The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Embedded Systems in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Embedded Systems over the 3 months to 17 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 Chester 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Embedded Systems
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Embedded Systems 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 2.190% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.091% - -
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 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +6.66%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
33 16 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 24.09% 13.91% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 11
Average daily rate £375 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £350 £259
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £493 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £9.00 £14.00 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.71% +40.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Embedded Systems
Cheshire

Embedded Systems
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester Embedded Systems Jobs Demand Trend

Embedded Systems
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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