Midlands Business Project Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Business Project Manager role in IT contracts within the Midlands 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 Business Project Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Project Manager
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire City of London Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Farnborough Hampshire Hertfordshire Jersey Lancashire Leeds London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Redditch Rickmansworth Scotland Shropshire Solihull South East South Wales South West Southampton Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	72	79
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	3	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.240 %	0.349 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£500	£250
Average daily rate	£500	£275
% change on same period last year	+81.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£459	£413
% change on same period last year	+11.19 %
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	-	£57.50
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1248	1718
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.663 %	1.738 %
Daily rates quoted	256	287
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£375
Average daily rate	£388	£398
% change on same period last year	-2.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£414	£420
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	50	109
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.01	£30.46
Average hourly rate	£24.03	£31.49
% change on same period last year	-23.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.06	£32.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Business Project Manager England

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.

Business Project Manager
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Project Manager across the Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Business Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

Business Project Manager
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region that cited Business 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 Business Project Manager in their job title.

1 3 (23.08 %) Degree 1 3 (23.08 %) Change Management 1 3 (23.08 %) Release Management 2 2 (15.38 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (7.692 %) Insurance 3 1 (7.692 %) Matrix Management 3 1 (7.692 %) MS Visio 3 1 (7.692 %) Project Management 3 1 (7.692 %) Electric 3 1 (7.692 %) Government 3 1 (7.692 %) Stakeholder Management 3 1 (7.692 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner

Business Project Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region that cited Business 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 Business Project Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (7.692 %) MS Visio	General 1 1 (7.692 %) Electric 1 1 (7.692 %) Government 1 1 (7.692 %) Insurance
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (23.08 %) Change Management 1 3 (23.08 %) Release Management 2 2 (15.38 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (7.692 %) Project Management 3 1 (7.692 %) Stakeholder Management 3 1 (7.692 %) Matrix Management	Qualifications 1 3 (23.08 %) Degree 2 1 (7.692 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner