Scotland Technical Project Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Technical Project Manager role in IT contracts within the Scotland 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 Technical Project Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Project Manager
Location Barnsley Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Denbighshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Fife Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Rhyl Sandwich Scotland Sheffield South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wetherby Wiltshire Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	99	123
Rank change on same period last year	+24
Matching contract IT job ads	4	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.163 %	0.268 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£325
Average daily rate	£360	£333
% change on same period last year	+8.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£423	£415
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.00	£38.25
% change on same period last year	+1.96 %
Job Titles Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	2460	3356
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.244 %	3.560 %
Daily rates quoted	520	638
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£307
Average daily rate	£328	£322
% change on same period last year	+1.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	159	214
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.75	£18.40
Average hourly rate	£20.37	£19.54
% change on same period last year	+4.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.00	£20.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Technical Project Manager UK

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.

Technical Project Manager
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Project Manager across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Technical Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Technical Project Manager within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Glasgow	+10	2	£360	+44.00 %
Edinburgh	+11	1	-	-
Fife	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 9 (50.00 %) Project Management 2 6 (33.33 %) Migration 3 5 (27.78 %) Java 3 5 (27.78 %) Unix 3 5 (27.78 %) XML 3 5 (27.78 %) Linux 4 4 (22.22 %) XSLT 4 4 (22.22 %) MQSeries 4 4 (22.22 %) JMS 4 4 (22.22 %) Oracle 4 4 (22.22 %) XQuery 4 4 (22.22 %) PRINCE2 4 4 (22.22 %) XPath 4 4 (22.22 %) Finance 5 3 (16.67 %) Stakeholder Management

5 3 (16.67 %) Supplier Management 5 3 (16.67 %) WAN 5 3 (16.67 %) Microsoft 5 3 (16.67 %) LAN 6 2 (11.11 %) SAP 6 2 (11.11 %) SQL 6 2 (11.11 %) HP 6 2 (11.11 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 2 (11.11 %) SAN 6 2 (11.11 %) Banking 6 2 (11.11 %) Video Conferencing 7 1 (5.556 %) Data Migration 7 1 (5.556 %) Data Integration 7 1 (5.556 %) Computer Science 7 1 (5.556 %) Wealth Management

Technical Project Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 5 (27.78 %) XML 2 4 (22.22 %) XSLT 2 4 (22.22 %) JMS 3 1 (5.556 %) FpML 3 1 (5.556 %) Saxon XSLT	Application Platforms 1 4 (22.22 %) MQSeries
Communications & Networking 1 3 (16.67 %) LAN 1 3 (16.67 %) WAN 2 2 (11.11 %) SAN 3 1 (5.556 %) FTP 3 1 (5.556 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (5.556 %) UniData
General 1 4 (22.22 %) Finance 2 2 (11.11 %) Banking 3 1 (5.556 %) Investment Banking 3 1 (5.556 %) Insurance 3 1 (5.556 %) Pensions	Miscellaneous 1 2 (11.11 %) Video Conferencing 2 1 (5.556 %) Data Integration 2 1 (5.556 %) Derivative 2 1 (5.556 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 5 (27.78 %) Unix 1 5 (27.78 %) Linux 2 1 (5.556 %) Windows 2 1 (5.556 %) HPUX 2 1 (5.556 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (50.00 %) Project Management 2 6 (33.33 %) Migration 3 4 (22.22 %) PRINCE2 4 3 (16.67 %) Stakeholder Management 4 3 (16.67 %) Supplier Management 5 1 (5.556 %) Wealth Management 5 1 (5.556 %) Investment Management 5 1 (5.556 %) Data Migration 5 1 (5.556 %) ITIL 5 1 (5.556 %) Business Continuity 5 1 (5.556 %) Disaster Recovery 5 1 (5.556 %) OO 5 1 (5.556 %) ERP 5 1 (5.556 %) RDF 5 1 (5.556 %) PRINCE
Programming Languages 1 5 (27.78 %) Java 2 4 (22.22 %) XQuery 2 4 (22.22 %) XPath 3 2 (11.11 %) SQL 4 1 (5.556 %) UniBasic	Qualifications 1 2 (11.11 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (5.556 %) ITIL Certification
Vendors 1 4 (22.22 %) Oracle 2 3 (16.67 %) Microsoft 3 2 (11.11 %) HP 3 2 (11.11 %) SAP 4 1 (5.556 %) PolarLake