MS Project Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Project skills across the UK with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Project over the last 3 months to 13 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Project
Location Aberdeen Andover Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Bracknell Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Darwen Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Liversedge London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Witham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	72	83
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	1517	1693
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.940 %	1.838 %
As % of the category below	16.95 %	17.82 %
Daily rates quoted	639	606
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£313
Average daily rate	£345	£332
% change on same period last year	+3.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£305	£310
% change on same period last year	-1.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	77	80
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.14	£22.31
Average hourly rate	£30.30	£23.76
% change on same period last year	+27.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.45	£25.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.14	£21.96
% change on same period last year	+28.13 %
Applications UK
Matching contract IT job ads	8952	9499
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	11.45 %	10.31 %
Daily rates quoted	2490	2154
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£290
Average daily rate	£325	£308
% change on same period last year	+5.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£326
UK excluding London average daily rate	£298	£288
% change on same period last year	+3.44 %
Hourly rates quoted	1687	1758
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.24	£17.91
Average hourly rate	£18.69	£19.05
% change on same period last year	-1.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.14	£20.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.12	£18.30
% change on same period last year	-0.98 %

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.

MS Project
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing MS Project across the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

MS Project
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing MS Project across the UK.

MS Project
Daily Rate Histogram

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

MS Project
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Project
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

MS Project
Top 30 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Project within the UK 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	England	+9	1427	£345	+3.41 %
2	London	+12	631	£380	+5.37 %
3	South East	-15	224	£298	-5.44 %
4	South West	+35	155	£290	-11.24 %
5	City of London	+44	153	£389	-4.03 %
6	East of England	-22	102	£311	+1.92 %
7	West Midlands	+23	92	£311	-16.23 %
8	North West	-8	88	£315	+9.18 %
9	Berkshire	-17	56	£294	-12.65 %
10	Wiltshire	+32	52	£373	+11.88 %
11	Yorkshire	-17	50	£323	+18.16 %
12	Scotland	+11	49	£311	+20.60 %
13	Docklands, London	+22	45	£332	-12.46 %
14	Hampshire	+23	43	£323	-6.46 %
14	Manchester	+5	43	£331	+29.00 %
15	Surrey	+3	40	£343	+17.32 %
16	Hertfordshire	-13	39	£291	+23.77 %
17	West Yorkshire	-7	36	£319	+9.74 %
18	Wales	+4	34	£316	-22.57 %
19	Gloucestershire	+25	33	£222	-28.15 %
19	Bristol	+1	33	£265	-17.75 %
20	Swindon	+25	31	£403	+24.14 %
21	Midlands	+3	29	£338	-26.28 %
21	Birmingham	+25	29	£316	+3.31 %
22	Essex	-5	28	£290	-30.06 %
23	Leeds	-9	26	£377	+20.50 %
24	South Wales	-2	25	£307	-24.62 %
25	Cambridgeshire	-17	21	£365	+26.81 %
25	Reading	-16	21	£329	-9.68 %
25	Coventry	+3	21	£361	-32.45 %

MS Project
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the UK citing MS Project 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 MS Project.

1 1156 (38.00 %) PRINCE2 2 1052 (34.58 %) Project Management 3 1029 (33.83 %) MS Excel 4 824 (27.09 %) MS Office 5 820 (26.96 %) Finance 6 780 (25.64 %) Microsoft 7 438 (14.40 %) MS Visio 8 410 (13.48 %) MS PowerPoint 9 395 (12.98 %) Project Planning 10 300 (9.862 %) Banking 11 283 (9.303 %) Government 12 215 (7.068 %) PRINCE2 Certification 13 163 (5.358 %) Oracle 14 161 (5.293 %) Windows 15 159 (5.227 %) SQL

15 159 (5.227 %) Investment Banking 16 145 (4.767 %) Change Management 17 143 (4.701 %) PRINCE 18 141 (4.635 %) Risk Management 19 140 (4.602 %) Telecoms 20 135 (4.438 %) Programme Management 21 131 (4.306 %) SharePoint 22 123 (4.043 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 23 121 (3.978 %) ITIL 24 118 (3.879 %) Migration 25 111 (3.649 %) Business Analysis 26 105 (3.452 %) PMI 27 103 (3.386 %) Office Project Server 28 102 (3.353 %) Degree 29 96 (3.156 %) Insurance

MS Project
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the UK citing MS Project 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 MS Project. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 96 (3.156 %) XML 2 66 (2.170 %) .NET 3 59 (1.940 %) HTML 4 35 (1.151 %) CSS 5 34 (1.118 %) ASP 6 32 (1.052 %) ASP.NET 7 30 (0.986 %) Middleware 8 29 (0.953 %) J2EE 9 24 (0.789 %) WebServices 10 22 (0.723 %) XSL 11 19 (0.625 %) SOAP 12 18 (0.592 %) WebSphere 13 15 (0.493 %) Windows SharePoint Services 14 14 (0.460 %) JSP 15 13 (0.427 %) XSLT 16 10 (0.329 %) JDBC 16 10 (0.329 %) EJB 17 9 (0.296 %) Struts 17 9 (0.296 %) XHTML 17 9 (0.296 %) JavaBeans	Application Platforms 1 131 (4.306 %) SharePoint 2 103 (3.386 %) Office Project Server 3 57 (1.874 %) MS Exchange 4 42 (1.381 %) Lotus Notes 5 27 (0.888 %) IIS 6 26 (0.855 %) WebLogic 7 16 (0.526 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 15 (0.493 %) CMS 8 15 (0.493 %) Oracle Application Server 9 13 (0.427 %) Oracle 10gAS 10 11 (0.362 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 10 (0.329 %) SharePoint Portal Server 11 10 (0.329 %) SharePoint Server 2007 11 10 (0.329 %) Apache 11 10 (0.329 %) Documentum 12 9 (0.296 %) LiveLink 13 8 (0.263 %) SAS 14 5 (0.164 %) Tomcat 14 5 (0.164 %) Exchange Server 2007 15 4 (0.131 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 1029 (33.83 %) MS Excel 2 824 (27.09 %) MS Office 3 438 (14.40 %) MS Visio 4 410 (13.48 %) MS PowerPoint 5 62 (2.038 %) CA Clarity 6 20 (0.657 %) Open Workbench 7 11 (0.362 %) Photoshop 8 6 (0.197 %) Niku Workbench 9 5 (0.164 %) FrameMaker 9 5 (0.164 %) RoboHelp 10 3 (0.099 %) Adobe Illustrator 11 2 (0.066 %) Fireworks 11 2 (0.066 %) Acrobat 11 2 (0.066 %) Paint Shop Pro 11 2 (0.066 %) AutoCAD 12 1 (0.033 %) MATLAB 12 1 (0.033 %) Simulink 12 1 (0.033 %) CATIA 12 1 (0.033 %) InfoPath 12 1 (0.033 %) NASTRAN	Business Applications 1 12 (0.394 %) Summit 2 11 (0.362 %) Oracle 11i 3 10 (0.329 %) Oracle ERP 3 10 (0.329 %) Salerio 3 10 (0.329 %) Loan IQ 4 6 (0.197 %) Oracle CRM 4 6 (0.197 %) Fidessa 5 5 (0.164 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 5 5 (0.164 %) Oracle EBS 5 5 (0.164 %) HFM 5 5 (0.164 %) Hyperion Enterprise 6 4 (0.131 %) SAP ERP 6 4 (0.131 %) Oracle Applications 7 3 (0.099 %) HiPortfolio 7 3 (0.099 %) Oracle Financials 8 2 (0.066 %) SAP PS 8 2 (0.066 %) SAP HR 8 2 (0.066 %) SAP SD 8 2 (0.066 %) WebTrends 8 2 (0.066 %) Singl.eView
Communications & Networking 1 55 (1.808 %) TCP/IP 2 53 (1.742 %) Internet 2 53 (1.742 %) SAN 3 38 (1.249 %) DNS 4 35 (1.151 %) WAN 5 28 (0.920 %) Intranet 6 24 (0.789 %) LAN 7 20 (0.657 %) iSCSI 8 14 (0.460 %) Firewall 9 13 (0.427 %) WINS 10 11 (0.362 %) DHCP 10 11 (0.362 %) HTTP 11 9 (0.296 %) VPN 12 8 (0.263 %) Extranet 12 8 (0.263 %) GPRS 12 8 (0.263 %) Cisco IPT 13 6 (0.197 %) Broadband 13 6 (0.197 %) VoIP 13 6 (0.197 %) 3G 13 6 (0.197 %) MPLS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 58 (1.907 %) MS Access 2 56 (1.841 %) SQL Server 3 27 (0.888 %) SQL Server 2005 4 25 (0.822 %) Datawarehouse 5 24 (0.789 %) Oracle 10g 6 21 (0.690 %) SQL Server 2000 7 17 (0.559 %) ETL 7 17 (0.559 %) BusinessObjects 8 16 (0.526 %) Crystal Reports 9 15 (0.493 %) Oracle 9i 10 13 (0.427 %) Oracle Reports 11 12 (0.394 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 12 11 (0.362 %) Reference Data 13 10 (0.329 %) Data Cleansing 13 10 (0.329 %) MySQL 13 10 (0.329 %) TOAD 14 9 (0.296 %) EDRMS 14 9 (0.296 %) Oracle 8/8i 15 7 (0.230 %) DB2 15 7 (0.230 %) MSDE
Development Applications 1 53 (1.742 %) ClearQuest 2 40 (1.315 %) RequisitePro 3 39 (1.282 %) Rational Rose 4 37 (1.216 %) TestDirector 5 18 (0.592 %) ClearCase 6 15 (0.493 %) FrontPage 7 13 (0.427 %) Flash 7 13 (0.427 %) JUnit 8 12 (0.394 %) Visual Studio 9 9 (0.296 %) Dreamweaver 10 8 (0.263 %) PVCS 10 8 (0.263 %) Eclipse 11 7 (0.230 %) LoadRunner 11 7 (0.230 %) ERwin 12 6 (0.197 %) Telelogic DOORS 13 5 (0.164 %) GoLive 13 5 (0.164 %) PowerBuilder 14 4 (0.131 %) ARTiSAN 14 4 (0.131 %) Bugzilla 14 4 (0.131 %) JDeveloper	General 1 820 (26.96 %) Finance 2 300 (9.862 %) Banking 3 283 (9.303 %) Government 4 159 (5.227 %) Investment Banking 5 140 (4.602 %) Telecoms 6 96 (3.156 %) Insurance 7 95 (3.123 %) Health 8 87 (2.860 %) Retail 9 78 (2.564 %) Pensions 10 59 (1.940 %) Financial Institution 11 52 (1.709 %) Back Office 11 52 (1.709 %) Education 12 48 (1.578 %) Marketing 13 35 (1.151 %) Local Government 14 32 (1.052 %) Construction 15 31 (1.019 %) Automotive 16 28 (0.920 %) Aerospace 17 27 (0.888 %) Pharmaceutical 18 23 (0.756 %) Legal 18 23 (0.756 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 892 (29.32 %) Project Manager 2 410 (13.48 %) Analyst 3 267 (8.777 %) Coordinator 4 261 (8.580 %) Project Planner 5 213 (7.002 %) Project Coordinator 6 177 (5.819 %) Administrator 7 148 (4.865 %) Business Analyst 8 124 (4.076 %) Project Administrator 9 116 (3.813 %) Project Officer 10 115 (3.780 %) Programme Planner 11 110 (3.616 %) Programme Manager 12 91 (2.991 %) Project Analyst 13 88 (2.893 %) Project Support Officer 13 88 (2.893 %) Consultant 14 62 (2.038 %) PMO Analyst 15 59 (1.940 %) Support Analyst 16 56 (1.841 %) Developer 17 55 (1.808 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 17 55 (1.808 %) Infrastructure Manager 17 55 (1.808 %) Technical Manager	Miscellaneous 1 105 (3.452 %) PMI 2 70 (2.301 %) NHS 3 53 (1.742 %) Fixed Income 4 48 (1.578 %) Derivative 5 39 (1.282 %) Asset Management 6 35 (1.151 %) Management Information System 7 25 (0.822 %) Mainframe 8 21 (0.690 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 8 21 (0.690 %) Equities 9 15 (0.493 %) Web 2.0 9 15 (0.493 %) French Language 9 15 (0.493 %) Data Conversion 10 13 (0.427 %) Client/Server 11 12 (0.394 %) Credit Derivative 11 12 (0.394 %) W3C 11 12 (0.394 %) ASIC 12 11 (0.362 %) Handset 12 11 (0.362 %) Interest Rate Derivative 13 9 (0.296 %) Statistics 13 9 (0.296 %) NPfIT
Operating Systems 1 161 (5.293 %) Windows 2 85 (2.794 %) Unix 3 47 (1.545 %) Linux 4 45 (1.479 %) Solaris 5 31 (1.019 %) Windows XP 6 28 (0.920 %) Windows 2000 7 23 (0.756 %) Windows Server 2003 8 18 (0.592 %) Windows NT 9 7 (0.230 %) VMS 9 7 (0.230 %) HPUX 10 3 (0.099 %) AIX 10 3 (0.099 %) NetWare 11 2 (0.066 %) Mac OS X 12 1 (0.033 %) pSOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 1156 (38.00 %) PRINCE2 2 1052 (34.58 %) Project Management 3 395 (12.98 %) Project Planning 4 145 (4.767 %) Change Management 5 143 (4.701 %) PRINCE 6 141 (4.635 %) Risk Management 7 135 (4.438 %) Programme Management 8 121 (3.978 %) ITIL 9 118 (3.879 %) Migration 10 111 (3.649 %) Business Analysis 11 96 (3.156 %) RUP 12 87 (2.860 %) Stakeholder Management 13 85 (2.794 %) UML 14 66 (2.170 %) Resource Management 15 64 (2.104 %) Time Management 16 58 (1.907 %) User Acceptance Testing 16 58 (1.907 %) OO 16 58 (1.907 %) Configuration Management 17 50 (1.644 %) Service Delivery 18 46 (1.512 %) CRM
Programming Languages 1 159 (5.227 %) SQL 2 73 (2.400 %) Java 3 67 (2.202 %) VB 4 44 (1.446 %) JavaScript 5 37 (1.216 %) C 6 34 (1.118 %) VBScript 7 30 (0.986 %) Perl 8 29 (0.953 %) C# 8 29 (0.953 %) PL/SQL 9 27 (0.888 %) VBA 10 22 (0.723 %) C++ 11 17 (0.559 %) VB6 12 16 (0.526 %) VB.NET 13 9 (0.296 %) PHP 14 7 (0.230 %) Shell Script 15 4 (0.131 %) DCL 16 3 (0.099 %) Korn 16 3 (0.099 %) JCL 16 3 (0.099 %) Tcl 16 3 (0.099 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 215 (7.068 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 123 (4.043 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 102 (3.353 %) Degree 4 73 (2.400 %) PMI Certification 5 59 (1.940 %) ISEB 6 47 (1.545 %) PMP 7 29 (0.953 %) Microsoft Certification 8 27 (0.888 %) ITIL Certification 9 19 (0.625 %) MCSE 10 14 (0.460 %) Cisco Certification 11 12 (0.394 %) ISEB Practitioner 12 11 (0.362 %) CCNA 13 7 (0.230 %) ACCA 13 7 (0.230 %) CIMA 14 6 (0.197 %) CCNP 15 5 (0.164 %) Citrix Certification 15 5 (0.164 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 16 4 (0.131 %) HND 17 3 (0.099 %) MCSA 17 3 (0.099 %) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 71 (2.334 %) QA 2 34 (1.118 %) ISO9001 3 20 (0.657 %) SLA 4 10 (0.329 %) Basel II 5 9 (0.296 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 6 5 (0.164 %) ISO9000 7 2 (0.066 %) CESG Infosec 8 1 (0.033 %) EFQM 8 1 (0.033 %) ISO27001 8 1 (0.033 %) COBIT	System Software 1 31 (1.019 %) Active Directory 2 6 (0.197 %) NFS 3 3 (0.099 %) Terminal Server 3 3 (0.099 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 2 (0.066 %) MSMQ 4 2 (0.066 %) Terminal Services 4 2 (0.066 %) ISA Server 4 2 (0.066 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 4 2 (0.066 %) MetaFrame 5 1 (0.033 %) NDS 5 1 (0.033 %) SAP ITS 5 1 (0.033 %) Novell eDirectory
Systems Management 1 10 (0.329 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 5 (0.164 %) OpenView 2 5 (0.164 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 4 (0.131 %) Tivoli 4 3 (0.099 %) OpenView Configuration Management 5 2 (0.066 %) OMEGAMON 5 2 (0.066 %) Netcool 5 2 (0.066 %) DameWare 5 2 (0.066 %) OVSD 6 1 (0.033 %) WSUS 6 1 (0.033 %) SCOM 6 1 (0.033 %) AutoSys 6 1 (0.033 %) BMC PATROL 6 1 (0.033 %) ZENworks 6 1 (0.033 %) MOM 6 1 (0.033 %) CiscoWorks 6 1 (0.033 %) Unicenter	Vendors 1 780 (25.64 %) Microsoft 2 163 (5.358 %) Oracle 3 77 (2.531 %) SAP 4 46 (1.512 %) IBM 4 46 (1.512 %) Primavera 5 42 (1.381 %) Lotus 6 32 (1.052 %) VMware 7 30 (0.986 %) Planview 8 29 (0.953 %) Cisco 9 26 (0.855 %) HP 10 25 (0.822 %) Niku 11 20 (0.657 %) NetApp 12 18 (0.592 %) Citrix 12 18 (0.592 %) Remedy 13 17 (0.559 %) Business Objects 14 16 (0.526 %) Adobe 15 15 (0.493 %) Altova 16 12 (0.394 %) Macromedia 17 10 (0.329 %) GoldenSource 18 9 (0.296 %) CA