Wales MS Project Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Project skills within the Wales region 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 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Beckenham Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Corsham Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Salford Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witney Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	36
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	44	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.059 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	31.21 %	33.70 %
Daily rates quoted	13	3
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£283
Average daily rate	£380	£317
% change on same period last year	+20.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£315	£330
% change on same period last year	-4.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.37	£22.50
Average hourly rate	£33.03	£23.00
% change on same period last year	+43.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.68	£23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.50	£27.99
% change on same period last year	-12.47 %
Applications Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	141	92
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.191 %	0.091 %
Daily rates quoted	35	16
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£249
Average daily rate	£364	£270
% change on same period last year	+34.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£386	£290
UK excluding London average daily rate	£293	£291
% change on same period last year	+0.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	41	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.52	£18.76
Average hourly rate	£22.45	£20.33
% change on same period last year	+10.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.37	£21.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.59	£19.58
% change on same period last year	-5.05 %
MS Project UK

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 a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Project across the Wales region 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 IT contract jobs citing MS Project across the Wales region.

MS Project
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the Wales region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

MS Project
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MS Project across the Wales region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the Wales region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Project within the Wales region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
South Wales	+6	35	£376	+18.81 %
West Wales	+5	9	£394	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing MS Project 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 MS Project.

1 44 (55.00 %) PRINCE2 2 33 (41.25 %) Microsoft 3 25 (31.25 %) ISEB 4 23 (28.75 %) MS Excel 5 22 (27.50 %) Project Management 6 21 (26.25 %) Security Cleared 7 19 (23.75 %) Degree 8 18 (22.50 %) Project Planning 8 18 (22.50 %) NHS 9 13 (16.25 %) Programme Management 10 11 (13.75 %) HND 10 11 (13.75 %) Requirements Analysis 10 11 (13.75 %) Software Testing 11 10 (12.50 %) Resource Management 11 10 (12.50 %) Test Scripting

11 10 (12.50 %) .NET 12 9 (11.25 %) Test Management 13 8 (10.00 %) Health 14 7 (8.750 %) Workflow 14 7 (8.750 %) Finance 14 7 (8.750 %) Government 14 7 (8.750 %) ITIL 14 7 (8.750 %) Configuration Management 15 6 (7.500 %) RUP 15 6 (7.500 %) Education 15 6 (7.500 %) Metastorm 15 6 (7.500 %) Workflow Management 15 6 (7.500 %) Software Engineering 16 5 (6.250 %) VB.NET 17 4 (5.000 %) VB

MS Project
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing MS Project 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 MS Project. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 10 (12.50 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (2.500 %) SharePoint 1 2 (2.500 %) Office Project Server 2 1 (1.250 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 23 (28.75 %) MS Excel 2 3 (3.750 %) MS Office 3 2 (2.500 %) MS PowerPoint 3 2 (2.500 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.250 %) Broadband
General 1 8 (10.00 %) Health 2 7 (8.750 %) Finance 2 7 (8.750 %) Government 3 6 (7.500 %) Education 4 4 (5.000 %) Law 4 4 (5.000 %) Legal 5 2 (2.500 %) Banking 6 1 (1.250 %) Insurance 6 1 (1.250 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 29 (36.25 %) Project Manager 2 18 (22.50 %) Analyst 3 16 (20.00 %) Test Analyst 4 14 (17.50 %) Programme Manager 5 8 (10.00 %) Test Engineer 6 7 (8.750 %) Coordinator 6 7 (8.750 %) Project Coordinator 7 3 (3.750 %) IT Project Manager 7 3 (3.750 %) IT Manager 8 2 (2.500 %) Development Manager 8 2 (2.500 %) Project Planner 8 2 (2.500 %) Business Analyst 8 2 (2.500 %) Test Manager 8 2 (2.500 %) Software Project Manager 8 2 (2.500 %) Development Project Manager 8 2 (2.500 %) Security Manager 8 2 (2.500 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 8 2 (2.500 %) Security Project Manager 8 2 (2.500 %) Software Manager 9 1 (1.250 %) NHS Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 18 (22.50 %) NHS 2 1 (1.250 %) Management Information System 2 1 (1.250 %) PMI	Operating Systems 1 2 (2.500 %) Windows 1 2 (2.500 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 44 (55.00 %) PRINCE2 2 22 (27.50 %) Project Management 3 21 (26.25 %) Security Cleared 4 18 (22.50 %) Project Planning 5 13 (16.25 %) Programme Management 6 11 (13.75 %) Software Testing 6 11 (13.75 %) Requirements Analysis 7 10 (12.50 %) Resource Management 7 10 (12.50 %) Test Scripting 8 9 (11.25 %) Test Management 9 7 (8.750 %) Workflow 9 7 (8.750 %) ITIL 9 7 (8.750 %) Configuration Management 10 6 (7.500 %) RUP 10 6 (7.500 %) Workflow Management 10 6 (7.500 %) Software Engineering 11 4 (5.000 %) Incident Management 12 3 (3.750 %) PRINCE 12 3 (3.750 %) Risk Management 12 3 (3.750 %) SC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 5 (6.250 %) VB.NET 2 4 (5.000 %) VB 3 1 (1.250 %) Java 3 1 (1.250 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 25 (31.25 %) ISEB 2 19 (23.75 %) Degree 3 11 (13.75 %) HND 4 1 (1.250 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 1 (1.250 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Vendors 1 33 (41.25 %) Microsoft 2 6 (7.500 %) Metastorm 3 1 (1.250 %) Primavera