The first table below looks at the demand for the Project Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Project Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Swindon region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Project Manager
Rank 7 11 13
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 48 31 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 13.52% 9.254% 7.796%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.46% 10.06% 8.529%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 27 14
Average daily rate £423 £420 £472
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.59% -11.01%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £407 £373 £433
10% offered a daily rate of more than £473 £510 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £408 £405
% change year-on-year
-1.84% +0.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £27.75 £35.50
% change year-on-year
+35.13% -21.83%
All Job Titles
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
332 308 340
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 93.52% 91.94% 91.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 202 206
Average daily rate £420 £355 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.30% -11.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £210 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £504
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 17
Average hourly rate £14.00 £16.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -41.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £25.00 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Project Manager
Wiltshire

Project Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Project Manager across the Swindon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Swindon Project Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Project Manager across the Swindon region.

Swindon Project Manager Daily Rate Trend

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Manager across the Swindon region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Swindon Project Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Project Manager across the Swindon region.

Swindon Project Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Project Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 69 (78.41%) Finance
2 45 (51.14%) Project Management
2 45 (51.14%) PRINCE2
3 30 (34.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (29.55%) Banking
5 20 (22.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 18 (20.45%) PRINCE
7 14 (15.91%) Retail
7 14 (15.91%) Retail Banking
8 13 (14.77%) Business Transformation
9 12 (13.64%) Change Management
10 11 (12.50%) Microsoft
10 11 (12.50%) MS Project
11 10 (11.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 9 (10.23%) Supplier Management
13 8 (9.091%) Migration
14 6 (6.818%) Programme Management
15 5 (5.682%) Release Management
15 5 (5.682%) Data Mapping
15 5 (5.682%) Information Management
15 5 (5.682%) BPR
15 5 (5.682%) SAP
15 5 (5.682%) Data Warehouse
15 5 (5.682%) Unisys
16 4 (4.545%) ETL
16 4 (4.545%) Business Intelligence
16 4 (4.545%) MS Excel
16 4 (4.545%) SharePoint
16 4 (4.545%) SAP Data Services
16 4 (4.545%) Security Cleared

Project Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 1 (1.136%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (1.136%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.545%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.136%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (1.136%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (12.50%) MS Project
2 4 (4.545%) MS Excel
3 2 (2.273%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (1.136%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.409%) PeopleSoft Financials
2 1 (1.136%) SAP GRC
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.409%) Internet
2 2 (2.273%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.273%) Intranet
2 2 (2.273%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (2.273%) Network Security
3 1 (1.136%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.682%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.545%) SAP Data Services
3 3 (3.409%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.136%) Big Data
General
1 69 (78.41%) Finance
2 26 (29.55%) Banking
3 14 (15.91%) Retail
3 14 (15.91%) Retail Banking
4 4 (4.545%) Marketing
5 1 (1.136%) Law
5 1 (1.136%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.273%) NHS
1 2 (2.273%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.136%) Online Banking
2 1 (1.136%) Digital Media
2 1 (1.136%) Mainframe
2 1 (1.136%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.409%) Windows
2 1 (1.136%) Windows 7
2 1 (1.136%) Solaris
2 1 (1.136%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (51.14%) Project Management
1 45 (51.14%) PRINCE2
2 30 (34.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (20.45%) PRINCE
4 13 (14.77%) Business Transformation
5 12 (13.64%) Change Management
6 10 (11.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (10.23%) Supplier Management
8 8 (9.091%) Migration
9 6 (6.818%) Programme Management
10 5 (5.682%) Release Management
10 5 (5.682%) Data Mapping
10 5 (5.682%) Information Management
10 5 (5.682%) BPR
11 4 (4.545%) ETL
11 4 (4.545%) Business Intelligence
11 4 (4.545%) Change Control
12 3 (3.409%) Data Governance
12 3 (3.409%) Data Analysis
13 2 (2.273%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.136%) Ruby
1 1 (1.136%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (22.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 4 (4.545%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.273%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.136%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.136%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.136%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.136%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.136%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.273%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.136%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.136%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 11 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.682%) SAP
2 5 (5.682%) Unisys
3 3 (3.409%) Business Objects
3 3 (3.409%) PeopleSoft
4 1 (1.136%) VMware
4 1 (1.136%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.136%) Citrix