Scotland Project Planning Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Planning skills within the Scotland 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 Planning over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Croydon Darlington Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Witham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	81	83
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	27	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.042 %
As % of the category below	2.292 %	2.835 %
Daily rates quoted	7	5
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£380
Average daily rate	£288	£395
% change on same period last year	-27.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£295	£410
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£349
% change on same period last year	-1.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£200.00
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£200.00
% change on same period last year	-85.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£200.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.52	£42.99
% change on same period last year	-33.64 %
Processes & Methodologies Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	1178	1305
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.511 %	1.466 %
Daily rates quoted	297	279
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£314
Average daily rate	£344	£330
% change on same period last year	+4.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£376
% change on same period last year	+2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	49	69
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.73	£27.78
Average hourly rate	£23.68	£29.43
% change on same period last year	-19.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.63	£31.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.61	£29.48
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
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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.

Project Planning
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Project Planning across the Scotland 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 Project Planning across the Scotland region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Planning across the Scotland 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 Project Planning across the Scotland region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Planning within the Scotland region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Edinburgh	+18	21	£263	-38.11 %
2	Glasgow	-2	6	£308	+53.75 %
3	West Lothian	-2	1	£376	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Project Planning 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 Project Planning.

1 18 (31.58 %) Finance 2 16 (28.07 %) Stakeholder Management 2 16 (28.07 %) Oracle 2 16 (28.07 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis 3 13 (22.81 %) MS Project 3 13 (22.81 %) PRINCE2 4 12 (21.05 %) Project Management 5 8 (14.04 %) Oracle 11i 6 7 (12.28 %) Mainframe 6 7 (12.28 %) Business Analysis 7 5 (8.772 %) Subversion 7 5 (8.772 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 5 (8.772 %) MS Excel 7 5 (8.772 %) CRM 7 5 (8.772 %) Informix

7 5 (8.772 %) MySQL 7 5 (8.772 %) JavaScript 7 5 (8.772 %) PHP 7 5 (8.772 %) Oracle CRM 8 4 (7.018 %) Oracle Payroll 8 4 (7.018 %) Pensions 9 3 (5.263 %) Government 9 3 (5.263 %) Primavera 9 3 (5.263 %) Oracle HRMS 10 2 (3.509 %) Risk Management 10 2 (3.509 %) VPN 10 2 (3.509 %) Northgate 10 2 (3.509 %) Planview 10 2 (3.509 %) Matrix Management 11 1 (1.754 %) Data Migration

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Project Planning 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 Project Planning. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (1.754 %) .NET 1 1 (1.754 %) ASP 1 1 (1.754 %) XML 1 1 (1.754 %) XSL	Applications 1 13 (22.81 %) MS Project 2 5 (8.772 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.754 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (1.754 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 8 (14.04 %) Oracle 11i 2 5 (8.772 %) Oracle CRM 3 4 (7.018 %) Oracle Payroll 4 3 (5.263 %) Oracle HRMS	Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.509 %) VPN 2 1 (1.754 %) Intranet 2 1 (1.754 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (8.772 %) Informix 1 5 (8.772 %) MySQL 2 1 (1.754 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.754 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (1.754 %) RDBMS 2 1 (1.754 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (1.754 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (1.754 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 5 (8.772 %) Subversion 2 1 (1.754 %) TestDirector
General 1 18 (31.58 %) Finance 2 4 (7.018 %) Pensions 3 3 (5.263 %) Government 4 1 (1.754 %) Banking 4 1 (1.754 %) Retail 4 1 (1.754 %) Insurance 4 1 (1.754 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (1.754 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (1.754 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 19 (33.33 %) Project Manager 2 18 (31.58 %) Analyst 3 12 (21.05 %) Oracle Analyst 4 8 (14.04 %) Project Planner 5 5 (8.772 %) Functional Analyst 6 4 (7.018 %) Web Manager 6 4 (7.018 %) Programmer 7 3 (5.263 %) Web Project Manager 8 2 (3.509 %) Business Project Manager 8 2 (3.509 %) Business Manager 8 2 (3.509 %) Oracle Consultant 8 2 (3.509 %) Administrator 8 2 (3.509 %) Analyst Programmer 8 2 (3.509 %) Project Administrator 8 2 (3.509 %) Consultant 9 1 (1.754 %) Account Manager 9 1 (1.754 %) Development Manager 9 1 (1.754 %) Delivery Project Manager 9 1 (1.754 %) IT Manager 9 1 (1.754 %) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 7 (12.28 %) Mainframe 2 1 (1.754 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 1 (1.754 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (28.07 %) Stakeholder Management 1 16 (28.07 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis 2 13 (22.81 %) PRINCE2 3 12 (21.05 %) Project Management 4 7 (12.28 %) Business Analysis 5 5 (8.772 %) CRM 6 2 (3.509 %) Risk Management 6 2 (3.509 %) Matrix Management 7 1 (1.754 %) Data Migration 7 1 (1.754 %) ITIL 7 1 (1.754 %) Migration 7 1 (1.754 %) Change Management 7 1 (1.754 %) ERP 7 1 (1.754 %) PRINCE 7 1 (1.754 %) Supplier Management 7 1 (1.754 %) Web Design 7 1 (1.754 %) Programme Management 7 1 (1.754 %) Requirements Analysis 7 1 (1.754 %) Web Development 7 1 (1.754 %) Resource Management	Programming Languages 1 5 (8.772 %) JavaScript 1 5 (8.772 %) PHP 2 1 (1.754 %) VB 2 1 (1.754 %) C#
Qualifications 1 5 (8.772 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.754 %) SLA
Vendors 1 16 (28.07 %) Oracle 2 3 (5.263 %) Primavera 3 2 (3.509 %) Northgate 3 2 (3.509 %) Planview 4 1 (1.754 %) Stellent 4 1 (1.754 %) Business Objects 4 1 (1.754 %) Microsoft