North West Project Management Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Project Management skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Project Management over the last 3 months to 13 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkhamsted Berkshire Bexley Bicester Billericay Bingley Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Cobham Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dumfries and Galloway Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highland Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Loughton Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Romford Rugby Rugeley Runcorn Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Tewkesbury Thames Ditton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Upminster Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wymondham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	15
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching permanent IT job ads	1236	1285
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.605 %	0.552 %
As % of the category below	16.46 %	16.18 %
Salaries quoted	1005	1048
Average minimum salary	£38,204	£38,882
Average salary	£41,955	£42,337
% change on same period last year	-0.90 %
Average maximum salary	£45,706	£45,793
UK excluding London average salary	£45,246	£45,755
% change on same period last year	-1.11 %
Processes & Methodologies North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	7507	7941
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	3.672 %	3.410 %
Salaries quoted	6293	6425
Average minimum salary	£36,779	£39,305
Average salary	£40,653	£43,467
% change on same period last year	-6.47 %
Average maximum salary	£44,526	£47,629
UK excluding London average salary	£42,900	£44,043
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Project Management across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing Project Management across the North West region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Project Management across the North West region over the past 3 months.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management within the North West region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Manchester	0	520	£41,795	-8.30 %
2	Cheshire	-4	315	£45,052	+12.94 %
3	Lancashire	-8	121	£34,045	-2.32 %
4	Merseyside	+1	107	£38,959	-8.83 %
5	Cumbria	+8	11	£46,909	+47.85 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the North West region citing Project 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 Project Management.

1 759 (34.17 %) PRINCE2 2 667 (30.03 %) Finance 3 260 (11.71 %) Microsoft 4 218 (9.815 %) Stakeholder Management 5 217 (9.770 %) MS Project 6 207 (9.320 %) .NET 7 198 (8.915 %) ITIL 8 192 (8.645 %) Degree 9 185 (8.330 %) MS Excel 10 181 (8.149 %) Banking 11 176 (7.924 %) Internet 12 167 (7.519 %) SQL 12 167 (7.519 %) Telecoms 13 145 (6.529 %) SQL Server 13 145 (6.529 %) Supplier Management

14 137 (6.168 %) Windows 15 134 (6.033 %) C# 16 132 (5.943 %) PRINCE2 Certification 17 131 (5.898 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 18 115 (5.178 %) Mainframe 19 114 (5.133 %) Business Analysis 20 113 (5.088 %) Resource Management 21 108 (4.863 %) Insurance 21 108 (4.863 %) Oracle 22 107 (4.818 %) Retail 23 104 (4.683 %) SAP 24 103 (4.638 %) Java 25 96 (4.322 %) Health 26 95 (4.277 %) PMI 26 95 (4.277 %) Project Planning

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the North West region citing Project 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 Project Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 207 (9.320 %) .NET 2 62 (2.792 %) ASP.NET 3 58 (2.611 %) J2EE 4 42 (1.891 %) HTML 5 38 (1.711 %) ASP 6 31 (1.396 %) XML 6 31 (1.396 %) CSS 7 28 (1.261 %) Middleware 8 21 (0.946 %) WebServices 8 21 (0.946 %) WBIMB 9 14 (0.630 %) WebSphere 10 12 (0.540 %) AJAX 11 8 (0.360 %) SAP XI 11 8 (0.360 %) Windows SharePoint Services 12 7 (0.315 %) J2ME 12 7 (0.315 %) EDI 13 5 (0.225 %) XSLT 13 5 (0.225 %) JSP 13 5 (0.225 %) XHTML 14 4 (0.180 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 62 (2.792 %) MS Exchange 2 44 (1.981 %) Lotus Notes 3 42 (1.891 %) SharePoint 4 14 (0.630 %) SAS 5 13 (0.585 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 10 (0.450 %) NetWeaver 7 9 (0.405 %) WebSphere MQ 7 9 (0.405 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 8 (0.360 %) SharePoint Portal Server 9 7 (0.315 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 7 (0.315 %) CMS 9 7 (0.315 %) BizTalk Server 9 7 (0.315 %) WebLogic 10 5 (0.225 %) JBoss 10 5 (0.225 %) MQSeries 11 4 (0.180 %) IIS 12 3 (0.135 %) Oracle Application Server 13 2 (0.090 %) Apache 14 1 (0.045 %) Tomcat 14 1 (0.045 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 217 (9.770 %) MS Project 2 185 (8.330 %) MS Excel 3 88 (3.962 %) MS Office 4 33 (1.486 %) MS Visio 5 25 (1.126 %) MS PowerPoint 6 7 (0.315 %) Photoshop 7 5 (0.225 %) SPSS 8 2 (0.090 %) CA Clarity 9 1 (0.045 %) QuarkXPress 9 1 (0.045 %) SmartSuite 9 1 (0.045 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 38 (1.711 %) Navision 2 37 (1.666 %) Dynamics NAV 3 23 (1.036 %) SAP FI/CO 3 23 (1.036 %) SAP CO 3 23 (1.036 %) SAP FI 4 20 (0.900 %) SAP HR 5 19 (0.855 %) Dynamics CRM 6 16 (0.720 %) Oracle EBS 7 15 (0.675 %) Oracle Applications 8 14 (0.630 %) Microsoft CRM 9 12 (0.540 %) Dynamics GP 10 11 (0.495 %) Dynamics AX 11 10 (0.450 %) SAP R/3 12 8 (0.360 %) SAP Retail 13 7 (0.315 %) SAP Payroll 13 7 (0.315 %) SAP PM 14 6 (0.270 %) Axapta 14 6 (0.270 %) SalesLogix 15 5 (0.225 %) SAP Oil and Gas 15 5 (0.225 %) GoldMine
Communications & Networking 1 176 (7.924 %) Internet 2 67 (3.017 %) VoIP 3 66 (2.972 %) WAN 4 41 (1.846 %) IP Telephony 5 39 (1.756 %) MPLS 6 30 (1.351 %) LAN 7 27 (1.216 %) Firewall 8 17 (0.765 %) SAN 9 15 (0.675 %) Wireless 10 13 (0.585 %) VPN 10 13 (0.585 %) Intranet 11 10 (0.450 %) TCP/IP 12 8 (0.360 %) WINS 13 7 (0.315 %) SMS 13 7 (0.315 %) GPRS 14 6 (0.270 %) Broadband 14 6 (0.270 %) DHCP 14 6 (0.270 %) DNS 14 6 (0.270 %) Cisco IPT 14 6 (0.270 %) 3G	Database & Business Intelligence 1 145 (6.529 %) SQL Server 2 38 (1.711 %) SQL Server 2000 3 37 (1.666 %) SQL Server 2005 4 35 (1.576 %) Datawarehouse 5 22 (0.991 %) DB2 6 16 (0.720 %) MySQL 7 15 (0.675 %) Cognos Powerplay 7 15 (0.675 %) Cognos Impromptu 7 15 (0.675 %) ReportNet 8 14 (0.630 %) MS Access 9 13 (0.585 %) Crystal Reports 10 12 (0.540 %) RDBMS 11 11 (0.495 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 10 (0.450 %) BusinessObjects 12 10 (0.450 %) Base SAS 12 10 (0.450 %) SAS Enterprise Guide 13 9 (0.405 %) Oracle Reports 14 7 (0.315 %) OLAP 14 7 (0.315 %) Oracle 10g 14 7 (0.315 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 13 (0.585 %) Flash 2 8 (0.360 %) Visual Studio 3 7 (0.315 %) LoadRunner 4 6 (0.270 %) TestDirector 5 5 (0.225 %) Eclipse 6 4 (0.180 %) PowerBuilder 6 4 (0.180 %) PeopleTools 7 3 (0.135 %) Dreamweaver 8 2 (0.090 %) SilkPerformer 8 2 (0.090 %) Oracle Forms 9 1 (0.045 %) DevPartner	General 1 667 (30.03 %) Finance 2 181 (8.149 %) Banking 3 167 (7.519 %) Telecoms 4 108 (4.863 %) Insurance 5 107 (4.818 %) Retail 6 96 (4.322 %) Health 7 83 (3.737 %) Pensions 8 65 (2.927 %) Marketing 9 55 (2.476 %) Manufacturing 10 51 (2.296 %) Online Banking 11 32 (1.441 %) Education 12 31 (1.396 %) Government 13 24 (1.081 %) Law 14 17 (0.765 %) Games 14 17 (0.765 %) Retail Banking 15 16 (0.720 %) Legal 16 15 (0.675 %) Pharmaceutical 17 10 (0.450 %) Billing 18 9 (0.405 %) Local Government 19 6 (0.270 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 1006 (45.29 %) Project Manager 2 299 (13.46 %) Consultant 3 178 (8.014 %) Analyst 4 123 (5.538 %) Developer 4 123 (5.538 %) Business Analyst 5 105 (4.728 %) Senior Manager 6 104 (4.683 %) IT Manager 7 102 (4.593 %) Programme Manager 8 92 (4.142 %) Infrastructure Manager 9 91 (4.097 %) Senior Project Manager 10 81 (3.647 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 11 66 (2.972 %) IT Project Manager 12 65 (2.927 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 13 61 (2.747 %) Development Manager 14 59 (2.656 %) Team Leader 15 48 (2.161 %) .NET Developer 16 47 (2.116 %) Architect 17 46 (2.071 %) Technical Manager 18 43 (1.936 %) C# Developer 19 41 (1.846 %) Coordinator	Miscellaneous 1 115 (5.178 %) Mainframe 2 95 (4.277 %) PMI 3 28 (1.261 %) NHS 4 22 (0.991 %) Management Information System 5 16 (0.720 %) Client/Server 6 14 (0.630 %) Blackberry 7 13 (0.585 %) French Language 8 11 (0.495 %) Mathematics 9 10 (0.450 %) Video Conferencing 9 10 (0.450 %) E-Learning 10 9 (0.405 %) EPoS 10 9 (0.405 %) W3C 11 7 (0.315 %) Computer Science 12 6 (0.270 %) N-Tier 12 6 (0.270 %) Clustering 13 4 (0.180 %) Thin Client 13 4 (0.180 %) Asset Management 13 4 (0.180 %) Fat Client 13 4 (0.180 %) SCADA 14 3 (0.135 %) VAX
Operating Systems 1 137 (6.168 %) Windows 2 56 (2.521 %) Unix 3 29 (1.306 %) Windows XP 4 27 (1.216 %) AIX 5 26 (1.171 %) Windows 2000 6 24 (1.081 %) Linux 7 15 (0.675 %) Windows CE 8 10 (0.450 %) Symbian OS 9 9 (0.405 %) OpenVMS 10 8 (0.360 %) Windows Server 2003 10 8 (0.360 %) Windows Mobile 11 7 (0.315 %) Solaris 12 5 (0.225 %) Debian 12 5 (0.225 %) Fedora 13 3 (0.135 %) VMS 14 2 (0.090 %) HPUX 15 1 (0.045 %) Windows NT 15 1 (0.045 %) zOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 759 (34.17 %) PRINCE2 2 218 (9.815 %) Stakeholder Management 3 198 (8.915 %) ITIL 4 145 (6.529 %) Supplier Management 5 114 (5.133 %) Business Analysis 6 113 (5.088 %) Resource Management 7 95 (4.277 %) Project Planning 8 93 (4.187 %) Service Delivery 9 86 (3.872 %) Change Management 10 82 (3.692 %) PRINCE 11 67 (3.017 %) UML 12 65 (2.927 %) Migration 13 62 (2.792 %) E-Commerce 14 55 (2.476 %) Business Development 15 54 (2.431 %) Matrix Management 15 54 (2.431 %) CRM 16 53 (2.386 %) Programme Management 17 50 (2.251 %) ERP 18 49 (2.206 %) Risk Management 19 41 (1.846 %) Six Sigma
Programming Languages 1 167 (7.519 %) SQL 2 134 (6.033 %) C# 3 103 (4.638 %) Java 4 52 (2.341 %) VB.NET 5 47 (2.116 %) C 6 44 (1.981 %) C++ 6 44 (1.981 %) JavaScript 7 40 (1.801 %) VB 8 24 (1.081 %) Transact-SQL 9 20 (0.900 %) PHP 10 12 (0.540 %) VB6 11 11 (0.495 %) Perl 12 10 (0.450 %) Embedded C++ 12 10 (0.450 %) SAS Macro 13 9 (0.405 %) VBA 13 9 (0.405 %) VBScript 14 8 (0.360 %) ABAP 14 8 (0.360 %) PL/SQL 15 5 (0.225 %) DHTML 16 4 (0.180 %) Delphi	Qualifications 1 192 (8.645 %) Degree 2 132 (5.943 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 131 (5.898 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 56 (2.521 %) Cisco Certification 5 46 (2.071 %) PMI Certification 6 43 (1.936 %) PMP 7 39 (1.756 %) CCIE 8 37 (1.666 %) Microsoft Certification 9 25 (1.126 %) MCSE 10 16 (0.720 %) ITIL Certification 11 14 (0.630 %) ISEB 12 13 (0.585 %) CCNA 13 10 (0.450 %) CISA 14 9 (0.405 %) MCSA 15 8 (0.360 %) QiCA 16 6 (0.270 %) MBA 16 6 (0.270 %) HND 16 6 (0.270 %) Oracle Certification 16 6 (0.270 %) CCA 16 6 (0.270 %) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 32 (1.441 %) QA 2 31 (1.396 %) SLA 3 18 (0.810 %) ISO9001 4 13 (0.585 %) TickIT 5 5 (0.225 %) ISO9000 6 4 (0.180 %) BS7799 6 4 (0.180 %) COBIT 6 4 (0.180 %) BS15000 7 3 (0.135 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 8 2 (0.090 %) Basel II 9 1 (0.045 %) ISO27001 9 1 (0.045 %) MiFID 9 1 (0.045 %) PCI DSS	System Software 1 56 (2.521 %) Active Directory 2 6 (0.270 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 5 (0.225 %) Terminal Services 4 4 (0.180 %) VMware ESX 5 3 (0.135 %) MSMQ 5 3 (0.135 %) ISA Server 5 3 (0.135 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 31 (1.396 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 5 (0.225 %) OpenView 2 5 (0.225 %) Tivoli 3 4 (0.180 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 260 (11.71 %) Microsoft 2 108 (4.863 %) Oracle 3 104 (4.683 %) SAP 4 63 (2.837 %) Cisco 5 60 (2.701 %) Primavera 6 45 (2.026 %) Lotus 7 37 (1.666 %) Citrix 7 37 (1.666 %) Symbian 8 16 (0.720 %) Cognos 9 15 (0.675 %) HP 9 15 (0.675 %) Avaya 10 13 (0.585 %) VMware 11 10 (0.450 %) Business Objects 12 7 (0.315 %) JD Edwards 13 6 (0.270 %) PeopleSoft 13 6 (0.270 %) Dell 13 6 (0.270 %) IBM 14 5 (0.225 %) Juniper 14 5 (0.225 %) Compuware 14 5 (0.225 %) Redback