The first table below looks at the demand for the Project Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Project Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Manchester region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Project Manager
Rank 9 23 13
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 110 80 86
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 11.76% 6.182% 8.113%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.60% 6.711% 8.617%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 42 47
Average daily rate £375 £406 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £276 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £550 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £404 £405
% change year-on-year
-0.92% -0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Average hourly rate £92.50 £92.50 £22.43
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +312.39%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £29.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year
+30.34% -12.12%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
873 1192 998
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 93.37% 92.12% 94.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 582 443
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £225 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 75 78
Average hourly rate £17.00 £18.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.10% +15.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.90 £9.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £82.50 £35.80 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Project Manager
North West

Project Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Project Manager across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Manchester Project Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Project Manager Daily Rate Trend

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Manager across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Manchester Project Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Project Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Project Manager
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Manager within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Salford -2 2 £363 -21.62%
Oldham -5 2 £250 -
Stockport -1 1 £375 -
Project Manager
North West

Project Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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.

1 94 (52.22%) Project Management
2 63 (35.00%) Finance
3 60 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 51 (28.33%) PRINCE2
5 30 (16.67%) Banking
6 28 (15.56%) Retail
7 16 (8.889%) Change Management
7 16 (8.889%) Retail Banking
8 15 (8.333%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 13 (7.222%) Risk Management
10 12 (6.667%) ITIL
10 12 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
11 11 (6.111%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 11 (6.111%) Microsoft
11 11 (6.111%) NHS
12 10 (5.556%) Business Transformation
13 9 (5.000%) Management Information System
13 9 (5.000%) Migration
13 9 (5.000%) E-Commerce
14 8 (4.444%) Windows
14 8 (4.444%) Change Control
14 8 (4.444%) Economics
15 7 (3.889%) Degree
15 7 (3.889%) MS Project
15 7 (3.889%) SAP
15 7 (3.889%) PRINCE
15 7 (3.889%) Internet
15 7 (3.889%) Scrum
15 7 (3.889%) Information Security
16 6 (3.333%) Identity Management

Project Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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.

Application Development
1 3 (1.667%) .NET
2 2 (1.111%) HTML
2 2 (1.111%) CSS
3 1 (0.556%) Web Services
3 1 (0.556%) XML
3 1 (0.556%) XSLT
3 1 (0.556%) J2EE
3 1 (0.556%) Flash
3 1 (0.556%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (2.222%) FileNet
1 4 (2.222%) SharePoint
1 4 (2.222%) Documentum
2 3 (1.667%) SAS
3 1 (0.556%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (3.889%) MS Project
2 3 (1.667%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.111%) MS Office
4 1 (0.556%) Mingle
4 1 (0.556%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.556%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.333%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.111%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.556%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.556%) BPCS
3 1 (0.556%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.556%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.556%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.556%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.556%) SAP PM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.889%) Internet
2 3 (1.667%) FTP
3 2 (1.111%) 3G
4 1 (0.556%) LTE
4 1 (0.556%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.556%) 4G
4 1 (0.556%) GSM
4 1 (0.556%) LAN
4 1 (0.556%) UMTS
4 1 (0.556%) VoIP
4 1 (0.556%) WAN
4 1 (0.556%) MPLS
4 1 (0.556%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.556%) Firewall
4 1 (0.556%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.556%) 2G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.667%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.556%) SQL Server
General
1 63 (35.00%) Finance
2 30 (16.67%) Banking
3 28 (15.56%) Retail
4 16 (8.889%) Retail Banking
5 6 (3.333%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.778%) Legal
7 3 (1.667%) Advertising
8 2 (1.111%) Multimedia
8 2 (1.111%) Games
8 2 (1.111%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.111%) German Language
9 1 (0.556%) Marketing
9 1 (0.556%) Local Government
9 1 (0.556%) Law
9 1 (0.556%) Publishing
9 1 (0.556%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.111%) NHS
2 9 (5.000%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.444%) Economics
4 5 (2.778%) Mainframe
4 5 (2.778%) PMI
5 4 (2.222%) Smartcard
6 3 (1.667%) EMV
7 2 (1.111%) SWIFT
7 2 (1.111%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.556%) Derivative
8 1 (0.556%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.556%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.444%) Windows
2 6 (3.333%) UNIX
3 4 (2.222%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.556%) AIX
4 1 (0.556%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (52.22%) Project Management
2 60 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 51 (28.33%) PRINCE2
4 16 (8.889%) Change Management
5 13 (7.222%) Risk Management
6 12 (6.667%) ITIL
6 12 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
7 10 (5.556%) Business Transformation
8 9 (5.000%) Migration
8 9 (5.000%) E-Commerce
9 8 (4.444%) Change Control
10 7 (3.889%) PRINCE
10 7 (3.889%) Scrum
10 7 (3.889%) Information Security
11 6 (3.333%) Identity Management
11 6 (3.333%) Programme Management
11 6 (3.333%) CRM
11 6 (3.333%) Content Management
12 5 (2.778%) Strategic Planning
12 5 (2.778%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.667%) Java
2 2 (1.111%) PHP
3 1 (0.556%) C#
3 1 (0.556%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.556%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 15 (8.333%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 11 (6.111%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 7 (3.889%) Degree
4 6 (3.333%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.111%) PMP
5 2 (1.111%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (0.556%) APMP
6 1 (0.556%) CGEIT
6 1 (0.556%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.556%) CRISC
6 1 (0.556%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.556%) CCNP
6 1 (0.556%) CCNA
6 1 (0.556%) CISSP
6 1 (0.556%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.556%) CISA
6 1 (0.556%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.667%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.111%) Solvency II
3 1 (0.556%) QA
3 1 (0.556%) Basel III
3 1 (0.556%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (0.556%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 11 (6.111%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.889%) SAP
3 3 (1.667%) Oracle
4 1 (0.556%) RedPrairie
4 1 (0.556%) Cognos
4 1 (0.556%) Siebel
4 1 (0.556%) Novell
4 1 (0.556%) Avaya
4 1 (0.556%) Cisco
4 1 (0.556%) IBM
Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester Contract My client has an exciting opportunity in the North West of England for an interim period of six to nine months. Successful applicant will work with...
Timothy James Consulting Ltd
Posted: 17 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Contract Project Manager ( Novell IDM, Microsoft FIM, Prince 2 ) - Manchester3 Months +£300 - £350 Per Day. Role:My client are a leading Software Solutions provider based in the Greater...
IT Ventures Ltd
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 30 April 2013
Greater Manchester, North West
Project Manager, Senior Project ManagerA large Information Management specialist are looking for a experienced flexible Project Manager to work on multiple projects on a *Ad Hoc* basis.The...
Fulcrum Telecom
Rate: £350 - £400 per month
Posted: 21 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Essential Experience: - Recent in depth experience of XP Desktop Migration/Transformation/Replacement Projects - Significant experience in IT Project Management, with a strong Infrastructure background. (Mainframe, Unix, Windows, Telephony) -...
Rullion IT Plus
Posted: 21 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
We are currently require the services of a Project Manager to work on an Access and Identity Project Manager to work for a well respected Financial Services Client...
Rullion IT Plus
Posted: 21 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Our client is about to undertake a VOIP project that will run for approx... They require an IT contractor with the following experience: - Strong project management/co-ordination...
Solutions Recruitment
Rate: From £15 to £25 per hour
Posted: 22 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Essential: Recent in depth experience of XP Desktop Migration/Transformation/Replacement Projects Significant experience in IT Project Management, with a strong Infrastructure background. (Mainframe, Unix, Windows, Telephony) Commercial...
Rullion IT Plus
Posted: 22 May 2013
Manchester, North West
HR Project Manager - (HR/Retail Banking/Financial Services) - Up to £250.00 per day - Manchester My global financial services client has an urgent requirement for a HR Project...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £200.00 - £250.00 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
HR Project Manager - (HR/Retail Banking/Financial Services) - Up to £250.00 per day - Manchester My global financial services client has an urgent requirement for a HR Project...
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Rate: £200.00 - £250.00 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Business Readiness, MS Dynamics AX2012 , implementation, ERP, UAT, go live, re-engineering, business change, business transformation... An urgent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Project Manager to join...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
BUSINESS CHANGE PROJECT MANAGER. 6 MONTH CONTRACT Manchester My client in the financial sector is looking for two contract business change Project Manager to join their team for...
Harvey Nash plc
Posted: 21 May 2013