Manchester MS Project Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Project skills within the Manchester 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Project
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corsham Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead 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 Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset 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 Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weymouth Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Witney Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	48	50
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	33	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	18.75 %	12.50 %
Daily rates quoted	9	9
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£272
Average daily rate	£371	£290
% change on same period last year	+27.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£326
% change on same period last year	+1.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.00	£8.50
Average hourly rate	£12.50	£9.00
% change on same period last year	+38.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.00	£9.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.34	£24.03
% change on same period last year	+5.46 %
Applications Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	176	144
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.235 %	0.146 %
Daily rates quoted	22	22
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£206
Average daily rate	£313	£224
% change on same period last year	+39.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£243
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£285
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	48	47
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.76	£12.49
Average hourly rate	£14.70	£13.51
% change on same period last year	+8.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.64	£14.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.01	£18.99
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
MS Project North West

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 Manchester 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 Manchester region.

MS Project
Daily Rate Histogram

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

MS Project
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

MS Project
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 Manchester 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.

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
Salford	+1	5	-	-

MS Project North West

MS Project
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 33 (52.38 %) Project Management 2 32 (50.79 %) PRINCE2 3 31 (49.21 %) MS Excel 4 17 (26.98 %) Microsoft 4 17 (26.98 %) MS Office 5 14 (22.22 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 13 (20.63 %) Finance 6 13 (20.63 %) MS PowerPoint 7 10 (15.87 %) Banking 8 8 (12.70 %) ClearQuest 8 8 (12.70 %) SAP 9 5 (7.937 %) PRINCE 9 5 (7.937 %) Project Planning 10 4 (6.349 %) Resource Management 11 3 (4.762 %) Change Management

11 3 (4.762 %) Insurance 11 3 (4.762 %) Local Government 11 3 (4.762 %) Telecoms 11 3 (4.762 %) Government 11 3 (4.762 %) Stakeholder Management 12 2 (3.175 %) Programme Management 12 2 (3.175 %) Health 12 2 (3.175 %) Logistics 12 2 (3.175 %) EDRMS 12 2 (3.175 %) EDMS 12 2 (3.175 %) NHS 12 2 (3.175 %) Adobe 12 2 (3.175 %) ITIL 12 2 (3.175 %) MS Visio 13 1 (1.587 %) Citrix

MS Project
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 1 (1.587 %) HTML 1 1 (1.587 %) CSS 1 1 (1.587 %) XML 1 1 (1.587 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.587 %) SharePoint 1 1 (1.587 %) Office Project Server
Applications 1 31 (49.21 %) MS Excel 2 17 (26.98 %) MS Office 3 13 (20.63 %) MS PowerPoint 4 2 (3.175 %) MS Visio	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (3.175 %) EDRMS 1 2 (3.175 %) EDMS
Development Applications 1 8 (12.70 %) ClearQuest	General 1 13 (20.63 %) Finance 2 10 (15.87 %) Banking 3 3 (4.762 %) Insurance 3 3 (4.762 %) Local Government 3 3 (4.762 %) Telecoms 3 3 (4.762 %) Government 4 2 (3.175 %) Health 5 1 (1.587 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 28 (44.44 %) Project Manager 2 8 (12.70 %) Programme Manager 3 5 (7.937 %) Project Planner 3 5 (7.937 %) Project Coordinator 3 5 (7.937 %) Coordinator 4 4 (6.349 %) PMO Administrator 4 4 (6.349 %) PMO Assistant 4 4 (6.349 %) Analyst 4 4 (6.349 %) Administrator 5 3 (4.762 %) Project Support Officer 5 3 (4.762 %) Business Project Manager 5 3 (4.762 %) Business Manager 5 3 (4.762 %) Project Officer 6 2 (3.175 %) Report Analyst 6 2 (3.175 %) Business Analyst 7 1 (1.587 %) Senior Project Manager 7 1 (1.587 %) Technical Project Manager 7 1 (1.587 %) Senior Manager 7 1 (1.587 %) Senior Business Manager 7 1 (1.587 %) Programme Planner	Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.175 %) NHS
Processes & Methodologies 1 33 (52.38 %) Project Management 2 32 (50.79 %) PRINCE2 3 5 (7.937 %) PRINCE 3 5 (7.937 %) Project Planning 4 4 (6.349 %) Resource Management 5 3 (4.762 %) Change Management 5 3 (4.762 %) Stakeholder Management 6 2 (3.175 %) Programme Management 6 2 (3.175 %) ITIL 6 2 (3.175 %) Logistics 7 1 (1.587 %) Time Management 7 1 (1.587 %) Security Cleared 7 1 (1.587 %) E-Commerce 7 1 (1.587 %) Content Management 7 1 (1.587 %) Risk Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (1.587 %) Java 1 1 (1.587 %) JavaScript 1 1 (1.587 %) Perl 1 1 (1.587 %) ActionScript
Qualifications 1 14 (22.22 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (1.587 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.587 %) QA
Vendors 1 17 (26.98 %) Microsoft 2 8 (12.70 %) SAP 3 2 (3.175 %) Adobe 4 1 (1.587 %) Citrix 4 1 (1.587 %) Primavera 4 1 (1.587 %) Brio