South East MS Project Contracts

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

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ipswich Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire Windsor Witham Witney Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	77
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	244	344
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.322 %	0.365 %
As % of the category below	13.18 %	16.65 %
Daily rates quoted	75	120
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£294
Average daily rate	£332	£315
% change on same period last year	+5.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£317
% change on same period last year	+2.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.80	£23.07
Average hourly rate	£28.00	£24.02
% change on same period last year	+16.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.21	£24.97
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.10	£23.06
% change on same period last year	+8.83 %
Applications South East
Matching contract IT job ads	1851	2066
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.441 %	2.191 %
Daily rates quoted	348	390
Average minimum daily rate	£276	£262
Average daily rate	£294	£278
% change on same period last year	+5.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£311	£294
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£281
% change on same period last year	+6.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	470	482
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.46	£19.32
Average hourly rate	£18.65	£20.57
% change on same period last year	-9.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.85	£21.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.92	£19.17
% change on same period last year	-6.53 %
MS Project England

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 South East 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 South East region.

MS Project
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the South East region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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 South East region.

MS Project
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the South East region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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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 MS Project within the South East 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
Berkshire	-9	51	£323	-2.73 %
Hampshire	+19	47	£335	+11.87 %
Buckinghamshire	+17	29	£365	+34.93 %
Surrey	-21	29	£380	+18.32 %
Kent	+31	26	£224	-36.14 %
Middlesex	-6	19	£313	-4.92 %
West Sussex	+9	12	£430	+39.03 %
M4 Corridor	+9	6	-	-
Thames Valley	+24	6	£310	+97.87 %
Oxfordshire	-16	5	£305	+41.86 %
East Sussex	-4	4	£375	-18.47 %
Home Counties	+1	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 200 (36.56 %) MS Excel 2 189 (34.55 %) PRINCE2 3 185 (33.82 %) Microsoft 4 172 (31.44 %) Project Management 5 167 (30.53 %) MS Office 6 124 (22.67 %) Finance 7 107 (19.56 %) MS PowerPoint 8 61 (11.15 %) MS Visio 8 61 (11.15 %) Project Planning 9 58 (10.60 %) PRINCE2 Certification 10 52 (9.506 %) Telecoms 11 44 (8.044 %) Security Cleared 12 37 (6.764 %) Windows 13 31 (5.667 %) SharePoint 13 31 (5.667 %) PRINCE

14 30 (5.484 %) SAP 15 29 (5.302 %) SC Cleared 16 28 (5.119 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 16 28 (5.119 %) Government 16 28 (5.119 %) ITIL 17 27 (4.936 %) Pharmaceutical 18 25 (4.570 %) Risk Management 19 24 (4.388 %) Office Project Server 20 23 (4.205 %) Business Analysis 20 23 (4.205 %) SQL 21 22 (4.022 %) Migration 21 22 (4.022 %) Programme Management 21 22 (4.022 %) Change Management 21 22 (4.022 %) Degree 22 20 (3.656 %) VB

MS Project
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 Development 1 14 (2.559 %) .NET 2 12 (2.194 %) Windows SharePoint Services 3 8 (1.463 %) MAPI 4 6 (1.097 %) ASP.NET 4 6 (1.097 %) WebSphere 5 4 (0.731 %) ASP 6 3 (0.548 %) Software Packaging 7 2 (0.366 %) XML 7 2 (0.366 %) .NET Framework 7 2 (0.366 %) HTML 7 2 (0.366 %) J2EE 8 1 (0.183 %) SOAP 8 1 (0.183 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 31 (5.667 %) SharePoint 2 24 (4.388 %) Office Project Server 3 17 (3.108 %) Lotus Notes 4 15 (2.742 %) MS Exchange 5 9 (1.645 %) LiveLink 6 5 (0.914 %) SharePoint Portal Server 7 4 (0.731 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 4 (0.731 %) IIS 8 3 (0.548 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 2 (0.366 %) JBoss 9 2 (0.366 %) CMS 9 2 (0.366 %) Exchange Server 2007 10 1 (0.183 %) Office Communications Server 10 1 (0.183 %) eRoom 10 1 (0.183 %) Live Communications Server 10 1 (0.183 %) Exchange Server 5.5 10 1 (0.183 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 1 (0.183 %) SAS 10 1 (0.183 %) Content Management Server 10 1 (0.183 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 200 (36.56 %) MS Excel 2 167 (30.53 %) MS Office 3 107 (19.56 %) MS PowerPoint 4 61 (11.15 %) MS Visio 5 18 (3.291 %) CA Clarity 6 11 (2.011 %) Open Workbench 7 4 (0.731 %) QuarkXPress 8 2 (0.366 %) Adobe Illustrator 8 2 (0.366 %) Acrobat 8 2 (0.366 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 3 (0.548 %) SAP PS 2 2 (0.366 %) SAP Oil and Gas 2 2 (0.366 %) SAP ERP 2 2 (0.366 %) SAP SD 3 1 (0.183 %) Infinys 3 1 (0.183 %) Microsoft CRM 3 1 (0.183 %) SAP HR
Communications & Networking 1 14 (2.559 %) SAN 2 13 (2.377 %) LAN 3 11 (2.011 %) WAN 4 8 (1.463 %) VPN 4 8 (1.463 %) DNS 5 7 (1.280 %) Internet 6 4 (0.731 %) Wireless 7 3 (0.548 %) Intranet 7 3 (0.548 %) TCP/IP 7 3 (0.548 %) VoIP 7 3 (0.548 %) ATM 7 3 (0.548 %) Broadband 8 2 (0.366 %) GPRS 8 2 (0.366 %) HTTP 8 2 (0.366 %) 3G 8 2 (0.366 %) iSCSI 9 1 (0.183 %) HSDPA 9 1 (0.183 %) 2G 9 1 (0.183 %) IPCC 9 1 (0.183 %) RNC	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (1.645 %) MS Access 2 8 (1.463 %) Datawarehouse 2 8 (1.463 %) SQL Server 3 4 (0.731 %) MSDE 3 4 (0.731 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 4 3 (0.548 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (0.183 %) Data Cleansing 5 1 (0.183 %) GIS 5 1 (0.183 %) OLAP 5 1 (0.183 %) Crystal Reports 5 1 (0.183 %) TOAD 5 1 (0.183 %) OLTP 5 1 (0.183 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (0.183 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (0.183 %) EDRMS 5 1 (0.183 %) EDMS
Development Applications 1 3 (0.548 %) ARTiSAN 2 2 (0.366 %) Telelogic DOORS 2 2 (0.366 %) ClearCase 2 2 (0.366 %) TestDirector 2 2 (0.366 %) LoadRunner 3 1 (0.183 %) RequisitePro 3 1 (0.183 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (0.183 %) WinRunner 3 1 (0.183 %) TestPartner 3 1 (0.183 %) QARun 3 1 (0.183 %) PowerBuilder	General 1 124 (22.67 %) Finance 2 52 (9.506 %) Telecoms 3 28 (5.119 %) Government 4 27 (4.936 %) Pharmaceutical 5 19 (3.473 %) Insurance 6 15 (2.742 %) Banking 7 13 (2.377 %) Retail 8 10 (1.828 %) Health 9 9 (1.645 %) Automotive 10 8 (1.463 %) Aerospace 11 7 (1.280 %) Local Government 11 7 (1.280 %) Pensions 11 7 (1.280 %) Retail Banking 11 7 (1.280 %) Marketing 12 5 (0.914 %) Auditing 12 5 (0.914 %) Billing 12 5 (0.914 %) Publishing 13 4 (0.731 %) Legal 14 3 (0.548 %) Manufacturing 14 3 (0.548 %) Electronics
Job Titles 1 143 (26.14 %) Project Manager 2 85 (15.54 %) Coordinator 3 64 (11.70 %) Analyst 4 62 (11.33 %) Project Coordinator 5 47 (8.592 %) Administrator 6 43 (7.861 %) Project Planner 7 30 (5.484 %) Project Administrator 8 26 (4.753 %) Business Analyst 9 24 (4.388 %) Project Officer 10 22 (4.022 %) Project Support Officer 11 20 (3.656 %) Programme Manager 11 20 (3.656 %) Consultant 12 19 (3.473 %) Programme Coordinator 13 18 (3.291 %) Project Analyst 14 17 (3.108 %) Programme Planner 15 12 (2.194 %) PMO Analyst 16 10 (1.828 %) Deployment Project Manager 16 10 (1.828 %) Programme Office Manager 16 10 (1.828 %) Support Analyst 17 9 (1.645 %) Project Office Manager	Miscellaneous 1 19 (3.473 %) PMI 2 11 (2.011 %) NHS 3 8 (1.463 %) Data Conversion 4 7 (1.280 %) French Language 4 7 (1.280 %) Management Information System 4 7 (1.280 %) Client/Server 5 4 (0.731 %) Spanish Language 6 3 (0.548 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 6 3 (0.548 %) CCTV 6 3 (0.548 %) VHDL 7 2 (0.366 %) Thin Client 7 2 (0.366 %) Mainframe 7 2 (0.366 %) EPoS 7 2 (0.366 %) Asset Management 7 2 (0.366 %) Fat Client 8 1 (0.183 %) IPTV 8 1 (0.183 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 8 1 (0.183 %) PACS
Operating Systems 1 37 (6.764 %) Windows 2 12 (2.194 %) Windows NT 3 11 (2.011 %) Linux 4 10 (1.828 %) Windows XP 5 8 (1.463 %) Unix 6 5 (0.914 %) Windows Server 2003 7 4 (0.731 %) Windows 2000 8 3 (0.548 %) Solaris 9 2 (0.366 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 189 (34.55 %) PRINCE2 2 172 (31.44 %) Project Management 3 61 (11.15 %) Project Planning 4 44 (8.044 %) Security Cleared 5 31 (5.667 %) PRINCE 6 29 (5.302 %) SC Cleared 7 28 (5.119 %) ITIL 8 25 (4.570 %) Risk Management 9 23 (4.205 %) Business Analysis 10 22 (4.022 %) Change Management 10 22 (4.022 %) Programme Management 10 22 (4.022 %) Migration 11 17 (3.108 %) Stakeholder Management 11 17 (3.108 %) E-Procurement 12 12 (2.194 %) Configuration Management 12 12 (2.194 %) ERP 12 12 (2.194 %) Resource Management 12 12 (2.194 %) Matrix Management 13 10 (1.828 %) Logistics 13 10 (1.828 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 23 (4.205 %) SQL 2 20 (3.656 %) VB 3 17 (3.108 %) VBScript 4 12 (2.194 %) C 5 7 (1.280 %) C# 5 7 (1.280 %) Java 5 7 (1.280 %) VB.NET 6 4 (0.731 %) VBA 7 2 (0.366 %) VB6 7 2 (0.366 %) Perl 7 2 (0.366 %) Transact-SQL 8 1 (0.183 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 58 (10.60 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 28 (5.119 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 22 (4.022 %) Degree 4 20 (3.656 %) PMI Certification 5 19 (3.473 %) PMP 6 10 (1.828 %) ISEB 7 8 (1.463 %) Microsoft Certification 8 5 (0.914 %) ISEB Practitioner 9 4 (0.731 %) ITIL Certification 10 2 (0.366 %) MCSE 11 1 (0.183 %) CCVP 11 1 (0.183 %) SAP Certification 11 1 (0.183 %) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 12 (2.194 %) QA 2 7 (1.280 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 3 (0.548 %) Basel II 3 3 (0.548 %) ISO9000 4 1 (0.183 %) SLA 4 1 (0.183 %) GMP 4 1 (0.183 %) ISO27001 4 1 (0.183 %) COBIT	System Software 1 7 (1.280 %) Active Directory 2 5 (0.914 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (0.366 %) MetaFrame 3 2 (0.366 %) Terminal Server 3 2 (0.366 %) NFS 4 1 (0.183 %) Novell eDirectory
Systems Management 1 8 (1.463 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 4 (0.731 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 4 (0.731 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 3 (0.548 %) OpenView 4 1 (0.183 %) WSUS 4 1 (0.183 %) ZENworks	Vendors 1 185 (33.82 %) Microsoft 2 30 (5.484 %) SAP 3 17 (3.108 %) Lotus 4 12 (2.194 %) Niku 5 8 (1.463 %) HP 6 6 (1.097 %) Oracle 6 6 (1.097 %) Symantec 6 6 (1.097 %) McAfee Security 7 5 (0.914 %) VERITAS 7 5 (0.914 %) Quark 7 5 (0.914 %) Hummingbird 7 5 (0.914 %) Adobe 8 4 (0.731 %) Citrix 8 4 (0.731 %) Planview 9 3 (0.548 %) Primavera 9 3 (0.548 %) Mentor Graphics 10 2 (0.366 %) VMware 10 2 (0.366 %) Brio 10 2 (0.366 %) NetApp 10 2 (0.366 %) Novell