Milton Keynes Project Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Management skills within the Milton Keynes region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Project Management over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Aylesbury Baldock Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Billingham Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Daresbury Darlington Darwen Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Erskine Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Walsall Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	12	15
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	90	61
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.115 %	0.069 %
As % of the category below	16.45 %	16.94 %
Daily rates quoted	24	10
Average minimum daily rate	£393	£417
Average daily rate	£411	£434
% change on same period last year	-5.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£430	£451
UK excluding London average daily rate	£398	£387
% change on same period last year	+2.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.75	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£42.00	£36.25
% change on same period last year	+15.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£43.25	£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.22	£29.86
% change on same period last year	-8.83 %
Processes & Methodologies Milton Keynes
Matching contract IT job ads	547	360
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.702 %	0.404 %
Daily rates quoted	161	49
Average minimum daily rate	£376	£377
Average daily rate	£394	£407
% change on same period last year	-2.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£413	£436
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£376
% change on same period last year	+2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	46	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.25	£29.38
Average hourly rate	£30.98	£30.77
% change on same period last year	+0.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.71	£32.16
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.61	£29.48
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
Project Management Buckinghamshire

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Project Management across the Milton Keynes region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Management across the Milton Keynes region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Project Management also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Project Management.

1 57 (34.55 %) Banking 2 52 (31.52 %) PRINCE2 3 49 (29.70 %) Finance 4 35 (21.21 %) Retail 5 26 (15.76 %) Systems Analysis 6 20 (12.12 %) Government 6 20 (12.12 %) Migration 6 20 (12.12 %) Oracle 7 18 (10.91 %) DB2 8 15 (9.091 %) Windows 9 14 (8.485 %) Internet 9 14 (8.485 %) Business Analysis 10 12 (7.273 %) Microsoft 11 11 (6.667 %) SQL Server 11 11 (6.667 %) MS Project

11 11 (6.667 %) Retail Banking 11 11 (6.667 %) Corporate Banking 12 10 (6.061 %) SQL 12 10 (6.061 %) Unix 12 10 (6.061 %) Windows NT 13 9 (5.455 %) PRINCE2 Certification 13 9 (5.455 %) SSADM 13 9 (5.455 %) Release Management 14 8 (4.848 %) Requirements Analysis 14 8 (4.848 %) Agile Software Development 14 8 (4.848 %) DSDM 14 8 (4.848 %) RAD 14 8 (4.848 %) ITIL 14 8 (4.848 %) VB 14 8 (4.848 %) C++

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Project Management also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Project Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (4.848 %) .NET 1 8 (4.848 %) Middleware 2 6 (3.636 %) XML 3 5 (3.030 %) ASP 3 5 (3.030 %) HTML 4 4 (2.424 %) WebSphere 4 4 (2.424 %) .NET Framework 5 1 (0.606 %) AJAX 5 1 (0.606 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 6 (3.636 %) MQSeries 2 4 (2.424 %) BizTalk Server 2 4 (2.424 %) Tuxedo 3 2 (1.212 %) ArcSDE 3 2 (1.212 %) ArcGIS 3 2 (1.212 %) CICS 4 1 (0.606 %) CMS
Applications 1 11 (6.667 %) MS Project 2 8 (4.848 %) MS Visio 3 6 (3.636 %) MS Office 4 1 (0.606 %) MS Excel 4 1 (0.606 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 6 (3.636 %) VisionPLUS 2 3 (1.818 %) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking 1 14 (8.485 %) Internet 2 4 (2.424 %) DHCP 2 4 (2.424 %) DNS 2 4 (2.424 %) SAN 3 1 (0.606 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.606 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 18 (10.91 %) DB2 2 11 (6.667 %) SQL Server 3 8 (4.848 %) SQL Server 7 4 2 (1.212 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (1.212 %) GIS 4 2 (1.212 %) Datawarehouse 4 2 (1.212 %) Oracle 10g 4 2 (1.212 %) PowerCenter 5 1 (0.606 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (0.606 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 1 (0.606 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 57 (34.55 %) Banking 2 49 (29.70 %) Finance 3 35 (21.21 %) Retail 4 20 (12.12 %) Government 5 11 (6.667 %) Retail Banking 5 11 (6.667 %) Corporate Banking 6 7 (4.242 %) Financial Institution 7 6 (3.636 %) Online Banking 8 5 (3.030 %) Telecoms 9 4 (2.424 %) Investment Banking 10 1 (0.606 %) Criminal Justice 10 1 (0.606 %) Automotive	Job Titles 1 78 (47.27 %) Project Manager 2 31 (18.79 %) Analyst 3 22 (13.33 %) Business Analyst 3 22 (13.33 %) Team Leader 4 12 (7.273 %) Technical Manager 4 12 (7.273 %) Technical Project Manager 5 10 (6.061 %) Developer 5 10 (6.061 %) Functional Analyst 6 7 (4.242 %) Banking Business Analyst 6 7 (4.242 %) Applications Developer 6 7 (4.242 %) Technical Team Leader 7 6 (3.636 %) Senior Manager 7 6 (3.636 %) Business Manager 8 5 (3.030 %) Change Manager 8 5 (3.030 %) Senior Project Manager 9 4 (2.424 %) Bid Manager 9 4 (2.424 %) Infrastructure Manager 9 4 (2.424 %) Systems Analyst 9 4 (2.424 %) Delivery Manager 9 4 (2.424 %) Infrastructure Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 7 (4.242 %) PMI 2 2 (1.212 %) Mainframe 2 2 (1.212 %) Management Information System 2 2 (1.212 %) IBM Mainframe 3 1 (0.606 %) Data Protection Act 3 1 (0.606 %) Credit Risk	Operating Systems 1 15 (9.091 %) Windows 2 10 (6.061 %) Windows NT 2 10 (6.061 %) Unix 3 4 (2.424 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (1.818 %) AIX 4 3 (1.818 %) HPUX 4 3 (1.818 %) Solaris 4 3 (1.818 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 52 (31.52 %) PRINCE2 2 26 (15.76 %) Systems Analysis 3 20 (12.12 %) Migration 4 14 (8.485 %) Business Analysis 5 9 (5.455 %) SSADM 5 9 (5.455 %) Release Management 6 8 (4.848 %) RAD 6 8 (4.848 %) DSDM 6 8 (4.848 %) Change Management 6 8 (4.848 %) ITIL 6 8 (4.848 %) Agile Software Development 6 8 (4.848 %) Requirements Analysis 7 7 (4.242 %) E-Commerce 8 6 (3.636 %) Risk Management 8 6 (3.636 %) PRINCE 8 6 (3.636 %) Competitor Analysis 9 5 (3.030 %) Business Development 10 4 (2.424 %) Matrix Management 10 4 (2.424 %) Configuration Management 10 4 (2.424 %) RUP	Programming Languages 1 10 (6.061 %) SQL 2 8 (4.848 %) VB 2 8 (4.848 %) C++ 3 5 (3.030 %) VB.NET 3 5 (3.030 %) VB6 4 4 (2.424 %) COBOL 4 4 (2.424 %) Java 5 2 (1.212 %) JavaScript 5 2 (1.212 %) JCL 6 1 (0.606 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 9 (5.455 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 5 (3.030 %) ISEB 3 2 (1.212 %) Degree 3 2 (1.212 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 1 (0.606 %) ITIL Certification 4 1 (0.606 %) PMP 4 1 (0.606 %) PMI Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.606 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 1 (0.606 %) Basel II
System Software 1 2 (1.212 %) Active Directory 2 1 (0.606 %) RACF 2 1 (0.606 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 1 (0.606 %) SCOM
Vendors 1 20 (12.12 %) Oracle 2 12 (7.273 %) Microsoft 3 4 (2.424 %) IBM 4 2 (1.212 %) ESRI 5 1 (0.606 %) VMware 5 1 (0.606 %) Informatica 5 1 (0.606 %) Business Objects 5 1 (0.606 %) SAP