Northampton MS Project Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Project skills within the Northampton region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Project over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Project
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	25
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	5	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	17.86 %	9.524 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£213
Average daily rate	£300	£225
% change on same period last year	+33.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£238
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£314
% change on same period last year	-5.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.66	£28.71
% change on same period last year	-14.10 %
Applications Northampton
Matching contract IT job ads	28	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.021 %
Daily rates quoted	6	3
Average minimum daily rate	£308	£213
Average daily rate	£329	£225
% change on same period last year	+46.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£238
UK excluding London average daily rate	£293	£280
% change on same period last year	+4.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.13	£18.38
Average hourly rate	£13.69	£19.13
% change on same period last year	-28.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.25	£19.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.53	£19.52
% change on same period last year	-5.07 %
MS Project Northamptonshire

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.

MS Project
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Project across the Northampton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

MS Project
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MS Project across the Northampton region.

MS Project
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the Northampton region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

MS Project
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northampton region citing MS Project 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 MS Project.

1 7 (87.50 %) Finance 2 4 (50.00 %) Banking 2 4 (50.00 %) Retail 2 4 (50.00 %) Retail Banking 3 3 (37.50 %) Project Planning 3 3 (37.50 %) MS Office 4 2 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (25.00 %) Stakeholder Management 4 2 (25.00 %) PRINCE 4 2 (25.00 %) Spreadsheet 5 1 (12.50 %) CA Clarity 5 1 (12.50 %) MS PowerPoint 5 1 (12.50 %) Intranet 5 1 (12.50 %) Internet 5 1 (12.50 %) Niku

5 1 (12.50 %) BPR 5 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 5 1 (12.50 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (12.50 %) GAP Analysis 5 1 (12.50 %) MS Excel 5 1 (12.50 %) MS Visio

MS Project
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northampton region citing MS Project 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 MS Project. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) MS Office 2 2 (25.00 %) Spreadsheet 3 1 (12.50 %) MS Excel 3 1 (12.50 %) MS Visio 3 1 (12.50 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (12.50 %) CA Clarity	Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) Intranet 1 1 (12.50 %) Internet
General 1 7 (87.50 %) Finance 2 4 (50.00 %) Banking 2 4 (50.00 %) Retail 2 4 (50.00 %) Retail Banking 3 1 (12.50 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 1 (12.50 %) Project Manager 1 1 (12.50 %) Analyst 1 1 (12.50 %) Process Analyst 1 1 (12.50 %) Project Support Officer 1 1 (12.50 %) Project Office Manager 1 1 (12.50 %) Programme Planner 1 1 (12.50 %) Project Office Support 1 1 (12.50 %) Project Officer
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Project Planning 2 2 (25.00 %) Stakeholder Management 2 2 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 2 2 (25.00 %) PRINCE 3 1 (12.50 %) BPR 3 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 3 1 (12.50 %) GAP Analysis	Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Niku