Suffolk Project Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Project Manager role in IT contracts within the Suffolk region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Project Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Project Manager
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Argyll and Bute Aylesbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Darlington Deeside Denbigh Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Flintshire Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hayes Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Johnstone Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rhyl Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Ruislip Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	24
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	30	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.040 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	17.65 %	4.000 %
Daily rates quoted	16	6
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£300
Average daily rate	£370	£321
% change on same period last year	+15.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£395	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£416	£407
% change on same period last year	+2.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.45	£35.43
% change on same period last year	-5.58 %
Job Titles Suffolk
Matching contract IT job ads	170	225
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.224 %	0.239 %
Daily rates quoted	55	50
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£312
Average daily rate	£358	£327
% change on same period last year	+9.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	48
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.05	£19.89
Average hourly rate	£22.03	£20.75
% change on same period last year	+6.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.00	£21.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Project Manager East of 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 Manager
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Project Manager across the Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Manager across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 4 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 Manager across the Suffolk region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Project Manager within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 4 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
Ipswich	+12	19	£385	+20.03 %

Project Manager East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 25 (49.02 %) Project Management 2 24 (47.06 %) PRINCE2 3 11 (21.57 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 11 (21.57 %) Insurance 4 10 (19.61 %) NHS 5 9 (17.65 %) Telecoms 6 8 (15.69 %) NPfIT 6 8 (15.69 %) Finance 7 7 (13.73 %) PRINCE 7 7 (13.73 %) Datawarehouse 8 6 (11.76 %) Business Intelligence 8 6 (11.76 %) Microsoft 9 5 (9.804 %) Unix 9 5 (9.804 %) MS Project 9 5 (9.804 %) MS Office

9 5 (9.804 %) Firewall 10 4 (7.843 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 10 4 (7.843 %) Windows 10 4 (7.843 %) PMP 10 4 (7.843 %) PMI Certification 10 4 (7.843 %) Software Engineering 10 4 (7.843 %) Network Security 11 3 (5.882 %) Informatics 11 3 (5.882 %) Office Project Server 11 3 (5.882 %) Supplier Management 11 3 (5.882 %) Informatica 11 3 (5.882 %) BusinessObjects 11 3 (5.882 %) SAP 11 3 (5.882 %) Trillium 11 3 (5.882 %) Agile Software Development

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 Platforms 1 3 (5.882 %) Office Project Server 2 1 (1.961 %) Apache	Applications 1 5 (9.804 %) MS Project 1 5 (9.804 %) MS Office 2 1 (1.961 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 1 (1.961 %) SAP MM 1 1 (1.961 %) SAP QM	Communications & Networking 1 5 (9.804 %) Firewall 2 4 (7.843 %) Network Security 3 2 (3.922 %) Broadband 3 2 (3.922 %) Internet 4 1 (1.961 %) LDAP 4 1 (1.961 %) VoIP 4 1 (1.961 %) SSL 4 1 (1.961 %) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (13.73 %) Datawarehouse 2 3 (5.882 %) BusinessObjects 3 2 (3.922 %) OLAP 4 1 (1.961 %) EDRMS	General 1 11 (21.57 %) Insurance 2 9 (17.65 %) Telecoms 3 8 (15.69 %) Finance 4 3 (5.882 %) Health 5 1 (1.961 %) Electronics
Miscellaneous 1 10 (19.61 %) NHS 2 8 (15.69 %) NPfIT 3 3 (5.882 %) Informatics 4 2 (3.922 %) Robotics 5 1 (1.961 %) Computer Science 5 1 (1.961 %) Smartcard 5 1 (1.961 %) STB 5 1 (1.961 %) e-Health 5 1 (1.961 %) IPTV 5 1 (1.961 %) PMI	Operating Systems 1 5 (9.804 %) Unix 2 4 (7.843 %) Windows 3 1 (1.961 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (49.02 %) Project Management 2 24 (47.06 %) PRINCE2 3 7 (13.73 %) PRINCE 4 6 (11.76 %) Business Intelligence 5 4 (7.843 %) Software Engineering 6 3 (5.882 %) Supplier Management 6 3 (5.882 %) Workflow 6 3 (5.882 %) Programme Management 6 3 (5.882 %) Agile Software Development 7 2 (3.922 %) Information Management 8 1 (1.961 %) Migration 8 1 (1.961 %) Scrum 8 1 (1.961 %) Risk Assessment 8 1 (1.961 %) Requirements Analysis 8 1 (1.961 %) Business Development 8 1 (1.961 %) WFM 8 1 (1.961 %) Matrix Management 8 1 (1.961 %) Security Cleared 8 1 (1.961 %) Six Sigma 8 1 (1.961 %) Quality Management	Qualifications 1 11 (21.57 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 4 (7.843 %) PMP 2 4 (7.843 %) PMI Certification 3 2 (3.922 %) ISEB 4 1 (1.961 %) MBA 4 1 (1.961 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (7.843 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (1.961 %) SLA	System Software 1 1 (1.961 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (1.961 %) Netcool 1 1 (1.961 %) Netcool/OMNIbus	Vendors 1 6 (11.76 %) Microsoft 2 3 (5.882 %) Informatica 2 3 (5.882 %) Business Objects 2 3 (5.882 %) SAP 2 3 (5.882 %) Trillium 3 2 (3.922 %) Oracle 4 1 (1.961 %) Citrix 4 1 (1.961 %) Cisco