Thames Valley Project Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Project Management skills within the Thames Valley 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 Management over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Amersham Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crowthorne Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Fleetwood Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenwich Guildford Gwent Hackney Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands 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 Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	31
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	15	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	8.721 %	8.559 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£500	£350
Average daily rate	£525	£363
% change on same period last year	+44.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£550	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£387	£377
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£40.00
Average hourly rate	-	£45.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.73	£29.01
% change on same period last year	+2.48 %
Processes & Methodologies Thames Valley
Matching contract IT job ads	172	222
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.243 %	0.225 %
Daily rates quoted	27	29
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£381
Average daily rate	£369	£409
% change on same period last year	-9.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£398	£437
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.50	£31.56
Average hourly rate	£38.33	£34.94
% change on same period last year	+9.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.17	£38.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.42	£29.97
% change on same period last year	-1.81 %
Project Management 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley region citing Project Management 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 Management.

1 8 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 2 7 (21.88 %) Change Management 3 4 (12.50 %) Manufacturing 3 4 (12.50 %) MS Excel 3 4 (12.50 %) CRM 3 4 (12.50 %) NHS 3 4 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 3 (9.375 %) ITIL 4 3 (9.375 %) Retail 4 3 (9.375 %) Local Government 4 3 (9.375 %) MS Visio 4 3 (9.375 %) BCP 4 3 (9.375 %) Microsoft 4 3 (9.375 %) Microsoft CRM 4 3 (9.375 %) MS Project

4 3 (9.375 %) MS Office 4 3 (9.375 %) SAP 4 3 (9.375 %) Government 4 3 (9.375 %) Stakeholder Management 4 3 (9.375 %) Business Continuity 5 2 (6.250 %) Health 5 2 (6.250 %) Migration 5 2 (6.250 %) Finance 5 2 (6.250 %) Data Migration 5 2 (6.250 %) WebSphere 5 2 (6.250 %) Project Planning 6 1 (3.125 %) Performance Testing 6 1 (3.125 %) Investment Management 6 1 (3.125 %) VMware Infrastructure 6 1 (3.125 %) SAP CO

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley region citing Project Management 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 Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (6.250 %) WebSphere 2 1 (3.125 %) J2EE 2 1 (3.125 %) JSP 2 1 (3.125 %) SAP XI	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.125 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 4 (12.50 %) MS Excel 2 3 (9.375 %) MS Visio 2 3 (9.375 %) MS Project 2 3 (9.375 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 3 (9.375 %) Microsoft CRM 2 1 (3.125 %) SAP R/3 2 1 (3.125 %) SAP FI 2 1 (3.125 %) SAP CRM 2 1 (3.125 %) SAP FI/CO 2 1 (3.125 %) SAP CO 2 1 (3.125 %) SAP Retail
Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.125 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.125 %) MS Access 1 1 (3.125 %) SAP BW 1 1 (3.125 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 1 (3.125 %) QuickTest Pro 1 1 (3.125 %) LoadRunner	General 1 4 (12.50 %) Manufacturing 2 3 (9.375 %) Retail 2 3 (9.375 %) Local Government 2 3 (9.375 %) Government 3 2 (6.250 %) Health 3 2 (6.250 %) Finance 4 1 (3.125 %) Automotive 4 1 (3.125 %) Legal 4 1 (3.125 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (3.125 %) Banking 4 1 (3.125 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 21 (65.63 %) Project Manager 2 6 (18.75 %) Analyst 3 4 (12.50 %) NHS Project Manager 4 3 (9.375 %) CRM Project Manager 4 3 (9.375 %) SAP Manager 4 3 (9.375 %) CRM Manager 4 3 (9.375 %) SAP Project Manager 4 3 (9.375 %) Business Analyst 5 2 (6.250 %) Coordinator 5 2 (6.250 %) IT Manager 5 2 (6.250 %) Project Coordinator 5 2 (6.250 %) IT Project Manager 6 1 (3.125 %) Project Analyst 6 1 (3.125 %) Technical Manager 6 1 (3.125 %) GIS Manager 6 1 (3.125 %) Software Analyst 6 1 (3.125 %) Technical Architect 6 1 (3.125 %) Account Manager 6 1 (3.125 %) Technical Project Manager 6 1 (3.125 %) Development Manager	Miscellaneous 1 4 (12.50 %) NHS 2 1 (3.125 %) NPfIT
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 2 7 (21.88 %) Change Management 3 4 (12.50 %) CRM 3 4 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 3 (9.375 %) BCP 4 3 (9.375 %) ITIL 4 3 (9.375 %) Stakeholder Management 4 3 (9.375 %) Business Continuity 5 2 (6.250 %) Migration 5 2 (6.250 %) Project Planning 5 2 (6.250 %) Data Migration 6 1 (3.125 %) Performance Testing 6 1 (3.125 %) Investment Management 6 1 (3.125 %) Requirements Analysis 6 1 (3.125 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (3.125 %) Risk Management 6 1 (3.125 %) E-Procurement 6 1 (3.125 %) BPR 6 1 (3.125 %) UML 6 1 (3.125 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 1 (3.125 %) Java 1 1 (3.125 %) JavaScript 1 1 (3.125 %) SQL 1 1 (3.125 %) ABAP
Qualifications 1 1 (3.125 %) PMP 1 1 (3.125 %) PMI Certification 1 1 (3.125 %) Degree	System Software 1 1 (3.125 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 3 (9.375 %) SAP 1 3 (9.375 %) Microsoft 2 1 (3.125 %) NetApp 2 1 (3.125 %) Charles River 2 1 (3.125 %) ESRI 2 1 (3.125 %) Thunderhead 2 1 (3.125 %) VMware 2 1 (3.125 %) LatentZero 2 1 (3.125 %) Oracle