Programme Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Programme Manager role in IT contracts across the UK compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Programme Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	149	174
Rank change on same period last year	+25
Matching contract IT job ads	848	927
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.130 %	0.938 %
As % of the category below	1.256 %	1.023 %
Daily rates quoted	386	351
Average minimum daily rate	£555	£513
Average daily rate	£589	£552
% change on same period last year	+6.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£624	£591
UK excluding London average daily rate	£547	£504
% change on same period last year	+8.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£46.63	£41.68
Average hourly rate	£48.56	£46.61
% change on same period last year	+4.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£50.50	£51.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£50.08	£45.06
% change on same period last year	+11.14 %
Job Titles UK
Matching contract IT job ads	67526	90610
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	90.01 %	91.67 %
Daily rates quoted	22121	26824
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£390
Average daily rate	£404	£415
% change on same period last year	-2.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£430	£440
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	5680	7267
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.08	£24.52
Average hourly rate	£23.72	£26.04
% change on same period last year	-8.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.36	£27.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %

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 the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Programme Manager within the UK 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 Programme Manager within the UK.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Programme Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 25 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 Programme Manager within the UK.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Programme Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Programme Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
England	+28	791	£593	+7.56 %
London	+31	385	£629	+4.25 %
South East	+11	114	£529	-1.89 %
City of London	-2	82	£737	+7.71 %
South West	+35	61	£542	+24.99 %
North West	+19	54	£527	-18.84 %
Yorkshire	+18	42	£568	+8.52 %
East of England	-18	39	£602	+34.61 %
West Midlands	+9	30	£454	+14.67 %
West Yorkshire	+15	29	£589	-1.75 %
Berkshire	-1	29	£583	+10.08 %
Wiltshire	+20	24	£563	+17.97 %
Leeds	+10	23	£626	-
East Midlands	+6	22	£583	+1.30 %
Scotland	+40	22	£480	+74.54 %
Midlands	+11	20	£560	+39.99 %
Manchester	-2	20	£461	-
Surrey	+10	17	£497	-0.57 %
Wales	0	16	£532	-1.75 %
Bristol	+8	15	£429	+4.67 %
Norfolk	-4	14	£586	+23.75 %
Docklands, London	+29	14	£571	-2.14 %
Swindon	+2	13	£585	+21.57 %
Norwich	-1	13	£586	+24.32 %
Birmingham	+15	12	£430	+14.06 %
Edinburgh	+14	11	£500	+81.81 %
West Sussex	+10	11	£466	+9.57 %
North East	-	11	£674	-
Hampshire	+16	11	£343	-45.55 %
Hertfordshire	+6	11	£650	+47.30 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Programme 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 Programme Manager in their job title.

1 551 (30.65 %) Finance 2 462 (25.70 %) PRINCE2 3 384 (21.36 %) Programme Management 4 379 (21.08 %) Project Management 5 211 (11.74 %) Government 5 211 (11.74 %) Banking 6 201 (11.18 %) Stakeholder Management 7 159 (8.843 %) Change Management 8 121 (6.730 %) MS Project 8 121 (6.730 %) Retail 9 119 (6.618 %) Telecoms 10 116 (6.452 %) NHS 11 111 (6.174 %) SAP 12 107 (5.951 %) Health 13 100 (5.562 %) PRINCE2 Certification

14 97 (5.395 %) Security Cleared 15 92 (5.117 %) Insurance 16 83 (4.616 %) Migration 17 76 (4.227 %) Investment Banking 18 74 (4.116 %) Microsoft 19 72 (4.004 %) PRINCE 20 71 (3.949 %) Risk Management 20 71 (3.949 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 21 70 (3.893 %) Pensions 22 62 (3.448 %) Degree 23 59 (3.281 %) MS Visio 24 57 (3.170 %) MS Excel 25 54 (3.003 %) CRM 26 51 (2.836 %) Retail Banking 27 50 (2.781 %) ITIL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Programme 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 Programme Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 13 (0.723 %) .NET 2 10 (0.556 %) WebSphere 3 9 (0.501 %) J2EE 4 4 (0.222 %) Middleware 5 2 (0.111 %) JSF 5 2 (0.111 %) XML 5 2 (0.111 %) .NET Framework 6 1 (0.056 %) EDI 6 1 (0.056 %) WAP 6 1 (0.056 %) VML 6 1 (0.056 %) COM	Application Platforms 1 13 (0.723 %) SharePoint 2 10 (0.556 %) Office Project Server 3 9 (0.501 %) MS Exchange 4 5 (0.278 %) BizTalk Server 5 4 (0.222 %) CICS 5 4 (0.222 %) Lotus Notes 6 3 (0.167 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 3 (0.167 %) CMS 6 3 (0.167 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 2 (0.111 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 2 (0.111 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 2 (0.111 %) IIS 7 2 (0.111 %) Documentum 7 2 (0.111 %) NetWeaver 7 2 (0.111 %) Commerce Server 8 1 (0.056 %) LiveLink
Applications 1 121 (6.730 %) MS Project 2 59 (3.281 %) MS Visio 3 57 (3.170 %) MS Excel 4 38 (2.113 %) MS PowerPoint 5 35 (1.947 %) MS Office 6 19 (1.057 %) CA Clarity 7 2 (0.111 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 15 (0.834 %) SAP IS-U 2 7 (0.389 %) SAP ERP 2 7 (0.389 %) Great Plains 3 4 (0.222 %) SAP HR 3 4 (0.222 %) Oracle Financials 3 4 (0.222 %) SAP CRM 3 4 (0.222 %) Summit 4 3 (0.167 %) SAP Oil and Gas 4 3 (0.167 %) Eagle PACE 5 2 (0.111 %) Oracle ERP 5 2 (0.111 %) Microsoft CRM 6 1 (0.056 %) SAP FI 6 1 (0.056 %) SAP Payroll 6 1 (0.056 %) SAP FI/CO 6 1 (0.056 %) Teamcenter 6 1 (0.056 %) Academy Housing 6 1 (0.056 %) arcHouse 6 1 (0.056 %) SalesLogix 6 1 (0.056 %) SAP CO 6 1 (0.056 %) MultiFonds
Communications & Networking 1 21 (1.168 %) LAN 1 21 (1.168 %) Internet 2 20 (1.112 %) WAN 3 19 (1.057 %) VoIP 4 15 (0.834 %) BSS 5 13 (0.723 %) MPLS 6 8 (0.445 %) SAN 7 7 (0.389 %) PBX 7 7 (0.389 %) ATM 7 7 (0.389 %) Wireless 8 6 (0.334 %) NGN 8 6 (0.334 %) IP Telephony 8 6 (0.334 %) Broadband 8 6 (0.334 %) 3G 9 3 (0.167 %) Intranet 9 3 (0.167 %) VPN 9 3 (0.167 %) Firewall 10 2 (0.111 %) TETRA 10 2 (0.111 %) Network Security 10 2 (0.111 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 16 (0.890 %) Datawarehouse 2 5 (0.278 %) SQL Server 2 5 (0.278 %) DB2 2 5 (0.278 %) Reference Data 3 4 (0.222 %) MS Access 4 3 (0.167 %) BusinessObjects 4 3 (0.167 %) EDRMS 5 2 (0.111 %) GIS 5 2 (0.111 %) SQL Server 2005 6 1 (0.056 %) IDMS 6 1 (0.056 %) Oracle Reports 6 1 (0.056 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 5 (0.278 %) TestDirector 2 2 (0.111 %) LoadRunner 3 1 (0.056 %) Synon	General 1 551 (30.65 %) Finance 2 211 (11.74 %) Government 2 211 (11.74 %) Banking 3 121 (6.730 %) Retail 4 119 (6.618 %) Telecoms 5 107 (5.951 %) Health 6 92 (5.117 %) Insurance 7 76 (4.227 %) Investment Banking 8 70 (3.893 %) Pensions 9 51 (2.836 %) Retail Banking 10 32 (1.780 %) Education 11 31 (1.724 %) Front Office 11 31 (1.724 %) Marketing 12 26 (1.446 %) Local Government 12 26 (1.446 %) Legal 13 22 (1.224 %) Back Office 13 22 (1.224 %) Publishing 14 20 (1.112 %) Manufacturing 15 18 (1.001 %) Criminal Justice 15 18 (1.001 %) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous 1 116 (6.452 %) NHS 2 33 (1.835 %) PMI 3 31 (1.724 %) Management Information System 4 23 (1.279 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 22 (1.224 %) Derivative 6 19 (1.057 %) Equities 7 16 (0.890 %) French Language 8 12 (0.667 %) Fixed Income 9 11 (0.612 %) IVR 9 11 (0.612 %) Mainframe 10 10 (0.556 %) NPfIT 11 9 (0.501 %) Equity Derivative 12 7 (0.389 %) Credit Risk 13 5 (0.278 %) Fat Client 13 5 (0.278 %) Spanish Language 13 5 (0.278 %) German Language 13 5 (0.278 %) Thin Client 14 4 (0.222 %) EPoS 14 4 (0.222 %) Market Risk 15 3 (0.167 %) Video Conferencing	Operating Systems 1 11 (0.612 %) Windows 2 10 (0.556 %) UNIX 3 4 (0.222 %) Windows NT 4 2 (0.111 %) Linux 4 2 (0.111 %) HPUX 4 2 (0.111 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (0.056 %) Solaris 5 1 (0.056 %) AIX 5 1 (0.056 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (0.056 %) VMS
Processes & Methodologies 1 462 (25.70 %) PRINCE2 2 384 (21.36 %) Programme Management 3 379 (21.08 %) Project Management 4 201 (11.18 %) Stakeholder Management 5 159 (8.843 %) Change Management 6 97 (5.395 %) Security Cleared 7 83 (4.616 %) Migration 8 72 (4.004 %) PRINCE 9 71 (3.949 %) Risk Management 10 54 (3.003 %) CRM 11 50 (2.781 %) ITIL 12 42 (2.336 %) SC Cleared 13 40 (2.225 %) Matrix Management 14 39 (2.169 %) ERP 15 38 (2.113 %) E-Commerce 16 37 (2.058 %) Service Delivery 17 33 (1.835 %) Business Intelligence 18 31 (1.724 %) Project Planning 19 29 (1.613 %) Programme Office Management 20 28 (1.557 %) Resource Management	Programming Languages 1 17 (0.945 %) Java 2 14 (0.779 %) SQL 3 13 (0.723 %) C 4 6 (0.334 %) C++ 5 5 (0.278 %) COBOL 6 4 (0.222 %) C# 6 4 (0.222 %) ABAP 6 4 (0.222 %) SAPscript 7 2 (0.111 %) Transact-SQL 8 1 (0.056 %) JCL
Qualifications 1 100 (5.562 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 71 (3.949 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 62 (3.448 %) Degree 4 32 (1.780 %) ISEB 5 27 (1.502 %) PMI Certification 6 26 (1.446 %) PMP 7 9 (0.501 %) ITIL Certification 8 8 (0.445 %) ISEB Practitioner 9 5 (0.278 %) ISTQB 10 4 (0.222 %) Citrix Certification 11 3 (0.167 %) HND 11 3 (0.167 %) MAPM 12 2 (0.111 %) MBA 13 1 (0.056 %) MCSE 13 1 (0.056 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 31 (1.724 %) QA 2 13 (0.723 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 10 (0.556 %) Basel II 4 9 (0.501 %) SLA 5 2 (0.111 %) PCI DSS 6 1 (0.056 %) JSP 440 6 1 (0.056 %) GCP 6 1 (0.056 %) ISO27001
System Software 1 9 (0.501 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 3 (0.167 %) VMware ESX 2 3 (0.167 %) Active Directory 3 1 (0.056 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 3 (0.167 %) AssetCenter 2 2 (0.111 %) OpenView 2 2 (0.111 %) ServiceCenter 3 1 (0.056 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (0.056 %) SCOM
Vendors 1 111 (6.174 %) SAP 2 74 (4.116 %) Microsoft 3 33 (1.835 %) Oracle 4 12 (0.667 %) BT 4 12 (0.667 %) VMware 5 11 (0.612 %) Cisco 6 10 (0.556 %) Siebel 7 9 (0.501 %) IBM 8 8 (0.445 %) EMC 9 7 (0.389 %) HP 9 7 (0.389 %) Reuters 9 7 (0.389 %) Niku 10 5 (0.278 %) Cognos 10 5 (0.278 %) Citrix 11 4 (0.222 %) Peregrine 11 4 (0.222 %) Lotus 11 4 (0.222 %) GoldenSource 12 3 (0.167 %) Northgate 12 3 (0.167 %) Remedy 12 3 (0.167 %) Hyperion