Shropshire MS Project Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Project skills within the Shropshire region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Project over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Project
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Beckenham Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Salford Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weymouth Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witney Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	27
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	12	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	27.91 %	8.696 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£400	-
Average daily rate	£419	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£438	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£330
% change on same period last year	-2.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£20.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.72	£27.52
% change on same period last year	-10.19 %
Applications Shropshire
Matching contract IT job ads	43	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.057 %	0.023 %
Daily rates quoted	14	5
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£224
Average daily rate	£372	£241
% change on same period last year	+54.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£386	£259
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£289
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£11.68
Average hourly rate	£25.75	£13.04
% change on same period last year	+97.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.50	£14.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.61	£19.51
% change on same period last year	-4.60 %
MS Project West Midlands

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.

MS Project
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Project across the Shropshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

MS Project
Daily Rate Trend

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

MS Project
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Project
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the Shropshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

MS Project
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Project within the Shropshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Telford	-2	10	£419	-

MS Project West Midlands

MS Project
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Shropshire region citing MS Project 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 MS Project.

1 15 (68.18 %) Project Management 2 14 (63.64 %) Security Cleared 3 10 (45.45 %) MS Excel 4 9 (40.91 %) SC Cleared 5 8 (36.36 %) MS PowerPoint 5 8 (36.36 %) Finance 6 6 (27.27 %) Microsoft 6 6 (27.27 %) ITIL 7 5 (22.73 %) Government 8 4 (18.18 %) Insurance 8 4 (18.18 %) PRINCE2 8 4 (18.18 %) MS Office 8 4 (18.18 %) SAP 9 3 (13.64 %) Business Intelligence 9 3 (13.64 %) Project Planning

9 3 (13.64 %) Pensions 9 3 (13.64 %) Performance Management 10 2 (9.091 %) RMADS 10 2 (9.091 %) ISO27001 10 2 (9.091 %) IIS 10 2 (9.091 %) PMI 11 1 (4.545 %) Risk Management 11 1 (4.545 %) Telecoms 11 1 (4.545 %) RUP 11 1 (4.545 %) CA Clarity 11 1 (4.545 %) Risk Assessment 11 1 (4.545 %) CTC Cleared

MS Project
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Shropshire region citing MS Project 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 MS Project. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (9.091 %) IIS	Applications 1 10 (45.45 %) MS Excel 2 8 (36.36 %) MS PowerPoint 3 4 (18.18 %) MS Office 4 1 (4.545 %) CA Clarity
General 1 8 (36.36 %) Finance 2 5 (22.73 %) Government 3 4 (18.18 %) Insurance 4 3 (13.64 %) Pensions 5 1 (4.545 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 9 (40.91 %) Analyst 2 6 (27.27 %) Project Controller 3 3 (13.64 %) MI Analyst 3 3 (13.64 %) Report Analyst 4 2 (9.091 %) Coordinator 4 2 (9.091 %) Project Coordinator 4 2 (9.091 %) Process Analyst 5 1 (4.545 %) Project Administrator 5 1 (4.545 %) Junior Project Manager 5 1 (4.545 %) Project Analyst 5 1 (4.545 %) Implementation Manager 5 1 (4.545 %) Project Support Analyst 5 1 (4.545 %) Risk Analyst 5 1 (4.545 %) Security Risk Analyst 5 1 (4.545 %) Process Manager 5 1 (4.545 %) Project Manager 5 1 (4.545 %) Business Analyst 5 1 (4.545 %) Junior 5 1 (4.545 %) Release Manager 5 1 (4.545 %) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 2 (9.091 %) PMI 1 2 (9.091 %) RMADS	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (68.18 %) Project Management 2 14 (63.64 %) Security Cleared 3 9 (40.91 %) SC Cleared 4 6 (27.27 %) ITIL 5 4 (18.18 %) PRINCE2 6 3 (13.64 %) Project Planning 6 3 (13.64 %) Performance Management 6 3 (13.64 %) Business Intelligence 7 1 (4.545 %) CTC Cleared 7 1 (4.545 %) RUP 7 1 (4.545 %) Risk Management 7 1 (4.545 %) Risk Assessment
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (9.091 %) ISO27001	Vendors 1 6 (27.27 %) Microsoft 2 4 (18.18 %) SAP