Merseyside Project Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Management skills within the Merseyside 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	12	18
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	31	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	13.90 %	14.02 %
Daily rates quoted	12	3
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£358
Average daily rate	£350	£387
% change on same period last year	-9.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£417
UK excluding London average daily rate	£397	£383
% change on same period last year	+3.72 %
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	£27.23	£29.52
% change on same period last year	-7.74 %
Processes & Methodologies Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	223	107
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.294 %	0.112 %
Daily rates quoted	64	29
Average minimum daily rate	£365	£310
Average daily rate	£386	£334
% change on same period last year	+15.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£406	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.22	£17.23
Average hourly rate	£19.26	£19.50
% change on same period last year	-1.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.30	£21.77
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 Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

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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 Merseyside 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
Liverpool	-3	16	£364	-10.49 %
Prescot	-	6	£290	-
Wirral	-	2	£400	-
Southport	-6	2	£265	-24.28 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 19 (35.19 %) PRINCE2 2 8 (14.81 %) Stakeholder Management 3 7 (12.96 %) Government 3 7 (12.96 %) Pensions 4 6 (11.11 %) Business Analysis 4 6 (11.11 %) Retail 4 6 (11.11 %) ITIL 4 6 (11.11 %) MS Project 5 5 (9.259 %) PRINCE 6 4 (7.407 %) Marketing 6 4 (7.407 %) Risk Analysis 6 4 (7.407 %) Finance 6 4 (7.407 %) Service Delivery 6 4 (7.407 %) Change Management 6 4 (7.407 %) PRINCE2 Certification

6 4 (7.407 %) ITIL Certification 7 3 (5.556 %) E-Commerce 7 3 (5.556 %) MS Office 7 3 (5.556 %) Oracle 7 3 (5.556 %) Java 7 3 (5.556 %) Service Management 7 3 (5.556 %) Internet 7 3 (5.556 %) Project Planning 7 3 (5.556 %) Degree 7 3 (5.556 %) Systems Analysis 7 3 (5.556 %) Insurance 8 2 (3.704 %) Programme Management 8 2 (3.704 %) Strategic Planning 8 2 (3.704 %) Security Cleared 8 2 (3.704 %) Process Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 1 (1.852 %) ActiveX 1 1 (1.852 %) .NET 1 1 (1.852 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.852 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (1.852 %) SharePoint Server 2007 1 1 (1.852 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 6 (11.11 %) MS Project 2 3 (5.556 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 3 (5.556 %) Internet 2 2 (3.704 %) Firewall 2 2 (3.704 %) LAN 2 2 (3.704 %) WAN 3 1 (1.852 %) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.852 %) TOAD 1 1 (1.852 %) MS Access 1 1 (1.852 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 1 (1.852 %) Flash
General 1 7 (12.96 %) Government 1 7 (12.96 %) Pensions 2 6 (11.11 %) Retail 3 4 (7.407 %) Marketing 3 4 (7.407 %) Finance 4 3 (5.556 %) Insurance 5 2 (3.704 %) Education 5 2 (3.704 %) Home Office 6 1 (1.852 %) Electric 6 1 (1.852 %) Automotive 6 1 (1.852 %) Electronics 6 1 (1.852 %) Local Government 6 1 (1.852 %) Online Banking 6 1 (1.852 %) Law 6 1 (1.852 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (1.852 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 23 (42.59 %) Project Manager 2 9 (16.67 %) Analyst 3 6 (11.11 %) Business Analyst 4 5 (9.259 %) Coordinator 4 5 (9.259 %) Programme Manager 4 5 (9.259 %) Project Coordinator 5 4 (7.407 %) Project Administrator 5 4 (7.407 %) Change Manager 5 4 (7.407 %) Administrator 6 3 (5.556 %) Junior 6 3 (5.556 %) Business Manager 6 3 (5.556 %) Business Change Manager 6 3 (5.556 %) Service Manager 6 3 (5.556 %) Junior Project Manager 6 3 (5.556 %) Project Analyst 7 2 (3.704 %) Delivery Manager 7 2 (3.704 %) Programme Office Manager 7 2 (3.704 %) Services Delivery Manager 7 2 (3.704 %) Senior Project Manager 7 2 (3.704 %) Process Manager
Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.852 %) Management Information System 1 1 (1.852 %) Blog	Operating Systems 1 2 (3.704 %) AIX 2 1 (1.852 %) Windows 2 1 (1.852 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (35.19 %) PRINCE2 2 8 (14.81 %) Stakeholder Management 3 6 (11.11 %) Business Analysis 3 6 (11.11 %) ITIL 4 5 (9.259 %) PRINCE 5 4 (7.407 %) Risk Analysis 5 4 (7.407 %) Service Delivery 5 4 (7.407 %) Change Management 6 3 (5.556 %) E-Commerce 6 3 (5.556 %) Service Management 6 3 (5.556 %) Project Planning 6 3 (5.556 %) Systems Analysis 7 2 (3.704 %) Programme Management 7 2 (3.704 %) Strategic Planning 7 2 (3.704 %) Security Cleared 7 2 (3.704 %) Process Management 7 2 (3.704 %) E-Procurement 8 1 (1.852 %) ERP 8 1 (1.852 %) UML 8 1 (1.852 %) OO	Programming Languages 1 3 (5.556 %) Java 2 2 (3.704 %) C 3 1 (1.852 %) C# 3 1 (1.852 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 4 (7.407 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 4 (7.407 %) ITIL Certification 2 3 (5.556 %) Degree 3 1 (1.852 %) PMP 3 1 (1.852 %) PMI Certification 3 1 (1.852 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (1.852 %) MAPM	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.852 %) QA
Vendors 1 3 (5.556 %) Oracle 2 2 (3.704 %) Microsoft 3 1 (1.852 %) Dell 3 1 (1.852 %) EMC 3 1 (1.852 %) Cisco