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This section looks at the demand for the Project Manager role in IT contracts within the London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Project Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkProject Manager
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank1417
Rank change on same period last yearUp+3
Matching contract IT job ads29063412
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled3.873 %3.452 %
As % of the category below9.797 %8.022 %
Daily rates quoted14321481
Average minimum daily rate£454£447
Average daily rate£484£479
% change on same period last year+1.09 %
Average maximum daily rate£515£511
UK excluding London average daily rate£414£405
% change on same period last year+2.11 %
Hourly rates quoted3248
Average minimum hourly rate£38.14£38.41
Average hourly rate£40.53£41.44
% change on same period last year-2.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate£42.93£44.47
UK excluding London average hourly rate£34.41£35.50
% change on same period last year-3.05 %
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
London
Matching contract IT job ads2966342535
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled39.54 %43.03 %
Daily rates quoted1254115833
Average minimum daily rate£408£426
Average daily rate£438£455
% change on same period last year-3.65 %
Average maximum daily rate£468£484
UK excluding London average daily rate£357£353
% change on same period last year+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted15762120
Average minimum hourly rate£22.67£24.40
Average hourly rate£24.26£26.14
% change on same period last year-7.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate£25.85£27.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.51£25.99
% change on same period last year-9.54 %
Project Manager EnglandProject Manager
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.

Project Manager
Demand Trend

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

London Project Manager Demand Trend

Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Project Manager Daily Rate Trend

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Manager across the London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

London Project Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Project Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Manager across the London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

London Project Manager Hourly Rate Histogram

Project Manager
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Manager within the London region over the 3 months to 25 July 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.

LocationRank 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 LondonUp+7668£534+1.74 %
Docklands, LondonUp+10125£513-11.21 %
Canary WharfUp+1242£469-11.54 %
UxbridgeNo change013£496+47.08 %
CroydonDown-111£405+13.06 %
HammersmithUp+38£384-
BrentfordUp+26£413-1.78 %
Kingston Upon ThamesUp+35£483-
WestminsterUp+45£388-11.93 %
FelthamDown-54£408-18.33 %
LutonUp+174£500+73.91 %
HayesNew entry-3--
SurbitonNew entry-3£382-
RomfordNew entry-2--
RuislipNew entry-1--
GreenfordNew entry-1--
PaddingtonNew entry-1£250-
HounslowDown-41--
Project Manager EnglandProject Manager
England

Project Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited 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 Project Manager in their job title.

12269 (37.89 %)Project Management
21884 (31.46 %)PRINCE2
31523 (25.43 %)Finance
41273 (21.26 %)Banking
5704 (11.76 %)Investment Banking
6551 (9.202 %)Government
7512 (8.550 %)PRINCE2 Certification
8493 (8.233 %)Stakeholder Management
9379 (6.329 %)MS Project
10369 (6.162 %)Retail
11364 (6.079 %)Derivative
12357 (5.962 %)Change Management
13348 (5.812 %)Migration
14310 (5.177 %)Security Cleared
15297 (4.960 %)Front Office
16285 (4.760 %)Oracle
17280 (4.676 %)Business Analysis
18278 (4.643 %)PRINCE
19262 (4.375 %)Asset Management
20253 (4.225 %)Insurance
21246 (4.108 %)Back Office
22239 (3.991 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
23235 (3.925 %)Risk Management
23235 (3.925 %)ITIL
24230 (3.841 %)Microsoft
25216 (3.607 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
26215 (3.591 %)Fixed Income
27212 (3.540 %)Project Planning
28207 (3.457 %)SAP
29192 (3.206 %)Telecoms

Project Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited 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 Project Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1172 (2.872 %).NET
297 (1.620 %)XML
375 (1.253 %)HTML
469 (1.152 %)J2EE
556 (0.935 %)CSS
638 (0.635 %)ASP.NET
737 (0.618 %)XSL
826 (0.434 %)SOAP
826 (0.434 %)Middleware
826 (0.434 %)WebSphere
920 (0.334 %)Hibernate
920 (0.334 %)WebServices
1019 (0.317 %)JavaBeans
1112 (0.200 %)XSLT
1112 (0.200 %)ASP
1112 (0.200 %)JSP
1112 (0.200 %)SAP XI
1112 (0.200 %)AJAX
1211 (0.184 %).NET Framework
1211 (0.184 %)XHTML
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1116 (1.937 %)CMS
2102 (1.703 %)SharePoint
337 (0.618 %)MS Exchange
431 (0.518 %)Documentum
530 (0.501 %)IIS
624 (0.401 %)SharePoint Server 2007
723 (0.384 %)Exchange Server 2007
822 (0.367 %)Apache
920 (0.334 %)Oracle Application Server
1019 (0.317 %)Oracle 10gAS
1117 (0.284 %)Tomcat
1216 (0.267 %)Exchange Server 2003
1314 (0.234 %)Office Project Server
1314 (0.234 %)Exchange Server 2000
1412 (0.200 %)SAS
1412 (0.200 %)ColdFusion
158 (0.134 %)BizTalk Server
167 (0.117 %)WebSphere Application Server
167 (0.117 %)Rhythmyx
176 (0.100 %)LiveLink
London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1379 (6.329 %)MS Project
2168 (2.806 %)MS Excel
3155 (2.589 %)MS Office
4117 (1.954 %)MS Visio
572 (1.202 %)MS PowerPoint
617 (0.284 %)Photoshop
715 (0.251 %)CA Clarity
810 (0.167 %)Spreadsheet
93 (0.050 %)Fireworks
101 (0.017 %)AutoCAD
101 (0.017 %)MATLAB
101 (0.017 %)Shockwave
101 (0.017 %)Acrobat
101 (0.017 %)InfoPath
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
144 (0.735 %)Summit
226 (0.434 %)PeopleSoft HRMS
324 (0.401 %)SAP ERP
422 (0.367 %)Oracle ERP
519 (0.317 %)Oracle Financials
618 (0.301 %)Capstone
717 (0.284 %)SAP HR
816 (0.267 %)RMDS
915 (0.251 %)HiPortfolio
1013 (0.217 %)Microsoft CRM
1013 (0.217 %)Loan IQ
1112 (0.200 %)Minerva
1112 (0.200 %)Oracle Applications
1112 (0.200 %)SAP CRM
1211 (0.184 %)Tesseract
1211 (0.184 %)SAP Oil and Gas
139 (0.150 %)SAP FI
148 (0.134 %)Sentinel
148 (0.134 %)FRONT ARENA
157 (0.117 %)PeopleSoft Financials
London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1175 (2.923 %)Internet
292 (1.536 %)Intranet
383 (1.386 %)WAN
468 (1.136 %)LAN
556 (0.935 %)SAN
642 (0.701 %)Firewall
735 (0.585 %)VoIP
821 (0.351 %)TCP/IP
918 (0.301 %)MPLS
1017 (0.284 %)Extranet
1115 (0.251 %)Broadband
1214 (0.234 %)Wireless
1214 (0.234 %)IP Telephony
1313 (0.217 %)Cisco IPT
1412 (0.200 %)PBX
1412 (0.200 %)VPN
1511 (0.184 %)HTTP
1610 (0.167 %)Wi-Fi
1610 (0.167 %)3G
1610 (0.167 %)DWDM
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
172 (1.202 %)SQL Server
271 (1.186 %)Datawarehouse
349 (0.818 %)BusinessObjects
349 (0.818 %)Reference Data
445 (0.752 %)Oracle 10g
537 (0.618 %)EDRMS
622 (0.367 %)ETL
720 (0.334 %)MS Access
819 (0.317 %)Oracle 8/8i
918 (0.301 %)RDBMS
1016 (0.267 %)SQL Server 2005
1115 (0.251 %)MySQL
1214 (0.234 %)Oracle 9i
1214 (0.234 %)BusinessObjects XI
1313 (0.217 %)Oracle Reports
1411 (0.184 %)GIS
1510 (0.167 %)Data Cleansing
169 (0.150 %)SQL Server 2000
169 (0.150 %)Oracle Discoverer
178 (0.134 %)TOAD
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
143 (0.718 %)Flash
241 (0.685 %)Rational Rose
333 (0.551 %)RequisitePro
419 (0.317 %)JUnit
514 (0.234 %)Eclipse
514 (0.234 %)TestDirector
67 (0.117 %)PowerBuilder
76 (0.100 %)ERwin
76 (0.100 %)ClearQuest
84 (0.067 %)Dreamweaver
93 (0.050 %)Visual Studio
102 (0.033 %)ClearCase
102 (0.033 %)LoadRunner
102 (0.033 %)FrontPage
111 (0.017 %)Oracle APEX
111 (0.017 %)Synon
111 (0.017 %)WebSpeed
111 (0.017 %)Telelogic DOORS
111 (0.017 %)WinRunner
111 (0.017 %)Ant
London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
11523 (25.43 %)Finance
21273 (21.26 %)Banking
3704 (11.76 %)Investment Banking
4551 (9.202 %)Government
5369 (6.162 %)Retail
6297 (4.960 %)Front Office
7253 (4.225 %)Insurance
8246 (4.108 %)Back Office
9192 (3.206 %)Telecoms
10164 (2.739 %)Marketing
11135 (2.255 %)Retail Banking
12129 (2.154 %)Health
13108 (1.804 %)Legal
1496 (1.603 %)Financial Institution
1584 (1.403 %)Publishing
1663 (1.052 %)Criminal Justice
1758 (0.969 %)Law
1854 (0.902 %)Construction
1950 (0.835 %)Local Government
2045 (0.752 %)Education
London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1364 (6.079 %)Derivative
2216 (3.607 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3215 (3.591 %)Fixed Income
4183 (3.056 %)NHS
5141 (2.355 %)Equities
6117 (1.954 %)PMI
781 (1.353 %)Interest Rate Derivative
879 (1.319 %)Credit Risk
977 (1.286 %)Equity Derivative
1064 (1.069 %)Credit Derivative
1151 (0.852 %)Management Information System
1247 (0.785 %)Market Risk
1334 (0.568 %)French Language
1427 (0.451 %)Web 2.0
1520 (0.334 %)German Language
1520 (0.334 %)E-Learning
1618 (0.301 %)EPoS
1717 (0.284 %)Computer Science
1717 (0.284 %)Taxonomies
1717 (0.284 %)Interactive TV
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1132 (2.204 %)Windows
2131 (2.188 %)UNIX
358 (0.969 %)Linux
424 (0.401 %)Solaris
521 (0.351 %)Windows Server 2003
617 (0.284 %)AIX
617 (0.284 %)Windows NT
714 (0.234 %)Windows 2000
86 (0.100 %)Windows XP
86 (0.100 %)HPUX
93 (0.050 %)Windows Vista
102 (0.033 %)Symbian OS
102 (0.033 %)SUSE
102 (0.033 %)NetWare
102 (0.033 %)Mac OS X
111 (0.017 %)MVS
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
12269 (37.89 %)Project Management
21884 (31.46 %)PRINCE2
3493 (8.233 %)Stakeholder Management
4357 (5.962 %)Change Management
5348 (5.812 %)Migration
6310 (5.177 %)Security Cleared
7280 (4.676 %)Business Analysis
8278 (4.643 %)PRINCE
9262 (4.375 %)Asset Management
10235 (3.925 %)Risk Management
10235 (3.925 %)ITIL
11212 (3.540 %)Project Planning
12182 (3.039 %)E-Commerce
13148 (2.472 %)CRM
14130 (2.171 %)ERP
15126 (2.104 %)SC Cleared
16121 (2.021 %)Investment Management
17120 (2.004 %)Programme Management
18111 (1.854 %)RUP
19107 (1.787 %)Agile Software Development
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1176 (2.939 %)Java
2163 (2.722 %)SQL
384 (1.403 %)C
465 (1.086 %)C#
560 (1.002 %)C++
644 (0.735 %)PL/SQL
743 (0.718 %)JavaScript
831 (0.518 %)PHP
921 (0.351 %)Perl
1019 (0.317 %)VB
1115 (0.251 %)VBA
129 (0.150 %)Python
129 (0.150 %)VB.NET
137 (0.117 %)VB6
145 (0.084 %)PowerHouse
154 (0.067 %)Transact-SQL
163 (0.050 %)ActionScript
163 (0.050 %)JCL
163 (0.050 %)Korn
172 (0.033 %)PHP5
London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1512 (8.550 %)PRINCE2 Certification
2239 (3.991 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
3157 (2.622 %)Degree
495 (1.587 %)PMI Certification
584 (1.403 %)PMP
642 (0.701 %)ITIL Certification
727 (0.451 %)Cisco Certification
821 (0.351 %)Microsoft Certification
919 (0.317 %)MCSE
1018 (0.301 %)ISEB
1114 (0.234 %)CCNP
1212 (0.200 %)CIMA
1311 (0.184 %)ACCA
149 (0.150 %)CCIE
158 (0.134 %)CCNA
165 (0.084 %)MBA
165 (0.084 %)CCSA
174 (0.067 %)CIPD
183 (0.050 %)MAPM
183 (0.050 %)MCSA
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
184 (1.403 %)QA
242 (0.701 %)Basel II
338 (0.635 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
424 (0.401 %)SLA
521 (0.351 %)ISO9001
68 (0.134 %)ISO27001
76 (0.100 %)IAS 39
85 (0.084 %)ISO8583
85 (0.084 %)PCI DSS
93 (0.050 %)MiFID
93 (0.050 %)CESG Infosec
93 (0.050 %)21 CFR Part 11
93 (0.050 %)GAMP
101 (0.017 %)ISO9000
101 (0.017 %)ISO17799
101 (0.017 %)BS15000
101 (0.017 %)COBIT
London IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
133 (0.551 %)Active Directory
228 (0.468 %)VMware Infrastructure
36 (0.100 %)Citrix Presentation Server
36 (0.100 %)ISA Server
45 (0.084 %)NetBackup
53 (0.050 %)VMware ESX
61 (0.017 %)Oracle RAC
London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
17 (0.117 %)AssetCenter
26 (0.100 %)Tivoli
35 (0.084 %)MOM
44 (0.067 %)SCCM
53 (0.050 %)SCOM
53 (0.050 %)OVSD
53 (0.050 %)OpenView
62 (0.033 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
62 (0.033 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
62 (0.033 %)BMC PATROL
62 (0.033 %)MIIS
62 (0.033 %)EMC NetWorker
71 (0.017 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
71 (0.017 %)HP Data Protector
71 (0.017 %)ZENworks
71 (0.017 %)Netcool
71 (0.017 %)Legato
London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1285 (4.760 %)Oracle
2230 (3.841 %)Microsoft
3207 (3.457 %)SAP
495 (1.587 %)Cisco
556 (0.935 %)IBM
654 (0.902 %)Citrix
753 (0.885 %)Sybase
849 (0.818 %)Business Objects
946 (0.768 %)HP
946 (0.768 %)VMware
1043 (0.718 %)PeopleSoft
1137 (0.618 %)Siebel
1233 (0.551 %)Calypso
1331 (0.518 %)Sun
1430 (0.501 %)Informatica
1430 (0.501 %)LatentZero
1430 (0.501 %)Altova
1528 (0.468 %)Murex
1626 (0.434 %)EMC
1722 (0.367 %)GoldenSource
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