South West Programme Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Programme Management skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Programme Management over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Cheshire City of London Cornwall Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Osterley Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Salford Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West Staines Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	101	126
Rank change on same period last year	+25
Matching contract IT job ads	34	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.054 %	0.040 %
As % of the category below	1.227 %	1.181 %
Daily rates quoted	11	12
Average minimum daily rate	£431	£342
Average daily rate	£442	£362
% change on same period last year	+22.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£452	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£447	£455
% change on same period last year	-1.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£24.00
Average hourly rate	-	£25.17
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£26.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.94	£32.11
% change on same period last year	-44.14 %
Processes & Methodologies South West
Matching contract IT job ads	2772	3132
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.366 %	3.356 %
Daily rates quoted	840	952
Average minimum daily rate	£376	£353
Average daily rate	£397	£375
% change on same period last year	+5.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£418	£397
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£370
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	393	362
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.85	£30.53
Average hourly rate	£29.71	£32.29
% change on same period last year	-7.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.57	£34.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.17	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Programme Management 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.

Programme Management
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Programme Management across the South West 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 Programme Management across the South West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Programme Management across the South West region over the 3 months to 21 November 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 Programme Management across the South West region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Programme Management within the South West region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Wiltshire	-1	14	£493	+41.72 %
Bristol	+7	8	£344	-5.17 %
Dorset	+26	6	£413	+1.02 %
Cornwall	-	1	-	-
Devon	-	1	£525	-
Somerset	-13	1	-	-

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Programme Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Programme 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 Programme Management.

1 25 (39.06 %) Finance 2 16 (25.00 %) Project Management 3 15 (23.44 %) PRINCE2 4 14 (21.88 %) Government 5 12 (18.75 %) Security Cleared 6 9 (14.06 %) MS Project 6 9 (14.06 %) SC Cleared 7 8 (12.50 %) Pensions 7 8 (12.50 %) Risk Management 8 7 (10.94 %) Stakeholder Management 9 6 (9.375 %) Military 10 5 (7.813 %) Process Management 10 5 (7.813 %) MS Office 10 5 (7.813 %) MS Excel 10 5 (7.813 %) Degree

10 5 (7.813 %) Banking 10 5 (7.813 %) Insurance 11 4 (6.250 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 11 4 (6.250 %) Microsoft 11 4 (6.250 %) PRINCE 12 3 (4.688 %) OpenGL 12 3 (4.688 %) DirectX 12 3 (4.688 %) PRINCE2 Certification 12 3 (4.688 %) Datawarehouse 12 3 (4.688 %) UML 12 3 (4.688 %) C 12 3 (4.688 %) C# 12 3 (4.688 %) C++ 12 3 (4.688 %) Java 12 3 (4.688 %) .NET

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Programme 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 Programme Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (4.688 %) OpenGL 1 3 (4.688 %) DirectX 1 3 (4.688 %) .NET	Applications 1 9 (14.06 %) MS Project 2 5 (7.813 %) MS Office 2 5 (7.813 %) MS Excel 3 3 (4.688 %) CA Clarity 3 3 (4.688 %) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications 1 1 (1.563 %) Siebel Analytics	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (4.688 %) Datawarehouse
General 1 25 (39.06 %) Finance 2 14 (21.88 %) Government 3 8 (12.50 %) Pensions 4 6 (9.375 %) Military 5 5 (7.813 %) Banking 5 5 (7.813 %) Insurance 6 3 (4.688 %) Games 6 3 (4.688 %) Local Government 7 2 (3.125 %) Retail 7 2 (3.125 %) Marketing 8 1 (1.563 %) Back Office 8 1 (1.563 %) Retail Banking 8 1 (1.563 %) Investment Banking	Job Titles 1 22 (34.38 %) Programme Manager 2 10 (15.63 %) Project Manager 3 8 (12.50 %) Analyst 4 5 (7.813 %) Security Manager 5 4 (6.250 %) Business Manager 5 4 (6.250 %) PMO Analyst 6 3 (4.688 %) Support Analyst 6 3 (4.688 %) Project Support Analyst 6 3 (4.688 %) Project Office Support 6 3 (4.688 %) Project Analyst 6 3 (4.688 %) Risk Manager 6 3 (4.688 %) Programme Office Analyst 7 2 (3.125 %) Project Office Analyst 7 2 (3.125 %) Enterprise Architect 7 2 (3.125 %) Business Project Manager 7 2 (3.125 %) Security Project Manager 7 2 (3.125 %) Data Migration Analyst 7 2 (3.125 %) Data Analyst 7 2 (3.125 %) Senior Project Manager 7 2 (3.125 %) Senior Manager
Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.688 %) NHS 2 2 (3.125 %) Management Information System	Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (25.00 %) Project Management 2 15 (23.44 %) PRINCE2 3 12 (18.75 %) Security Cleared 4 9 (14.06 %) SC Cleared 5 8 (12.50 %) Risk Management 6 7 (10.94 %) Stakeholder Management 7 5 (7.813 %) Process Management 8 4 (6.250 %) PRINCE 9 3 (4.688 %) UML 9 3 (4.688 %) Change Management 9 3 (4.688 %) Business Continuity 9 3 (4.688 %) Software Engineering 9 3 (4.688 %) Incident Management 10 2 (3.125 %) Enterprise Architecture 10 2 (3.125 %) Asset Management 10 2 (3.125 %) Data Management 10 2 (3.125 %) Requirements Management 10 2 (3.125 %) Data Migration 10 2 (3.125 %) Migration 10 2 (3.125 %) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages 1 3 (4.688 %) C 1 3 (4.688 %) C# 1 3 (4.688 %) C++ 1 3 (4.688 %) Java	Qualifications 1 5 (7.813 %) Degree 2 4 (6.250 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 3 (4.688 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (1.563 %) PMP 4 1 (1.563 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (4.688 %) QA	Vendors 1 4 (6.250 %) Microsoft 2 2 (3.125 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.563 %) Primavera 3 1 (1.563 %) Niku 3 1 (1.563 %) Siebel 3 1 (1.563 %) SAP