M4 Corridor Programme Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Programme Manager role in IT contracts within the M4 Corridor 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 Programme Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Programme Manager
Location Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon Darlington Devon Docklands, London Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Hove Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Salford Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	21
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	3	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	2.941 %	0.565 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£545	£512
% change on same period last year	+6.47 %
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	-	£31.75
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles M4 Corridor
Matching contract IT job ads	102	177
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.162 %	0.188 %
Daily rates quoted	21	50
Average minimum daily rate	£415	£378
Average daily rate	£448	£400
% change on same period last year	+12.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£481	£421
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.33	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£20.00	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-50.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.67	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.14	£24.11
% change on same period last year	-4.03 %
Programme Manager South East

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.

Programme Manager
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Programme Manager across the M4 Corridor region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Programme Manager
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Programme Manager across the M4 Corridor region.

Programme Manager
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor region that cited Programme 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 Programme Manager in their job title.

1 5 (71.43 %) PRINCE2 2 4 (57.14 %) Finance 3 1 (14.29 %) Retail 3 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (14.29 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (14.29 %) Programme Management 3 1 (14.29 %) SAP 3 1 (14.29 %) ITIL 3 1 (14.29 %) ITIL Certification 3 1 (14.29 %) Six Sigma 3 1 (14.29 %) Niku 3 1 (14.29 %) Project Management 3 1 (14.29 %) Quality Management 3 1 (14.29 %) Risk Management

Programme Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor region that cited Programme 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 Programme Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 4 (57.14 %) Finance 2 1 (14.29 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (14.29 %) Retail	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (71.43 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (14.29 %) Six Sigma 2 1 (14.29 %) Project Management 2 1 (14.29 %) Quality Management 2 1 (14.29 %) Risk Management 2 1 (14.29 %) Programme Management 2 1 (14.29 %) ITIL
Qualifications 1 1 (14.29 %) ITIL Certification 1 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Vendors 1 1 (14.29 %) SAP 1 1 (14.29 %) Niku