North West PRINCE Contracts

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

PRINCE
Location Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Cheltenham City of London Coventry Crawley Cumbria Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hackney Hampshire Harlow Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Lewisham London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	111	100
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching contract IT job ads	32	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	1.570 %	1.603 %
Daily rates quoted	10	5
Average minimum daily rate	£417	£320
Average daily rate	£437	£338
% change on same period last year	+29.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£457	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£398	£394
% change on same period last year	+0.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£60.00	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£62.50	£13.00
% change on same period last year	+380.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£65.00	£16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.63	£36.03
% change on same period last year	-17.75 %
Processes & Methodologies North West
Matching contract IT job ads	2038	1560
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.615 %	1.753 %
Daily rates quoted	607	379
Average minimum daily rate	£344	£342
Average daily rate	£361	£355
% change on same period last year	+1.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£376
% change on same period last year	+2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	166	99
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.22	£24.82
Average hourly rate	£26.28	£26.24
% change on same period last year	+0.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.35	£27.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.61	£29.48
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
PRINCE 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.

PRINCE
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing PRINCE across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

PRINCE
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing PRINCE across the North West region.

PRINCE
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE across the North West region over the past 3 months.

PRINCE
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing PRINCE across the North West region.

PRINCE
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE within the North West region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Manchester	-8	18	£432	+6.33 %
2	Lancashire	-1	4	£650	-
3	Merseyside	-7	2	£305	+22.00 %
4	Cumbria	+6	1	-	-

PRINCE England

PRINCE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the North West region citing PRINCE 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 PRINCE.

1 35 (59.32 %) PRINCE2 2 21 (35.59 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 17 (28.81 %) Project Management 4 14 (23.73 %) Government 5 12 (20.34 %) MS Project 6 11 (18.64 %) NHS 6 11 (18.64 %) Finance 7 9 (15.25 %) Stakeholder Management 8 8 (13.56 %) ITIL 9 7 (11.86 %) Oracle 10 5 (8.475 %) ITIL Certification 10 5 (8.475 %) Banking 10 5 (8.475 %) Project Planning 11 4 (6.780 %) Retail 11 4 (6.780 %) Statistics

11 4 (6.780 %) Retail Banking 11 4 (6.780 %) WAN 11 4 (6.780 %) Service Delivery 11 4 (6.780 %) Change Management 11 4 (6.780 %) Health 12 3 (5.085 %) CRM 12 3 (5.085 %) ISEB 12 3 (5.085 %) Degree 13 2 (3.390 %) IBM Mainframe 13 2 (3.390 %) General Ledger 13 2 (3.390 %) Mainframe 13 2 (3.390 %) PMP 13 2 (3.390 %) PMI Certification 13 2 (3.390 %) zOS 13 2 (3.390 %) IBM

PRINCE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the North West region citing PRINCE 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 PRINCE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (3.390 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (1.695 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (1.695 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 1 (1.695 %) SharePoint	Applications 1 12 (20.34 %) MS Project 2 2 (3.390 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.695 %) MS Visio
Business Applications 1 2 (3.390 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (1.695 %) Oracle ERP	Communications & Networking 1 4 (6.780 %) WAN 2 2 (3.390 %) LAN 3 1 (1.695 %) CTI
General 1 14 (23.73 %) Government 2 11 (18.64 %) Finance 3 5 (8.475 %) Banking 4 4 (6.780 %) Retail 4 4 (6.780 %) Health 4 4 (6.780 %) Retail Banking 5 2 (3.390 %) Legal 5 2 (3.390 %) Telecoms 5 2 (3.390 %) General Ledger 6 1 (1.695 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 29 (49.15 %) Project Manager 2 7 (11.86 %) Programme Manager 3 6 (10.17 %) Analyst 4 5 (8.475 %) Business Analyst 4 5 (8.475 %) Technical Project Manager 4 5 (8.475 %) Project Planner 4 5 (8.475 %) Technical Manager 4 5 (8.475 %) NHS Project Manager 5 3 (5.085 %) Infrastructure Manager 5 3 (5.085 %) Delivery Manager 5 3 (5.085 %) Service Manager 5 3 (5.085 %) Project Coordinator 5 3 (5.085 %) Coordinator 5 3 (5.085 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 6 2 (3.390 %) Services Delivery Manager 6 2 (3.390 %) Junior 6 2 (3.390 %) Junior Project Manager 6 2 (3.390 %) Relationships Manager 7 1 (1.695 %) Business Project Manager 7 1 (1.695 %) Business Manager
Miscellaneous 1 11 (18.64 %) NHS 2 4 (6.780 %) Statistics 3 2 (3.390 %) IBM Mainframe 3 2 (3.390 %) Mainframe 3 2 (3.390 %) NPfIT 4 1 (1.695 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 2 (3.390 %) Windows 1 2 (3.390 %) zOS 2 1 (1.695 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (1.695 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 35 (59.32 %) PRINCE2 2 17 (28.81 %) Project Management 3 9 (15.25 %) Stakeholder Management 4 8 (13.56 %) ITIL 5 5 (8.475 %) Project Planning 6 4 (6.780 %) Service Delivery 6 4 (6.780 %) Change Management 7 3 (5.085 %) CRM 8 2 (3.390 %) GAP Analysis 8 2 (3.390 %) Business Continuity 9 1 (1.695 %) Risk Assessment 9 1 (1.695 %) Programme Management 9 1 (1.695 %) Business Analysis 9 1 (1.695 %) Supplier Management 9 1 (1.695 %) Strategic Planning 9 1 (1.695 %) Resource Management 9 1 (1.695 %) Risk Analysis 9 1 (1.695 %) Matrix Management 9 1 (1.695 %) Test Management 9 1 (1.695 %) Process Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (3.390 %) C
Qualifications 1 21 (35.59 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 5 (8.475 %) ITIL Certification 3 3 (5.085 %) ISEB 3 3 (5.085 %) Degree 4 2 (3.390 %) PMP 4 2 (3.390 %) PMI Certification 5 1 (1.695 %) ISEB Practitioner	Vendors 1 7 (11.86 %) Oracle 2 2 (3.390 %) IBM 2 2 (3.390 %) Microsoft 3 1 (1.695 %) Dell 3 1 (1.695 %) EMC 3 1 (1.695 %) Citrix 3 1 (1.695 %) Cisco