The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term PMI in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PMI over the 3 months to 22 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Merseyside 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing PMI 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside - - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £400 £350
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £43.75 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+59.09% -21.42%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
39 73 73
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 18.14% 27.34% 29.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 26 33
Average daily rate £250 £300 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £260 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £478 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 24 18
Average hourly rate £11.96 £17.51 £13.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.69% +28.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.37 £11.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.43 £25.00 £25.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
PMI
North West

PMI
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PMI across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Merseyside PMI Jobs Demand Trend

PMI
Daily Rate Trend

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

Merseyside PMI Daily Rate Trend

PMI
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing PMI 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 PMI.

1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) APMP

PMI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing PMI 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 PMI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Development Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Software Development Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Software Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (50.00%) APMP