The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Client/Server over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Cheshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Client Server
Rank 62 64 64
Rank change year-on-year
+2 0
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 5 4 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.679% 0.504% 0.870%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.874% 2.721% 4.278%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 1
Average daily rate £438 £326 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.20% -6.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £345 £350
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year
+14.03% -25.00%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
174 147 187
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 23.64% 18.51% 20.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 86 96
Average daily rate £333 £325 £358
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.46% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £265 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 17
Average hourly rate £16.84 £14.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.28% -37.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.14 £11.00 £11.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £20.00 £29.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Client/Server
North West

Client/Server
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Client/Server across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Cheshire Client/Server Jobs Demand Trend

Client/Server
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Client/Server across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Client/Server Daily Rate Trend

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Client/Server across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Cheshire Client/Server Daily Rate Histogram

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Client/Server across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Client/Server Hourly Rate Trend

Client/Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Client/Server within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Chester -3 2 £338 -2.52% 1
Macclesfield - - - - 4
Client/Server
North West

Client/Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Client/Server 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 Client/Server.

1 6 (85.71%) Java
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle
2 4 (57.14%) UNIX
3 3 (42.86%) Solaris
3 3 (42.86%) HTML
3 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2
3 3 (42.86%) CRM
3 3 (42.86%) MS Visio
3 3 (42.86%) LAN
3 3 (42.86%) WAN
3 3 (42.86%) ABAP
3 3 (42.86%) J2EE
3 3 (42.86%) MS Project
3 3 (42.86%) SAP
3 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 3 (42.86%) SAN
3 3 (42.86%) NetWeaver
3 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
3 3 (42.86%) SAP Basis
3 3 (42.86%) Spring
4 2 (28.57%) Apache Flex
4 2 (28.57%) Selenium
4 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Eclipse
4 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
4 2 (28.57%) Android
4 2 (28.57%) TestNG
4 2 (28.57%) Apple iOS

Client/Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Client/Server 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 Client/Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (42.86%) HTML
1 3 (42.86%) J2EE
1 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
1 3 (42.86%) SAP Basis
1 3 (42.86%) Spring
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Flex
2 2 (28.57%) SOAP
2 2 (28.57%) Web Services
2 2 (28.57%) Flash
3 1 (14.29%) XML
3 1 (14.29%) XSLT
3 1 (14.29%) JDBC
3 1 (14.29%) JSP
3 1 (14.29%) JAX-RPC
3 1 (14.29%) WSDL
3 1 (14.29%) XML Schema
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) Ajax
3 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Axis
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) NetWeaver
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) iPlanet
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MS Visio
1 3 (42.86%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) LAN
1 3 (42.86%) WAN
1 3 (42.86%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) TELNET
2 2 (28.57%) SNMP
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) HTTP
3 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (14.29%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
1 2 (28.57%) Eclipse
1 2 (28.57%) TestNG
1 2 (28.57%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) CruiseControl
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) MyEclipse
2 1 (14.29%) Mercurial
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
2 1 (14.29%) German Language
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
1 3 (42.86%) SAP Manager
2 2 (28.57%) SAP Release Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Release Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) NetWeaver Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Basis Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) N-Tier
1 1 (14.29%) PMI
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) UNIX
2 3 (42.86%) Solaris
3 2 (28.57%) Android
3 2 (28.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2
1 3 (42.86%) CRM
1 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) SOA
3 1 (14.29%) Six Sigma
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security
3 1 (14.29%) Extreme Programming
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) ABAP
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) C
4 1 (14.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
1 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) Adobe
4 1 (14.29%) JBoss
Chester, North West
skills/attributes for this position include: - - 3-5 year's recent relevant software test experience of Web based Client / Server applications, especially Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using Adobe...
Computer Futures
Rate: £30 - £35 per hour
Posted: 31 May 2013