Surrey Project Planning Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Project Planning skills within the Surrey 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 last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Project Planning
Location Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Croydon Darlington Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Witham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	74	73
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	23	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.048 %
As % of the category below	2.116 %	3.616 %
Daily rates quoted	6	11
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£268
Average daily rate	£352	£279
% change on same period last year	+26.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£291
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£349
% change on same period last year	-1.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.33	-
Average hourly rate	£20.67	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.52	£41.49
% change on same period last year	-31.25 %
Processes & Methodologies Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	1087	1189
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.394 %	1.336 %
Daily rates quoted	292	280
Average minimum daily rate	£354	£337
Average daily rate	£377	£357
% change on same period last year	+5.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	103	72
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.43	£30.17
Average hourly rate	£29.24	£31.37
% change on same period last year	-6.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.05	£32.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.72	£29.49
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Project Planning South East

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Project Planning across the Surrey 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Project Planning across the Surrey region.

Project Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Planning across the Surrey region over the past 3 months.

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Project Planning across the Surrey region.

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Planning across the Surrey region over the past 3 months.

Project Planning
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Planning within the Surrey region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Guildford	-2	2	-	-
2	Farnham	-	1	-	-
2	Staines	-4	1	£313	+7.75 %

Project Planning South East

Project Planning
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Surrey region citing Project Planning also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Project Planning.

1 27 (72.97 %) Project Management 2 13 (35.14 %) Change Management 3 12 (32.43 %) PRINCE2 4 10 (27.03 %) MS Project 4 10 (27.03 %) SAP 5 9 (24.32 %) ERP 6 8 (21.62 %) Degree 7 6 (16.22 %) Datawarehouse 7 6 (16.22 %) Niku 7 6 (16.22 %) LiveLink 8 5 (13.51 %) CA Clarity 9 4 (10.81 %) Finance 9 4 (10.81 %) Pharmaceutical 9 4 (10.81 %) MS Excel 10 3 (8.108 %) PRINCE2 Certification

10 3 (8.108 %) Unix 10 3 (8.108 %) SQL 10 3 (8.108 %) Risk Management 10 3 (8.108 %) Resource Management 11 2 (5.405 %) Service Delivery 11 2 (5.405 %) MS PowerPoint 11 2 (5.405 %) Time Management 11 2 (5.405 %) Construction 11 2 (5.405 %) Telecoms 11 2 (5.405 %) J2EE 11 2 (5.405 %) Java 11 2 (5.405 %) BPR 11 2 (5.405 %) PRINCE 11 2 (5.405 %) MS Visio 11 2 (5.405 %) Broadband

Project Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Surrey region citing Project Planning also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Project Planning. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (5.405 %) J2EE 2 1 (2.703 %) CSS 2 1 (2.703 %) XML 2 1 (2.703 %) Hibernate 2 1 (2.703 %) Fusebox 2 1 (2.703 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 6 (16.22 %) LiveLink 2 1 (2.703 %) IIS 2 1 (2.703 %) Tomcat 2 1 (2.703 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 10 (27.03 %) MS Project 2 5 (13.51 %) CA Clarity 3 4 (10.81 %) MS Excel 4 2 (5.405 %) MS Visio 4 2 (5.405 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 2 (5.405 %) Broadband 2 1 (2.703 %) SMS 2 1 (2.703 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (16.22 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (2.703 %) Data Mining 2 1 (2.703 %) SAP BW	General 1 4 (10.81 %) Pharmaceutical 1 4 (10.81 %) Finance 2 2 (5.405 %) Construction 2 2 (5.405 %) Telecoms 3 1 (2.703 %) Legal 3 1 (2.703 %) Banking 3 1 (2.703 %) General Ledger 3 1 (2.703 %) Pensions 3 1 (2.703 %) Chemicals 3 1 (2.703 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 20 (54.05 %) Project Manager 2 6 (16.22 %) Coordinator 2 6 (16.22 %) Project Coordinator 3 4 (10.81 %) IT Manager 4 3 (8.108 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 4 3 (8.108 %) IT Project Manager 4 3 (8.108 %) Infrastructure Manager 5 2 (5.405 %) Project Officer 5 2 (5.405 %) Project Office Manager 5 2 (5.405 %) Applications Manager 5 2 (5.405 %) PMO Manager 5 2 (5.405 %) Developer 6 1 (2.703 %) Project Planner 6 1 (2.703 %) Analyst 6 1 (2.703 %) Consultant 6 1 (2.703 %) Architect 6 1 (2.703 %) Programme Manager 6 1 (2.703 %) Development Manager 6 1 (2.703 %) Senior Developer 6 1 (2.703 %) Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.703 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems 1 3 (8.108 %) Unix 2 1 (2.703 %) Windows 2 1 (2.703 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 27 (72.97 %) Project Management 2 13 (35.14 %) Change Management 3 12 (32.43 %) PRINCE2 4 9 (24.32 %) ERP 5 3 (8.108 %) Risk Management 5 3 (8.108 %) Resource Management 6 2 (5.405 %) Time Management 6 2 (5.405 %) PRINCE 6 2 (5.405 %) BPR 6 2 (5.405 %) Service Delivery 7 1 (2.703 %) Data Security 7 1 (2.703 %) RUP 7 1 (2.703 %) ITIL 7 1 (2.703 %) Release Management 7 1 (2.703 %) Security Testing 7 1 (2.703 %) Stakeholder Management 7 1 (2.703 %) Programme Management 7 1 (2.703 %) Critical Path Analysis 7 1 (2.703 %) Supplier Management 7 1 (2.703 %) IT Governance
Programming Languages 1 3 (8.108 %) SQL 2 2 (5.405 %) Java 3 1 (2.703 %) JavaScript 3 1 (2.703 %) C	Qualifications 1 8 (21.62 %) Degree 2 3 (8.108 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (2.703 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Vendors 1 10 (27.03 %) SAP 2 6 (16.22 %) Niku 3 2 (5.405 %) Microsoft 4 1 (2.703 %) Ericsson 4 1 (2.703 %) Oracle