The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Manufacturing 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 Hertfordshire 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
Manufacturing
Rank 50 57 57
Rank change year-on-year
+7 0
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 13 13 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 2.041% 1.339% 0.793%
As % of the General category 4.290% 2.790% 1.512%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
Average daily rate £463 - £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £433 - £330
10% offered a daily rate of more than £533 - £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £358 £408
% change year-on-year
+18.88% -12.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 0
Average hourly rate - £36.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £28.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+26.31% +23.91%
All of the General Category
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
303 466 463
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 47.57% 47.99% 52.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 198 220
Average daily rate £400 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £463 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 35 33
Average hourly rate £17.50 £35.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% +118.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £11.00 £11.08
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £49.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Manufacturing
East of England

Manufacturing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Manufacturing Jobs Demand Trend

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Manufacturing Daily Rate Trend

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Manufacturing across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Hertfordshire Manufacturing Daily Rate Histogram

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Manufacturing Hourly Rate Trend

Manufacturing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the Hertfordshire 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
Watford - 5 £550 -
Royston - 3 £463 -
Hemel Hempstead - 1 - -
Manufacturing
East of England

Manufacturing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 11 (57.89%) Finance
2 9 (47.37%) Retail
2 9 (47.37%) E-Commerce
3 7 (36.84%) SAP
4 6 (31.58%) Java
5 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
5 5 (26.32%) HTML
5 5 (26.32%) SQL
6 4 (21.05%) MOM
6 4 (21.05%) Project Management
6 4 (21.05%) XHTML
6 4 (21.05%) JSP
6 4 (21.05%) Wonderware
6 4 (21.05%) Project Planning
6 4 (21.05%) JSTL
6 4 (21.05%) SAP MII
6 4 (21.05%) Time Management
7 3 (15.79%) WebSphere
7 3 (15.79%) Semantic HTML
7 3 (15.79%) QA
7 3 (15.79%) CSS
7 3 (15.79%) J2EE
7 3 (15.79%) W3C
7 3 (15.79%) IBM
7 3 (15.79%) Quality Management
7 3 (15.79%) Change Management
8 2 (10.53%) MQSeries
8 2 (10.53%) ERP
8 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
8 2 (10.53%) DB2

Manufacturing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (26.32%) HTML
2 4 (21.05%) XHTML
2 4 (21.05%) JSP
2 4 (21.05%) JSTL
3 3 (15.79%) WebSphere
3 3 (15.79%) Semantic HTML
3 3 (15.79%) CSS
3 3 (15.79%) J2EE
4 2 (10.53%) XML
5 1 (5.263%) XMLBeans
5 1 (5.263%) Ajax
5 1 (5.263%) Flash
5 1 (5.263%) XSLT
5 1 (5.263%) Servlets
5 1 (5.263%) Struts
5 1 (5.263%) JDBC
5 1 (5.263%) EJB
5 1 (5.263%) .NET
5 1 (5.263%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) MQSeries
2 1 (5.263%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (5.263%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (21.05%) SAP MII
2 1 (5.263%) SAP CO
2 1 (5.263%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (5.263%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (5.263%) SAP ERP
2 1 (5.263%) JDE World
2 1 (5.263%) Tridion
2 1 (5.263%) SAP FI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
1 2 (10.53%) DB2
2 1 (5.263%) DbVisualizer
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (5.263%) OLAP
2 1 (5.263%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.263%) LabVIEW
1 1 (5.263%) Log4j
1 1 (5.263%) Subversion
1 1 (5.263%) Ant
1 1 (5.263%) JUnit
1 1 (5.263%) Visual Studio
1 1 (5.263%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 1 (5.263%) Eclipse
1 1 (5.263%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (5.263%) LoadRunner
General
1 11 (57.89%) Finance
2 9 (47.37%) Retail
3 2 (10.53%) Electronics
3 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.263%) Marketing
4 1 (5.263%) Law
4 1 (5.263%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Developer
1 5 (26.32%) Consultant
2 3 (15.79%) Front-End Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.263%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) J2EE Developer
4 1 (5.263%) SAP Project Manager
4 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce Project Manager
4 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce Manager
4 1 (5.263%) SAP Support
4 1 (5.263%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (5.263%) SAP Support Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) ERP Project Manager
4 1 (5.263%) Cognos Developer
4 1 (5.263%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (5.263%) SAP Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) W3C
2 1 (5.263%) Web 2.0
2 1 (5.263%) Clustering
2 1 (5.263%) SaaS
2 1 (5.263%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) UNIX
2 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (5.263%) Windows
2 1 (5.263%) HPUX
2 1 (5.263%) Solaris
2 1 (5.263%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) E-Commerce
2 4 (21.05%) Project Management
2 4 (21.05%) Project Planning
2 4 (21.05%) Time Management
3 3 (15.79%) Quality Management
3 3 (15.79%) Change Management
4 2 (10.53%) ERP
4 2 (10.53%) Programme Management
5 1 (5.263%) Asset Management
5 1 (5.263%) Content Management
5 1 (5.263%) Logistics
5 1 (5.263%) Automated Testing
5 1 (5.263%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (5.263%) System Testing
5 1 (5.263%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (5.263%) Waterfall
5 1 (5.263%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.263%) Change Control
5 1 (5.263%) UML
5 1 (5.263%) OO
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Java
2 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
2 5 (26.32%) SQL
3 1 (5.263%) XPath
3 1 (5.263%) Bash shell
3 1 (5.263%) VB
3 1 (5.263%) ABAP
3 1 (5.263%) C
3 1 (5.263%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (5.263%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.263%) VMware ESX
1 1 (5.263%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.263%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) MOM
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) SAP
2 4 (21.05%) Wonderware
3 3 (15.79%) IBM
4 1 (5.263%) ATG
4 1 (5.263%) VMware
4 1 (5.263%) Blue Martini
4 1 (5.263%) Elastic Path
4 1 (5.263%) Cognos
4 1 (5.263%) HP
4 1 (5.263%) Interwoven
4 1 (5.263%) JD Edwards
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Our client, a leading British Aerospace and Defence company is looking for a Manufacturing Composite Design Engineer for an initial 6 month contract to be based in Stevenage.....
Alexander Mann Solutions
Rate: Negotiatable
Posted: 7 May 2013