The first table below looks at the demand for Internet skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Internet over the 3 months to 19 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 of the Communications & Networking 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet
Rank 50 41 31
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -10
Contract jobs citing Internet 17 26 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 2.345% 3.190% 4.506%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.14% 17.57% 21.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 31
Average daily rate £343 £450 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.88% +28.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.15% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £14.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -30.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £14.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -15.15%
All Communications & Networking
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
140 148 200
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 19.31% 18.16% 21.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 68 123
Average daily rate £325 £318 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.36% -9.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £184 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 5
Average hourly rate £35.00 £25.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+40.00% +92.30%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.10 £14.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.30 £25.00 £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
Internet
North West

Internet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Internet Jobs Demand Trend

Internet
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Internet Daily Rate Trend

Internet
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Internet across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cheshire Internet Daily Rate Histogram

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Internet Hourly Rate Trend

Internet
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Internet within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 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 -2 4 £375 - 1
Crewe - - - -
Knutsford - - - -
Macclesfield - - - -
Wilmslow - - - -
Internet
North West

Internet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Internet 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 Internet.

1 9 (32.14%) IBM
2 7 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 7 (25.00%) Finance
3 6 (21.43%) Firewall
3 6 (21.43%) Migration
3 6 (21.43%) Extranet
3 6 (21.43%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (17.86%) UNIX
5 4 (14.29%) Linux
5 4 (14.29%) E-Commerce
5 4 (14.29%) Web Services
5 4 (14.29%) Middleware
5 4 (14.29%) McAfee
5 4 (14.29%) Intranet
5 4 (14.29%) Cisco
5 4 (14.29%) Banking
5 4 (14.29%) FatWire
5 4 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (14.29%) Degree
5 4 (14.29%) F5
5 4 (14.29%) Fortinet
6 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
6 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
6 3 (10.71%) Sourcefire
6 3 (10.71%) Test Scripting
6 3 (10.71%) Service Management
6 3 (10.71%) Risk Management
6 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
6 3 (10.71%) HP
6 3 (10.71%) Dell

Internet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Internet 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 Internet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (14.29%) Web Services
1 4 (14.29%) Middleware
2 3 (10.71%) .NET
3 2 (7.143%) XSLT
3 2 (7.143%) J2EE
3 2 (7.143%) SOAP
3 2 (7.143%) ASP.NET
3 2 (7.143%) JSP
3 2 (7.143%) JAX-RPC
3 2 (7.143%) WSDL
3 2 (7.143%) Spring
3 2 (7.143%) Ajax
3 2 (7.143%) Hibernate
3 2 (7.143%) Apache Axis
3 2 (7.143%) WebSphere
4 1 (3.571%) jQuery
4 1 (3.571%) ICEfaces
4 1 (3.571%) RichFaces
4 1 (3.571%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.571%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.143%) Apache
2 1 (3.571%) ESB
2 1 (3.571%) Mule
2 1 (3.571%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (3.571%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (3.571%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.571%) iPlanet
2 1 (3.571%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (7.143%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.571%) Office 365
2 1 (3.571%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (3.571%) InfoPath
2 1 (3.571%) Acrobat
2 1 (3.571%) MS Office
2 1 (3.571%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.571%) ResourceLink
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) Firewall
1 6 (21.43%) Extranet
1 6 (21.43%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (14.29%) Intranet
3 3 (10.71%) DMZ
4 1 (3.571%) BIG-IP
4 1 (3.571%) IMAP
4 1 (3.571%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (3.571%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (3.571%) Wireless
4 1 (3.571%) SMTP
4 1 (3.571%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.143%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.571%) GIS
2 1 (3.571%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (3.571%) JIRA
1 1 (3.571%) CruiseControl
1 1 (3.571%) Subversion
1 1 (3.571%) JUnit
1 1 (3.571%) Eclipse
General
1 7 (25.00%) Telecoms
1 7 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (3.571%) Automotive
3 1 (3.571%) Legal
3 1 (3.571%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.571%) Retail
3 1 (3.571%) Retail Banking
3 1 (3.571%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.571%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Analyst
2 5 (17.86%) Copywriter
3 4 (14.29%) Lead Designer
3 4 (14.29%) Designer
4 3 (10.71%) Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Test Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Author
5 2 (7.143%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.143%) C# Developer
5 2 (7.143%) Consultant
6 1 (3.571%) Junior Analyst
6 1 (3.571%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (3.571%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 1 (3.571%) Junior Information Analyst
6 1 (3.571%) Network Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (3.571%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (3.571%) Network Infrastructure Project Manager
6 1 (3.571%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.571%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.571%) Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.143%) W3C
1 2 (7.143%) Computer Science
2 1 (3.571%) RIA
2 1 (3.571%) Hedge funds
2 1 (3.571%) Frameworx
2 1 (3.571%) IVR
2 1 (3.571%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.571%) Web 2.0
2 1 (3.571%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.571%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) UNIX
2 4 (14.29%) Linux
3 3 (10.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (21.43%) Migration
2 4 (14.29%) E-Commerce
2 4 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (10.71%) Test Scripting
3 3 (10.71%) Service Management
3 3 (10.71%) Risk Management
4 2 (7.143%) UML
4 2 (7.143%) OO
4 2 (7.143%) Project Management
4 2 (7.143%) Configuration Management
4 2 (7.143%) TDD
4 2 (7.143%) Information Security
4 2 (7.143%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (7.143%) Computer Security
5 1 (3.571%) Data Protection
5 1 (3.571%) Information Architecture
5 1 (3.571%) Waterfall
5 1 (3.571%) Extreme Programming
5 1 (3.571%) Service Delivery
5 1 (3.571%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) SQL
2 2 (7.143%) C#
2 2 (7.143%) Java
2 2 (7.143%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.571%) XPath
3 1 (3.571%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.571%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.571%) EnCE
3 1 (3.571%) CEH
3 1 (3.571%) CIPD
3 1 (3.571%) ISEB
3 1 (3.571%) CISSP
3 1 (3.571%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.571%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (3.571%) CCIE
3 1 (3.571%) CCDP
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.571%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.571%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) IBM
2 4 (14.29%) McAfee
2 4 (14.29%) Cisco
2 4 (14.29%) FatWire
2 4 (14.29%) F5
2 4 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 3 (10.71%) Sourcefire
3 3 (10.71%) HP
3 3 (10.71%) Dell
3 3 (10.71%) Micro Focus
3 3 (10.71%) Compuware
3 3 (10.71%) Juniper
4 2 (7.143%) Oracle
5 1 (3.571%) TSYS
5 1 (3.571%) VMware
5 1 (3.571%) Northgate
5 1 (3.571%) Perforce
5 1 (3.571%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.571%) Adobe
5 1 (3.571%) JBoss
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