Northampton Project Management Contracts

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

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Amersham Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crowthorne Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Fleetwood Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenwich Guildford Gwent Hackney Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Tyneside North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	16
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	37	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.052 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	27.21 %	9.910 %
Daily rates quoted	33	7
Average minimum daily rate	£436	£354
Average daily rate	£457	£373
% change on same period last year	+22.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£477	£392
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£377
% change on same period last year	+2.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£16.50
Average hourly rate	-	£17.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.92	£28.90
% change on same period last year	+3.56 %
Processes & Methodologies Northampton
Matching contract IT job ads	136	111
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.191 %	0.112 %
Daily rates quoted	95	45
Average minimum daily rate	£437	£403
Average daily rate	£455	£432
% change on same period last year	+5.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£474	£461
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.25	£19.88
Average hourly rate	£31.50	£19.96
% change on same period last year	+57.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.75	£20.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
Project Management 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Project Management across the Northampton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies 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 Project Management across the Northampton region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 39 (70.91 %) Finance 2 33 (60.00 %) Banking 3 16 (29.09 %) Retail 3 16 (29.09 %) Stakeholder Management 4 15 (27.27 %) Retail Banking 5 14 (25.45 %) Datawarehouse 6 12 (21.82 %) Business Analysis 7 9 (16.36 %) SAS 8 8 (14.55 %) Data Modelling 8 8 (14.55 %) ERwin 9 7 (12.73 %) Data Analysis 10 6 (10.91 %) PRINCE2 11 5 (9.091 %) Marketing 11 5 (9.091 %) Project Planning 12 4 (7.273 %) Risk Management

12 4 (7.273 %) Data Mart 12 4 (7.273 %) Release Management 12 4 (7.273 %) Change Management 13 3 (5.455 %) PRINCE 13 3 (5.455 %) Windows 13 3 (5.455 %) SQL 13 3 (5.455 %) SAS Enterprise Guide 14 2 (3.636 %) Time Management 14 2 (3.636 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 14 2 (3.636 %) Credit Risk 14 2 (3.636 %) Microsoft 14 2 (3.636 %) PRINCE2 Certification 14 2 (3.636 %) Windows Server 2003 14 2 (3.636 %) Financial Institution 14 2 (3.636 %) Government

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 1 (1.818 %) SAP PI	Application Platforms 1 9 (16.36 %) SAS 2 1 (1.818 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (1.818 %) GroupWise 2 1 (1.818 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (1.818 %) MS Project 1 1 (1.818 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 1 (1.818 %) SAP FI 1 1 (1.818 %) SAP FI/CO 1 1 (1.818 %) SAP CO
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.818 %) SAN 1 1 (1.818 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (25.45 %) Datawarehouse 2 4 (7.273 %) Data Mart 3 3 (5.455 %) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications 1 8 (14.55 %) ERwin	General 1 39 (70.91 %) Finance 2 33 (60.00 %) Banking 3 16 (29.09 %) Retail 4 15 (27.27 %) Retail Banking 5 5 (9.091 %) Marketing 6 2 (3.636 %) Financial Institution 6 2 (3.636 %) Government 7 1 (1.818 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 33 (60.00 %) Project Manager 2 15 (27.27 %) Analyst 3 7 (12.73 %) Business Analyst 4 5 (9.091 %) Data Analyst 5 4 (7.273 %) Strategy Manager 5 4 (7.273 %) Data Manager 6 3 (5.455 %) SAS Analyst 7 2 (3.636 %) Change Manager 8 1 (1.818 %) Business Change Manager 8 1 (1.818 %) SAS Data Analyst 8 1 (1.818 %) Communications Manager 8 1 (1.818 %) Datawarehouse Analyst 8 1 (1.818 %) Business Manager 8 1 (1.818 %) Project Officer 8 1 (1.818 %) SAS Analyst Programmer 8 1 (1.818 %) Training Manager 8 1 (1.818 %) MI Analyst 8 1 (1.818 %) Data Programmer 8 1 (1.818 %) Debt Manager 8 1 (1.818 %) SAP FI/CO Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.636 %) Credit Risk 2 1 (1.818 %) Mainframe 2 1 (1.818 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 3 (5.455 %) Windows 2 2 (3.636 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (1.818 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (1.818 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (29.09 %) Stakeholder Management 2 12 (21.82 %) Business Analysis 3 8 (14.55 %) Data Modelling 4 7 (12.73 %) Data Analysis 5 6 (10.91 %) PRINCE2 6 5 (9.091 %) Project Planning 7 4 (7.273 %) Risk Management 7 4 (7.273 %) Change Management 7 4 (7.273 %) Release Management 8 3 (5.455 %) PRINCE 9 2 (3.636 %) Time Management 10 1 (1.818 %) Six Sigma 10 1 (1.818 %) Process Management 10 1 (1.818 %) Identity Management 10 1 (1.818 %) Data Security 10 1 (1.818 %) Security Management 10 1 (1.818 %) Migration 10 1 (1.818 %) ITIL 10 1 (1.818 %) Operations Management
Programming Languages 1 3 (5.455 %) SQL 2 1 (1.818 %) ABAP	Qualifications 1 2 (3.636 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 2 (3.636 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (1.818 %) MBA 2 1 (1.818 %) Degree 2 1 (1.818 %) MCSE 2 1 (1.818 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.818 %) QA 1 1 (1.818 %) PCI DSS	System Software 1 1 (1.818 %) Active Directory 1 1 (1.818 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 2 (3.636 %) Microsoft 2 1 (1.818 %) Dell 2 1 (1.818 %) EMC 2 1 (1.818 %) Citrix 2 1 (1.818 %) BMC 2 1 (1.818 %) VMware 2 1 (1.818 %) Altiris 2 1 (1.818 %) Syncsort 2 1 (1.818 %) SAP