The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Project Management skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Project Management over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category.

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.

Project Management
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank101415
Rank change year-on-year
Up+4Up+1
Matching contract IT job ads561559194486
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK9.487 %9.646 %8.147 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category14.20 %14.44 %12.95 %
Number of daily rates quoted327135522324
Average daily rate£425£450£425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.55 %+5.88 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£275£275£251
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£625£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£375£375£350
% change year-on-year
-+7.14 %
Number of hourly rates quoted123141109
Average hourly rate£28.00£32.00£25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50 %+28.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.50£16.50£15.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£47.50£55.00£47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£26.39£31.50£22.87
% change year-on-year
-16.22 %+37.76 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
395424099234637
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK66.81 %66.80 %62.91 %
Number of daily rates quoted227212330817347
Average daily rate£403£440£413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.52 %+6.66 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£275£275£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£585£600£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£365£375£350
% change year-on-year
-2.66 %+7.14 %
Number of hourly rates quoted127714631258
Average hourly rate£25.00£29.00£25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.79 %+16.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.00£13.50£13.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£45.00£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£30.00£25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.66 %+20.00 %

Project Management
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Project Management within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Project Management Demand Trend

Project Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Project Management Daily Rate Trend

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Management within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Project Management Daily Rate Histogram

Project Management
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Project Management within the UK.

Project Management Hourly Rate Trend

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Management within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Project Management Hourly Rate Histogram

Project Management
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+45111£425-5.55 %
LondonUp+42714£463-7.50 %
South EastNo change0982£375-6.25 %
City of LondonUp+5783£475-9.09 %
ScotlandUp+3347£375-
BerkshireUp+5323£365-2.66 %
South WestDown-6277£375-4.15 %
North WestUp+1273£375+15.38 %
East of EnglandUp+1267£400+5.26 %
YorkshireUp+1231£374-6.43 %
West MidlandsUp+2176£350+7.69 %
West YorkshireUp+2175£375-6.25 %
EdinburghUp+1153£400+6.73 %
HampshireUp+4139£360-4.00 %
SurreyDown-9129£353-18.59 %
East MidlandsDown-3115£375-3.84 %
BristolUp+2114£355-12.34 %
BuckinghamshireDown-4107£355-1.38 %
ManchesterDown-3103£400+6.66 %
ReadingUp+9100£350-8.19 %
LeedsUp+188£350-12.50 %
GlasgowUp+2283£325-16.66 %
West SussexUp+1483£400-3.32 %
CheshireUp+283£375+15.38 %
HertfordshireDown-778£425+13.33 %
Milton KeynesDown-170£350+5.66 %
EssexUp+852£425+13.33 %
Canary WharfUp+252£550-8.33 %
CambridgeshireDown-850£429+14.33 %
WiltshireDown-547£458+20.39 %

Project Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

13600 (34.30 %)Finance
22715 (25.87 %)PRINCE2
31930 (18.39 %)Banking
41541 (14.68 %)Stakeholder Management
51207 (11.50 %)Microsoft
61055 (10.05 %)MS Project
71022 (9.738 %)Change Management
8975 (9.290 %)MS Excel
9965 (9.195 %)ITIL
10946 (9.014 %)Business Analysis
11857 (8.166 %)Degree
12779 (7.423 %)MS Office
13774 (7.375 %)Migration
14773 (7.365 %)Retail
15757 (7.213 %)Telecoms
16695 (6.622 %)Oracle
17681 (6.489 %)Investment Banking
18652 (6.212 %)PMI Certification
19635 (6.051 %)Risk Management
20627 (5.974 %)Windows
21584 (5.565 %)SQL
22545 (5.193 %)MS Visio
23536 (5.107 %)SharePoint
24532 (5.069 %)Change Control
25497 (4.736 %)Project Planning
26489 (4.659 %)Security Cleared
27484 (4.612 %)SAP
28480 (4.574 %)Programme Management
29471 (4.488 %)MS PowerPoint
30462 (4.402 %)PMP

Project Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1291 (2.773 %).NET
2182 (1.734 %)XML
3175 (1.667 %)HTML
4135 (1.286 %)Middleware
5131 (1.248 %)Web Services
6121 (1.153 %)WebSphere
7115 (1.096 %)CSS
8103 (0.981 %)J2EE
972 (0.686 %)Ajax
1065 (0.619 %)ASP.NET
1151 (0.486 %)jQuery
1240 (0.381 %)Flash
1339 (0.372 %)Hibernate
1339 (0.372 %)WCF
1436 (0.343 %)ASP
1535 (0.333 %)SOAP
1634 (0.324 %)Spring
1730 (0.286 %).NET Framework
1826 (0.248 %)HTML5
1925 (0.238 %)JSP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1536 (5.107 %)SharePoint
2162 (1.544 %)IIS
3126 (1.201 %)CMS
499 (0.943 %)MS Exchange
588 (0.838 %)SharePoint 2010
669 (0.657 %)Apache
762 (0.591 %)Tomcat
854 (0.515 %)Office Project Server
952 (0.495 %)WebLogic
1049 (0.467 %)Exchange Server 2010
1137 (0.353 %)WebSphere Application Server
1236 (0.343 %)Documentum
1335 (0.333 %)Lotus Notes
1432 (0.305 %)SAS
1432 (0.305 %)BizTalk Server
1530 (0.286 %)WebSphere MQ
1530 (0.286 %)Exchange Server 2003
1626 (0.248 %)Confluence
1724 (0.229 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1819 (0.181 %)SharePoint Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11055 (10.05 %)MS Project
2975 (9.290 %)MS Excel
3779 (7.423 %)MS Office
4545 (5.193 %)MS Visio
5471 (4.488 %)MS PowerPoint
667 (0.638 %)Spreadsheet
725 (0.238 %)Open Workbench
823 (0.219 %)Photoshop
914 (0.133 %)AutoCAD
1011 (0.105 %)Adobe Illustrator
117 (0.067 %)CATIA
126 (0.057 %)Fireworks
126 (0.057 %)Adobe Captivate
126 (0.057 %)Office 365
135 (0.048 %)InfoPath
135 (0.048 %)Acrobat
144 (0.038 %)QuarkXPress
153 (0.029 %)NASTRAN
153 (0.029 %)Windchill
153 (0.029 %)FrameMaker
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
181 (0.772 %)Dynamics CRM
251 (0.486 %)Oracle EBS R12
345 (0.429 %)Oracle EBS
432 (0.305 %)SAP FI
530 (0.286 %)Oracle Applications
629 (0.276 %)Maximo
725 (0.238 %)WebTrends
725 (0.238 %)SAP FI/CO
725 (0.238 %)Oracle ERP
725 (0.238 %)SAP CO
824 (0.229 %)Summit
923 (0.219 %)Dynamics AX
1022 (0.210 %)SAP Oil and Gas
1121 (0.200 %)Endur
1121 (0.200 %)SAP HR
1121 (0.200 %)Oracle Financials
1218 (0.172 %)Google Analytics
1317 (0.162 %)Hyperion Planning
1317 (0.162 %)SAP SD
1416 (0.152 %)SimCorp Dimension
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1226 (2.153 %)Internet
2185 (1.763 %)WAN
3184 (1.753 %)LAN
4174 (1.658 %)Firewall
5157 (1.496 %)SAN
6137 (1.305 %)Intranet
7111 (1.058 %)VoIP
8104 (0.991 %)VPN
992 (0.877 %)TCP/IP
992 (0.877 %)ATM
1091 (0.867 %)3G
1188 (0.838 %)DNS
1283 (0.791 %)Radio Access Network
1380 (0.762 %)MPLS
1473 (0.696 %)LDAP
1569 (0.657 %)Ethernet
1664 (0.610 %)Wireless
1761 (0.581 %)SSL
1761 (0.581 %)SDH
1856 (0.534 %)Network Security
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1308 (2.935 %)SQL Server
2184 (1.753 %)Data Warehouse
399 (0.943 %)ETL
469 (0.657 %)SQL Server 2008
565 (0.619 %)SQL Server Integration Services
662 (0.591 %)RDBMS
760 (0.572 %)SQL Server 2005
858 (0.553 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
955 (0.524 %)MySQL
1044 (0.419 %)Oracle Reports
1143 (0.410 %)DB2
1241 (0.391 %)Oracle 8/8i
1340 (0.381 %)MS Access
1435 (0.333 %)Oracle 10g
1534 (0.324 %)Oracle 11g
1633 (0.314 %)Oracle BI EE
1730 (0.286 %)SAP BW
1829 (0.276 %)Data Mining
1928 (0.267 %)GIS
1928 (0.267 %)DTS
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
183 (0.791 %)JIRA
268 (0.648 %)Subversion
337 (0.353 %)Visual Studio
428 (0.267 %)Team Foundation Server
526 (0.248 %)TestDirector
622 (0.210 %)Rational Rose
721 (0.200 %)Maven
817 (0.162 %)ClearCase
916 (0.152 %)Git (software)
1015 (0.143 %)Hudson
1015 (0.143 %)QuickTest Pro
1015 (0.143 %)JUnit
1113 (0.124 %)Ant
1212 (0.114 %)Selenium
1310 (0.095 %)ERwin
1310 (0.095 %)Oracle APEX
149 (0.086 %)RequisitePro
149 (0.086 %)ChangeMan
158 (0.076 %)Rational DOORS
167 (0.067 %)MSI
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13600 (34.30 %)Finance
21930 (18.39 %)Banking
3773 (7.365 %)Retail
4757 (7.213 %)Telecoms
5681 (6.489 %)Investment Banking
6333 (3.173 %)Marketing
7278 (2.649 %)Retail Banking
8220 (2.096 %)Financial Institution
9219 (2.087 %)Front Office
10216 (2.058 %)Legal
11189 (1.801 %)Back Office
12112 (1.067 %)Manufacturing
1399 (0.943 %)Publishing
1492 (0.877 %)Billing
1585 (0.810 %)Automotive
1678 (0.743 %)French Language
1774 (0.705 %)Law
1870 (0.667 %)Pharmaceutical
1965 (0.619 %)Local Government
2060 (0.572 %)Corporate Banking
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
14975 (47.40 %)Project Manager
21766 (16.83 %)Analyst
31049 (9.995 %)Business Analyst
4370 (3.525 %)Senior Manager
5353 (3.364 %)Consultant
6336 (3.202 %)Infrastructure Manager
7319 (3.040 %)Programme Manager
8316 (3.011 %)Senior Project Manager
9308 (2.935 %)Technical Manager
10283 (2.697 %)Infrastructure Project Manager
11270 (2.573 %)Architect
12266 (2.535 %)IT Project Manager
13263 (2.506 %)Developer
14255 (2.430 %)Technical Project Manager
15243 (2.315 %)Business Manager
16208 (1.982 %)Coordinator
17198 (1.887 %)Change Manager
18190 (1.810 %)Business Project Manager
19184 (1.753 %)Delivery Manager
20174 (1.658 %)PMO Analyst
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1362 (3.449 %)Management Information System
2345 (3.287 %)PMI
3177 (1.687 %)Derivative
4172 (1.639 %)NHS
5158 (1.505 %)Credit Risk
6140 (1.334 %)Fixed Income
7123 (1.172 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
8102 (0.972 %)Market Risk
999 (0.943 %)Mainframe
1093 (0.886 %)Computer Science
1093 (0.886 %)Equities
1168 (0.648 %)Client/Server
1267 (0.638 %)Hedge funds
1365 (0.619 %)FMCG
1459 (0.562 %)Reference Data
1459 (0.562 %)Clustering
1554 (0.515 %)Economics
1649 (0.467 %)Social Media
1744 (0.419 %)SaaS
1840 (0.381 %)Cloud Computing
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1627 (5.974 %)Windows
2391 (3.726 %)UNIX
3288 (2.744 %)Linux
4146 (1.391 %)Windows Server 2008
5131 (1.248 %)Windows 7
6118 (1.124 %)Windows Server 2003
793 (0.886 %)Solaris
842 (0.400 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
935 (0.333 %)AIX
1034 (0.324 %)Windows XP
1127 (0.257 %)Android
1127 (0.257 %)Windows Vista
1222 (0.210 %)Windows 2000 Server
1318 (0.172 %)Windows 2000
1413 (0.124 %)Apple iOS
1510 (0.095 %)zOS
1510 (0.095 %)OS/400
167 (0.067 %)Windows Mobile
167 (0.067 %)HPUX
176 (0.057 %)Windows NT
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12715 (25.87 %)PRINCE2
21541 (14.68 %)Stakeholder Management
31022 (9.738 %)Change Management
4965 (9.195 %)ITIL
5946 (9.014 %)Business Analysis
6774 (7.375 %)Migration
7635 (6.051 %)Risk Management
8532 (5.069 %)Change Control
9497 (4.736 %)Project Planning
10480 (4.574 %)Programme Management
11445 (4.240 %)PRINCE
12439 (4.183 %)Agile Software Development
13397 (3.783 %)E-Commerce
14364 (3.468 %)Service Delivery
15358 (3.411 %)CRM
16319 (3.040 %)Service Management
17296 (2.820 %)Scrum
18268 (2.554 %)Resource Management
19262 (2.496 %)User Acceptance Testing
20253 (2.411 %)Waterfall
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1584 (5.565 %)SQL
2366 (3.487 %)Java
3143 (1.363 %)JavaScript
4115 (1.096 %)Perl
4115 (1.096 %)C
4115 (1.096 %)C#
574 (0.705 %)PHP
672 (0.686 %)VB
672 (0.686 %)VBA
769 (0.657 %)PL/SQL
867 (0.638 %)Shell Script
960 (0.572 %)Python
1059 (0.562 %)C++
1136 (0.343 %)PowerShell
1232 (0.305 %)VB.NET
1232 (0.305 %)VBScript
1331 (0.295 %)T-SQL
1417 (0.162 %)Apex Code
1514 (0.133 %)AWK
1612 (0.114 %)VB6
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1857 (8.166 %)Degree
2652 (6.212 %)PMI Certification
3489 (4.659 %)Security Cleared
4462 (4.402 %)PMP
5420 (4.002 %)PRINCE2 Certification
6327 (3.116 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
7298 (2.839 %)SC Cleared
8155 (1.477 %)ISEB
9115 (1.096 %)DV Cleared
10106 (1.010 %)Microsoft Certification
1195 (0.905 %)APMP
1290 (0.858 %)CISSP
1386 (0.819 %)ITIL Certification
1485 (0.810 %)MCSE
1579 (0.753 %)Cisco Certification
1644 (0.419 %)MBA
1743 (0.410 %)HND
1840 (0.381 %)CCNP
1936 (0.343 %)CCNA
2034 (0.324 %)ACCA
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1432 (4.116 %)QA
2139 (1.324 %)SLA
372 (0.686 %)Basel III
471 (0.677 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
559 (0.562 %)Basel II
559 (0.562 %)Solvency II
643 (0.410 %)ISO 9001
643 (0.410 %)ISO/IEC 27001
742 (0.400 %)COBIT
840 (0.381 %)Data Quality
932 (0.305 %)PCI DSS
1015 (0.143 %)FATCA
1015 (0.143 %)MiFID
1110 (0.095 %)EFQM
129 (0.086 %)GxP
138 (0.076 %)HL7
147 (0.067 %)ISO 9000
156 (0.057 %)21 CFR Part 11
156 (0.057 %)GMP
156 (0.057 %)WCAG
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1216 (2.058 %)Active Directory
2117 (1.115 %)VMware Infrastructure
343 (0.410 %)XenApp
442 (0.400 %)vSphere
538 (0.362 %)XenDesktop
634 (0.324 %)Hyper-V
729 (0.276 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
813 (0.124 %)NFS
813 (0.124 %)VMware ESX
912 (0.114 %)Oracle RAC
108 (0.076 %)Terminal Server
117 (0.067 %)XenServer
117 (0.067 %)Xen
117 (0.067 %)Terminal Services
125 (0.048 %)VMware ESXi
134 (0.038 %)ISA Server
143 (0.029 %)UAG
143 (0.029 %)SRDF
143 (0.029 %)VMware Server
152 (0.019 %)Samba
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
160 (0.572 %)SCCM
247 (0.448 %)HP Quality Center
344 (0.419 %)Nagios
430 (0.286 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
430 (0.286 %)SCOM
527 (0.257 %)CA SiteMinder
616 (0.152 %)Tivoli
616 (0.152 %)ZABBIX
715 (0.143 %)BMC PATROL
814 (0.133 %)NetBackup
814 (0.133 %)HP SIM
910 (0.095 %)EMC NetWorker
108 (0.076 %)OpenView Configuration Management
117 (0.067 %)OpenView
126 (0.057 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
126 (0.057 %)Puppet
135 (0.048 %)Cisco UCCX
135 (0.048 %)Cisco CUCM
144 (0.038 %)Backup Exec
144 (0.038 %)Norton AntiVirus
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11207 (11.50 %)Microsoft
2695 (6.622 %)Oracle
3484 (4.612 %)SAP
4268 (2.554 %)Cisco
5200 (1.906 %)VMware
6173 (1.648 %)Citrix
7140 (1.334 %)HP
8122 (1.162 %)IBM
990 (0.858 %)CheckPoint
990 (0.858 %)Business Objects
1081 (0.772 %)CA
1176 (0.724 %)Sun
1263 (0.600 %)JBoss
1263 (0.600 %)Avaya
1263 (0.600 %)Salesforce.com
1263 (0.600 %)Nokia
1360 (0.572 %)Siebel
1360 (0.572 %)Remedy
1455 (0.524 %)BT
1455 (0.524 %)Red Hat