The first table below looks at the demand for the Programme Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Programme Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Reading region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Programme Manager
Rank 62 74 66
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Manager 9 9 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.029% 0.782% 1.186%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.128% 0.851% 1.368%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 6
Average daily rate £525 £588 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.63% -2.08%
UK excluding London average daily rate £521 £500 £600
% change year-on-year
+4.10% -16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 £38.98 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+21.85% +3.94%
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
798 1058 877
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.20% 91.92% 86.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 367 395
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 53 39
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.38 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.50 £27.50 £22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Programme Manager
Berkshire

Programme Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Programme Manager across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Reading Programme Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Programme Manager
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Programme Manager across the Reading region.

Reading Programme Manager Daily Rate Trend

Programme Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Programme Manager across the Reading region.

Reading Programme Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Programme Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited Programme Manager in their job title 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 with Programme Manager in their job title.

1 5 (33.33%) Finance
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (26.67%) Project Management
3 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 3 (20.00%) Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 2 (13.33%) Supplier Management
4 2 (13.33%) MS Project
4 2 (13.33%) MS Office
4 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) Time Management
4 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (6.667%) Marketing Strategy
5 1 (6.667%) Master Data Management
5 1 (6.667%) Mobile App
5 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (6.667%) Data Migration
5 1 (6.667%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (6.667%) SAP Implementation
5 1 (6.667%) Data Architecture
5 1 (6.667%) LTE
5 1 (6.667%) 2G
5 1 (6.667%) SAP
5 1 (6.667%) Service Delivery
5 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
5 1 (6.667%) CRM
5 1 (6.667%) Siebel

Programme Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited Programme Manager in their job title 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 with Programme Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS Project
1 2 (13.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) 3G
1 1 (6.667%) 2G
1 1 (6.667%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) Data Warehouse
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.667%) Retail
3 1 (6.667%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.667%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Project Management
1 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (20.00%) Programme Management
2 3 (20.00%) Migration
2 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (13.33%) ITIL
3 2 (13.33%) Supplier Management
3 2 (13.33%) Time Management
3 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (6.667%) Marketing Strategy
4 1 (6.667%) Master Data Management
4 1 (6.667%) Data Migration
4 1 (6.667%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (6.667%) Data Architecture
4 1 (6.667%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (6.667%) Matrix Management
4 1 (6.667%) SAP Implementation
4 1 (6.667%) Data Management
4 1 (6.667%) Information Management
4 1 (6.667%) Information Security
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.667%) PMP
3 1 (6.667%) PMI Certification
3 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Vendors
1 1 (6.667%) SAP
1 1 (6.667%) Siebel
1 1 (6.667%) Salesforce.com
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