The first table below looks at the demand for PMI Certification in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PMI Certification 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 Qualifications for the North West 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
PMI Certification
Rank 99 119 110
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -9
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 19 13 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.815% 0.418% 0.525%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.158% 1.997% 3.463%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 10
Average daily rate £355 £369 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.86% +15.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £331 £127
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £427 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £423 £410 £450
% change year-on-year
+3.04% -8.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £38.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year
- +5.55%
All Qualifications
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
457 651 462
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 19.61% 20.93% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 324 203
Average daily rate £350 £370 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.40% +34.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £200 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £523 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 24 42
Average hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £24.81
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -19.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.55 £13.75 £12.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £29.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
PMI Certification
England

PMI Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PMI Certification across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

North West PMI Certification Jobs Demand Trend

PMI Certification
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PMI Certification across the North West region.

North West PMI Certification Daily Rate Trend

PMI Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PMI Certification across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West PMI Certification Daily Rate Histogram

PMI Certification
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMI Certification within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cheshire +8 14 £315 -13.10%
Manchester +4 3 £355 -5.46%
Merseyside - 1 - -
PMI Certification
England

PMI Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing PMI Certification 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 PMI Certification.

1 38 (82.61%) PRINCE2
2 37 (80.43%) Project Management
3 34 (73.91%) Finance
4 28 (60.87%) PMI
5 21 (45.65%) PMP
6 18 (39.13%) PRINCE
7 16 (34.78%) ITIL
8 15 (32.61%) Banking
9 14 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (19.57%) Agile Software Development
10 9 (19.57%) Waterfall
11 8 (17.39%) Risk Management
11 8 (17.39%) WebSphere
11 8 (17.39%) Java
11 8 (17.39%) Oracle
12 7 (15.22%) Degree
12 7 (15.22%) Change Management
13 6 (13.04%) CMMI
13 6 (13.04%) Windows
14 5 (10.87%) UNIX
14 5 (10.87%) JBoss
14 5 (10.87%) ClearCase
14 5 (10.87%) RUP
14 5 (10.87%) JMS
14 5 (10.87%) J2EE
14 5 (10.87%) JavaScript
14 5 (10.87%) SQL
14 5 (10.87%) DB2
14 5 (10.87%) WebLogic
14 5 (10.87%) EJB

PMI Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing PMI Certification 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 PMI Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (17.39%) WebSphere
2 5 (10.87%) JMS
2 5 (10.87%) J2EE
2 5 (10.87%) EJB
2 5 (10.87%) JSP
2 5 (10.87%) Servlets
2 5 (10.87%) Struts
2 5 (10.87%) Web Services
2 5 (10.87%) XML
2 5 (10.87%) XSD
2 5 (10.87%) WSDL
2 5 (10.87%) Hibernate
2 5 (10.87%) jQuery
2 5 (10.87%) Ajax
2 5 (10.87%) Struts2
3 3 (6.522%) .NET
4 1 (2.174%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 5 (10.87%) WebLogic
2 2 (4.348%) Lotus Domino
2 2 (4.348%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.174%) Documentum
3 1 (2.174%) CMS
3 1 (2.174%) LiveLink
Applications
1 4 (8.696%) MS Project
2 2 (4.348%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.174%) Maximo
1 1 (2.174%) SAP QM
1 1 (2.174%) TrackWise
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.348%) LDAP
2 1 (2.174%) 3G
2 1 (2.174%) GSM
2 1 (2.174%) UMTS
2 1 (2.174%) VoIP
2 1 (2.174%) FTP
2 1 (2.174%) 2G
2 1 (2.174%) LTE
2 1 (2.174%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) DB2
2 2 (4.348%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) ClearCase
1 5 (10.87%) Subversion
2 3 (6.522%) Git (software)
2 3 (6.522%) Gradle
General
1 34 (73.91%) Finance
2 15 (32.61%) Banking
3 4 (8.696%) Retail
4 2 (4.348%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.174%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.174%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.174%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.174%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.174%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (52.17%) Project Manager
2 5 (10.87%) Developer
2 5 (10.87%) Senior Developer
2 5 (10.87%) Senior Java Developer
2 5 (10.87%) Delivery Manager
2 5 (10.87%) Java Developer
3 4 (8.696%) Service Manager
3 4 (8.696%) Test Manager
4 3 (6.522%) Programme Manager
4 3 (6.522%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 3 (6.522%) Development Manager
4 3 (6.522%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (4.348%) Information Security Project Manager
5 2 (4.348%) Information Risk Manager
5 2 (4.348%) Security Project Manager
5 2 (4.348%) Security Manager
5 2 (4.348%) Information Security Risk Manager
5 2 (4.348%) Risk Manager
5 2 (4.348%) Information Manager
5 2 (4.348%) Information Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 28 (60.87%) PMI
2 5 (10.87%) Mainframe
3 2 (4.348%) SaaS
4 1 (2.174%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.174%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.04%) Windows
2 5 (10.87%) UNIX
3 4 (8.696%) Linux
4 1 (2.174%) AIX
4 1 (2.174%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (82.61%) PRINCE2
2 37 (80.43%) Project Management
3 18 (39.13%) PRINCE
4 16 (34.78%) ITIL
5 14 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (19.57%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (19.57%) Waterfall
7 8 (17.39%) Risk Management
8 7 (15.22%) Change Management
9 6 (13.04%) CMMI
10 5 (10.87%) RUP
10 5 (10.87%) BDD
11 4 (8.696%) Information Security
11 4 (8.696%) Six Sigma
12 3 (6.522%) Service Management
12 3 (6.522%) Programme Management
12 3 (6.522%) Migration
12 3 (6.522%) Time Management
12 3 (6.522%) Project Planning
12 3 (6.522%) Lean Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.39%) Java
2 5 (10.87%) JavaScript
2 5 (10.87%) SQL
3 3 (6.522%) Groovy
4 1 (2.174%) C
Qualifications
1 21 (45.65%) PMP
2 7 (15.22%) Degree
3 4 (8.696%) ISTQB
4 3 (6.522%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 3 (6.522%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.174%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.522%) SLA
1 3 (6.522%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.348%) QA
3 1 (2.174%) GxP
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Oracle
2 5 (10.87%) JBoss
2 5 (10.87%) Chordiant
3 2 (4.348%) Lotus
3 2 (4.348%) SAP
4 1 (2.174%) Avaya
4 1 (2.174%) IBM
4 1 (2.174%) HP
4 1 (2.174%) Dell
4 1 (2.174%) Citrix
4 1 (2.174%) AppSense
North West England
Infrastructure Project Manager5 months Strong Infrastructure Project Manager to manage end to end infrastructure delivery for a financial services client.Retail and Business Banking managing multiple projects.
Rate: £375 - £450 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
North West England
EC, PMP, PSR, PCSR etc.Experience/Knowledge required:- Multiple years experience working the Nuclear industry (would consider experience in similar sectors)- Working knowledge of 3D-CAD packages i...
Progressive Recruitment
Posted: 21 May 2013