M4 Corridor Project Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Project Management skills within the M4 Corridor region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Project Management over the 3 months to 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Amersham Andover Avon Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crowthorne Croydon Cumbria Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Fleetwood Flint Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Ditton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	7
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	3	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	4.545 %	20.55 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£450
Average daily rate	-	£450
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.72 %
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	£29.00	£29.26
% change on same period last year	-0.88 %
Processes & Methodologies M4 Corridor
Matching contract IT job ads	66	73
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.105 %	0.078 %
Daily rates quoted	14	19
Average minimum daily rate	£353	£383
Average daily rate	£387	£395
% change on same period last year	-1.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£421	£407
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£371
% change on same period last year	+2.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£35.00
Average hourly rate	-	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.11	£29.69
% change on same period last year	-5.31 %
Project Management 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Project Management across the M4 Corridor region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Project Management across the M4 Corridor region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor region citing Project Management 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 Project Management.

1 10 (41.67 %) Finance 2 6 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 3 5 (20.83 %) Oracle 3 5 (20.83 %) ERP 4 4 (16.67 %) MS Project 5 3 (12.50 %) MS Office 5 3 (12.50 %) MS Visio 5 3 (12.50 %) Banking 5 3 (12.50 %) Retail 5 3 (12.50 %) Oracle EBS R12 6 2 (8.333 %) Matrix Management 6 2 (8.333 %) Retail Banking 6 2 (8.333 %) SLA 6 2 (8.333 %) SAP 6 2 (8.333 %) Avaya

6 2 (8.333 %) DEFINITY 6 2 (8.333 %) PMI 6 2 (8.333 %) PMP 6 2 (8.333 %) PMI Certification 6 2 (8.333 %) Hyperion 7 1 (4.167 %) JDA 7 1 (4.167 %) Manugistics 7 1 (4.167 %) SAP HR 7 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE 7 1 (4.167 %) Internet 7 1 (4.167 %) EDRMS 7 1 (4.167 %) Six Sigma 7 1 (4.167 %) BCP 7 1 (4.167 %) Benchmarking 7 1 (4.167 %) Niku

Project Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor region citing Project Management 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 Project Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 4 (16.67 %) MS Project 2 3 (12.50 %) MS Office 2 3 (12.50 %) MS Visio 3 1 (4.167 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 3 (12.50 %) Oracle EBS R12 2 1 (4.167 %) Oracle 11i 2 1 (4.167 %) SAP HR 2 1 (4.167 %) Oracle ERP 2 1 (4.167 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 2 (8.333 %) DEFINITY 2 1 (4.167 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.167 %) EDRMS
General 1 10 (41.67 %) Finance 2 3 (12.50 %) Banking 2 3 (12.50 %) Retail 3 2 (8.333 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (4.167 %) Marketing 4 1 (4.167 %) FMCG 4 1 (4.167 %) Telecoms 4 1 (4.167 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 13 (54.17 %) Project Manager 2 3 (12.50 %) Consultant 3 1 (4.167 %) Development Manager 3 1 (4.167 %) Functional Consultant 3 1 (4.167 %) Deployment Manager 3 1 (4.167 %) Project Support Officer 3 1 (4.167 %) SAP Trainer 3 1 (4.167 %) Oracle Consultant 3 1 (4.167 %) Project Office Support 3 1 (4.167 %) Oracle Functional Consultant 3 1 (4.167 %) Financial Business Analyst 3 1 (4.167 %) Project Officer 3 1 (4.167 %) Oracle Development Manager 3 1 (4.167 %) Oracle Project Manager 3 1 (4.167 %) Finance Project Manager 3 1 (4.167 %) ERP Project Manager 3 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 3 1 (4.167 %) Supply Chain Consultant 3 1 (4.167 %) Financial Services Business Analyst 3 1 (4.167 %) Deployment Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) PMI 2 1 (4.167 %) Handset	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 2 5 (20.83 %) ERP 3 2 (8.333 %) Matrix Management 4 1 (4.167 %) ITIL 4 1 (4.167 %) RAD 4 1 (4.167 %) RUP 4 1 (4.167 %) DSDM 4 1 (4.167 %) CRM 4 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE 4 1 (4.167 %) Six Sigma 4 1 (4.167 %) BCP 4 1 (4.167 %) Benchmarking 4 1 (4.167 %) CMMI 4 1 (4.167 %) Change Management 4 1 (4.167 %) Risk Management 4 1 (4.167 %) Migration 4 1 (4.167 %) Stakeholder Management 4 1 (4.167 %) Business Continuity 4 1 (4.167 %) Supply Chain Management
Qualifications 1 2 (8.333 %) PMP 1 2 (8.333 %) PMI Certification 2 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (4.167 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (8.333 %) SLA 2 1 (4.167 %) QA
Vendors 1 5 (20.83 %) Oracle 2 2 (8.333 %) SAP 2 2 (8.333 %) Avaya 2 2 (8.333 %) Hyperion 3 1 (4.167 %) JDA 3 1 (4.167 %) Manugistics 3 1 (4.167 %) Niku 3 1 (4.167 %) Actimize