Oxford Project Management Contracts

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

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Amersham Andover Argyll and Bute Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Billingham Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Conwy Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Erskine Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenwich Guernsey Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewisham Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Musselburgh Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rhyl Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	14
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	10	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	6.897 %	19.66 %
Daily rates quoted	6	8
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£299
Average daily rate	£323	£305
% change on same period last year	+6.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£323	£311
UK excluding London average daily rate	£398	£381
% change on same period last year	+4.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£11.50
Average hourly rate	£40.00	£13.38
% change on same period last year	+199.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£15.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.32	£29.35
% change on same period last year	-6.89 %
Processes & Methodologies Oxford
Matching contract IT job ads	145	117
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.191 %	0.124 %
Daily rates quoted	47	24
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£315
Average daily rate	£376	£333
% change on same period last year	+13.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£411	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.75	£25.51
Average hourly rate	£23.19	£27.55
% change on same period last year	-15.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.63	£29.59
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Project Management Oxfordshire

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 Oxford 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 Oxford 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 Oxford region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 Oxford region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 7 (36.84 %) Government 1 7 (36.84 %) PRINCE2 1 7 (36.84 %) Finance 2 6 (31.58 %) Local Government 3 5 (26.32 %) Business Analysis 3 5 (26.32 %) ITIL 4 4 (21.05 %) C 5 2 (10.53 %) BPR 5 2 (10.53 %) Microsoft CRM 5 2 (10.53 %) Publishing 5 2 (10.53 %) Migration 5 2 (10.53 %) Anite 5 2 (10.53 %) Oracle 5 2 (10.53 %) DB2 5 2 (10.53 %) SAP

5 2 (10.53 %) WebServices 5 2 (10.53 %) MS Excel 5 2 (10.53 %) CRM 5 2 (10.53 %) Data Modelling 5 2 (10.53 %) Dynamics CRM 5 2 (10.53 %) Data Cleansing 6 1 (5.263 %) Degree 6 1 (5.263 %) Matrix Management 6 1 (5.263 %) Construction 6 1 (5.263 %) Education 6 1 (5.263 %) Document Management 6 1 (5.263 %) Management Information System 6 1 (5.263 %) LAN 6 1 (5.263 %) WAN 6 1 (5.263 %) Cisco

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 2 (10.53 %) WebServices	Applications 1 2 (10.53 %) MS Excel 2 1 (5.263 %) MS Project
Business Applications 1 2 (10.53 %) Microsoft CRM 1 2 (10.53 %) Dynamics CRM 2 1 (5.263 %) Oracle Financials 2 1 (5.263 %) SAP WM	Communications & Networking 1 1 (5.263 %) LAN 1 1 (5.263 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (10.53 %) DB2 1 2 (10.53 %) Data Cleansing	General 1 7 (36.84 %) Finance 1 7 (36.84 %) Government 2 6 (31.58 %) Local Government 3 2 (10.53 %) Publishing 4 1 (5.263 %) Construction 4 1 (5.263 %) Education
Job Titles 1 13 (68.42 %) Project Manager 2 4 (21.05 %) Analyst 3 3 (15.79 %) Business Analyst 4 2 (10.53 %) Business Project Manager 4 2 (10.53 %) Business Manager 5 1 (5.263 %) Web Project Manager 5 1 (5.263 %) Oracle Analyst 5 1 (5.263 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 5 1 (5.263 %) Web Manager 5 1 (5.263 %) Senior Technical Project Manager 5 1 (5.263 %) Senior Technical Manager 5 1 (5.263 %) Supply Chain Manager 5 1 (5.263 %) Systems Analyst 5 1 (5.263 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 5 1 (5.263 %) Technical Project Manager 5 1 (5.263 %) Senior Manager 5 1 (5.263 %) Senior Project Manager 5 1 (5.263 %) Project Office Manager 5 1 (5.263 %) Infrastructure Manager 5 1 (5.263 %) Technical Manager	Miscellaneous 1 1 (5.263 %) NHS 1 1 (5.263 %) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (36.84 %) PRINCE2 2 5 (26.32 %) Business Analysis 2 5 (26.32 %) ITIL 3 2 (10.53 %) CRM 3 2 (10.53 %) Data Modelling 3 2 (10.53 %) BPR 3 2 (10.53 %) Migration 4 1 (5.263 %) Document Management 4 1 (5.263 %) PRINCE 4 1 (5.263 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (5.263 %) ERP 4 1 (5.263 %) Matrix Management	Programming Languages 1 4 (21.05 %) C
Qualifications 1 1 (5.263 %) Degree	Vendors 1 2 (10.53 %) Oracle 1 2 (10.53 %) SAP 1 2 (10.53 %) Anite 2 1 (5.263 %) Cisco 2 1 (5.263 %) Microsoft