Preston Programme Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Programme Management skills within the Preston region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Programme Management over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Amersham Andover Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	10
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	7	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	14.00 %	2.941 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£590	-
Average daily rate	£590	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£590	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£424	£427
% change on same period last year	-0.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.00	-
Average hourly rate	£33.75	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.64	£35.21
% change on same period last year	-21.50 %
Processes & Methodologies Preston
Matching contract IT job ads	50	34
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.064 %	0.038 %
Daily rates quoted	13	2
Average minimum daily rate	£369	£290
Average daily rate	£387	£295
% change on same period last year	+31.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£406	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.97	£21.80
Average hourly rate	£25.75	£23.20
% change on same period last year	+11.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.54	£24.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.72	£29.49
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Programme Management Lancashire

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Programme Management across the Preston 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Programme Management across the Preston region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Programme Management across the Preston region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Programme Management across the Preston region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Programme Management across the Preston region over the past 3 months.

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Top 7 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Preston region citing Programme Management also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Programme Management.

1 5 (71.43 %) Siebel 2 4 (57.14 %) Government 3 3 (42.86 %) Supplier Management 4 2 (28.57 %) Change Management 5 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (14.29 %) Service Management 5 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 Certification

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Preston region citing Programme Management also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Programme Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 4 (57.14 %) Government	Job Titles 1 3 (42.86 %) Programme Manager 2 2 (28.57 %) Business Manager 3 1 (14.29 %) Release Manager
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (42.86 %) Supplier Management 2 2 (28.57 %) Change Management 3 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (14.29 %) Service Management	Qualifications 1 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Vendors 1 5 (71.43 %) Siebel