West Midlands Programme Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Programme Management skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Programme Management over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Amersham Andover Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	91	106
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	29	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	1.811 %	0.877 %
Daily rates quoted	8	5
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£350
Average daily rate	£322	£370
% change on same period last year	-13.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£339	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£424	£427
% change on same period last year	-0.80 %
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	£27.64	£35.21
% change on same period last year	-21.50 %
Processes & Methodologies West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1601	1368
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.054 %	1.537 %
Daily rates quoted	403	303
Average minimum daily rate	£343	£345
Average daily rate	£368	£367
% change on same period last year	+0.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£392	£388
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	116	184
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.76	£26.96
Average hourly rate	£26.67	£28.79
% change on same period last year	-7.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.57	£30.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.72	£29.49
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Programme Management 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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Programme Management across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Programme Management 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 Programme Management across the West Midlands region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Programme Management across the West Midlands region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Programme Management within the West Midlands region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Coventry	-5	8	£353	-
2	Warwickshire	+8	5	£126	-74.90 %
2	Birmingham	+6	5	-	-
3	Herefordshire	+8	3	-	-
3	Shropshire	-	3	£296	-

Programme Management England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Programme Management also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Programme Management.

1 17 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 2 15 (29.41 %) Government 3 12 (23.53 %) Project Management 4 10 (19.61 %) Education 5 8 (15.69 %) Finance 6 7 (13.73 %) Risk Management 7 6 (11.76 %) Stakeholder Management 8 5 (9.804 %) Supplier Management 8 5 (9.804 %) MS Project 8 5 (9.804 %) SharePoint 9 4 (7.843 %) Health 9 4 (7.843 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 3 (5.882 %) Integration Testing 10 3 (5.882 %) Document Management 10 3 (5.882 %) Banking

10 3 (5.882 %) Insurance 10 3 (5.882 %) Project Planning 10 3 (5.882 %) CA Clarity 10 3 (5.882 %) Change Management 10 3 (5.882 %) Front Office 10 3 (5.882 %) Citrix Certification 10 3 (5.882 %) MS Excel 10 3 (5.882 %) ITIL 11 2 (3.922 %) PRINCE 11 2 (3.922 %) PRINCE2 Certification 11 2 (3.922 %) Management Information System 11 2 (3.922 %) Service Management 11 2 (3.922 %) Service Delivery 11 2 (3.922 %) Migration 11 2 (3.922 %) Telecoms

Programme Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Programme Management also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Programme Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 5 (9.804 %) SharePoint	Applications 1 5 (9.804 %) MS Project 2 3 (5.882 %) MS Excel 2 3 (5.882 %) CA Clarity 3 2 (3.922 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (1.961 %) MS Office
General 1 15 (29.41 %) Government 2 10 (19.61 %) Education 3 8 (15.69 %) Finance 4 4 (7.843 %) Health 5 3 (5.882 %) Front Office 5 3 (5.882 %) Banking 5 3 (5.882 %) Insurance 6 2 (3.922 %) Telecoms 7 1 (1.961 %) Criminal Justice 7 1 (1.961 %) Police	Job Titles 1 17 (33.33 %) Programme Manager 2 13 (25.49 %) Project Manager 3 5 (9.804 %) Project Office Manager 4 4 (7.843 %) Project Officer 4 4 (7.843 %) Project Support Officer 5 3 (5.882 %) Test Manager 5 3 (5.882 %) Programme Office Manager 6 2 (3.922 %) Service Manager 6 2 (3.922 %) Senior Manager 6 2 (3.922 %) Senior Programme Manager 6 2 (3.922 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 7 1 (1.961 %) SAP Manager 7 1 (1.961 %) Programme Coordinator 7 1 (1.961 %) Telecoms Project Manager 7 1 (1.961 %) ITIL Service Manager 7 1 (1.961 %) Delivery Manager 7 1 (1.961 %) Data Manager 7 1 (1.961 %) Contracts Manager 7 1 (1.961 %) SAP Programme Manager 7 1 (1.961 %) ITIL Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.922 %) Management Information System 2 1 (1.961 %) Statistics 2 1 (1.961 %) NHS	Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 2 12 (23.53 %) Project Management 3 7 (13.73 %) Risk Management 4 6 (11.76 %) Stakeholder Management 5 5 (9.804 %) Supplier Management 6 4 (7.843 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 3 (5.882 %) Integration Testing 7 3 (5.882 %) Document Management 7 3 (5.882 %) ITIL 7 3 (5.882 %) Project Planning 7 3 (5.882 %) Change Management 8 2 (3.922 %) Service Management 8 2 (3.922 %) Service Delivery 8 2 (3.922 %) PRINCE 8 2 (3.922 %) Migration 8 2 (3.922 %) Programme Office Management 8 2 (3.922 %) Performance Management 9 1 (1.961 %) Data Migration 9 1 (1.961 %) Knowledge Management 9 1 (1.961 %) Information Management
Qualifications 1 3 (5.882 %) Citrix Certification 2 2 (3.922 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (1.961 %) ITIL Certification 3 1 (1.961 %) Degree 3 1 (1.961 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.922 %) QA
Vendors 1 1 (1.961 %) SAP