The first table below looks at the demand for Product Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Product Management over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the South East region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Product Management
Rank 177 198 224
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +26
Contract jobs citing Product Management 43 49 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.537% 0.490% 0.208%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.780% 0.741% 0.324%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 11
Average daily rate £438 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £220 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £425 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £383 £370 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.37% +5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Average hourly rate £17.50 £39.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-55.69% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £39.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-55.69% +139.39%
All Processes & Methodologies
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5512 6610 6800
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 68.83% 66.13% 64.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2869 3135 3151
Average daily rate £375 £370 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.35% -1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 312 351
Average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £30.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.88 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Product Management
England

Product Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Product Management across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South East Product Management Jobs Demand Trend

Product Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Product Management across the South East region.

South East Product Management Daily Rate Trend

Product Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Product Management across the South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South East Product Management Daily Rate Histogram

Product Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Product Management across the South East region.

South East Product Management Hourly Rate Trend

Product Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Berkshire +9 21 £428 +62.85% 12
Hampshire -2 6 £388 -8.82% 3
Oxfordshire - 5 £450 - 1
Buckinghamshire - 4 - -
West Sussex - 3 £600 -
Surrey +14 1 £350 -6.66% 1
Middlesex +6 1 - - 1
M4 Corridor - - - -
Thames Valley - - - -
East Sussex - - - -
Kent - - - - 1
Product Management
England

Product Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Product 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 Product Management.

1 24 (36.36%) Marketing
2 23 (34.85%) Telecoms
3 17 (25.76%) Project Management
4 16 (24.24%) Finance
5 13 (19.70%) Degree
6 11 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
6 11 (16.67%) Broadband
6 11 (16.67%) HP
7 10 (15.15%) TCP/IP
8 9 (13.64%) Security Cleared
9 8 (12.12%) SC Cleared
9 8 (12.12%) Programme Management
10 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
10 7 (10.61%) Analytics
10 7 (10.61%) Business Development
10 7 (10.61%) Time Management
11 6 (9.091%) CRM
11 6 (9.091%) Service Delivery
11 6 (9.091%) Electronics
11 6 (9.091%) Migration
12 5 (7.576%) Games
12 5 (7.576%) Scrum
12 5 (7.576%) Service Management
12 5 (7.576%) 3G
12 5 (7.576%) 802.11
12 5 (7.576%) MS Excel
12 5 (7.576%) ERP
12 5 (7.576%) Windows
12 5 (7.576%) JavaScript
12 5 (7.576%) CSS

Product Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Product 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 Product Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (7.576%) CSS
1 5 (7.576%) jQuery
2 4 (6.061%) Ajax
2 4 (6.061%) DOM
3 3 (4.545%) .NET
4 2 (3.030%) Silverlight
4 2 (3.030%) SOAP
4 2 (3.030%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.515%) XHTML
5 1 (1.515%) CORBA
5 1 (1.515%) HTML
5 1 (1.515%) ADO
5 1 (1.515%) XML
5 1 (1.515%) HTML5
5 1 (1.515%) soapUI
5 1 (1.515%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (1.515%) CSS3
5 1 (1.515%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.030%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.515%) Apache
2 1 (1.515%) IIS
2 1 (1.515%) Drupal
Applications
1 5 (7.576%) MS Excel
2 4 (6.061%) MS Office
3 3 (4.545%) MS Visio
4 2 (3.030%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (3.030%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.030%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (3.030%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (3.030%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.515%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.67%) Broadband
2 10 (15.15%) TCP/IP
3 5 (7.576%) 3G
3 5 (7.576%) 802.11
3 5 (7.576%) ADSL
4 4 (6.061%) BSS
4 4 (6.061%) LTE
4 4 (6.061%) WAN
4 4 (6.061%) Internet
5 3 (4.545%) IPv6
5 3 (4.545%) NAS
6 2 (3.030%) SNMP
6 2 (3.030%) PSTN
6 2 (3.030%) SAN
6 2 (3.030%) 2G
7 1 (1.515%) SMS
7 1 (1.515%) 3GPP
7 1 (1.515%) VPN
7 1 (1.515%) DNS
7 1 (1.515%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.030%) Oracle BI EE
1 2 (3.030%) Big Data
2 1 (1.515%) GIS
2 1 (1.515%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.515%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.515%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (3.030%) Selenium
2 1 (1.515%) Telelogic TAU
2 1 (1.515%) Rational Rose
2 1 (1.515%) JIRA
2 1 (1.515%) SilkTest
General
1 24 (36.36%) Marketing
2 23 (34.85%) Telecoms
3 16 (24.24%) Finance
4 6 (9.091%) Electronics
5 5 (7.576%) Games
5 5 (7.576%) Retail
6 4 (6.061%) Legal
7 3 (4.545%) Publishing
7 3 (4.545%) Billing
8 2 (3.030%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.030%) Advertising
9 1 (1.515%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.515%) Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (19.70%) Product Manager
2 10 (15.15%) Analyst
3 9 (13.64%) Project Manager
4 7 (10.61%) Technical Manager
4 7 (10.61%) Business Analyst
5 5 (7.576%) Consultant
5 5 (7.576%) Technical Product Manager
6 4 (6.061%) Senior Product Manager
6 4 (6.061%) Architect
6 4 (6.061%) Senior Manager
7 3 (4.545%) Procurement Consultant
7 3 (4.545%) Information Analyst
7 3 (4.545%) Solutions Designer
7 3 (4.545%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (4.545%) Designer
7 3 (4.545%) Buyer
7 3 (4.545%) Senior Buyer
7 3 (4.545%) Product Analyst
7 3 (4.545%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (3.030%) Oracle Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.545%) Clustering
1 3 (4.545%) Video on Demand
1 3 (4.545%) SaaS
1 3 (4.545%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 2 (3.030%) SecurID
2 2 (3.030%) Mathematics
2 2 (3.030%) Smart Meter
2 2 (3.030%) ASIC
3 1 (1.515%) Handset
3 1 (1.515%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.515%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.515%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.515%) W3C
3 1 (1.515%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.515%) Physics
3 1 (1.515%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.515%) STB
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.576%) Windows
2 3 (4.545%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (25.76%) Project Management
2 11 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (12.12%) Programme Management
4 7 (10.61%) Analytics
4 7 (10.61%) Business Development
4 7 (10.61%) Time Management
5 6 (9.091%) CRM
5 6 (9.091%) Service Delivery
5 6 (9.091%) Migration
6 5 (7.576%) Scrum
6 5 (7.576%) Service Management
6 5 (7.576%) ERP
6 5 (7.576%) ITIL
6 5 (7.576%) PRINCE2
6 5 (7.576%) Business Analysis
7 4 (6.061%) Network Design
7 4 (6.061%) Data Analysis
7 4 (6.061%) Performance Management
7 4 (6.061%) Data Modelling
7 4 (6.061%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.576%) JavaScript
2 4 (6.061%) C#
3 2 (3.030%) SQL
4 1 (1.515%) Python
4 1 (1.515%) PHP
4 1 (1.515%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 13 (19.70%) Degree
2 9 (13.64%) Security Cleared
3 8 (12.12%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.030%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.515%) MBA
5 1 (1.515%) ISEB
5 1 (1.515%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.515%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.515%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.576%) SLA
2 4 (6.061%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.545%) NFS
2 1 (1.515%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.061%) OVSD
1 4 (6.061%) OpenView
2 3 (4.545%) Legato
2 3 (4.545%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (16.67%) HP
2 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.061%) Apple
3 4 (6.061%) Oracle
3 4 (6.061%) Toshiba
4 3 (4.545%) Veritas
5 1 (1.515%) Telelogic
5 1 (1.515%) VMware
5 1 (1.515%) Teradata
5 1 (1.515%) Cisco
5 1 (1.515%) EMC
5 1 (1.515%) Nokia Siemens Networks
5 1 (1.515%) hybris
5 1 (1.515%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.515%) Endeca
5 1 (1.515%) Google
Slough, Berkshire
There will also be elements of both project management and commercial vendor management... Migration of customers and their routers... The 3 key areas of this role will include;...
Randstad Technologies
Rate: £400 - £435 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
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