The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Tandem in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Tandem over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tandem
Rank 60 60 56
Rank change year-on-year
0 -4
Contract jobs citing Tandem 3 6 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.408% 0.745% 2.055%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.852% 4.054% 9.709%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 17
Average daily rate - £500 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +48.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £425 £325
% change year-on-year
-29.41% +30.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
162 148 206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.04% 18.39% 21.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 88 122
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -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 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 9
Average hourly rate £20.00 £14.00 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% -9.67%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
Tandem
North West

Tandem
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Tandem Jobs Demand Trend

Tandem
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Tandem Daily Rate Trend

Tandem
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tandem within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Knutsford -6 1 - -
Tandem
North West

Tandem
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Tandem 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 Tandem.

1 4 (100.00%) UNIX
1 4 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 3 (75.00%) Middleware
2 3 (75.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) DB2
4 1 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (25.00%) Replication
4 1 (25.00%) BASE24
4 1 (25.00%) Retail
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy

Tandem
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Tandem 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 Tandem. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) Middleware
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) BASE24
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Designer
2 3 (75.00%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Designer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (75.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) UNIX
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) IBM