Manchester Project Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Management skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Project Management over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Amersham Andover Argyll and Bute Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Billingham Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Conwy Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Erskine Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenwich Guernsey Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewisham Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Musselburgh Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rhyl Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	18
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	87	64
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.115 %	0.067 %
As % of the category below	12.50 %	14.13 %
Daily rates quoted	23	22
Average minimum daily rate	£373	£354
Average daily rate	£387	£380
% change on same period last year	+1.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£401	£406
UK excluding London average daily rate	£397	£383
% change on same period last year	+3.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.91	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£14.59	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-58.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.27	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.23	£29.52
% change on same period last year	-7.74 %
Processes & Methodologies Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	696	453
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.918 %	0.474 %
Daily rates quoted	149	113
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£338
Average daily rate	£350	£358
% change on same period last year	-2.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	86	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.76	£21.87
Average hourly rate	£23.36	£23.83
% change on same period last year	-1.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.96	£25.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.33
% change on same period last year	-3.28 %
Project Management 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.

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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 Manchester 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 Manchester region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Management across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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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 Manchester region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Management across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Project Management within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 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	-	5	-	-
Wigan	-	2	-	-
Cheadle	-	2	£420	-
Stockport	+1	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 64 (37.21 %) Finance 2 50 (29.07 %) PRINCE2 3 32 (18.60 %) MS Project 4 29 (16.86 %) MS Excel 5 19 (11.05 %) Microsoft 6 17 (9.884 %) ITIL 6 17 (9.884 %) Banking 7 15 (8.721 %) Stakeholder Management 8 14 (8.140 %) Risk Management 9 13 (7.558 %) MS Office 10 12 (6.977 %) SAP 10 12 (6.977 %) Oracle 10 12 (6.977 %) MS PowerPoint 10 12 (6.977 %) Degree 11 11 (6.395 %) Project Planning

11 11 (6.395 %) Retail 12 10 (5.814 %) Migration 12 10 (5.814 %) Windows 12 10 (5.814 %) Marketing 13 9 (5.233 %) SQL 13 9 (5.233 %) PMI 13 9 (5.233 %) PRINCE2 Certification 14 8 (4.651 %) ClearQuest 14 8 (4.651 %) NHS 14 8 (4.651 %) SQL Server 14 8 (4.651 %) Insurance 14 8 (4.651 %) Matrix Management 15 7 (4.070 %) ISEB 15 7 (4.070 %) Change Management 15 7 (4.070 %) Telecoms

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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.

Application Development 1 3 (1.744 %) Middleware 2 2 (1.163 %) .NET 3 1 (0.581 %) WebSphere 3 1 (0.581 %) HTML 3 1 (0.581 %) CSS 3 1 (0.581 %) XML 3 1 (0.581 %) XSLT 3 1 (0.581 %) EDI	Application Platforms 1 4 (2.326 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (0.581 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 1 (0.581 %) Office Project Server 2 1 (0.581 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (0.581 %) Gentran 2 1 (0.581 %) WebSphere Message Broker 2 1 (0.581 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (0.581 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 32 (18.60 %) MS Project 2 29 (16.86 %) MS Excel 3 13 (7.558 %) MS Office 4 12 (6.977 %) MS PowerPoint 5 3 (1.744 %) CA Clarity 6 1 (0.581 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 4 (2.326 %) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking 1 3 (1.744 %) WAN 2 2 (1.163 %) Wi-Fi 2 2 (1.163 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (1.163 %) ATM 2 2 (1.163 %) GSM 2 2 (1.163 %) SAN 2 2 (1.163 %) 3G 2 2 (1.163 %) RNC 3 1 (0.581 %) Network Security 3 1 (0.581 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.581 %) Internet 3 1 (0.581 %) Extranet 3 1 (0.581 %) LAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (4.651 %) SQL Server 2 6 (3.488 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (1.744 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 3 (1.744 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 3 (1.744 %) Datawarehouse 4 2 (1.163 %) OLAP 4 2 (1.163 %) EDRMS 4 2 (1.163 %) EDMS 4 2 (1.163 %) FileMaker 4 2 (1.163 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (1.163 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 4 2 (1.163 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 1 (0.581 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (0.581 %) MS Access 5 1 (0.581 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 8 (4.651 %) ClearQuest	General 1 64 (37.21 %) Finance 2 17 (9.884 %) Banking 3 11 (6.395 %) Retail 4 10 (5.814 %) Marketing 5 8 (4.651 %) Insurance 6 7 (4.070 %) Telecoms 7 6 (3.488 %) Education 8 5 (2.907 %) Local Government 8 5 (2.907 %) Government 9 4 (2.326 %) Pharmaceutical 9 4 (2.326 %) Health 9 4 (2.326 %) Legal 9 4 (2.326 %) Electronics 10 3 (1.744 %) Retail Banking 10 3 (1.744 %) Back Office 11 2 (1.163 %) General Ledger 12 1 (0.581 %) Pensions 12 1 (0.581 %) Electric 12 1 (0.581 %) Construction 12 1 (0.581 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 86 (50.00 %) Project Manager 2 18 (10.47 %) Analyst 3 12 (6.977 %) Infrastructure Manager 4 11 (6.395 %) Business Analyst 5 10 (5.814 %) Consultant 6 9 (5.233 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 7 7 (4.070 %) Technical Manager 7 7 (4.070 %) Administrator 8 6 (3.488 %) Delivery Manager 9 5 (2.907 %) Project Officer 9 5 (2.907 %) Business Project Manager 9 5 (2.907 %) Business Manager 9 5 (2.907 %) Service Manager 9 5 (2.907 %) Project Coordinator 9 5 (2.907 %) Coordinator 10 4 (2.326 %) Junior 10 4 (2.326 %) Developer 10 4 (2.326 %) Junior Project Manager 10 4 (2.326 %) Project Support Officer 10 4 (2.326 %) PMO Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 9 (5.233 %) PMI 2 8 (4.651 %) NHS 3 3 (1.744 %) E-Learning 4 1 (0.581 %) Credit Risk 4 1 (0.581 %) Tandem 4 1 (0.581 %) Client/Server 4 1 (0.581 %) Management Information System 4 1 (0.581 %) Clustering 4 1 (0.581 %) Mainframe 4 1 (0.581 %) Smartcard 4 1 (0.581 %) NPfIT
Operating Systems 1 10 (5.814 %) Windows 2 4 (2.326 %) Unix 3 1 (0.581 %) AIX 3 1 (0.581 %) HPUX 3 1 (0.581 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 50 (29.07 %) PRINCE2 2 17 (9.884 %) ITIL 3 15 (8.721 %) Stakeholder Management 4 14 (8.140 %) Risk Management 5 11 (6.395 %) Project Planning 6 10 (5.814 %) Migration 7 8 (4.651 %) Matrix Management 8 7 (4.070 %) Change Management 9 6 (3.488 %) PRINCE 9 6 (3.488 %) Resource Management 10 5 (2.907 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 5 (2.907 %) CRM 11 3 (1.744 %) Risk Analysis 11 3 (1.744 %) Business Analysis 11 3 (1.744 %) Logistics 11 3 (1.744 %) Integration Testing 11 3 (1.744 %) Data Migration 11 3 (1.744 %) Release Management 11 3 (1.744 %) Service Management 12 2 (1.163 %) BPR
Programming Languages 1 9 (5.233 %) SQL 2 4 (2.326 %) Java 3 3 (1.744 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (0.581 %) C# 4 1 (0.581 %) VB 4 1 (0.581 %) ActionScript 4 1 (0.581 %) JavaScript 4 1 (0.581 %) Perl 4 1 (0.581 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 12 (6.977 %) Degree 2 9 (5.233 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 7 (4.070 %) ISEB 4 4 (2.326 %) ITIL Certification 5 3 (1.744 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 5 3 (1.744 %) Microsoft Certification 5 3 (1.744 %) PMP 5 3 (1.744 %) PMI Certification 5 3 (1.744 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (1.744 %) QA 1 3 (1.744 %) SLA	System Software 1 2 (1.163 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 1 (0.581 %) Active Directory 2 1 (0.581 %) VMware ESX
Vendors 1 19 (11.05 %) Microsoft 2 12 (6.977 %) SAP 2 12 (6.977 %) Oracle 3 4 (2.326 %) Lotus 4 3 (1.744 %) Citrix 5 2 (1.163 %) HP 5 2 (1.163 %) VMware 5 2 (1.163 %) Cisco 6 1 (0.581 %) SeeBeyond 6 1 (0.581 %) Lawson 6 1 (0.581 %) Avaya 6 1 (0.581 %) Novell 6 1 (0.581 %) Macromedia 6 1 (0.581 %) Brio 6 1 (0.581 %) Primavera