North West Programme Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Programme Manager role in IT contracts within the North West region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Programme Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	89	108
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	54	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.072 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	1.528 %	0.801 %
Daily rates quoted	26	4
Average minimum daily rate	£508	£575
Average daily rate	£527	£650
% change on same period last year	-18.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£547	£725
UK excluding London average daily rate	£547	£504
% change on same period last year	+8.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£60.00	£18.25
Average hourly rate	£62.50	£19.00
% change on same period last year	+228.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£65.00	£19.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£50.08	£45.06
% change on same period last year	+11.14 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3534	3747
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.711 %	3.791 %
Daily rates quoted	819	800
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£320
Average daily rate	£346	£336
% change on same period last year	+2.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	421	363
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.71	£21.12
Average hourly rate	£22.79	£22.71
% change on same period last year	+0.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.86	£24.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Programme Manager 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Programme Manager across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Programme Manager 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 Manager across the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Programme Manager across the North West region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Programme Manager within the North West region over the 3 months to 25 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
Manchester	-2	20	£461	-
Merseyside	+6	7	£536	-15.36 %
Lancashire	+13	6	£450	-35.71 %
Cheshire	-10	4	£425	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Programme Manager in their job title 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 with Programme Manager in their job title.

1 33 (29.46 %) PRINCE2 2 26 (23.21 %) Finance 2 26 (23.21 %) Programme Management 3 16 (14.29 %) Project Management 3 16 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 15 (13.39 %) Stakeholder Management 5 14 (12.50 %) Change Management 6 13 (11.61 %) MS Project 7 10 (8.929 %) Government 7 10 (8.929 %) Logistics 8 8 (7.143 %) Retail 9 7 (6.250 %) Telecoms 9 7 (6.250 %) PRINCE 10 5 (4.464 %) Pensions 10 5 (4.464 %) MS PowerPoint

10 5 (4.464 %) Security Cleared 10 5 (4.464 %) Oracle 10 5 (4.464 %) SAP 11 4 (3.571 %) PMI Certification 11 4 (3.571 %) Risk Analysis 12 3 (2.679 %) Insurance 12 3 (2.679 %) Matrix Management 12 3 (2.679 %) CTC Cleared 12 3 (2.679 %) NHS 12 3 (2.679 %) PMI 12 3 (2.679 %) PMP 12 3 (2.679 %) ITIL 12 3 (2.679 %) MS Office 12 3 (2.679 %) MS Excel 12 3 (2.679 %) Pharmaceutical

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Programme Manager in their job title 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 with Programme Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (0.893 %) .NET	Applications 1 13 (11.61 %) MS Project 2 5 (4.464 %) MS PowerPoint 3 3 (2.679 %) MS Office 3 3 (2.679 %) MS Excel 4 2 (1.786 %) MS Visio
Business Applications 1 1 (0.893 %) Oracle Financials 1 1 (0.893 %) Oracle ERP	Communications & Networking 1 1 (0.893 %) LAN 1 1 (0.893 %) WAN 1 1 (0.893 %) SAN 1 1 (0.893 %) Internet 1 1 (0.893 %) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (0.893 %) MS Access	General 1 26 (23.21 %) Finance 2 10 (8.929 %) Government 3 8 (7.143 %) Retail 4 7 (6.250 %) Telecoms 5 5 (4.464 %) Pensions 6 3 (2.679 %) Insurance 6 3 (2.679 %) Education 6 3 (2.679 %) Pharmaceutical 7 2 (1.786 %) Advertising 7 2 (1.786 %) Retail Banking 7 2 (1.786 %) Banking 7 2 (1.786 %) Billing 8 1 (0.893 %) Home Office 8 1 (0.893 %) Health 8 1 (0.893 %) Legal 8 1 (0.893 %) Back Office
Miscellaneous 1 3 (2.679 %) PMI 1 3 (2.679 %) NHS 2 1 (0.893 %) NPfIT 2 1 (0.893 %) Management Information System 2 1 (0.893 %) CLARiiON 2 1 (0.893 %) French Language 2 1 (0.893 %) Credit Risk	Operating Systems 1 2 (1.786 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 33 (29.46 %) PRINCE2 2 26 (23.21 %) Programme Management 3 16 (14.29 %) Project Management 4 15 (13.39 %) Stakeholder Management 5 14 (12.50 %) Change Management 6 10 (8.929 %) Logistics 7 7 (6.250 %) PRINCE 8 5 (4.464 %) Security Cleared 9 4 (3.571 %) Risk Analysis 10 3 (2.679 %) Matrix Management 10 3 (2.679 %) CTC Cleared 10 3 (2.679 %) ITIL 11 2 (1.786 %) ERP 11 2 (1.786 %) Service Management 11 2 (1.786 %) Quality Management 11 2 (1.786 %) DV Cleared 11 2 (1.786 %) Resource Management 11 2 (1.786 %) Six Sigma 12 1 (0.893 %) Configuration Management 12 1 (0.893 %) Risk Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (1.786 %) C 2 1 (0.893 %) Java
Qualifications 1 16 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 4 (3.571 %) PMI Certification 3 3 (2.679 %) PMP 4 2 (1.786 %) Degree 4 2 (1.786 %) ISEB 5 1 (0.893 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 5 1 (0.893 %) MBA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.786 %) QA
Vendors 1 5 (4.464 %) Oracle 1 5 (4.464 %) SAP 2 2 (1.786 %) EMC 3 1 (0.893 %) Siebel 3 1 (0.893 %) Microsoft