Midlands Technical Project Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Technical 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 job ads that have cited Technical Project Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Project Manager
Location Barnsley Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Denbighshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Fife Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Rhyl Sandwich Scotland Sheffield South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wetherby Wiltshire Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	69
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	8	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	0.607 %	0.566 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£300
Average daily rate	£500	£350
% change on same period last year	+42.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£550	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£410	£414
% change on same period last year	-0.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£34.00
Average hourly rate	-	£34.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.00	£38.25
% change on same period last year	+1.96 %
Job Titles Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1319	1589
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.739 %	1.662 %
Daily rates quoted	261	260
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£377
Average daily rate	£387	£396
% change on same period last year	-2.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£415
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	56	108
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.68	£30.73
Average hourly rate	£23.78	£31.80
% change on same period last year	-25.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.88	£32.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.39	£25.89
% change on same period last year	-9.63 %
Technical 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.

Technical Project Manager
Demand Trend

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

Technical Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

Technical Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Technical Project Manager across the Midlands region.

Technical Project Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region that cited Technical 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 Technical Project Manager in their job title.

1 8 (57.14 %) Project Management 2 7 (50.00 %) Migration 2 7 (50.00 %) PRINCE2 3 4 (28.57 %) Finance 4 3 (21.43 %) MCSE 4 3 (21.43 %) SAN 4 3 (21.43 %) ITIL 4 3 (21.43 %) CCNP 4 3 (21.43 %) Active Directory 4 3 (21.43 %) Cisco Certification 4 3 (21.43 %) Microsoft Certification 4 3 (21.43 %) Banking 5 2 (14.29 %) Test Scripting 5 2 (14.29 %) SAP 5 2 (14.29 %) PMP

5 2 (14.29 %) PMI Certification 5 2 (14.29 %) TETRA 6 1 (7.143 %) SAP CO 6 1 (7.143 %) SAP Basis 6 1 (7.143 %) SAP Payroll 6 1 (7.143 %) SAP FI/CO 6 1 (7.143 %) Government 6 1 (7.143 %) Health 6 1 (7.143 %) ERP 6 1 (7.143 %) NetWeaver 6 1 (7.143 %) SAP HR 6 1 (7.143 %) SAP FI 6 1 (7.143 %) Java 6 1 (7.143 %) J2EE 6 1 (7.143 %) MS Project

Technical Project Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region that cited Technical 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 Technical Project Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (7.143 %) SAP Basis 1 1 (7.143 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 1 (7.143 %) NetWeaver
Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) SAP CO 1 1 (7.143 %) SAP Payroll 1 1 (7.143 %) SAP FI/CO 1 1 (7.143 %) SAP HR 1 1 (7.143 %) SAP FI
Communications & Networking 1 3 (21.43 %) SAN 2 2 (14.29 %) TETRA	General 1 4 (28.57 %) Finance 2 3 (21.43 %) Banking 3 1 (7.143 %) Government 3 1 (7.143 %) Health 3 1 (7.143 %) Insurance
Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.143 %) PMI	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (57.14 %) Project Management 2 7 (50.00 %) Migration 2 7 (50.00 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (21.43 %) ITIL 4 2 (14.29 %) Test Scripting 5 1 (7.143 %) ERP 5 1 (7.143 %) Data Migration 5 1 (7.143 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (7.143 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (7.143 %) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages 1 1 (7.143 %) Java	Qualifications 1 3 (21.43 %) MCSE 1 3 (21.43 %) CCNP 1 3 (21.43 %) Cisco Certification 1 3 (21.43 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (14.29 %) PMP 2 2 (14.29 %) PMI Certification 3 1 (7.143 %) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software 1 3 (21.43 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (7.143 %) SCCM 1 1 (7.143 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 2 (14.29 %) SAP