Northamptonshire MS Project Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Project skills within the Northamptonshire region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited MS Project over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Project
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ipswich Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire Windsor Witham Witney Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	18
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching contract IT job ads	4	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	7.143 %	24.53 %
Daily rates quoted	2	10
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£321
Average daily rate	£313	£360
% change on same period last year	-13.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£317
% change on same period last year	+2.31 %
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	£25.10	£23.06
% change on same period last year	+8.83 %
Applications Northamptonshire
Matching contract IT job ads	56	53
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.074 %	0.056 %
Daily rates quoted	19	16
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£327
Average daily rate	£390	£370
% change on same period last year	+5.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£416	£413
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£281
% change on same period last year	+6.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.27	£17.75
Average hourly rate	£15.60	£18.67
% change on same period last year	-16.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.93	£19.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.92	£19.17
% change on same period last year	-6.53 %
MS Project East Midlands

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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

MS Project
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MS Project across the Northamptonshire region.

MS Project
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing MS Project within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 4 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
Northampton	-18	3	£313	-19.72 %

MS Project East Midlands

MS Project
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 6 (50.00 %) BPR 1 6 (50.00 %) Local Government 1 6 (50.00 %) Government 2 5 (41.67 %) Finance 2 5 (41.67 %) Stakeholder Management 2 5 (41.67 %) MS Office 2 5 (41.67 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (25.00 %) Project Management 3 3 (25.00 %) Banking 3 3 (25.00 %) Retail 3 3 (25.00 %) Microsoft 3 3 (25.00 %) Retail Banking 4 2 (16.67 %) PRINCE 4 2 (16.67 %) MS Excel 4 2 (16.67 %) Summit

5 1 (8.333 %) Information Management 5 1 (8.333 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (8.333 %) MS Visio 5 1 (8.333 %) Niku 5 1 (8.333 %) NHS 5 1 (8.333 %) NPfIT 5 1 (8.333 %) Change Management 5 1 (8.333 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (8.333 %) Management Information System 5 1 (8.333 %) Workflow 5 1 (8.333 %) CA Clarity 5 1 (8.333 %) QA 5 1 (8.333 %) Risk Analysis 5 1 (8.333 %) Migration

MS Project
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 5 (41.67 %) MS Office 2 2 (16.67 %) MS Excel 3 1 (8.333 %) MS Visio 3 1 (8.333 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 2 (16.67 %) Summit
General 1 6 (50.00 %) Government 1 6 (50.00 %) Local Government 2 5 (41.67 %) Finance 3 3 (25.00 %) Banking 3 3 (25.00 %) Retail 3 3 (25.00 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (8.333 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 4 (33.33 %) Project Manager 2 3 (25.00 %) Analyst 3 2 (16.67 %) Business Process Analyst 3 2 (16.67 %) Process Analyst 3 2 (16.67 %) Business Analyst 4 1 (8.333 %) Programme Manager 4 1 (8.333 %) Project Leader 4 1 (8.333 %) Programme Office Manager 4 1 (8.333 %) Project Office Manager 4 1 (8.333 %) Change Analyst 4 1 (8.333 %) Programme Planner 4 1 (8.333 %) Implementation Manager 4 1 (8.333 %) Implementation Project Manager 4 1 (8.333 %) Project Office Support 4 1 (8.333 %) Business Change Analyst 4 1 (8.333 %) NHS Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 1 (8.333 %) NHS 1 1 (8.333 %) NPfIT 1 1 (8.333 %) Management Information System	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (50.00 %) BPR 2 5 (41.67 %) Stakeholder Management 2 5 (41.67 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (25.00 %) Project Management 4 2 (16.67 %) PRINCE 5 1 (8.333 %) Change Management 5 1 (8.333 %) Workflow 5 1 (8.333 %) Migration 5 1 (8.333 %) Information Management 5 1 (8.333 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (8.333 %) Risk Analysis
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (8.333 %) QA	Vendors 1 3 (25.00 %) Microsoft 2 1 (8.333 %) Niku