Merseyside Project Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Project Manager role in IT contracts within the Merseyside region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Project Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chesham Cheshire Cheshunt Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Crowthorne Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Tyneside North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	15
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	33	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	8.168 %	6.709 %
Daily rates quoted	14	11
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£372
Average daily rate	£390	£393
% change on same period last year	-0.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£422	£415
UK excluding London average daily rate	£411	£406
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
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	£36.30	£36.24
% change on same period last year	+0.16 %
Job Titles Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	404	477
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.571 %	0.483 %
Daily rates quoted	125	119
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£293
Average daily rate	£358	£312
% change on same period last year	+14.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	53	89
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.75	£18.53
Average hourly rate	£21.92	£20.39
% change on same period last year	+7.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.08	£22.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.71	£25.14
% change on same period last year	-5.69 %
Project Manager 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 Manager across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Manager 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 Manager across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 13 October 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 Manager across the Merseyside region.

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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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 13 October 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	26	£388	-2.98 %
St Helens	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 18 (25.35 %) Project Management 2 17 (23.94 %) Government 3 14 (19.72 %) PRINCE2 4 11 (15.49 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 10 (14.08 %) Security Cleared 6 8 (11.27 %) Finance 7 6 (8.451 %) Stakeholder Management 8 5 (7.042 %) Service Delivery 8 5 (7.042 %) PRINCE 8 5 (7.042 %) CTC Cleared 8 5 (7.042 %) Logistics 9 4 (5.634 %) Marketing 9 4 (5.634 %) ISO27001 9 4 (5.634 %) ERP 9 4 (5.634 %) Security Management

10 3 (4.225 %) Process Management 10 3 (4.225 %) Information Security 10 3 (4.225 %) MS Visio 10 3 (4.225 %) LAN 10 3 (4.225 %) WAN 10 3 (4.225 %) Insurance 10 3 (4.225 %) SC Cleared 10 3 (4.225 %) Pensions 11 2 (2.817 %) Online Banking 11 2 (2.817 %) Internet Marketing 11 2 (2.817 %) Business Analysis 11 2 (2.817 %) BC Cleared 11 2 (2.817 %) Internet 11 2 (2.817 %) E-Commerce 11 2 (2.817 %) NHS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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.

Applications 1 3 (4.225 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 3 (4.225 %) LAN 1 3 (4.225 %) WAN 2 2 (2.817 %) Internet 3 1 (1.408 %) Firewall 3 1 (1.408 %) Network Security
General 1 17 (23.94 %) Government 2 8 (11.27 %) Finance 3 4 (5.634 %) Marketing 4 3 (4.225 %) Insurance 4 3 (4.225 %) Pensions 5 2 (2.817 %) Online Banking 5 2 (2.817 %) Education 5 2 (2.817 %) Banking 5 2 (2.817 %) Retail 5 2 (2.817 %) Health 6 1 (1.408 %) Police 6 1 (1.408 %) Home Office 6 1 (1.408 %) Local Government	Miscellaneous 1 2 (2.817 %) NHS 2 1 (1.408 %) Mainframe 2 1 (1.408 %) Blog 2 1 (1.408 %) PMI
Operating Systems 1 1 (1.408 %) UNIX 1 1 (1.408 %) Windows 1 1 (1.408 %) VMS 1 1 (1.408 %) OpenVMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (25.35 %) Project Management 2 14 (19.72 %) PRINCE2 3 10 (14.08 %) Security Cleared 4 6 (8.451 %) Stakeholder Management 5 5 (7.042 %) CTC Cleared 5 5 (7.042 %) PRINCE 5 5 (7.042 %) Service Delivery 5 5 (7.042 %) Logistics 6 4 (5.634 %) Security Management 6 4 (5.634 %) ERP 7 3 (4.225 %) Process Management 7 3 (4.225 %) SC Cleared 7 3 (4.225 %) Information Security 8 2 (2.817 %) Internet Marketing 8 2 (2.817 %) BC Cleared 8 2 (2.817 %) ITIL 8 2 (2.817 %) E-Commerce 8 2 (2.817 %) Change Management 8 2 (2.817 %) Identity Management 8 2 (2.817 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 2 (2.817 %) C 2 1 (1.408 %) SQL 2 1 (1.408 %) VB 2 1 (1.408 %) PowerHouse	Qualifications 1 11 (15.49 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (1.408 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (5.634 %) ISO27001	Systems Management 1 1 (1.408 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 2 (2.817 %) Oracle 1 2 (2.817 %) SAP 2 1 (1.408 %) Citrix