The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term FMCG in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited FMCG over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
Rank 60 67 70
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +3
Contract jobs citing FMCG 1 2 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.139% 0.246% 0.720%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.637% 1.342% 3.382%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £360 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £425 £408
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £14.50 £10.50
% change year-on-year
+86.20% +38.09%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
157 149 207
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 21.75% 18.33% 21.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 89 125
Average daily rate £367 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.00% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £230 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £14.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% +3.70%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%
FMCG
North West

FMCG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire FMCG Jobs Demand Trend

FMCG
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire FMCG Daily Rate Trend

FMCG
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire FMCG Hourly Rate Trend

FMCG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing FMCG 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 FMCG.

1 3 (30.00%) SAP
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) AIX
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Citrix
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
2 2 (20.00%) SAN
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Critical Path Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (10.00%) QA
3 1 (10.00%) CMDB
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Implementation
3 1 (10.00%) SCCM
3 1 (10.00%) SCOM
3 1 (10.00%) Clustering
3 1 (10.00%) Remedy
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
3 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Migration

FMCG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (10.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (10.00%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (10.00%) SAP Data Services
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Coordinator
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Wintel Server Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Configuration Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Services Delivery Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Project Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Clustering
1 1 (10.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) AIX
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 2000
2 1 (10.00%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
3 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Critical Path Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Implementation
3 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (10.00%) ETL
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
1 1 (10.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) Citrix
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Business Objects
3 1 (10.00%) Remedy