The first table below looks at the demand for the Project 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 Project Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Project Manager
Rank 17 16 19
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 68 83 89
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 8.193% 7.801% 8.420%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.912% 8.522% 9.549%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 38 57
Average daily rate £444 £369 £380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.17% -2.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £250 £296
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £660 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £405
% change year-on-year
- -1.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -14.28%
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
763 974 932
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.93% 91.54% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 323 416
Average daily rate £375 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £215 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 55 39
Average hourly rate £17.50 £15.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.90% +10.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £11.00 £10.34
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £20.40 £33.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Project Manager
Berkshire

Project Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Project Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Project Manager Daily Rate Trend

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Manager across the Reading region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Reading Project Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Project Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Project Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 56 (50.45%) Project Management
2 38 (34.23%) PRINCE2
3 33 (29.73%) Telecoms
4 24 (21.62%) PMP
5 23 (20.72%) PMI Certification
6 18 (16.22%) Finance
7 17 (15.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (9.910%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 10 (9.009%) Degree
10 9 (8.108%) BSS
10 9 (8.108%) Migration
10 9 (8.108%) PRINCE
10 9 (8.108%) Microsoft
10 9 (8.108%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (7.207%) MS Excel
11 8 (7.207%) MS Project
11 8 (7.207%) Marketing
12 7 (6.306%) Security Cleared
12 7 (6.306%) SC Cleared
12 7 (6.306%) MS PowerPoint
12 7 (6.306%) 3G
12 7 (6.306%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (6.306%) MS Visio
13 6 (5.405%) ATM
13 6 (5.405%) HTML
13 6 (5.405%) PMI
13 6 (5.405%) Niku
13 6 (5.405%) Configuration Management
13 6 (5.405%) Games
13 6 (5.405%) Publishing

Project Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 6 (5.405%) HTML
2 5 (4.505%) jQuery
2 5 (4.505%) CSS
3 3 (2.703%) COM
4 1 (0.901%) HTML5
4 1 (0.901%) XML
4 1 (0.901%) Flash
4 1 (0.901%) Apache Flex
Application Platforms
1 5 (4.505%) CMS
1 5 (4.505%) MS Project Server
2 3 (2.703%) Lync
Applications
1 8 (7.207%) MS Excel
1 8 (7.207%) MS Project
2 7 (6.306%) MS PowerPoint
2 7 (6.306%) MS Visio
3 5 (4.505%) MS Office
4 1 (0.901%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.901%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.901%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 2 (1.802%) ResourceLink
2 1 (0.901%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.901%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.108%) BSS
2 7 (6.306%) 3G
3 6 (5.405%) ATM
3 6 (5.405%) 2G
4 4 (3.604%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (2.703%) SDH
6 2 (1.802%) GSM
6 2 (1.802%) VPN
6 2 (1.802%) DWDM
6 2 (1.802%) DSL
6 2 (1.802%) Wireless
7 1 (0.901%) LTE
7 1 (0.901%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.901%) 4G
7 1 (0.901%) Internet
7 1 (0.901%) LAN
7 1 (0.901%) UMTS
7 1 (0.901%) WAN
7 1 (0.901%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.306%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.604%) GIS
3 1 (0.901%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.901%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.901%) SAP BI
General
1 33 (29.73%) Telecoms
2 18 (16.22%) Finance
3 8 (7.207%) Marketing
4 6 (5.405%) Publishing
4 6 (5.405%) Games
5 2 (1.802%) Retail
6 1 (0.901%) Billing
6 1 (0.901%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.405%) PMI
2 1 (0.901%) BBC
2 1 (0.901%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.802%) Windows
1 2 (1.802%) Windows 7
2 1 (0.901%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.901%) Android
2 1 (0.901%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (50.45%) Project Management
2 38 (34.23%) PRINCE2
3 17 (15.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (8.108%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (8.108%) PRINCE
4 9 (8.108%) Migration
5 6 (5.405%) Configuration Management
5 6 (5.405%) Resource Management
6 5 (4.505%) Project Planning
6 5 (4.505%) Risk Management
6 5 (4.505%) Web Development
7 4 (3.604%) Change Control
7 4 (3.604%) Time Management
7 4 (3.604%) Change Management
7 4 (3.604%) E-Commerce
7 4 (3.604%) Digital Marketing
8 3 (2.703%) Data Management
8 3 (2.703%) Quality Management
8 3 (2.703%) Mobile Device Management
9 2 (1.802%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.604%) JavaScript
2 2 (1.802%) Java
3 1 (0.901%) C++
3 1 (0.901%) ActionScript
3 1 (0.901%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 24 (21.62%) PMP
2 23 (20.72%) PMI Certification
3 11 (9.910%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 10 (9.009%) Degree
5 7 (6.306%) SC Cleared
5 7 (6.306%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.703%) ISEB
7 2 (1.802%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.901%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.901%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.505%) QA
2 1 (0.901%) SLA
Vendors
1 9 (8.108%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.405%) Niku
3 3 (2.703%) SAP
4 2 (1.802%) Oracle
5 1 (0.901%) Adobe
5 1 (0.901%) Ericsson
5 1 (0.901%) Sony
5 1 (0.901%) Yahoo!
5 1 (0.901%) Huawei
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