Reading Project Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Project Management skills within the Reading 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 Management over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Amersham Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crowthorne Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Fleetwood Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenwich Guildford Gwent Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Tyneside North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	20
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	54	69
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.075 %	0.069 %
As % of the category below	9.457 %	10.80 %
Daily rates quoted	15	33
Average minimum daily rate	£381	£375
Average daily rate	£398	£390
% change on same period last year	+1.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£415	£405
UK excluding London average daily rate	£388	£382
% change on same period last year	+1.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£50.00	£33.53
Average hourly rate	£52.50	£36.24
% change on same period last year	+44.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£55.00	£38.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.42	£29.35
% change on same period last year	+0.27 %
Processes & Methodologies Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	571	639
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.798 %	0.642 %
Daily rates quoted	155	263
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£359
Average daily rate	£389	£390
% change on same period last year	-0.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£421
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£372
% change on same period last year	+1.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	46	81
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.80	£31.62
Average hourly rate	£35.78	£33.50
% change on same period last year	+6.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.76	£35.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.30	£30.27
% change on same period last year	-3.20 %
Project Management Berkshire

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 Reading 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 Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 6 October 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 Reading region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 24 (25.53 %) PRINCE2 2 23 (24.47 %) Telecoms 3 21 (22.34 %) Microsoft 4 19 (20.21 %) PRINCE 5 17 (18.09 %) Government 6 15 (15.96 %) Finance 7 14 (14.89 %) PRINCE2 Certification 8 13 (13.83 %) ITIL 9 12 (12.77 %) MS Project 10 9 (9.574 %) UNIX 10 9 (9.574 %) MS Excel 11 8 (8.511 %) Windows 11 8 (8.511 %) MS Office 11 8 (8.511 %) Migration 12 7 (7.447 %) Service Delivery

13 6 (6.383 %) Cisco 13 6 (6.383 %) Network Planning 14 5 (5.319 %) Marketing 14 5 (5.319 %) QA 14 5 (5.319 %) CMDB 14 5 (5.319 %) SAN 14 5 (5.319 %) Java 14 5 (5.319 %) Configuration Management 14 5 (5.319 %) Service Management 14 5 (5.319 %) HSDPA 14 5 (5.319 %) Stakeholder Management 15 4 (4.255 %) Clustering 15 4 (4.255 %) SoftGrid 15 4 (4.255 %) Change Management 15 4 (4.255 %) J2EE

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 4 (4.255 %) J2EE 1 4 (4.255 %) CSS 2 3 (3.191 %) WebSphere 3 2 (2.128 %) HTML 3 2 (2.128 %) .NET 4 1 (1.064 %) WebServices 4 1 (1.064 %) XML 4 1 (1.064 %) XHTML 4 1 (1.064 %) WSH 4 1 (1.064 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.064 %) SharePoint 1 1 (1.064 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (1.064 %) Documentum 1 1 (1.064 %) CMS 1 1 (1.064 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 1 (1.064 %) ESB 1 1 (1.064 %) Office Project Server
Applications 1 12 (12.77 %) MS Project 2 9 (9.574 %) MS Excel 3 8 (8.511 %) MS Office 4 4 (4.255 %) MS Visio 4 4 (4.255 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 4 (4.255 %) SoftGrid 2 1 (1.064 %) HFM 2 1 (1.064 %) Hyperion Enterprise 2 1 (1.064 %) Oracle Financials 2 1 (1.064 %) SAP SD 2 1 (1.064 %) BusinessWorks 2 1 (1.064 %) Singl.eView 2 1 (1.064 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 5 (5.319 %) SAN 1 5 (5.319 %) HSDPA 2 3 (3.191 %) LAN 3 2 (2.128 %) VoIP 3 2 (2.128 %) MPLS 4 1 (1.064 %) Firewall 4 1 (1.064 %) Internet 4 1 (1.064 %) GGSN 4 1 (1.064 %) SGSN 4 1 (1.064 %) WAN 4 1 (1.064 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (1.064 %) DNS 4 1 (1.064 %) SDH 4 1 (1.064 %) ATM 4 1 (1.064 %) Broadband 4 1 (1.064 %) ISDN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (2.128 %) DB2 2 1 (1.064 %) Informix 2 1 (1.064 %) MS Access 2 1 (1.064 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (1.064 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (1.064 %) GIS 2 1 (1.064 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (1.064 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 1 (1.064 %) TestDirector	General 1 23 (24.47 %) Telecoms 2 17 (18.09 %) Government 3 15 (15.96 %) Finance 4 5 (5.319 %) Marketing 5 3 (3.191 %) Billing 6 2 (2.128 %) FMCG 6 2 (2.128 %) Construction 6 2 (2.128 %) Multimedia 7 1 (1.064 %) Telemarketing 7 1 (1.064 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 36 (38.30 %) Project Manager 2 12 (12.77 %) Coordinator 3 10 (10.64 %) Analyst 4 8 (8.511 %) Architect 5 7 (7.447 %) Business Analyst 6 5 (5.319 %) Senior Project Manager 6 5 (5.319 %) Senior Manager 6 5 (5.319 %) Programme Coordinator 7 4 (4.255 %) Project Coordinator 7 4 (4.255 %) Infrastructure Architect 7 4 (4.255 %) Junior 8 3 (3.191 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 8 3 (3.191 %) Project Leader 8 3 (3.191 %) Change Analyst 8 3 (3.191 %) Team Leader 8 3 (3.191 %) Infrastructure Manager 8 3 (3.191 %) Business Change Analyst 9 2 (2.128 %) Deployment Engineer 9 2 (2.128 %) Financial Business Analyst 9 2 (2.128 %) Service Management Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 5 (5.319 %) CMDB 2 4 (4.255 %) Clustering 3 3 (3.191 %) Management Information System 4 2 (2.128 %) Replication 4 2 (2.128 %) N-Tier 4 2 (2.128 %) PMI 5 1 (1.064 %) CLARiiON
Operating Systems 1 9 (9.574 %) UNIX 2 8 (8.511 %) Windows 3 3 (3.191 %) HPUX 3 3 (3.191 %) Solaris 3 3 (3.191 %) Windows 2000 3 3 (3.191 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (2.128 %) Windows Vista 4 2 (2.128 %) AIX 5 1 (1.064 %) Windows Server 2008	Processes & Methodologies 1 24 (25.53 %) PRINCE2 2 19 (20.21 %) PRINCE 3 13 (13.83 %) ITIL 4 8 (8.511 %) Migration 5 7 (7.447 %) Service Delivery 6 6 (6.383 %) Network Planning 7 5 (5.319 %) Stakeholder Management 7 5 (5.319 %) Configuration Management 7 5 (5.319 %) Service Management 8 4 (4.255 %) Change Management 8 4 (4.255 %) Agile Software Development 8 4 (4.255 %) Project Planning 9 3 (3.191 %) Release Management 9 3 (3.191 %) Asset Management 9 3 (3.191 %) Workflow 9 3 (3.191 %) UML 9 3 (3.191 %) Business Intelligence 9 3 (3.191 %) Product Marketing 9 3 (3.191 %) Performance Management 10 2 (2.128 %) Load Balancing
Programming Languages 1 5 (5.319 %) Java 2 2 (2.128 %) C 2 2 (2.128 %) C# 2 2 (2.128 %) SQL 2 2 (2.128 %) Shell Script 3 1 (1.064 %) AWK 3 1 (1.064 %) PowerShell 3 1 (1.064 %) VBScript 3 1 (1.064 %) JavaScript 3 1 (1.064 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 14 (14.89 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 3 (3.191 %) Degree 3 2 (2.128 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 1 (1.064 %) PMP 4 1 (1.064 %) PMI Certification 4 1 (1.064 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (5.319 %) QA 2 3 (3.191 %) ISO9000 2 3 (3.191 %) SLA	System Software 1 4 (4.255 %) Active Directory 2 2 (2.128 %) Terminal Services 3 1 (1.064 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 4 (4.255 %) SCCM 2 2 (2.128 %) CONTROL-M 2 2 (2.128 %) Tivoli 3 1 (1.064 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 1 (1.064 %) OpenView 3 1 (1.064 %) Unicenter 3 1 (1.064 %) MIIS 3 1 (1.064 %) OVSD	Vendors 1 21 (22.34 %) Microsoft 2 6 (6.383 %) Cisco 3 4 (4.255 %) Oracle 3 4 (4.255 %) SAP 4 3 (3.191 %) HP 5 2 (2.128 %) IBM 5 2 (2.128 %) Citrix 5 2 (2.128 %) VMware 6 1 (1.064 %) Atos Origin 6 1 (1.064 %) CA 6 1 (1.064 %) Hyperion 6 1 (1.064 %) Nokia 6 1 (1.064 %) VERITAS 6 1 (1.064 %) TIBCO 6 1 (1.064 %) Accenture 6 1 (1.064 %) EMC 6 1 (1.064 %) Cognos 6 1 (1.064 %) Business Objects