Midlands Project Manager Contracts

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

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Argyll and Bute Avon Aylesbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Denbigh Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Ipswich Jersey Johnstone Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Tyneside North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rhyl Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Ruislip Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	8	8
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	147	158
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.196 %	0.160 %
As % of the category below	11.78 %	9.197 %
Daily rates quoted	39	31
Average minimum daily rate	£398	£376
Average daily rate	£414	£400
% change on same period last year	+3.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£429	£423
UK excluding London average daily rate	£414	£405
% change on same period last year	+2.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.60	£34.63
Average hourly rate	£33.50	£35.31
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.40	£36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.41	£35.50
% change on same period last year	-3.05 %
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 %
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.

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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 Midlands 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 Midlands 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 Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 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 Manager across the Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Manager across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 86 (31.85 %) PRINCE2 2 84 (31.11 %) Project Management 3 50 (18.52 %) Finance 4 35 (12.96 %) NHS 5 29 (10.74 %) Stakeholder Management 6 26 (9.630 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 24 (8.889 %) SAP 8 21 (7.778 %) Migration 9 16 (5.926 %) Insurance 9 16 (5.926 %) MS Project 10 15 (5.556 %) Health 10 15 (5.556 %) Change Management 11 14 (5.185 %) Retail 12 13 (4.815 %) Pensions 13 11 (4.074 %) Government

14 10 (3.704 %) Security Cleared 14 10 (3.704 %) PMI 15 9 (3.333 %) Oracle 15 9 (3.333 %) CRM 15 9 (3.333 %) PRINCE 15 9 (3.333 %) Business Analysis 16 8 (2.963 %) Degree 16 8 (2.963 %) SC Cleared 16 8 (2.963 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 16 8 (2.963 %) Telecoms 17 7 (2.593 %) Risk Management 17 7 (2.593 %) ITIL 17 7 (2.593 %) PMI Certification 17 7 (2.593 %) Data Migration 17 7 (2.593 %) Project Planning

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 5 (1.852 %) WebSphere 2 3 (1.111 %) .NET 3 2 (0.741 %) J2EE 4 1 (0.370 %) Middleware 4 1 (0.370 %) SAP Basis 4 1 (0.370 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 4 (1.481 %) CICS 2 1 (0.370 %) NetWeaver 2 1 (0.370 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 1 (0.370 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (0.370 %) SharePoint 2 1 (0.370 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 16 (5.926 %) MS Project 2 6 (2.222 %) MS Office 3 5 (1.852 %) MS Visio 4 2 (0.741 %) ArcView 4 2 (0.741 %) MS Excel 5 1 (0.370 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 3 (1.111 %) SAP FI 1 3 (1.111 %) MAXIMO 2 2 (0.741 %) SAP FI/CO 2 2 (0.741 %) SAP CRM 2 2 (0.741 %) Oracle Financials 2 2 (0.741 %) SAP CO 2 2 (0.741 %) SAP HR 3 1 (0.370 %) SAP PM 3 1 (0.370 %) ResourceLink 3 1 (0.370 %) Navision 3 1 (0.370 %) SAP Payroll 3 1 (0.370 %) SAP MDM 3 1 (0.370 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 5 (1.852 %) SAN 2 4 (1.481 %) WAN 3 2 (0.741 %) LAN 3 2 (0.741 %) PPP 3 2 (0.741 %) TETRA 4 1 (0.370 %) VPN 4 1 (0.370 %) SSL 4 1 (0.370 %) ATM 4 1 (0.370 %) SMTP 4 1 (0.370 %) HTTP 4 1 (0.370 %) Intranet 4 1 (0.370 %) MPLS 4 1 (0.370 %) Firewall 4 1 (0.370 %) Frame Relay	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (1.111 %) BusinessObjects 2 2 (0.741 %) SAP BW 2 2 (0.741 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (0.370 %) EDRMS 3 1 (0.370 %) GIS 3 1 (0.370 %) BusinessObjects XI
General 1 50 (18.52 %) Finance 2 16 (5.926 %) Insurance 3 15 (5.556 %) Health 4 14 (5.185 %) Retail 5 13 (4.815 %) Pensions 6 11 (4.074 %) Government 7 8 (2.963 %) Telecoms 8 7 (2.593 %) Banking 9 6 (2.222 %) Education 9 6 (2.222 %) Back Office 10 4 (1.481 %) Construction 10 4 (1.481 %) Manufacturing 11 3 (1.111 %) Billing 11 3 (1.111 %) Electric 11 3 (1.111 %) Automotive 11 3 (1.111 %) Marketing 12 2 (0.741 %) Pharmaceutical 12 2 (0.741 %) Local Government 13 1 (0.370 %) Legal 13 1 (0.370 %) FMCG	Miscellaneous 1 35 (12.96 %) NHS 2 10 (3.704 %) PMI 3 4 (1.481 %) NPfIT 4 2 (0.741 %) Spanish Language 5 1 (0.370 %) Fat Client 5 1 (0.370 %) Management Information System 5 1 (0.370 %) Clustering 5 1 (0.370 %) CCTV 5 1 (0.370 %) Thin Client 5 1 (0.370 %) Smartcard 5 1 (0.370 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 2 (0.741 %) VMS 2 1 (0.370 %) Windows 2 1 (0.370 %) Linux 2 1 (0.370 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 86 (31.85 %) PRINCE2 2 84 (31.11 %) Project Management 3 29 (10.74 %) Stakeholder Management 4 21 (7.778 %) Migration 5 15 (5.556 %) Change Management 6 10 (3.704 %) Security Cleared 7 9 (3.333 %) PRINCE 7 9 (3.333 %) CRM 7 9 (3.333 %) Business Analysis 8 8 (2.963 %) SC Cleared 9 7 (2.593 %) Project Planning 9 7 (2.593 %) Data Migration 9 7 (2.593 %) Logistics 9 7 (2.593 %) Risk Management 9 7 (2.593 %) ITIL 10 5 (1.852 %) ERP 10 5 (1.852 %) Programme Management 10 5 (1.852 %) Matrix Management 11 3 (1.111 %) Release Management 11 3 (1.111 %) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages 1 3 (1.111 %) C 2 2 (0.741 %) Java 2 2 (0.741 %) VB 2 2 (0.741 %) VB6 3 1 (0.370 %) Fortran 3 1 (0.370 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 26 (9.630 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 8 (2.963 %) Degree 2 8 (2.963 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 7 (2.593 %) PMI Certification 4 5 (1.852 %) Cisco Certification 5 4 (1.481 %) Microsoft Certification 5 4 (1.481 %) CCNP 6 3 (1.111 %) MCSE 6 3 (1.111 %) ITIL Certification 6 3 (1.111 %) PMP 7 2 (0.741 %) HNC 8 1 (0.370 %) MCSA 8 1 (0.370 %) CCNA 8 1 (0.370 %) CCDA 8 1 (0.370 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (0.741 %) SLA 1 2 (0.741 %) QA 2 1 (0.370 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (0.370 %) ISO27001 2 1 (0.370 %) COBIT	System Software 1 4 (1.481 %) Active Directory 2 1 (0.370 %) ISA Server 2 1 (0.370 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 1 (0.370 %) WSUS 1 1 (0.370 %) SCCM	Vendors 1 24 (8.889 %) SAP 2 9 (3.333 %) Oracle 3 5 (1.852 %) Microsoft 4 3 (1.111 %) Citrix 4 3 (1.111 %) Business Objects 4 3 (1.111 %) Chordiant 4 3 (1.111 %) JD Edwards 5 2 (0.741 %) Mercator 5 2 (0.741 %) Mincom 5 2 (0.741 %) Northgate 5 2 (0.741 %) Cisco 6 1 (0.370 %) Avaya 6 1 (0.370 %) Hyperion 6 1 (0.370 %) CODA 6 1 (0.370 %) Civica 6 1 (0.370 %) Primavera 6 1 (0.370 %) ATG 6 1 (0.370 %) Agresso