The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Pharmaceutical over the 3 months to 23 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 General 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
Rank 60 36 45
Rank change year-on-year
-24 +9
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 2 30 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.274% 3.759% 2.727%
As % of the General category 0.625% 8.982% 5.315%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 21
Average daily rate £345 £380 £351
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.21% +8.41%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £350 £378
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -7.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £9.57
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +213.64%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.75 £17.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+35.71% -
All of the General Category
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
320 334 508
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 43.78% 41.85% 51.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 224 354
Average daily rate £370 £373 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.80% +12.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £288 £231
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £513 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 14
Average hourly rate £40.57 £27.58 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+47.12% +112.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.36 £21.18 £9.13
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.39 £31.00 £70.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Pharmaceutical
North West

Pharmaceutical
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Pharmaceutical Jobs Demand Trend

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Pharmaceutical Daily Rate Trend

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Pharmaceutical Hourly Rate Trend

Pharmaceutical
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Alderley Edge +2 1 - -
Macclesfield -6 1 £345 -23.33%
Pharmaceutical
North West

Pharmaceutical
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Pharmaceutical 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 Pharmaceutical.

1 3 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Wireless
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (16.67%) Business Development
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Life Science
3 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) OpenUP
3 1 (16.67%) F5
3 1 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) CCNP
3 1 (16.67%) CCNA
3 1 (16.67%) CCDP
3 1 (16.67%) HP

Pharmaceutical
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Pharmaceutical 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 Pharmaceutical. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Wireless
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2012
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
1 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Implementation Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
1 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (16.67%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Business Development
3 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) OpenUP
3 1 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) CCNP
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) CCDP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) F5
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) HP
1 1 (16.67%) Ariba
1 1 (16.67%) Sage
1 1 (16.67%) Primavera
1 1 (16.67%) SAP