Somerset Project Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Management skills within the Somerset region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Project Management over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Amersham Andover Argyll and Bute Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Billingham Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Conwy Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Erskine Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenwich Guernsey Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewisham Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Musselburgh Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rhyl Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	24
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	14	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	7.254 %	7.042 %
Daily rates quoted	8	7
Average minimum daily rate	£388	£264
Average daily rate	£422	£338
% change on same period last year	+24.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£456	£413
UK excluding London average daily rate	£398	£381
% change on same period last year	+4.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£22.00
Average hourly rate	-	£22.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.32	£29.35
% change on same period last year	-6.89 %
Processes & Methodologies Somerset
Matching contract IT job ads	193	213
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.254 %	0.226 %
Daily rates quoted	49	40
Average minimum daily rate	£430	£284
Average daily rate	£466	£339
% change on same period last year	+37.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£503	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	54	56
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.20	£30.88
Average hourly rate	£37.92	£32.53
% change on same period last year	+16.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.64	£34.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Project Management South West

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 Management across the Somerset 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 IT contract jobs citing Project Management across the Somerset region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Management across the Somerset 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 Management across the Somerset 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 Project Management within the Somerset 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
Bath	-10	4	£467	+37.41 %
Yeovil	-	3	£350	-
Taunton	-	2	£375	-
Street	0	2	£463	+25.00 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing Project Management 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 Project Management.

1 21 (55.26 %) PRINCE2 2 10 (26.32 %) Retail 3 9 (23.68 %) Scrum 4 8 (21.05 %) E-Commerce 4 8 (21.05 %) Project Planning 4 8 (21.05 %) Security Cleared 5 7 (18.42 %) SC Cleared 5 7 (18.42 %) RAD 5 7 (18.42 %) Government 6 6 (15.79 %) IP Telephony 6 6 (15.79 %) DSDM 6 6 (15.79 %) AIX 6 6 (15.79 %) MS Office 6 6 (15.79 %) MS Visio 7 5 (13.16 %) Internet

7 5 (13.16 %) Microsoft 7 5 (13.16 %) Use Case 8 4 (10.53 %) Summit 8 4 (10.53 %) Service Delivery 8 4 (10.53 %) Active Directory 8 4 (10.53 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 3 (7.895 %) CRM 9 3 (7.895 %) ERP 9 3 (7.895 %) SAP 9 3 (7.895 %) ITIL 9 3 (7.895 %) Health 9 3 (7.895 %) Finance 9 3 (7.895 %) SAP CRM 9 3 (7.895 %) Programme Management 9 3 (7.895 %) Marketing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing Project Management 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 Project Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (2.632 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (2.632 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 6 (15.79 %) MS Office 1 6 (15.79 %) MS Visio 2 1 (2.632 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 4 (10.53 %) Summit 2 3 (7.895 %) SAP CRM	Communications & Networking 1 6 (15.79 %) IP Telephony 2 5 (13.16 %) Internet
General 1 10 (26.32 %) Retail 2 7 (18.42 %) Government 3 3 (7.895 %) Health 3 3 (7.895 %) Finance 3 3 (7.895 %) Marketing 4 2 (5.263 %) Telecoms 4 2 (5.263 %) Pensions 5 1 (2.632 %) Online Banking 5 1 (2.632 %) Legal 5 1 (2.632 %) Military 5 1 (2.632 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 16 (42.11 %) Project Manager 2 7 (18.42 %) Business Analyst 2 7 (18.42 %) Analyst 3 6 (15.79 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 3 6 (15.79 %) Infrastructure Manager 4 5 (13.16 %) Contracts Manager 5 4 (10.53 %) Senior Manager 5 4 (10.53 %) Senior Project Manager 5 4 (10.53 %) Programme Manager 6 3 (7.895 %) Support Engineer 7 2 (5.263 %) IT Support Engineer 7 2 (5.263 %) Product Manager 8 1 (2.632 %) Senior Programme Manager 8 1 (2.632 %) Delivery Manager 8 1 (2.632 %) Server Support Engineer 8 1 (2.632 %) Communications Manager 8 1 (2.632 %) Product Development Manager 8 1 (2.632 %) Web Project Manager 8 1 (2.632 %) Senior Infrastructure Manager 8 1 (2.632 %) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.632 %) Client/Server 1 1 (2.632 %) NHS 1 1 (2.632 %) E-Learning	Operating Systems 1 6 (15.79 %) AIX 2 1 (2.632 %) Windows XP 2 1 (2.632 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (55.26 %) PRINCE2 2 9 (23.68 %) Scrum 3 8 (21.05 %) E-Commerce 3 8 (21.05 %) Project Planning 3 8 (21.05 %) Security Cleared 4 7 (18.42 %) SC Cleared 4 7 (18.42 %) RAD 5 6 (15.79 %) DSDM 6 5 (13.16 %) Use Case 7 4 (10.53 %) Service Delivery 8 3 (7.895 %) ITIL 8 3 (7.895 %) Programme Management 8 3 (7.895 %) CRM 8 3 (7.895 %) ERP 8 3 (7.895 %) Business Development 9 2 (5.263 %) Resource Management 9 2 (5.263 %) PRINCE 9 2 (5.263 %) Service Management 9 2 (5.263 %) Agile Software Development 9 2 (5.263 %) Business Analysis	Programming Languages 1 1 (2.632 %) C
Qualifications 1 4 (10.53 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (5.263 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (2.632 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.632 %) SLA 1 1 (2.632 %) PCI DSS
System Software 1 4 (10.53 %) Active Directory 2 2 (5.263 %) ISA Server	Vendors 1 5 (13.16 %) Microsoft 2 3 (7.895 %) SAP 3 1 (2.632 %) Cisco 3 1 (2.632 %) Dell 3 1 (2.632 %) EMC