North East MS Project Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Project skills within the North East region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited MS Project over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Project
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ipswich Jersey Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire Windsor Witham Witney Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	45
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	18	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	19.57 %	25.56 %
Daily rates quoted	6	7
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£221
Average daily rate	£348	£237
% change on same period last year	+46.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£254
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£322
% change on same period last year	+0.73 %
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	£25.00	£23.44
% change on same period last year	+6.62 %
Applications North East
Matching contract IT job ads	92	90
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.121 %	0.094 %
Daily rates quoted	20	18
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£255
Average daily rate	£347	£272
% change on same period last year	+27.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£289
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£283
% change on same period last year	+5.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.67	£10.52
Average hourly rate	£14.40	£11.20
% change on same period last year	+28.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.14	£11.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.91	£19.06
% change on same period last year	-6.04 %
MS Project 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.

MS Project
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Project across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

MS Project
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MS Project across the North East region.

MS Project
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the North East region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

MS Project
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MS Project across the North East region.

MS Project
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing MS Project within the North East region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Tyne and Wear	-10	7	£388	+64.60 %
Durham	-	6	£269	-

MS Project England

MS Project
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing MS Project 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 MS Project.

1 17 (41.46 %) Microsoft 2 13 (31.71 %) Project Management 2 13 (31.71 %) PRINCE2 3 12 (29.27 %) MS Office 4 10 (24.39 %) MS Excel 5 8 (19.51 %) Oracle 6 7 (17.07 %) Government 7 6 (14.63 %) Risk Management 7 6 (14.63 %) Oracle ERP 7 6 (14.63 %) ERP 7 6 (14.63 %) NHS 8 5 (12.20 %) MS PowerPoint 8 5 (12.20 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 9 4 (9.756 %) Project Planning 9 4 (9.756 %) Office Project Server

9 4 (9.756 %) VMware 9 4 (9.756 %) ISEB 9 4 (9.756 %) SAN 9 4 (9.756 %) NetApp 9 4 (9.756 %) TCP/IP 9 4 (9.756 %) MS Exchange 9 4 (9.756 %) Perl 9 4 (9.756 %) SQL 9 4 (9.756 %) Solaris 9 4 (9.756 %) Linux 9 4 (9.756 %) iSCSI 9 4 (9.756 %) SC Cleared 9 4 (9.756 %) Security Cleared 9 4 (9.756 %) VMware Infrastructure 10 3 (7.317 %) PVCS

MS Project
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing MS Project 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 MS Project. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 4 (9.756 %) Office Project Server 1 4 (9.756 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 12 (29.27 %) MS Office 2 10 (24.39 %) MS Excel 3 5 (12.20 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (2.439 %) MS Visio
Business Applications 1 6 (14.63 %) Oracle ERP 2 2 (4.878 %) Staffware	Communications & Networking 1 4 (9.756 %) SAN 1 4 (9.756 %) TCP/IP 1 4 (9.756 %) iSCSI
Development Applications 1 3 (7.317 %) PVCS 1 3 (7.317 %) ClearCase	General 1 7 (17.07 %) Government 2 3 (7.317 %) Telecoms 3 2 (4.878 %) Law 3 2 (4.878 %) Legal 4 1 (2.439 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 5 (12.20 %) Project Manager 1 5 (12.20 %) Trainer 2 4 (9.756 %) Storage Engineer 2 4 (9.756 %) Programme Planner 2 4 (9.756 %) Project Leader 3 3 (7.317 %) Junior 3 3 (7.317 %) Junior Project Manager 3 3 (7.317 %) Release Manager 4 2 (4.878 %) Microsoft Trainer 4 2 (4.878 %) Project Officer 4 2 (4.878 %) Security Manager 4 2 (4.878 %) Programme Manager 4 2 (4.878 %) Project Support Officer 4 2 (4.878 %) Risk Manager 4 2 (4.878 %) Contracts Manager 4 2 (4.878 %) Business Project Manager 4 2 (4.878 %) Business Manager 4 2 (4.878 %) Project Planner 4 2 (4.878 %) Commercial Manager 5 1 (2.439 %) Coordinator	Miscellaneous 1 6 (14.63 %) NHS 2 2 (4.878 %) RMADS 2 2 (4.878 %) Management Information System 2 2 (4.878 %) NPfIT
Operating Systems 1 4 (9.756 %) Solaris 1 4 (9.756 %) Linux 2 2 (4.878 %) VME 2 2 (4.878 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (31.71 %) Project Management 1 13 (31.71 %) PRINCE2 2 6 (14.63 %) Risk Management 2 6 (14.63 %) ERP 3 4 (9.756 %) Project Planning 3 4 (9.756 %) SC Cleared 3 4 (9.756 %) Security Cleared 4 3 (7.317 %) Configuration Management 4 3 (7.317 %) Change Management 5 2 (4.878 %) Release Management 5 2 (4.878 %) Information Security 5 2 (4.878 %) Service Delivery 5 2 (4.878 %) BC Cleared 6 1 (2.439 %) Programme Management
Programming Languages 1 4 (9.756 %) Perl 1 4 (9.756 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 5 (12.20 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 4 (9.756 %) ISEB 3 2 (4.878 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.878 %) ISO27001 1 2 (4.878 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 4 (9.756 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 17 (41.46 %) Microsoft 2 8 (19.51 %) Oracle 3 4 (9.756 %) VMware 3 4 (9.756 %) NetApp 4 3 (7.317 %) Applix 5 2 (4.878 %) ICL 5 2 (4.878 %) SAP