The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Project Manager role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Project Manager in their job title 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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 Manager
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank111614
Rank change year-on-year
Up+5Down-2
Matching contract IT job ads548354304543
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK9.264 %8.849 %8.251 %
As % of the Job Titles category10.01 %9.546 %8.976 %
Number of daily rates quoted348333292386
Average daily rate£450£450£440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-+2.27 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£315£313£300
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£625£650
UK excluding London average daily rate£400£405£380
% change year-on-year
-1.23 %+6.57 %
Number of hourly rates quoted746650
Average hourly rate£32.00£35.00£35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.57 %-
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£20.00£25.00£20.57
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£51.75£49.50£63.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£29.00£35.00£38.00
% change year-on-year
-17.14 %-7.89 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
547785688250613
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK92.55 %92.70 %91.92 %
Number of daily rates quoted302013092924313
Average daily rate£400£425£410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88 %+3.65 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£240£250£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£600£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£350£325
% change year-on-year
-+7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted259529252766
Average hourly rate£18.75£20.00£19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25 %+2.56 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£11.00£10.75
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£40.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£18.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %+11.11 %

Project Manager
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Project Manager within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Project Manager Demand Trend

Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

Project Manager Daily Rate Trend

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Project Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Project Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Project Manager Hourly Rate Histogram

Project Manager
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 Manager 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+44953£450-1.09 %
LondonUp+42632£475-5.00 %
South EastUp+2979£400-5.88 %
City of LondonUp+9776£503-8.59 %
ScotlandUp+6376£405-2.99 %
South WestDown-4293£413-2.94 %
BerkshireUp+4287£410+4.25 %
North WestUp+4272£365-2.66 %
YorkshireDown-2228£407+1.75 %
East of EnglandDown-6221£410+9.33 %
EdinburghUp+4200£423-0.58 %
West YorkshireDown-2168£423-0.58 %
West MidlandsDown-8148£420+6.32 %
HampshireUp+4124£423-
BuckinghamshireDown-4112£375-11.76 %
CheshireUp+18110£363+4.31 %
SurreyDown-9110£425-5.55 %
BristolDown-1107£400-5.88 %
West SussexUp+19104£425-
East MidlandsDown-7102£375-2.59 %
ManchesterDown-985£413+10.00 %
ReadingUp+383£369-2.89 %
Milton KeynesDown-382£360-8.86 %
LeedsDown-278£388-13.88 %
GlasgowUp+1977£400-
HertfordshireDown-1072£425+6.25 %
HalifaxUp+450£450+5.88 %
OxfordshireUp+646£400+10.34 %
BedfordshireUp+145£375-
WiltshireDown-345£443+4.23 %

Project Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

14975 (48.42 %)Project Management
23351 (32.62 %)Finance
32809 (27.34 %)PRINCE2
42180 (21.22 %)Banking
51876 (18.26 %)Stakeholder Management
61039 (10.11 %)Retail
7864 (8.410 %)Migration
8722 (7.027 %)MS Project
9707 (6.881 %)Investment Banking
10690 (6.716 %)PRINCE2 Certification
11673 (6.551 %)Change Management
12661 (6.434 %)Microsoft
13639 (6.220 %)Telecoms
14605 (5.889 %)PMI Certification
15505 (4.915 %)ITIL
16501 (4.876 %)Oracle
17483 (4.701 %)E-Commerce
18480 (4.672 %)PRINCE
19465 (4.526 %)Risk Management
19465 (4.526 %)MS Excel
20459 (4.468 %)SAP
21456 (4.438 %)Agile Software Development
22448 (4.361 %)PMP
23436 (4.244 %)Business Analysis
24386 (3.757 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
25378 (3.679 %)Retail Banking
26377 (3.669 %)Project Planning
27375 (3.650 %)Degree
28369 (3.592 %)MS Office
29365 (3.553 %)Windows

Project Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1178 (1.733 %).NET
280 (0.779 %)Middleware
348 (0.467 %)WebSphere
445 (0.438 %)HTML
543 (0.419 %)J2EE
641 (0.399 %)Web Services
733 (0.321 %)CSS
832 (0.311 %)Flash
930 (0.292 %)XML
1016 (0.156 %)ASP.NET
1111 (0.107 %)COM
1111 (0.107 %)SAP XI
129 (0.088 %)EDI
129 (0.088 %).NET Framework
138 (0.078 %)LAMP
138 (0.078 %)SOAP
138 (0.078 %)HTML5
146 (0.058 %)JRules
146 (0.058 %)Spring
146 (0.058 %)Ajax
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1315 (3.066 %)SharePoint
2101 (0.983 %)CMS
376 (0.740 %)SharePoint 2010
459 (0.574 %)MS Exchange
543 (0.419 %)Exchange Server 2010
627 (0.263 %)Office Project Server
723 (0.224 %)Lync
818 (0.175 %)Exchange Server 2003
818 (0.175 %)Documentum
917 (0.165 %)ESB
1016 (0.156 %)WebLogic
1115 (0.146 %)Lotus Notes
1213 (0.127 %)BizTalk Server
1213 (0.127 %)IIS
1213 (0.127 %)SharePoint Server
1312 (0.117 %)Drupal
1312 (0.117 %)Apache
1312 (0.117 %)MQSeries
1312 (0.117 %)Sitecore CMS
149 (0.088 %)LiveLink
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1722 (7.027 %)MS Project
2465 (4.526 %)MS Excel
3369 (3.592 %)MS Office
4270 (2.628 %)MS Visio
5203 (1.976 %)MS PowerPoint
619 (0.185 %)Spreadsheet
714 (0.136 %)Open Workbench
88 (0.078 %)AutoCAD
88 (0.078 %)Office 365
94 (0.039 %)Google Apps
103 (0.029 %)CATIA
103 (0.029 %)InfoPath
112 (0.019 %)Photoshop
121 (0.010 %)MicroStation
121 (0.010 %)ProjectWise
121 (0.010 %)Quicktime
121 (0.010 %)Fireworks
121 (0.010 %)Acrobat
121 (0.010 %)Maya
121 (0.010 %)Pro/ENGINEER
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
180 (0.779 %)Oracle EBS R12
279 (0.769 %)Dynamics CRM
360 (0.584 %)Oracle EBS
437 (0.360 %)Oracle Applications
536 (0.350 %)SAP FI
631 (0.302 %)Oracle ERP
728 (0.273 %)Maximo
827 (0.263 %)SAP FI/CO
827 (0.263 %)SAP CO
827 (0.263 %)Dynamics AX
924 (0.234 %)SAP HR
1022 (0.214 %)Endur
1022 (0.214 %)Oracle Financials
1117 (0.165 %)Summit
1216 (0.156 %)Dynamics NAV
1216 (0.156 %)SAP SD
1315 (0.146 %)SAP CRM
1315 (0.146 %)SimCorp Dimension
1412 (0.117 %)CA Clarity
1412 (0.117 %)SAP Oil and Gas
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1161 (1.567 %)Internet
2151 (1.470 %)WAN
3141 (1.372 %)LAN
4105 (1.022 %)SAN
587 (0.847 %)Firewall
664 (0.623 %)Wireless
763 (0.613 %)Intranet
861 (0.594 %)Wi-Fi
960 (0.584 %)VoIP
1055 (0.535 %)Radio Access Network
1147 (0.457 %)ATM
1240 (0.389 %)MPLS
1337 (0.360 %)3G
1433 (0.321 %)Broadband
1530 (0.292 %)VPN
1623 (0.224 %)Unified Communications
1623 (0.224 %)DNS
1623 (0.224 %)2G
1722 (0.214 %)NFC
1821 (0.204 %)Network Security
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1171 (1.664 %)Data Warehouse
282 (0.798 %)ETL
377 (0.749 %)SQL Server
431 (0.302 %)Oracle 8/8i
528 (0.273 %)SAP BW
626 (0.253 %)Oracle BI EE
721 (0.204 %)GIS
820 (0.195 %)Oracle Reports
820 (0.195 %)BusinessObjects
919 (0.185 %)DB2
1018 (0.175 %)Data Mining
1115 (0.146 %)EDRMS
1214 (0.136 %)Oracle 11g
1214 (0.136 %)MS Access
1311 (0.107 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1410 (0.097 %)QlikView
1410 (0.097 %)RDBMS
159 (0.088 %)Hadoop
159 (0.088 %)PowerCenter
159 (0.088 %)MySQL
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
134 (0.331 %)JIRA
220 (0.195 %)Rational Rose
314 (0.136 %)Team Foundation Server
412 (0.117 %)Subversion
511 (0.107 %)RequisitePro
511 (0.107 %)Introscope
69 (0.088 %)Visual Studio
75 (0.049 %)TestDirector
75 (0.049 %)ClearQuest
84 (0.039 %)Oracle APEX
84 (0.039 %)QuickTest Pro
93 (0.029 %)Mercurial
93 (0.029 %)Ant
93 (0.029 %)Oracle Forms
102 (0.019 %)ERwin
102 (0.019 %)Git (software)
102 (0.019 %)PHPUnit
111 (0.010 %)Hudson
111 (0.010 %)Rational Rhapsody
111 (0.010 %)LoadRunner
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13351 (32.62 %)Finance
22180 (21.22 %)Banking
31039 (10.11 %)Retail
4707 (6.881 %)Investment Banking
5639 (6.220 %)Telecoms
6378 (3.679 %)Retail Banking
7330 (3.212 %)Marketing
8258 (2.511 %)Front Office
9200 (1.947 %)Legal
10185 (1.801 %)Back Office
11169 (1.645 %)Financial Institution
12100 (0.973 %)Publishing
1394 (0.915 %)Pharmaceutical
1489 (0.866 %)Billing
1577 (0.749 %)Corporate Banking
1670 (0.681 %)Automotive
1767 (0.652 %)Manufacturing
1862 (0.603 %)Local Government
1957 (0.555 %)Games
2056 (0.545 %)Advertising
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1301 (2.930 %)PMI
2222 (2.161 %)NHS
3192 (1.869 %)Management Information System
4163 (1.587 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
5148 (1.441 %)Derivative
6129 (1.256 %)Credit Risk
7102 (0.993 %)FMCG
897 (0.944 %)Fixed Income
993 (0.905 %)Mainframe
1083 (0.808 %)Market Risk
1174 (0.720 %)Equities
1273 (0.711 %)Digital Media
1360 (0.584 %)Reference Data
1457 (0.555 %)Social Media
1556 (0.545 %)EPoS
1651 (0.496 %)Hedge funds
1745 (0.438 %)SWIFT
1842 (0.409 %)Economics
1936 (0.350 %)Online Banking
2035 (0.341 %)New Media
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1365 (3.553 %)Windows
2174 (1.694 %)UNIX
3148 (1.441 %)Windows 7
495 (0.925 %)Linux
547 (0.457 %)Windows Server 2008
635 (0.341 %)Windows Server 2003
721 (0.204 %)Solaris
820 (0.195 %)Android
919 (0.185 %)Windows XP
1018 (0.175 %)Apple iOS
1112 (0.117 %)AIX
129 (0.088 %)Windows 2000 Server
129 (0.088 %)OS/400
137 (0.068 %)HPUX
145 (0.049 %)Windows 2000
154 (0.039 %)Windows NT
154 (0.039 %)VMS
163 (0.029 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
163 (0.029 %)Windows Vista
172 (0.019 %)zOS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
14975 (48.42 %)Project Management
22809 (27.34 %)PRINCE2
31876 (18.26 %)Stakeholder Management
4864 (8.410 %)Migration
5673 (6.551 %)Change Management
6505 (4.915 %)ITIL
7483 (4.701 %)E-Commerce
8480 (4.672 %)PRINCE
9465 (4.526 %)Risk Management
10456 (4.438 %)Agile Software Development
11436 (4.244 %)Business Analysis
12377 (3.669 %)Project Planning
13339 (3.300 %)CRM
14323 (3.144 %)Change Control
15299 (2.910 %)Scrum
16295 (2.871 %)Programme Management
17269 (2.618 %)Supplier Management
18251 (2.443 %)Asset Management
19237 (2.307 %)Business Intelligence
20213 (2.073 %)ERP
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1198 (1.927 %)SQL
2144 (1.402 %)Java
372 (0.701 %)C
449 (0.477 %)C#
532 (0.311 %)JavaScript
623 (0.224 %)PHP
717 (0.165 %)VB
813 (0.127 %)RPG
910 (0.097 %)PL/SQL
108 (0.078 %)C++
117 (0.068 %)RPG/400
126 (0.058 %)T-SQL
126 (0.058 %)VBA
135 (0.049 %)COBOL
135 (0.049 %)Perl
144 (0.039 %)VB.NET
144 (0.039 %)R
153 (0.029 %)Python
153 (0.029 %)ActionScript
153 (0.029 %)Objective-C
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1690 (6.716 %)PRINCE2 Certification
2605 (5.889 %)PMI Certification
3448 (4.361 %)PMP
4386 (3.757 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
5375 (3.650 %)Degree
6331 (3.222 %)Security Cleared
7228 (2.219 %)SC Cleared
890 (0.876 %)APMP
976 (0.740 %)ITIL Certification
1062 (0.603 %)DV Cleared
1136 (0.350 %)MBA
1228 (0.273 %)ISEB
1325 (0.243 %)ACCA
1325 (0.243 %)Six Sigma Black Belt
1423 (0.224 %)HNC
1522 (0.214 %)CIMA
1621 (0.204 %)Cisco Certification
1719 (0.185 %)Six Sigma Green Belt
1817 (0.165 %)CTC Cleared
1915 (0.146 %)HND
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1190 (1.849 %)QA
270 (0.681 %)Basel II
367 (0.652 %)Basel III
463 (0.613 %)Solvency II
562 (0.603 %)SLA
661 (0.594 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
742 (0.409 %)Data Quality
832 (0.311 %)FATCA
919 (0.185 %)PCI DSS
919 (0.185 %)ISO 9001
1017 (0.165 %)MiFID
1115 (0.146 %)ISO/IEC 27001
1214 (0.136 %)GxP
137 (0.068 %)COBIT
144 (0.039 %)ISO 9000
153 (0.029 %)21 CFR Part 11
153 (0.029 %)HL7
161 (0.010 %)GAMP
161 (0.010 %)GMP
161 (0.010 %)RosettaNet
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1111 (1.080 %)Active Directory
284 (0.818 %)VMware Infrastructure
323 (0.224 %)Hyper-V
421 (0.204 %)XenApp
514 (0.136 %)XenDesktop
610 (0.097 %)vSphere
78 (0.078 %)Xen
87 (0.068 %)XenServer
96 (0.058 %)VMware ESX
103 (0.029 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
112 (0.019 %)Oracle RAC
112 (0.019 %)Xsan
112 (0.019 %)OpenSSO
121 (0.010 %)VMware ESXi
121 (0.010 %)Terminal Services
121 (0.010 %)Citrix Presentation Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
132 (0.311 %)SCCM
221 (0.204 %)Tivoli
312 (0.117 %)NetBackup
312 (0.117 %)HP Quality Center
48 (0.078 %)SCOM
57 (0.068 %)Netcool
66 (0.058 %)BladeLogic
66 (0.058 %)Cisco IPCC
66 (0.058 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
74 (0.039 %)WSUS
83 (0.029 %)AppDNA
83 (0.029 %)Cisco CUCM
83 (0.029 %)OpenView
83 (0.029 %)BMC PATROL
83 (0.029 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
83 (0.029 %)Novell Identity Manager
92 (0.019 %)Control-M
92 (0.019 %)Cisco UCCX
92 (0.019 %)vCenter
101 (0.010 %)Data Guard
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1661 (6.434 %)Microsoft
2501 (4.876 %)Oracle
3459 (4.468 %)SAP
4147 (1.431 %)Cisco
5143 (1.392 %)VMware
6140 (1.363 %)Citrix
7105 (1.022 %)IBM
871 (0.691 %)Siebel
970 (0.681 %)HP
1046 (0.448 %)Avaya
1046 (0.448 %)BT
1144 (0.428 %)Business Objects
1144 (0.428 %)EMC
1144 (0.428 %)Salesforce.com
1240 (0.389 %)Charles River
1339 (0.380 %)PeopleSoft
1339 (0.380 %)SunGard
1434 (0.331 %)Bloomberg
1434 (0.331 %)Sun
1434 (0.331 %)NetApp