The first table below looks at the demand for Project Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Project Management over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Milton Keynes region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Project Management
Rank 14 10 11
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 50 67 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 9.416% 9.599% 8.970%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.02% 14.57% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 25 20
Average daily rate £360 £350 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% +5.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £320 £199
10% offered a daily rate of more than £439 £408 £452
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £377 £375
% change year-on-year
+3.51% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.11 £26.28 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+33.59% -16.57%
All Processes & Methodologies
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
384 460 338
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 72.32% 65.90% 56.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 208 150
Average daily rate £350 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £222 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 31
Average hourly rate £17.50 £14.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.64% -1.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £10.58 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £17.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Project Management
Buckinghamshire

Project Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Project Management across the Milton Keynes region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Milton Keynes Project Management Jobs Demand Trend

Project Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Project Management across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Project Management Daily Rate Trend

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Management across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Milton Keynes Project Management Daily Rate Histogram

Project Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Project Management across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Project Management Hourly Rate Trend

Project Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 32 (32.32%) PRINCE2
1 32 (32.32%) Security Cleared
2 31 (31.31%) SC Cleared
3 28 (28.28%) Finance
4 27 (27.27%) MS Project
5 23 (23.23%) Microsoft
6 22 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (14.14%) ITIL
8 13 (13.13%) DV Cleared
8 13 (13.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 10 (10.10%) HNC
9 10 (10.10%) HND
10 9 (9.091%) Oracle
10 9 (9.091%) Retail
11 8 (8.081%) Scrum
11 8 (8.081%) MS Excel
12 7 (7.071%) Migration
12 7 (7.071%) Service Delivery
13 6 (6.061%) Programme Management
13 6 (6.061%) Banking
13 6 (6.061%) C
13 6 (6.061%) SAP
13 6 (6.061%) PMI Certification
13 6 (6.061%) PMI
13 6 (6.061%) Change Control
14 5 (5.051%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (5.051%) MS Office
14 5 (5.051%) SQL Server
14 5 (5.051%) MS Visio
15 4 (4.040%) Change Management

Project Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 2 (2.020%) .NET
2 1 (1.010%) WCF
2 1 (1.010%) WPF
2 1 (1.010%) Middleware
2 1 (1.010%) COM
Application Platforms
1 3 (3.030%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.020%) MS Exchange
2 2 (2.020%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (1.010%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (1.010%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (1.010%) IIS
3 1 (1.010%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 27 (27.27%) MS Project
2 8 (8.081%) MS Excel
3 5 (5.051%) MS Office
3 5 (5.051%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.020%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.020%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.010%) Oracle ASCP
2 1 (1.010%) Demantra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.020%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (2.020%) DHCP
1 2 (2.020%) DNS
1 2 (2.020%) SMS
2 1 (1.010%) DMZ
2 1 (1.010%) SAN
2 1 (1.010%) VoIP
2 1 (1.010%) WAN
2 1 (1.010%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.051%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.030%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (3.030%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.030%) DTS
General
1 28 (28.28%) Finance
2 9 (9.091%) Retail
3 6 (6.061%) Banking
4 4 (4.040%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.030%) Automotive
5 3 (3.030%) Back Office
6 2 (2.020%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (51.52%) Project Manager
2 10 (10.10%) Analyst
3 6 (6.061%) Coordinator
4 5 (5.051%) Project Coordinator
4 5 (5.051%) Architect
5 3 (3.030%) Designer
5 3 (3.030%) Business Analyst
5 3 (3.030%) Programme Manager
5 3 (3.030%) Team Leader
6 2 (2.020%) Business Project Manager
6 2 (2.020%) Business Manager
6 2 (2.020%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (2.020%) Programme Planner
6 2 (2.020%) Development Manager
6 2 (2.020%) Senior Manager
6 2 (2.020%) Support Analyst
6 2 (2.020%) Project Planner
6 2 (2.020%) Change Manager
6 2 (2.020%) Planning Manager
6 2 (2.020%) Programme Planning Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.061%) PMI
2 3 (3.030%) Credit Risk
3 2 (2.020%) EPoS
4 1 (1.010%) SaaS
4 1 (1.010%) Clustering
4 1 (1.010%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.040%) Windows
2 2 (2.020%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (2.020%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.010%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.32%) PRINCE2
2 22 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (14.14%) ITIL
4 8 (8.081%) Scrum
5 7 (7.071%) Migration
5 7 (7.071%) Service Delivery
6 6 (6.061%) Programme Management
6 6 (6.061%) Change Control
7 4 (4.040%) Change Management
7 4 (4.040%) ERP
7 4 (4.040%) PRINCE
7 4 (4.040%) Data Migration
7 4 (4.040%) Business Development
8 3 (3.030%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (3.030%) ETL
8 3 (3.030%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (3.030%) Service Management
8 3 (3.030%) Business Analysis
9 2 (2.020%) Agile Software Development
9 2 (2.020%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.061%) C
2 3 (3.030%) SQL
3 1 (1.010%) C#
3 1 (1.010%) Java
Qualifications
1 32 (32.32%) Security Cleared
2 31 (31.31%) SC Cleared
3 13 (13.13%) DV Cleared
3 13 (13.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 10 (10.10%) HNC
4 10 (10.10%) HND
5 6 (6.061%) PMI Certification
6 5 (5.051%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (4.040%) PMP
7 4 (4.040%) Degree
8 2 (2.020%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.020%) SLA
1 2 (2.020%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (2.020%) FATCA
2 1 (1.010%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.020%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.010%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.010%) XenApp
2 1 (1.010%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 1 (1.010%) Forefront TMG
2 1 (1.010%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.010%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (1.010%) WhatsUp Gold
1 1 (1.010%) SCCM
1 1 (1.010%) SCOM
1 1 (1.010%) MOM
1 1 (1.010%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (1.010%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (1.010%) OpenView
1 1 (1.010%) NetBackup
1 1 (1.010%) OVSD
Vendors
1 23 (23.23%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.091%) Oracle
3 6 (6.061%) SAP
4 3 (3.030%) Cisco
4 3 (3.030%) Business Objects
5 2 (2.020%) VMware
5 2 (2.020%) HP
5 2 (2.020%) Citrix
6 1 (1.010%) Retalix
6 1 (1.010%) RedPrairie
6 1 (1.010%) Symantec
6 1 (1.010%) Remedy
6 1 (1.010%) Primavera
6 1 (1.010%) JDA
6 1 (1.010%) Lotus
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