Wiltshire MS Project Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Project skills within the Wiltshire 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 24 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 Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London 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 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 Jersey 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 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 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	35
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	28	44
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	16.77 %	24.18 %
Daily rates quoted	13	10
Average minimum daily rate	£385	£345
Average daily rate	£401	£371
% change on same period last year	+8.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£326
% change on same period last year	+1.39 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£23.85
Average hourly rate	£37.50	£24.91
% change on same period last year	+50.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£25.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.10	£24.01
% change on same period last year	+4.52 %
Applications Wiltshire
Matching contract IT job ads	167	182
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.222 %	0.184 %
Daily rates quoted	80	50
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£314
Average daily rate	£377	£341
% change on same period last year	+10.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£406	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£284
% change on same period last year	+5.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	27
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.40	£18.68
Average hourly rate	£29.89	£20.00
% change on same period last year	+49.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.38	£21.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.03	£18.93
% change on same period last year	-4.76 %
MS Project South West

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 Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

MS Project
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Project across the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 24 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 Wiltshire region.

MS Project
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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Swindon	-12	18	£418	+14.45 %
Salisbury	-1	1	-	-
Corsham	-	1	£240	-

MS Project South West

MS Project
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 47 (54.65 %) Finance 2 34 (39.53 %) PRINCE2 3 31 (36.05 %) Project Management 4 24 (27.91 %) MS Office 5 23 (26.74 %) MS Excel 6 18 (20.93 %) MS Visio 7 16 (18.60 %) Microsoft 8 12 (13.95 %) Pensions 9 11 (12.79 %) Security Cleared 10 9 (10.47 %) MS PowerPoint 10 9 (10.47 %) Insurance 11 8 (9.302 %) Risk Management 11 8 (9.302 %) Open Workbench 12 7 (8.140 %) CA Clarity 13 6 (6.977 %) SC Cleared

14 5 (5.814 %) Project Planning 14 5 (5.814 %) Programme Management 15 4 (4.651 %) Military 15 4 (4.651 %) Change Management 15 4 (4.651 %) Business Intelligence 15 4 (4.651 %) Datawarehouse 15 4 (4.651 %) C 16 3 (3.488 %) PRINCE2 Certification 16 3 (3.488 %) PRINCE 16 3 (3.488 %) Financial Institution 16 3 (3.488 %) Retail Banking 16 3 (3.488 %) Business Analysis 16 3 (3.488 %) Banking 16 3 (3.488 %) Retail 17 2 (2.326 %) Asset Management

MS Project
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 1 (1.163 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.163 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 24 (27.91 %) MS Office 2 23 (26.74 %) MS Excel 3 18 (20.93 %) MS Visio 4 9 (10.47 %) MS PowerPoint 5 8 (9.302 %) Open Workbench 6 7 (8.140 %) CA Clarity	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (4.651 %) Datawarehouse 2 2 (2.326 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 1 (1.163 %) TestDirector	General 1 47 (54.65 %) Finance 2 12 (13.95 %) Pensions 3 9 (10.47 %) Insurance 4 4 (4.651 %) Military 5 3 (3.488 %) Banking 5 3 (3.488 %) Retail 5 3 (3.488 %) Financial Institution 5 3 (3.488 %) Retail Banking 6 2 (2.326 %) Government 6 2 (2.326 %) Front Office 6 2 (2.326 %) Back Office 6 2 (2.326 %) Telecoms 6 2 (2.326 %) Aerospace 7 1 (1.163 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 44 (51.16 %) Project Manager 2 21 (24.42 %) Business Project Manager 2 21 (24.42 %) Business Manager 3 9 (10.47 %) Analyst 4 8 (9.302 %) Coordinator 4 8 (9.302 %) Project Planner 4 8 (9.302 %) Project Coordinator 5 7 (8.140 %) Administrator 5 7 (8.140 %) Programme Planner 6 5 (5.814 %) Project Analyst 7 3 (3.488 %) Project Support Analyst 7 3 (3.488 %) Consultant 7 3 (3.488 %) Support Analyst 7 3 (3.488 %) Business Analyst 7 3 (3.488 %) Programme Manager 8 2 (2.326 %) Project Administrator 8 2 (2.326 %) PMO Manager 9 1 (1.163 %) PMO Consultant 9 1 (1.163 %) Project Consultant 9 1 (1.163 %) Performance Test Manager	Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.163 %) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies 1 34 (39.53 %) PRINCE2 2 31 (36.05 %) Project Management 3 11 (12.79 %) Security Cleared 4 8 (9.302 %) Risk Management 5 6 (6.977 %) SC Cleared 6 5 (5.814 %) Project Planning 6 5 (5.814 %) Programme Management 7 4 (4.651 %) Change Management 7 4 (4.651 %) Business Intelligence 8 3 (3.488 %) PRINCE 8 3 (3.488 %) Business Analysis 9 2 (2.326 %) BC Cleared 9 2 (2.326 %) Asset Management 9 2 (2.326 %) Stakeholder Management 9 2 (2.326 %) Information Security 10 1 (1.163 %) ITIL 10 1 (1.163 %) Programme Office Management 10 1 (1.163 %) Risk Assessment 10 1 (1.163 %) Data Analysis 10 1 (1.163 %) Logistics	Programming Languages 1 4 (4.651 %) C 2 1 (1.163 %) SQL 2 1 (1.163 %) Transact-SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (3.488 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (2.326 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (1.163 %) Citrix Certification 3 1 (1.163 %) ACCA 3 1 (1.163 %) CIMA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.326 %) QA
Vendors 1 16 (18.60 %) Microsoft 2 2 (2.326 %) Business Objects 3 1 (1.163 %) Cognos 3 1 (1.163 %) CA 3 1 (1.163 %) Lotus 3 1 (1.163 %) Niku