Embedded Systems Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Embedded Systems in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Embedded Systems over the 3 months to 24 May 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Embedded Systems
Rank 60 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Embedded Systems 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.414% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.863% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £288 £290
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
-17.64% +13.33%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 161 140 205
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.24% 17.52% 21.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 84 118
Average daily rate £350 £325 £358
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £222 £227
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £485 £436
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 11
Average hourly rate - £14.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +3.70%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Embedded Systems
North West

Embedded Systems
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Embedded Systems Jobs Demand Trend

Embedded Systems
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Systems within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Chester - 3 - -
Embedded Systems
North West

Embedded Systems
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Embedded Systems 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 Embedded Systems.

1 3 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 3 (100.00%) HND
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) Subversion
1 3 (100.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 3 (100.00%) SCADA
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Ethernet
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) Embedded C
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Military
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Development

Embedded Systems
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Embedded Systems 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 Embedded Systems. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Ethernet
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 3 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Embedded C Software Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Embedded C Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) C Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) C++ Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 3 (100.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C
2 2 (66.67%) Embedded C
3 1 (33.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) HND
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