Staffordshire Project Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Project Manager role in IT contracts within the Staffordshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Project Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chesham Cheshire Cheshunt Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Crowthorne Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Tyneside North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	18
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	16	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	7.373 %	2.907 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£428	£625
Average daily rate	£435	£625
% change on same period last year	-30.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£442	£625
UK excluding London average daily rate	£411	£407
% change on same period last year	+1.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£23.50
Average hourly rate	£37.50	£28.50
% change on same period last year	+31.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£33.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.37	£36.33
% change on same period last year	+0.12 %
Job Titles Staffordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	217	172
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.309 %	0.178 %
Daily rates quoted	72	44
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£309
Average daily rate	£328	£328
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£349	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	29	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.88	£18.89
Average hourly rate	£17.26	£20.63
% change on same period last year	-16.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.64	£22.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.64	£25.03
% change on same period last year	-5.56 %
Project Manager West Midlands

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 Manager across the Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Manager across the Staffordshire region.

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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 Manager across the Staffordshire 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 Project Manager within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 15 October 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
Stoke-on-Trent	-	5	£395	-
Leek	-	2	£350	-
Stafford	-1	2	£350	-
Burton-upon-Trent	-	1	-	-

Project Manager West Midlands

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region that cited Project Manager in their job title 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 with Project Manager in their job title.

1 12 (40.00 %) Project Management 2 11 (36.67 %) PRINCE2 3 7 (23.33 %) .NET 3 7 (23.33 %) Oracle 4 6 (20.00 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 5 (16.67 %) NHS 5 5 (16.67 %) Finance 6 4 (13.33 %) Government 6 4 (13.33 %) Manufacturing 6 4 (13.33 %) E-business 6 4 (13.33 %) Web Development 6 4 (13.33 %) PRINCE 6 4 (13.33 %) SQL 7 3 (10.00 %) Health 7 3 (10.00 %) Local Government

8 2 (6.667 %) Marketing 8 2 (6.667 %) WebSphere 8 2 (6.667 %) Project Planning 8 2 (6.667 %) Quality Management 8 2 (6.667 %) Service Delivery 8 2 (6.667 %) Oracle Payroll 8 2 (6.667 %) Programme Management 8 2 (6.667 %) Business Analysis 8 2 (6.667 %) C# 8 2 (6.667 %) WebSphere Application Server 8 2 (6.667 %) Solaris 8 2 (6.667 %) Datawarehouse 8 2 (6.667 %) Business Intelligence 8 2 (6.667 %) RDBMS 8 2 (6.667 %) IBM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region that cited Project Manager in their job title 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 with Project Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (23.33 %) .NET 2 2 (6.667 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 2 (6.667 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 1 (3.333 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 1 (3.333 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 2 (6.667 %) Oracle Payroll 2 1 (3.333 %) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.667 %) Internet 2 1 (3.333 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.667 %) Datawarehouse 1 2 (6.667 %) RDBMS 1 2 (6.667 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (3.333 %) Oracle 8/8i
General 1 5 (16.67 %) Finance 2 4 (13.33 %) Government 2 4 (13.33 %) Manufacturing 3 3 (10.00 %) Local Government 3 3 (10.00 %) Health 4 2 (6.667 %) Marketing	Miscellaneous 1 5 (16.67 %) NHS 2 1 (3.333 %) PDA 2 1 (3.333 %) SCADA
Operating Systems 1 2 (6.667 %) Solaris 2 1 (3.333 %) Windows Mobile 2 1 (3.333 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (40.00 %) Project Management 2 11 (36.67 %) PRINCE2 3 4 (13.33 %) PRINCE 3 4 (13.33 %) E-business 3 4 (13.33 %) Web Development 4 2 (6.667 %) Programme Management 4 2 (6.667 %) BPR 4 2 (6.667 %) Business Intelligence 4 2 (6.667 %) Quality Management 4 2 (6.667 %) Service Delivery 4 2 (6.667 %) Business Analysis 4 2 (6.667 %) Project Planning 5 1 (3.333 %) ITIL 5 1 (3.333 %) Change Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Data Analysis 5 1 (3.333 %) Software Engineering 5 1 (3.333 %) Stakeholder Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Business Continuity 5 1 (3.333 %) SAP Implementation 5 1 (3.333 %) Time Management
Programming Languages 1 4 (13.33 %) SQL 2 2 (6.667 %) C# 2 2 (6.667 %) VBA 3 1 (3.333 %) VB6 3 1 (3.333 %) C 3 1 (3.333 %) VB	Qualifications 1 6 (20.00 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (3.333 %) Degree 2 1 (3.333 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Vendors 1 7 (23.33 %) Oracle 2 2 (6.667 %) IBM 2 2 (6.667 %) Sun 2 2 (6.667 %) JD Edwards 3 1 (3.333 %) Microsoft 3 1 (3.333 %) SAP 3 1 (3.333 %) Siebel