North West Programme Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Programme Management 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 Programme Management over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Programme Management
Location Abingdon Amersham Andover Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	105	118
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	39	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.050 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	1.919 %	0.901 %
Daily rates quoted	15	2
Average minimum daily rate	£452	£350
Average daily rate	£462	£425
% change on same period last year	+8.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£472	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£424	£427
% change on same period last year	-0.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.00	-
Average hourly rate	£29.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.64	£35.21
% change on same period last year	-21.50 %
Processes & Methodologies North West
Matching contract IT job ads	2032	1554
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.607 %	1.746 %
Daily rates quoted	606	381
Average minimum daily rate	£344	£340
Average daily rate	£362	£353
% change on same period last year	+2.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£366
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	165	98
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.32	£24.92
Average hourly rate	£26.41	£26.31
% change on same period last year	+0.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.49	£27.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.72	£29.49
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Programme Management 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.

Programme Management
Demand Trend

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

Programme Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Programme Management across the North West 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 Programme Management across the North West region.

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Programme Management
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Programme Management 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	Lancashire	+5	12	£491	-
2	Cheshire	-	10	£350	-
3	Merseyside	-7	5	£500	-
4	Manchester	-16	4	£313	-21.66 %

Programme Management England

Programme Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 17 (27.87 %) PRINCE2 2 15 (24.59 %) Project Management 3 12 (19.67 %) Change Management 4 10 (16.39 %) Finance 5 9 (14.75 %) Government 5 9 (14.75 %) Stakeholder Management 6 7 (11.48 %) NHS 7 6 (9.836 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 6 (9.836 %) MS Project 8 5 (8.197 %) Siebel 8 5 (8.197 %) Service Management 8 5 (8.197 %) Supplier Management 9 4 (6.557 %) Business Analysis 9 4 (6.557 %) ITIL 10 3 (4.918 %) ISEB

10 3 (4.918 %) PMI 10 3 (4.918 %) Oracle 10 3 (4.918 %) NPfIT 10 3 (4.918 %) Migration 10 3 (4.918 %) Banking 10 3 (4.918 %) Retail 10 3 (4.918 %) Test Management 10 3 (4.918 %) Data Migration 11 2 (3.279 %) Integration Testing 11 2 (3.279 %) Risk Analysis 11 2 (3.279 %) MS PowerPoint 11 2 (3.279 %) Project Planning 11 2 (3.279 %) Health 11 2 (3.279 %) Configuration Management 11 2 (3.279 %) Risk Management

Programme Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications 1 6 (9.836 %) MS Project 2 2 (3.279 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (1.639 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (1.639 %) Oracle CRM 1 1 (1.639 %) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.639 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.639 %) SQL Server
General 1 10 (16.39 %) Finance 2 9 (14.75 %) Government 3 3 (4.918 %) Banking 3 3 (4.918 %) Retail 4 2 (3.279 %) Health 5 1 (1.639 %) Home Office 5 1 (1.639 %) Local Government 5 1 (1.639 %) Retail Banking 5 1 (1.639 %) Marketing 5 1 (1.639 %) Pharmaceutical	Job Titles 1 29 (47.54 %) Programme Manager 2 9 (14.75 %) Analyst 3 7 (11.48 %) Project Manager 4 6 (9.836 %) Business Manager 5 5 (8.197 %) Business Analyst 6 3 (4.918 %) Programme Office Manager 7 2 (3.279 %) Project Analyst 7 2 (3.279 %) Senior Manager 7 2 (3.279 %) Project Planner 7 2 (3.279 %) Test Manager 7 2 (3.279 %) Consultant 7 2 (3.279 %) Problem Manager 7 2 (3.279 %) PMO Manager 7 2 (3.279 %) PMO Consultant 7 2 (3.279 %) Problem Analyst 7 2 (3.279 %) Business Project Manager 7 2 (3.279 %) Senior Project Manager 8 1 (1.639 %) Senior Procurement Manager 8 1 (1.639 %) Senior Technical Manager 8 1 (1.639 %) Senior Programme Manager
Miscellaneous 1 7 (11.48 %) NHS 2 3 (4.918 %) NPfIT 2 3 (4.918 %) PMI	Operating Systems 1 1 (1.639 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (27.87 %) PRINCE2 2 15 (24.59 %) Project Management 3 12 (19.67 %) Change Management 4 9 (14.75 %) Stakeholder Management 5 5 (8.197 %) Service Management 5 5 (8.197 %) Supplier Management 6 4 (6.557 %) Business Analysis 6 4 (6.557 %) ITIL 7 3 (4.918 %) Migration 7 3 (4.918 %) Test Management 7 3 (4.918 %) Data Migration 8 2 (3.279 %) Integration Testing 8 2 (3.279 %) Project Planning 8 2 (3.279 %) Risk Analysis 8 2 (3.279 %) Configuration Management 8 2 (3.279 %) Risk Management 8 2 (3.279 %) Quality Management 8 2 (3.279 %) Service Delivery 9 1 (1.639 %) CRM 9 1 (1.639 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 1 (1.639 %) C 1 1 (1.639 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 6 (9.836 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 3 (4.918 %) ISEB 3 1 (1.639 %) MBA 3 1 (1.639 %) ISEB Practitioner 3 1 (1.639 %) Degree 3 1 (1.639 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.639 %) QA
Vendors 1 5 (8.197 %) Siebel 2 3 (4.918 %) Oracle