West Midlands Business Project Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Business Project Manager role in IT contracts within the West Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Project Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Project Manager
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Coventry Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Hampshire Hertfordshire Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Leek London Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Shropshire Solihull South East South Wales South West Southampton Staffordshire Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	110	126
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	13	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	0.433 %	0.418 %
Daily rates quoted	4	8
Average minimum daily rate	£456	£403
Average daily rate	£472	£415
% change on same period last year	+13.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£488	£428
UK excluding London average daily rate	£465	£421
% change on same period last year	+10.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.00	£57.50
% change on same period last year	-58.26 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	3001	3349
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.057 %	3.303 %
Daily rates quoted	750	771
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£326
Average daily rate	£343	£348
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	296	469
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.60	£21.33
Average hourly rate	£21.09	£23.00
% change on same period last year	-8.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.58	£24.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
Business Project Manager England

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 a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Project Manager across the West Midlands region 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 Business Project Manager across the West Midlands region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Project Manager across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 Business Project Manager across the West Midlands region.

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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 Business Project Manager within the West Midlands 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
Staffordshire	-2	2	-	-
Shropshire	-	1	-	-
Coventry	-	1	-	-
Solihull	+1	1	£438	+4.47 %
Birmingham	+12	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Business 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 Business Project Manager in their job title.

1 9 (42.86 %) Project Management 2 7 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 3 5 (23.81 %) Electric 4 3 (14.29 %) Business Analysis 5 2 (9.524 %) Programme Management 5 2 (9.524 %) Local Government 5 2 (9.524 %) Quality Management 5 2 (9.524 %) Finance 5 2 (9.524 %) Government 5 2 (9.524 %) NHS 5 2 (9.524 %) BPR 5 2 (9.524 %) SQL 5 2 (9.524 %) VBA 5 2 (9.524 %) MS Visio 5 2 (9.524 %) Data Modelling

6 1 (4.762 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 1 (4.762 %) ITIL Certification 6 1 (4.762 %) PeopleSoft 6 1 (4.762 %) ITIL 6 1 (4.762 %) PeopleSoft Financials 6 1 (4.762 %) Health 6 1 (4.762 %) Stakeholder Management 6 1 (4.762 %) PACS 6 1 (4.762 %) Billing 6 1 (4.762 %) Education 6 1 (4.762 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (4.762 %) NPfIT 6 1 (4.762 %) Project Planning 6 1 (4.762 %) Resource Management 6 1 (4.762 %) Matrix Management

Business Project Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Business 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 Business Project Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 2 (9.524 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (4.762 %) PeopleSoft Financials
General 1 5 (23.81 %) Electric 2 2 (9.524 %) Government 2 2 (9.524 %) Finance 2 2 (9.524 %) Local Government 3 1 (4.762 %) Education 3 1 (4.762 %) Health 3 1 (4.762 %) Billing	Miscellaneous 1 2 (9.524 %) NHS 2 1 (4.762 %) NPfIT 2 1 (4.762 %) PACS
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (42.86 %) Project Management 2 7 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (14.29 %) Business Analysis 4 2 (9.524 %) Data Modelling 4 2 (9.524 %) BPR 4 2 (9.524 %) Programme Management 4 2 (9.524 %) Quality Management 5 1 (4.762 %) Disaster Recovery 5 1 (4.762 %) Stakeholder Management 5 1 (4.762 %) Data Analysis 5 1 (4.762 %) Project Planning 5 1 (4.762 %) Resource Management 5 1 (4.762 %) Matrix Management 5 1 (4.762 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 2 (9.524 %) SQL 1 2 (9.524 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 1 (4.762 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 1 (4.762 %) ITIL Certification	Vendors 1 1 (4.762 %) PeopleSoft