South West Project Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project 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 Project Management over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Argyll and Bute Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Conwy Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenwich Guernsey Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Musselburgh New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Tyneside North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rhyl Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley 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 Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	17
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	337	309
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.449 %	0.313 %
As % of the category below	13.21 %	9.961 %
Daily rates quoted	148	142
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£380
Average daily rate	£409	£399
% change on same period last year	+2.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£437	£418
UK excluding London average daily rate	£394	£385
% change on same period last year	+2.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.19	£30.32
Average hourly rate	£33.83	£31.61
% change on same period last year	+7.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.47	£32.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.27	£29.55
% change on same period last year	-7.70 %
Processes & Methodologies South West
Matching contract IT job ads	2551	3102
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.400 %	3.138 %
Daily rates quoted	961	998
Average minimum daily rate	£372	£362
Average daily rate	£399	£383
% change on same period last year	+4.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£426	£404
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	271	366
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.93	£28.91
Average hourly rate	£33.62	£30.63
% change on same period last year	+9.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.31	£32.34
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Project 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.

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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 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 Project 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 Project Management across the South West region over the 3 months to 25 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 South West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Management across the South West region over the 3 months to 25 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 jobs citing Project Management within the South West region over the 3 months to 25 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
Wiltshire	+6	105	£420	+4.38 %
Bristol	+2	49	£410	+0.65 %
Gloucestershire	+11	39	£392	+30.46 %
Dorset	0	27	£425	+9.06 %
Somerset	+1	18	£384	+13.53 %
Devon	+6	15	£311	-31.27 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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.

1 288 (39.78 %) PRINCE2 2 226 (31.22 %) Finance 3 112 (15.47 %) Security Cleared 4 85 (11.74 %) Government 5 78 (10.77 %) Pensions 6 74 (10.22 %) MS Project 7 70 (9.669 %) MS Office 8 61 (8.425 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 60 (8.287 %) Banking 10 59 (8.149 %) Insurance 11 53 (7.320 %) DV Cleared 11 53 (7.320 %) SC Cleared 12 52 (7.182 %) Service Delivery 13 51 (7.044 %) Configuration Management 13 51 (7.044 %) Retail

14 49 (6.768 %) Stakeholder Management 15 48 (6.630 %) Health 16 47 (6.492 %) MS Visio 17 43 (5.939 %) Microsoft 18 41 (5.663 %) Change Management 19 40 (5.525 %) NHS 20 38 (5.249 %) Oracle 20 38 (5.249 %) Migration 21 37 (5.110 %) MS Excel 21 37 (5.110 %) Business Analysis 22 36 (4.972 %) PRINCE 23 34 (4.696 %) C 23 34 (4.696 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 24 33 (4.558 %) Project Planning 25 32 (4.420 %) ISEB

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 Development 1 16 (2.210 %) .NET 2 11 (1.519 %) J2EE 3 10 (1.381 %) XML 3 10 (1.381 %) HTML 4 5 (0.691 %) WebServices 5 3 (0.414 %) CSS 6 2 (0.276 %) JSP 6 2 (0.276 %) ASP 6 2 (0.276 %) VXML 6 2 (0.276 %) XML Schema 6 2 (0.276 %) WebSphere 7 1 (0.138 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (0.138 %) JAXP 7 1 (0.138 %) JAXB 7 1 (0.138 %) SAX 7 1 (0.138 %) Oracle ADF 7 1 (0.138 %) Struts 7 1 (0.138 %) DOM 7 1 (0.138 %) XSLT 7 1 (0.138 %) EDI	Application Platforms 1 16 (2.210 %) SharePoint 2 8 (1.105 %) CMS 3 7 (0.967 %) Lotus Notes 3 7 (0.967 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 4 (0.552 %) MS Exchange 5 2 (0.276 %) Morello 6 1 (0.138 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 1 (0.138 %) NetWeaver 6 1 (0.138 %) Oracle Application Server 6 1 (0.138 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 1 (0.138 %) Apache 6 1 (0.138 %) Tomcat 6 1 (0.138 %) WebSphere Application Server 6 1 (0.138 %) IIS
Applications 1 74 (10.22 %) MS Project 2 70 (9.669 %) MS Office 3 47 (6.492 %) MS Visio 4 37 (5.110 %) MS Excel 5 15 (2.072 %) MS PowerPoint 6 7 (0.967 %) Spreadsheet 7 6 (0.829 %) CA Clarity 8 3 (0.414 %) Open Workbench 9 1 (0.138 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 7 (0.967 %) Oracle EBS 2 4 (0.552 %) Oracle Applications 2 4 (0.552 %) SAP CRM 3 3 (0.414 %) Summit 4 2 (0.276 %) SAP CO 4 2 (0.276 %) Oracle HRMS 4 2 (0.276 %) Oracle ERP 4 2 (0.276 %) SAP HR 4 2 (0.276 %) SAP FI 4 2 (0.276 %) SAP SRM 4 2 (0.276 %) SAP FI/CO 5 1 (0.138 %) Siebel Analytics 5 1 (0.138 %) INSURE/90 5 1 (0.138 %) SAP Payroll 5 1 (0.138 %) HiPortfolio 5 1 (0.138 %) Pivotal CRM 5 1 (0.138 %) ResourceLink 5 1 (0.138 %) JDE EnterpriseOne
Communications & Networking 1 10 (1.381 %) Intranet 2 9 (1.243 %) Internet 2 9 (1.243 %) Firewall 3 7 (0.967 %) IP Telephony 4 6 (0.829 %) LAN 5 5 (0.691 %) VoIP 5 5 (0.691 %) WAN 5 5 (0.691 %) SAN 6 4 (0.552 %) DNS 6 4 (0.552 %) Broadband 6 4 (0.552 %) DHCP 6 4 (0.552 %) BSS 7 3 (0.414 %) VLAN 7 3 (0.414 %) Network Security 7 3 (0.414 %) Kerberos 7 3 (0.414 %) VPN 7 3 (0.414 %) LDAP 7 3 (0.414 %) SS7 7 3 (0.414 %) TCAP 7 3 (0.414 %) ISUP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (1.243 %) SQL Server 2 8 (1.105 %) Datawarehouse 2 8 (1.105 %) BusinessObjects 3 4 (0.552 %) ETL 3 4 (0.552 %) Oracle Reports 4 3 (0.414 %) Crystal Reports 4 3 (0.414 %) MS Access 4 3 (0.414 %) Data Cleansing 5 2 (0.276 %) SQL Server 2005 5 2 (0.276 %) SQL Server 2000 5 2 (0.276 %) GIS 5 2 (0.276 %) RDBMS 5 2 (0.276 %) OLAP 5 2 (0.276 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 1 (0.138 %) Oracle 9i 6 1 (0.138 %) Adabas 6 1 (0.138 %) DB2 6 1 (0.138 %) Oracle 10g 6 1 (0.138 %) SAP BW 6 1 (0.138 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 5 (0.691 %) Oracle APEX 2 4 (0.552 %) WATIR 2 4 (0.552 %) FitNesse 2 4 (0.552 %) WinRunner 2 4 (0.552 %) QuickTest Pro 2 4 (0.552 %) LoadRunner 3 3 (0.414 %) Dreamweaver 3 3 (0.414 %) QARun 3 3 (0.414 %) NUnit 4 2 (0.276 %) Flash 4 2 (0.276 %) Visual Studio 5 1 (0.138 %) Oracle Forms 5 1 (0.138 %) Oracle Developer 2000 5 1 (0.138 %) TestDirector	General 1 226 (31.22 %) Finance 2 85 (11.74 %) Government 3 78 (10.77 %) Pensions 4 60 (8.287 %) Banking 5 59 (8.149 %) Insurance 6 51 (7.044 %) Retail 7 48 (6.630 %) Health 8 24 (3.315 %) Telecoms 8 24 (3.315 %) Local Government 9 22 (3.039 %) Retail Banking 10 17 (2.348 %) Marketing 11 13 (1.796 %) Military 12 9 (1.243 %) Auditing 12 9 (1.243 %) Back Office 13 5 (0.691 %) Legal 13 5 (0.691 %) Publishing 14 4 (0.552 %) Manufacturing 14 4 (0.552 %) Aerospace 15 3 (0.414 %) Financial Institution 15 3 (0.414 %) Front Office
Job Titles 1 407 (56.22 %) Project Manager 2 76 (10.50 %) Analyst 3 52 (7.182 %) Business Analyst 3 52 (7.182 %) Business Manager 4 46 (6.354 %) Business Project Manager 5 33 (4.558 %) Programme Manager 6 29 (4.006 %) Consultant 7 26 (3.591 %) Project Officer 7 26 (3.591 %) Project Support Officer 8 23 (3.177 %) Senior Manager 9 22 (3.039 %) Senior Project Manager 10 15 (2.072 %) Junior 10 15 (2.072 %) Test Manager 11 14 (1.934 %) Junior Project Manager 11 14 (1.934 %) NHS Project Manager 12 13 (1.796 %) Project Analyst 12 13 (1.796 %) IT Manager 12 13 (1.796 %) Service Manager 13 12 (1.657 %) Coordinator 13 12 (1.657 %) IT Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 40 (5.525 %) NHS 2 9 (1.243 %) PMI 3 6 (0.829 %) Mainframe 3 6 (0.829 %) NPfIT 3 6 (0.829 %) Management Information System 4 3 (0.414 %) Client/Server 4 3 (0.414 %) IPTV 4 3 (0.414 %) Informatics 4 3 (0.414 %) Mathematics 5 2 (0.276 %) French Language 5 2 (0.276 %) IVR 5 2 (0.276 %) CESG 5 2 (0.276 %) CESG CLAS 5 2 (0.276 %) Replication 5 2 (0.276 %) Data Extraction 6 1 (0.138 %) Data Integration 6 1 (0.138 %) Clustering 6 1 (0.138 %) E-Learning 6 1 (0.138 %) Smartcard 6 1 (0.138 %) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems 1 22 (3.039 %) Windows 2 18 (2.486 %) UNIX 3 9 (1.243 %) Linux 3 9 (1.243 %) Windows 2000 4 7 (0.967 %) AIX 5 5 (0.691 %) VxWorks 5 5 (0.691 %) Windows XP 6 3 (0.414 %) Windows NT 7 2 (0.276 %) Solaris 8 1 (0.138 %) zOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 288 (39.78 %) PRINCE2 2 112 (15.47 %) Security Cleared 3 53 (7.320 %) DV Cleared 3 53 (7.320 %) SC Cleared 4 52 (7.182 %) Service Delivery 5 51 (7.044 %) Configuration Management 6 49 (6.768 %) Stakeholder Management 7 41 (5.663 %) Change Management 8 38 (5.249 %) Migration 9 37 (5.110 %) Business Analysis 10 36 (4.972 %) PRINCE 11 33 (4.558 %) Project Planning 12 31 (4.282 %) ITIL 13 27 (3.729 %) Risk Management 14 23 (3.177 %) Service Management 15 20 (2.762 %) Scrum 16 19 (2.624 %) Programme Management 17 18 (2.486 %) CRM 17 18 (2.486 %) ERP 18 16 (2.210 %) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages 1 34 (4.696 %) C 2 14 (1.934 %) SQL 3 13 (1.796 %) Java 4 6 (0.829 %) C++ 5 5 (0.691 %) VB 6 4 (0.552 %) COBOL 7 2 (0.276 %) C# 7 2 (0.276 %) JavaScript 7 2 (0.276 %) VBA 7 2 (0.276 %) PL/SQL 8 1 (0.138 %) NATURAL 8 1 (0.138 %) JCL 8 1 (0.138 %) PHP 8 1 (0.138 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 61 (8.425 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 34 (4.696 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 32 (4.420 %) ISEB 4 9 (1.243 %) Citrix Certification 5 7 (0.967 %) Degree 5 7 (0.967 %) PMP 6 5 (0.691 %) PMI Certification 7 3 (0.414 %) MCSE 7 3 (0.414 %) CCNA 7 3 (0.414 %) ITIL Certification 7 3 (0.414 %) Cisco Certification 7 3 (0.414 %) Microsoft Certification 8 2 (0.276 %) ACCA 8 2 (0.276 %) CIMA 8 2 (0.276 %) ISEB Practitioner 9 1 (0.138 %) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (0.829 %) SLA 2 5 (0.691 %) QA 3 3 (0.414 %) PCI DSS 4 2 (0.276 %) JSP 440 5 1 (0.138 %) ISO12207 5 1 (0.138 %) COBIT	System Software 1 8 (1.105 %) Active Directory 2 2 (0.276 %) ISA Server 3 1 (0.138 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (0.138 %) Oracle RMAN 3 1 (0.138 %) Oracle RAC 3 1 (0.138 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (0.138 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 4 (0.552 %) MOM 1 4 (0.552 %) SCCM 1 4 (0.552 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 43 (5.939 %) Microsoft 2 38 (5.249 %) Oracle 3 23 (3.177 %) SAP 4 8 (1.105 %) Business Objects 5 7 (0.967 %) Lotus 5 7 (0.967 %) IBM 6 5 (0.691 %) Northgate 6 5 (0.691 %) Juniper 6 5 (0.691 %) Siebel 7 4 (0.552 %) Cisco 7 4 (0.552 %) Sybase 7 4 (0.552 %) Sun 7 4 (0.552 %) Thunderhead 8 3 (0.414 %) PeopleSoft 9 2 (0.276 %) HP 9 2 (0.276 %) EMC 9 2 (0.276 %) Citrix 9 2 (0.276 %) Novell 9 2 (0.276 %) Niku 9 2 (0.276 %) Mediasurface