West Yorkshire MS Project Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Project skills within the West Yorkshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Project
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corsham Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead 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 Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weymouth Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Witney Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	48	60
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	49	36
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.065 %	0.036 %
As % of the category below	16.96 %	14.46 %
Daily rates quoted	22	5
Average minimum daily rate	£249	£290
Average daily rate	£259	£310
% change on same period last year	-16.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£270	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£326
% change on same period last year	+1.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	-
Average hourly rate	£15.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.34	£24.03
% change on same period last year	+5.46 %
Applications West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	289	249
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.385 %	0.252 %
Daily rates quoted	73	41
Average minimum daily rate	£257	£232
Average daily rate	£273	£252
% change on same period last year	+8.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£289	£272
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£285
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	44	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.14	£23.63
Average hourly rate	£17.33	£24.54
% change on same period last year	-29.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.52	£25.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.01	£18.99
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
MS Project Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

MS Project
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 West Yorkshire region.

MS Project
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Project within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Leeds	+7	37	£246	-20.51 %
Halifax	-	2	£330	-
Bradford	+3	1	£200	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 30 (37.50 %) PRINCE2 2 25 (31.25 %) Microsoft 2 25 (31.25 %) Project Management 3 24 (30.00 %) MS Excel 4 22 (27.50 %) Health 5 20 (25.00 %) MS Office 5 20 (25.00 %) Finance 6 16 (20.00 %) NHS 7 13 (16.25 %) PRINCE 8 12 (15.00 %) MS Visio 9 10 (12.50 %) Primavera 9 10 (12.50 %) MS PowerPoint 10 9 (11.25 %) PRINCE2 Certification 11 6 (7.500 %) Oracle 11 6 (7.500 %) Windows

12 5 (6.250 %) Quality Management 12 5 (6.250 %) Project Planning 13 4 (5.000 %) Degree 13 4 (5.000 %) Resource Management 13 4 (5.000 %) Change Management 13 4 (5.000 %) Risk Management 13 4 (5.000 %) Telecoms 13 4 (5.000 %) ITIL 14 3 (3.750 %) .NET 14 3 (3.750 %) Stakeholder Management 14 3 (3.750 %) AS400 14 3 (3.750 %) Supplier Management 14 3 (3.750 %) Insurance 14 3 (3.750 %) Legal 14 3 (3.750 %) Banking

MS Project
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 3 (3.750 %) .NET 2 2 (2.500 %) WebServices 2 2 (2.500 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 2 (2.500 %) SharePoint 1 2 (2.500 %) Office Project Server
Applications 1 24 (30.00 %) MS Excel 2 20 (25.00 %) MS Office 3 12 (15.00 %) MS Visio 4 10 (12.50 %) MS PowerPoint 5 2 (2.500 %) CA Clarity	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (2.500 %) MS Access 2 1 (1.250 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (1.250 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 2 (2.500 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (2.500 %) Visual Studio Team System 2 1 (1.250 %) Flash	General 1 22 (27.50 %) Health 2 20 (25.00 %) Finance 3 4 (5.000 %) Telecoms 4 3 (3.750 %) Legal 4 3 (3.750 %) Banking 4 3 (3.750 %) Insurance 5 2 (2.500 %) Government 6 1 (1.250 %) Electric 6 1 (1.250 %) Retail 6 1 (1.250 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 15 (18.75 %) Analyst 2 13 (16.25 %) Project Manager 3 12 (15.00 %) Coordinator 3 12 (15.00 %) Project Coordinator 4 10 (12.50 %) Business Analyst 5 7 (8.750 %) Project Support Officer 5 7 (8.750 %) Project Officer 6 6 (7.500 %) Programme Planner 7 5 (6.250 %) Project Planner 7 5 (6.250 %) Administrator 8 4 (5.000 %) Project Administrator 9 3 (3.750 %) Technical Manager 9 3 (3.750 %) Implementation Manager 10 2 (2.500 %) Team Leader 10 2 (2.500 %) Infrastructure Manager 10 2 (2.500 %) Project Analyst 10 2 (2.500 %) Report Analyst 10 2 (2.500 %) Senior Analyst 10 2 (2.500 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 10 2 (2.500 %) Technical Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 16 (20.00 %) NHS 2 3 (3.750 %) AS400 3 2 (2.500 %) NPfIT
Operating Systems 1 6 (7.500 %) Windows 2 2 (2.500 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 30 (37.50 %) PRINCE2 2 25 (31.25 %) Project Management 3 13 (16.25 %) PRINCE 4 5 (6.250 %) Project Planning 4 5 (6.250 %) Quality Management 5 4 (5.000 %) ITIL 5 4 (5.000 %) Change Management 5 4 (5.000 %) Risk Management 5 4 (5.000 %) Resource Management 6 3 (3.750 %) Supplier Management 6 3 (3.750 %) Stakeholder Management 7 2 (2.500 %) Identity Management 7 2 (2.500 %) ERP 7 2 (2.500 %) Service Management 7 2 (2.500 %) Business Analysis 7 2 (2.500 %) Use Case 7 2 (2.500 %) Test Management 8 1 (1.250 %) Time Management 8 1 (1.250 %) Data Migration 8 1 (1.250 %) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages 1 1 (1.250 %) SQL 1 1 (1.250 %) VB	Qualifications 1 9 (11.25 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 4 (5.000 %) Degree 3 1 (1.250 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.250 %) SLA	Vendors 1 25 (31.25 %) Microsoft 2 10 (12.50 %) Primavera 3 6 (7.500 %) Oracle 4 2 (2.500 %) CA 4 2 (2.500 %) Cisco 5 1 (1.250 %) Business Objects 5 1 (1.250 %) SAP