South West Project Planning Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Project Planning 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 Planning over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Project Planning
Location Aberdeen Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Coventry Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	90	116
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	46	47
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.072 %	0.050 %
As % of the category below	1.659 %	1.501 %
Daily rates quoted	19	19
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£296
Average daily rate	£332	£330
% change on same period last year	+0.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£360
% change on same period last year	-10.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.00	£24.50
Average hourly rate	£17.00	£27.97
% change on same period last year	-39.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.00	£31.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.48	£32.36
% change on same period last year	-11.99 %
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 %
Project Planning 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.

Project Planning
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Project Planning across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Project Planning
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Project Planning across the South West region.

Project Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Planning across the South West region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Project Planning across the South West region.

Project Planning
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Planning 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	+7	18	£378	+18.26 %
Bristol	+4	10	£313	+7.75 %
Gloucestershire	+1	4	£363	+31.81 %
Dorset	+16	3	£393	+12.72 %
Devon	-	3	£237	-

Project Planning England

Project Planning
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 37 (42.05 %) MS Project 2 24 (27.27 %) Project Management 3 22 (25.00 %) MS Excel 4 21 (23.86 %) Finance 5 17 (19.32 %) PRINCE2 6 16 (18.18 %) Microsoft 7 14 (15.91 %) MS PowerPoint 8 13 (14.77 %) Oracle 9 12 (13.64 %) Change Management 9 12 (13.64 %) Migration 9 12 (13.64 %) Security Cleared 10 10 (11.36 %) SC Cleared 11 9 (10.23 %) SQL 12 8 (9.091 %) Government 12 8 (9.091 %) Telecoms

12 8 (9.091 %) Pensions 13 7 (7.955 %) MS Office 13 7 (7.955 %) Data Migration 14 6 (6.818 %) SQL Server 14 6 (6.818 %) .NET 14 6 (6.818 %) ASP.NET 14 6 (6.818 %) SDH 14 6 (6.818 %) 3G 14 6 (6.818 %) Network Planning 15 5 (5.682 %) LLU 15 5 (5.682 %) Insurance 15 5 (5.682 %) Service Delivery 15 5 (5.682 %) SQL Server 2000 15 5 (5.682 %) MS Visio 16 4 (4.545 %) ITIL

Project Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 6 (6.818 %) .NET 1 6 (6.818 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.136 %) Oracle BPEL 1 1 (1.136 %) Office Project Server 1 1 (1.136 %) Oracle Spatial 1 1 (1.136 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 37 (42.05 %) MS Project 2 22 (25.00 %) MS Excel 3 14 (15.91 %) MS PowerPoint 4 7 (7.955 %) MS Office 5 5 (5.682 %) MS Visio 6 4 (4.545 %) CA Clarity 7 1 (1.136 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 3 (3.409 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (1.136 %) Oracle HRMS 2 1 (1.136 %) SAP HR
Communications & Networking 1 6 (6.818 %) SDH 1 6 (6.818 %) 3G 2 5 (5.682 %) LLU	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (6.818 %) SQL Server 2 5 (5.682 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (2.273 %) ETL 4 1 (1.136 %) GIS 4 1 (1.136 %) BusinessObjects 4 1 (1.136 %) SQLPlus 4 1 (1.136 %) MS Access
General 1 21 (23.86 %) Finance 2 8 (9.091 %) Government 2 8 (9.091 %) Telecoms 2 8 (9.091 %) Pensions 3 5 (5.682 %) Insurance 4 3 (3.409 %) Local Government 4 3 (3.409 %) Banking 4 3 (3.409 %) Back Office 5 2 (2.273 %) Front Office 6 1 (1.136 %) Military 6 1 (1.136 %) Retail 6 1 (1.136 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (1.136 %) Health 6 1 (1.136 %) Education	Job Titles 1 27 (30.68 %) Project Manager 2 17 (19.32 %) Analyst 3 6 (6.818 %) Developer 3 6 (6.818 %) Coordinator 3 6 (6.818 %) Radio Access Network Engineer 4 5 (5.682 %) Analyst Developer 4 5 (5.682 %) Business Analyst 5 4 (4.545 %) Systems Analyst 5 4 (4.545 %) Consultant 5 4 (4.545 %) SQL Developer 5 4 (4.545 %) SQL Server Developer 5 4 (4.545 %) Programme Planner 5 4 (4.545 %) Server Analyst 5 4 (4.545 %) SQL Server Analyst 6 3 (3.409 %) Programme Coordinator 6 3 (3.409 %) Project Officer 6 3 (3.409 %) Business Project Manager 6 3 (3.409 %) Business Manager 6 3 (3.409 %) Project Coordinator 6 3 (3.409 %) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 3 (3.409 %) Management Information System 2 2 (2.273 %) German Language 3 1 (1.136 %) Data Conversion 3 1 (1.136 %) NHS	Processes & Methodologies 1 24 (27.27 %) Project Management 2 17 (19.32 %) PRINCE2 3 12 (13.64 %) Change Management 3 12 (13.64 %) Migration 3 12 (13.64 %) Security Cleared 4 10 (11.36 %) SC Cleared 5 7 (7.955 %) Data Migration 6 6 (6.818 %) Network Planning 7 5 (5.682 %) Service Delivery 8 4 (4.545 %) ITIL 8 4 (4.545 %) Workflow 8 4 (4.545 %) Process Management 8 4 (4.545 %) Risk Management 8 4 (4.545 %) Business Analysis 8 4 (4.545 %) Resource Management 9 3 (3.409 %) Systems Analysis 9 3 (3.409 %) Stakeholder Management 9 3 (3.409 %) Configuration Management 10 2 (2.273 %) PRINCE 10 2 (2.273 %) Information Security
Programming Languages 1 9 (10.23 %) SQL 2 3 (3.409 %) C 3 1 (1.136 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 4 (4.545 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 4 (4.545 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.409 %) QA 2 1 (1.136 %) SLA	System Software 1 3 (3.409 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 16 (18.18 %) Microsoft 2 13 (14.77 %) Oracle 3 2 (2.273 %) Niku 3 2 (2.273 %) HP 3 2 (2.273 %) Informatica 4 1 (1.136 %) Accenture 4 1 (1.136 %) CheckPoint 4 1 (1.136 %) Primavera 4 1 (1.136 %) Business Objects 4 1 (1.136 %) SAP