Thames Valley Project Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Project Manager role in IT contracts within the Thames Valley 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.

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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	17	45
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching contract IT job ads	27	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	6.667 %	2.638 %
Daily rates quoted	10	3
Average minimum daily rate	£370	£410
Average daily rate	£407	£422
% change on same period last year	-3.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£445	£433
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 Thames Valley
Matching contract IT job ads	405	796
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.534 %	0.844 %
Daily rates quoted	37	71
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£334
Average daily rate	£388	£347
% change on same period last year	+11.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£431	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.18	£34.68
Average hourly rate	£30.19	£35.31
% change on same period last year	-14.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.20	£35.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
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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 Thames Valley 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 Thames Valley 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 Thames Valley 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 Thames Valley region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley 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 20 (30.30 %) PRINCE2 1 20 (30.30 %) Project Management 2 11 (16.67 %) Finance 2 11 (16.67 %) NHS 3 8 (12.12 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 7 (10.61 %) Windows 4 7 (10.61 %) SAP 4 7 (10.61 %) Telecoms 4 7 (10.61 %) Health 5 6 (9.091 %) Change Management 5 6 (9.091 %) Pharmaceutical 5 6 (9.091 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 6 (9.091 %) Linux 5 6 (9.091 %) MS Project 5 6 (9.091 %) SAN

5 6 (9.091 %) LAN 5 6 (9.091 %) WAN 6 5 (7.576 %) Manufacturing 7 4 (6.061 %) Business Analysis 7 4 (6.061 %) Performance Management 7 4 (6.061 %) SC Cleared 7 4 (6.061 %) Security Cleared 7 4 (6.061 %) Financial Modelling 7 4 (6.061 %) Stakeholder Management 8 3 (4.545 %) Construction 8 3 (4.545 %) NPfIT 8 3 (4.545 %) PMI Certification 8 3 (4.545 %) Broadband 8 3 (4.545 %) PMI 8 3 (4.545 %) Sun

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley 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 (1.515 %) .NET 1 1 (1.515 %) J2EE 1 1 (1.515 %) CSS 1 1 (1.515 %) SAP XI 1 1 (1.515 %) WebSphere	Applications 1 6 (9.091 %) MS Project
Business Applications 1 1 (1.515 %) SAP APO 1 1 (1.515 %) SAP R/3 1 1 (1.515 %) SAP CRM 1 1 (1.515 %) SAP Retail	Communications & Networking 1 6 (9.091 %) SAN 1 6 (9.091 %) LAN 1 6 (9.091 %) WAN 2 3 (4.545 %) Broadband 3 2 (3.030 %) ATM 3 2 (3.030 %) VoIP 3 2 (3.030 %) Intranet 4 1 (1.515 %) Internet 4 1 (1.515 %) DWDM 4 1 (1.515 %) MPLS 4 1 (1.515 %) DSLAM 4 1 (1.515 %) NGN 4 1 (1.515 %) LLU 4 1 (1.515 %) VPN 4 1 (1.515 %) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.515 %) SAP BI 1 1 (1.515 %) GIS	General 1 11 (16.67 %) Finance 2 7 (10.61 %) Telecoms 2 7 (10.61 %) Health 3 6 (9.091 %) Pharmaceutical 4 5 (7.576 %) Manufacturing 5 3 (4.545 %) Banking 5 3 (4.545 %) Construction 6 2 (3.030 %) Education 6 2 (3.030 %) Electric 6 2 (3.030 %) Government 6 2 (3.030 %) Retail 7 1 (1.515 %) Billing 7 1 (1.515 %) Local Government 7 1 (1.515 %) Pensions 7 1 (1.515 %) Retail Banking 7 1 (1.515 %) FMCG 7 1 (1.515 %) Legal
Miscellaneous 1 11 (16.67 %) NHS 2 3 (4.545 %) PMI 2 3 (4.545 %) NPfIT 3 2 (3.030 %) Management Information System 4 1 (1.515 %) Clustering 4 1 (1.515 %) IPTV 4 1 (1.515 %) French Language 4 1 (1.515 %) Russian Language 4 1 (1.515 %) EPoS 4 1 (1.515 %) EMV 4 1 (1.515 %) Smartcard	Operating Systems 1 7 (10.61 %) Windows 2 6 (9.091 %) Linux 3 1 (1.515 %) Unix 3 1 (1.515 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (30.30 %) PRINCE2 1 20 (30.30 %) Project Management 2 6 (9.091 %) Change Management 3 4 (6.061 %) Stakeholder Management 3 4 (6.061 %) Business Analysis 3 4 (6.061 %) Performance Management 3 4 (6.061 %) SC Cleared 3 4 (6.061 %) Security Cleared 3 4 (6.061 %) Financial Modelling 4 3 (4.545 %) DV Cleared 5 2 (3.030 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 2 (3.030 %) Strategic Planning 5 2 (3.030 %) Business Continuity 5 2 (3.030 %) Content Management 5 2 (3.030 %) BCP 5 2 (3.030 %) Business Intelligence 6 1 (1.515 %) PRINCE 6 1 (1.515 %) CRM 6 1 (1.515 %) BPR 6 1 (1.515 %) Disaster Recovery	Programming Languages 1 1 (1.515 %) Java 1 1 (1.515 %) ABAP
Qualifications 1 8 (12.12 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 3 (4.545 %) HNC 2 3 (4.545 %) HND 2 3 (4.545 %) PMI Certification 2 3 (4.545 %) Chartered Engineer 3 1 (1.515 %) Degree 3 1 (1.515 %) PMP	Systems Management 1 6 (9.091 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 7 (10.61 %) SAP 2 3 (4.545 %) Sun 3 2 (3.030 %) IBM 3 2 (3.030 %) NEC 3 2 (3.030 %) Fujitsu 4 1 (1.515 %) Oracle 4 1 (1.515 %) VMware 4 1 (1.515 %) HP 4 1 (1.515 %) Citrix