Reading Project Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Project Manager role in IT contracts within the Reading region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Project Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Argyll and Bute Aylesbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Darlington Deeside Denbigh Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Flintshire Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hayes Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Johnstone Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rhyl Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Ruislip Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	14
Rank change on same period last year	-30
Matching contract IT job ads	30	71
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.040 %	0.075 %
As % of the category below	3.165 %	7.760 %
Daily rates quoted	12	18
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£370
Average daily rate	£378	£391
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£414	£411
UK excluding London average daily rate	£416	£407
% change on same period last year	+2.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£35.59
Average hourly rate	£22.67	£38.06
% change on same period last year	-40.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.33	£40.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.45	£35.43
% change on same period last year	-5.58 %
Job Titles Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	948	915
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.250 %	0.971 %
Daily rates quoted	279	254
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£324
Average daily rate	£340	£344
% change on same period last year	-1.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	92	84
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.28	£29.02
Average hourly rate	£22.98	£30.67
% change on same period last year	-25.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.69	£32.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Project Manager 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 Manager across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Manager 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 Manager across the Reading 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 Manager across the Reading region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Manager across the Reading region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited Project 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 Project Manager in their job title.

1 27 (42.86 %) Project Management 2 22 (34.92 %) Finance 3 21 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 4 15 (23.81 %) Telecoms 5 11 (17.46 %) Microsoft 6 10 (15.87 %) Government 7 8 (12.70 %) SAN 8 7 (11.11 %) Management Information System 8 7 (11.11 %) MS Excel 9 6 (9.524 %) PRINCE 10 5 (7.937 %) Internet 10 5 (7.937 %) Change Management 10 5 (7.937 %) Business Intelligence 10 5 (7.937 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 11 4 (6.349 %) Marketing

11 4 (6.349 %) Migration 11 4 (6.349 %) CRM 11 4 (6.349 %) Datawarehouse 12 3 (4.762 %) MS Project 12 3 (4.762 %) PRINCE2 Certification 12 3 (4.762 %) Cisco 12 3 (4.762 %) Programme Management 12 3 (4.762 %) MS PowerPoint 12 3 (4.762 %) Product Marketing 12 3 (4.762 %) Security Cleared 13 2 (3.175 %) SC Cleared 13 2 (3.175 %) Pensions 13 2 (3.175 %) Release Management 13 2 (3.175 %) User Acceptance Testing 13 2 (3.175 %) Data Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited Project 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 Project Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (1.587 %) HTML 1 1 (1.587 %) .NET 1 1 (1.587 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (1.587 %) XML 1 1 (1.587 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.587 %) CMS
Applications 1 7 (11.11 %) MS Excel 2 3 (4.762 %) MS PowerPoint 2 3 (4.762 %) MS Project 3 2 (3.175 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (1.587 %) Oracle Financials 1 1 (1.587 %) Microsoft CRM 1 1 (1.587 %) SAP R/3 1 1 (1.587 %) Oracle HRMS 1 1 (1.587 %) Oracle Applications 1 1 (1.587 %) HFM 1 1 (1.587 %) Hyperion Enterprise
Communications & Networking 1 8 (12.70 %) SAN 2 5 (7.937 %) Internet 3 1 (1.587 %) GGSN 3 1 (1.587 %) SGSN 3 1 (1.587 %) Broadband	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (6.349 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (1.587 %) ETL 2 1 (1.587 %) SAP BW
General 1 22 (34.92 %) Finance 2 15 (23.81 %) Telecoms 3 10 (15.87 %) Government 4 4 (6.349 %) Marketing 5 2 (3.175 %) Pensions 6 1 (1.587 %) FMCG 6 1 (1.587 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (1.587 %) Construction	Miscellaneous 1 7 (11.11 %) Management Information System 2 1 (1.587 %) IVR 2 1 (1.587 %) French Language 2 1 (1.587 %) German Language 2 1 (1.587 %) Spanish Language 2 1 (1.587 %) CMDB 2 1 (1.587 %) PMI 2 1 (1.587 %) DTV
Operating Systems 1 2 (3.175 %) Windows 1 2 (3.175 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 27 (42.86 %) Project Management 2 21 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 3 6 (9.524 %) PRINCE 4 5 (7.937 %) Business Intelligence 4 5 (7.937 %) Change Management 5 4 (6.349 %) Migration 5 4 (6.349 %) CRM 6 3 (4.762 %) Programme Management 6 3 (4.762 %) Product Marketing 6 3 (4.762 %) Security Cleared 7 2 (3.175 %) SC Cleared 7 2 (3.175 %) Release Management 7 2 (3.175 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 2 (3.175 %) Data Management 7 2 (3.175 %) Content Management 7 2 (3.175 %) ERP 7 2 (3.175 %) ITIL 7 2 (3.175 %) Risk Management 7 2 (3.175 %) Workflow 7 2 (3.175 %) Contact Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (1.587 %) C 1 1 (1.587 %) C#	Qualifications 1 5 (7.937 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 3 (4.762 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 2 (3.175 %) ITIL Certification 4 1 (1.587 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.587 %) SLA 1 1 (1.587 %) QA	System Software 1 2 (3.175 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 11 (17.46 %) Microsoft 2 3 (4.762 %) Cisco 3 2 (3.175 %) Oracle 4 1 (1.587 %) SAP 4 1 (1.587 %) IBM 4 1 (1.587 %) HP 4 1 (1.587 %) Hyperion 4 1 (1.587 %) Accenture 4 1 (1.587 %) Ab Initio 4 1 (1.587 %) Atos Origin