Northamptonshire Project Planning Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Project Planning skills within the Northamptonshire 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 Planning over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Project Planning
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	39
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	10	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	5.650 %	1.010 %
Daily rates quoted	10	1
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£650
Average daily rate	£393	£675
% change on same period last year	-41.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£410	£700
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£353
% change on same period last year	-4.60 %
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	£28.25	£33.29
% change on same period last year	-15.13 %
Processes & Methodologies Northamptonshire
Matching contract IT job ads	177	198
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.250 %	0.200 %
Daily rates quoted	121	73
Average minimum daily rate	£428	£372
Average daily rate	£447	£396
% change on same period last year	+12.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£466	£421
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.64	£24.63
Average hourly rate	£37.21	£27.29
% change on same period last year	+36.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.79	£29.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.42	£29.97
% change on same period last year	-1.81 %
Project Planning 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.

Project Planning
Demand Trend

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

Project Planning
Daily Rate Trend

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

Project Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Planning across the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

Project Planning
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Planning within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 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	+5	8	£416	-38.42 %

Project Planning East Midlands

Project Planning
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire region citing Project Planning 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 Planning.

1 11 (91.67 %) Finance 2 6 (50.00 %) Banking 2 6 (50.00 %) Project Management 3 5 (41.67 %) MS Project 4 4 (33.33 %) Retail 4 4 (33.33 %) Stakeholder Management 4 4 (33.33 %) Release Management 4 4 (33.33 %) Risk Management 5 2 (16.67 %) Retail Banking 6 1 (8.333 %) Open Workbench 6 1 (8.333 %) CA Clarity 6 1 (8.333 %) Spreadsheet 6 1 (8.333 %) Programme Office Management 6 1 (8.333 %) Insurance 6 1 (8.333 %) MS Office

6 1 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (8.333 %) Microsoft 6 1 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 1 (8.333 %) PRINCE 6 1 (8.333 %) Change Management

Project Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire region citing Project Planning 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 Planning. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 5 (41.67 %) MS Project 2 1 (8.333 %) MS Office 2 1 (8.333 %) Open Workbench 2 1 (8.333 %) CA Clarity 2 1 (8.333 %) Spreadsheet	General 1 11 (91.67 %) Finance 2 6 (50.00 %) Banking 3 4 (33.33 %) Retail 4 2 (16.67 %) Retail Banking 5 1 (8.333 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 5 (41.67 %) Project Manager 2 1 (8.333 %) Project Planner 2 1 (8.333 %) Change Manager 2 1 (8.333 %) Delivery Manager 2 1 (8.333 %) Debt Manager 2 1 (8.333 %) PMO Assistant	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (50.00 %) Project Management 2 4 (33.33 %) Risk Management 2 4 (33.33 %) Stakeholder Management 2 4 (33.33 %) Release Management 3 1 (8.333 %) Programme Office Management 3 1 (8.333 %) Change Management 3 1 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (8.333 %) PRINCE
Qualifications 1 1 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Vendors 1 1 (8.333 %) Microsoft