PPM Benchmark Report

Since 2005, the Arras People Project Management Benchmark Report has served as the UK's lone official declaration of the status of project management in the country. Informative, relevant and wide-ranging in area coverage, the PPM community regularly turn to the Arras People PM Benchmark Report because of its unrivalled ability to take the pulse of the nation's PPM practitioners. No other report or study in the UK can match the window that the Benchmark Report provides into a nation sitting on the cusp of chartered professional status.

Now in its fifth year, the 2010 Project Management Benchmark Report from Arras People is the most comprehensive report available for the project management marketplace in the UK

This year it would appear that we have all been impacted in some way by the turbulent economic conditions and as ever there have been winners and losers in the Programme and Project management community.

As the impact on individual practitioners seems to have been so variable the 5th Annual Arras People survey of the UK Project Management Community will give us all a snapshot of how you and your peers fared during 2009 and at the end of the noughties the general mood looking forward into 2010.

In addition to remuneration and rewards across the sectors we will be able to better understanding professional competencies, project failure and the green issues that are currently high on the global agenda.

2009 Survey Highlights

• Recession has hit the project management market, with the majority of professionals fearing redundancies and cuts
• Over a third of all respondents said they were ‘worse off’ last year and 22% of freelancer experienced decreased rates, with a significant number (11%) experiencing cuts of more than 10%
• Employees feared better than contractors with salary expectations being met in 2008
• Project Managers are a resilient lot. Despite the widespread doom and gloom, only 8% described their personal situation as ‘gloomy’, 63% described their situation as ‘steady’ and 18% as ‘neutral’
• A massive 84% of Project Management Professionals believe they have a significant role to play in helping the UK economy out of its current difficulties
• Public sector employees are better protected than private. Twice as many private sector employees and 5% more contractors expect rewards to fall in 2009
• The gender pay gap is not closing