %) Equities 2 13 (7.879 %) Derivative 3 10 (6.061 %) Fixed Income 3 10 (6.061 %) Asset Management 4 5 (3.030 %) Equity Derivative 5 4 (2.424 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 3 (1.818 %) Credit Derivative 7 2 (1.212 %) IVR 7 2 (1.212 %) NHS 7 2 (1.212 %) Video Conferencing 7 2 (1.212 %) Interest Rate Derivative 8 1 (0.606 %) Mainframe 8 1 (0.606 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 5 (3.030 %) Unix 2 3 (1.818 %) Windows 3 2 (1.212 %) AIX 3 2 (1.212 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (0.606 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (0.606 %) HPUX 4 1 (0.606 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 136 (82.42 %) PRINCE2 2 92 (55.76 %) Project Management 3 29 (17.58 %) PRINCE 4 20 (12.12 %) ITIL 5 17 (10.30 %) Stakeholder Management 5 17 (10.30 %) Project Planning 6 15 (9.091 %) Risk Management 7 14 (8.485 %) Programme Management 8 11 (6.667 %) Change Management 9 7 (4.242 %) Resource Management 10 6 (3.636 %) Time Management 10 6 (3.636 %) Migration 10 6 (3.636 %) Configuration Management 10 6 (3.636 %) RUP 10 6 (3.636 %) E-Commerce 11 5 (3.030 %) Matrix Management 12 4 (2.424 %) Knowledge Management 12 4 (2.424 %) Risk Assessment 12 4 (2.424 %) Workflow 13 3 (1.818 %) Service Delivery
Programming Languages 1 12 (7.273 %) SQL 2 7 (4.242 %) PL/SQL 3 3 (1.818 %) Java 4 2 (1.212 %) C 5 1 (0.606 %) C# 5 1 (0.606 %) C++ 5 1 (0.606 %) Perl 5 1 (0.606 %) Shell Script 5 1 (0.606 %) Lingo	Qualifications 1 75 (45.45 %) PMI Certification 2 45 (27.27 %) PMP 3 13 (7.879 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 8 (4.848 %) Degree 5 6 (3.636 %) CAPM 6 4 (2.424 %) Microsoft Certification 6 4 (2.424 %) MCSE 7 3 (1.818 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 8 2 (1.212 %) ISEB 8 2 (1.212 %) HND 9 1 (0.606 %) MCP 9 1 (0.606 %) ITIL Certification 9 1 (0.606 %) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (4.242 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 4 (2.424 %) QA 3 2 (1.212 %) SLA 4 1 (0.606 %) ISO9000 4 1 (0.606 %) Basel II	System Software 1 1 (0.606 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (0.606 %) MOM 1 1 (0.606 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 14 (8.485 %) Microsoft 2 10 (6.061 %) Oracle 3 7 (4.242 %) Informatica 4 4 (2.424 %) HP 4 4 (2.424 %) Remedy 4 4 (2.424 %) LatentZero 5 3 (1.818 %) Business Objects 5 3 (1.818 %) SAP 5 3 (1.818 %) Siebel 5 3 (1.818 %) BMC 6 2 (1.212 %) Hyperion 6 2 (1.212 %) Cognos 6 2 (1.212 %) EMC 6 2 (1.212 %) Avaya 7 1 (0.606 %) Altiris 7 1 (0.606 %) Tandberg 7 1 (0.606 %) Niku 7 1 (0.606 %) Metastorm 7 1 (0.606 %) Open Text 7 1 (0.606 %) Teradata