North West Technical Project Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Technical Project 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 Technical Project Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Project Manager
Location Berkshire Birmingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Fife Gateshead Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Macclesfield Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North Tyneside North Wales North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Rhyl Sale Salisbury Scotland Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Southend-on-Sea Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	115	118
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	14	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	0.420 %	0.663 %
Daily rates quoted	7	10
Average minimum daily rate	£368	£425
Average daily rate	£389	£434
% change on same period last year	-10.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£410	£443
UK excluding London average daily rate	£407	£420
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	-
Average hourly rate	£36.25	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.50	£38.25
% change on same period last year	-12.41 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3334	3919
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.507 %	3.865 %
Daily rates quoted	779	880
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£325
Average daily rate	£339	£343
% change on same period last year	-0.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	422	410
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.09	£21.02
Average hourly rate	£23.04	£22.64
% change on same period last year	+1.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£24.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
Technical Project 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.

Technical Project Manager
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Project 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 Technical Project 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 Technical Project Manager across the North West region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 Technical Project Manager across the North West region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Project Manager within the North West region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Cheshire	+16	11	£387	-23.42 %
Manchester	-23	1	-	-

Technical Project Manager England

Technical Project Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Technical Project 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 Technical Project Manager in their job title.

1 13 (33.33 %) Finance 2 12 (30.77 %) Project Management 3 11 (28.21 %) WAN 4 10 (25.64 %) Government 5 9 (23.08 %) LAN 6 8 (20.51 %) PRINCE2 6 8 (20.51 %) PRINCE 7 6 (15.38 %) Local Government 7 6 (15.38 %) Oracle 8 5 (12.82 %) UNIX 9 4 (10.26 %) IBM 9 4 (10.26 %) Active Directory 9 4 (10.26 %) ITIL Certification 9 4 (10.26 %) ITIL 9 4 (10.26 %) Internet

9 4 (10.26 %) Mainframe 9 4 (10.26 %) zOS 10 3 (7.692 %) Financial Institution 10 3 (7.692 %) Firewall 10 3 (7.692 %) Banking 10 3 (7.692 %) E-Commerce 10 3 (7.692 %) Java 10 3 (7.692 %) IBM Mainframe 11 2 (5.128 %) Oracle 10gAS 11 2 (5.128 %) SQL 11 2 (5.128 %) J2EE 11 2 (5.128 %) DB2 11 2 (5.128 %) Oracle 10g 11 2 (5.128 %) SSL 11 2 (5.128 %) International Banking

Technical Project Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Technical Project 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 Technical Project Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (5.128 %) J2EE 2 1 (2.564 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (2.564 %) CSS 2 1 (2.564 %) XML 2 1 (2.564 %) XSLT 2 1 (2.564 %) Middleware 2 1 (2.564 %) WebSphere 2 1 (2.564 %) HTML 2 1 (2.564 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (5.128 %) Oracle 10gAS 2 1 (2.564 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (2.564 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (2.564 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 11 (28.21 %) WAN 2 9 (23.08 %) LAN 3 4 (10.26 %) Internet 4 3 (7.692 %) Firewall 5 2 (5.128 %) SSL 6 1 (2.564 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (5.128 %) DB2 1 2 (5.128 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (2.564 %) SQL Server	General 1 13 (33.33 %) Finance 2 10 (25.64 %) Government 3 6 (15.38 %) Local Government 4 3 (7.692 %) Banking 4 3 (7.692 %) Financial Institution 5 2 (5.128 %) International Banking 6 1 (2.564 %) Pensions 6 1 (2.564 %) Telecoms 6 1 (2.564 %) Publishing
Miscellaneous 1 4 (10.26 %) Mainframe 2 3 (7.692 %) IBM Mainframe 3 1 (2.564 %) Human Factors 3 1 (2.564 %) PMI 3 1 (2.564 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 5 (12.82 %) UNIX 2 4 (10.26 %) zOS 3 1 (2.564 %) Windows 3 1 (2.564 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (30.77 %) Project Management 2 8 (20.51 %) PRINCE2 2 8 (20.51 %) PRINCE 3 4 (10.26 %) ITIL 4 3 (7.692 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (2.564 %) B2C 5 1 (2.564 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (2.564 %) UML 5 1 (2.564 %) RUP 5 1 (2.564 %) DSDM 5 1 (2.564 %) Change Management 5 1 (2.564 %) Risk Management 5 1 (2.564 %) Migration 5 1 (2.564 %) Scrum 5 1 (2.564 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (2.564 %) Content Management 5 1 (2.564 %) Supplier Management 5 1 (2.564 %) Project Planning 5 1 (2.564 %) Web Development 5 1 (2.564 %) Matrix Management	Programming Languages 1 3 (7.692 %) Java 2 2 (5.128 %) SQL 3 1 (2.564 %) ActionScript 3 1 (2.564 %) JavaScript 3 1 (2.564 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 4 (10.26 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (2.564 %) PRINCE2 Certification	System Software 1 4 (10.26 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 6 (15.38 %) Oracle 2 4 (10.26 %) IBM 3 1 (2.564 %) Sun 3 1 (2.564 %) Citrix 3 1 (2.564 %) Lotus