The first table below looks at the demand for Migration skills in IT contracts advertised for the Knutsford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Migration 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Knutsford 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
Migration
Rank 4 12 7
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -5
Contract jobs citing Migration 27 6 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Knutsford 26.73% 8.333% 14.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 33.75% 17.14% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 17
Average daily rate £349 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.40% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £221 £295 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £455 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £364 £365
% change year-on-year
-3.78% -0.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £22.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-22.22% -6.25%
All Processes & Methodologies
Knutsford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
80 35 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Knutsford 79.21% 48.61% 70.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 22 96
Average daily rate £355 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.23% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £275 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £535 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £22.50 - £70.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Migration
Cheshire

Migration
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Migration across the Knutsford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Knutsford Migration Jobs Demand Trend

Migration
Daily Rate Trend

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

Knutsford Migration Daily Rate Trend

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Knutsford Migration Daily Rate Histogram

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Knutsford Migration Hourly Rate Trend

Migration
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 20 (43.48%) Finance
2 17 (36.96%) Citrix
3 11 (23.91%) Windows
4 10 (21.74%) Banking
5 9 (19.57%) Retail
6 8 (17.39%) DSL
6 8 (17.39%) UNIX
6 8 (17.39%) Application Packaging
7 6 (13.04%) Data Analysis
7 6 (13.04%) Dell
8 5 (10.87%) Project Management
8 5 (10.87%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (10.87%) Retail Banking
8 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (10.87%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (10.87%) XenApp
9 4 (8.696%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (8.696%) Mainframe
9 4 (8.696%) MS Excel
9 4 (8.696%) SharePoint
10 3 (6.522%) Linux
10 3 (6.522%) DB2
10 3 (6.522%) MS Exchange
10 3 (6.522%) IBM
10 3 (6.522%) HP
10 3 (6.522%) Replication
10 3 (6.522%) Validation
10 3 (6.522%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (6.522%) Information Management
10 3 (6.522%) MS PowerPoint

Migration
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (17.39%) Application Packaging
2 1 (2.174%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (8.696%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.522%) MS Exchange
2 3 (6.522%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (4.348%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (4.348%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (2.174%) Lotus Notes
4 1 (2.174%) Exchange Server 5.5
4 1 (2.174%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (2.174%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (2.174%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 4 (8.696%) MS Excel
2 3 (6.522%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (4.348%) MS Project
4 1 (2.174%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.174%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (2.174%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.39%) DSL
2 2 (4.348%) SMTP
2 2 (4.348%) SAN
3 1 (2.174%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.174%) PBX
3 1 (2.174%) SMS
3 1 (2.174%) VoIP
3 1 (2.174%) WAN
3 1 (2.174%) EIGRP
3 1 (2.174%) IGRP
3 1 (2.174%) Intranet
3 1 (2.174%) Internet
3 1 (2.174%) Extranet
3 1 (2.174%) OSPF
3 1 (2.174%) BGP
3 1 (2.174%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.522%) DB2
2 1 (2.174%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (2.174%) PVCS
1 1 (2.174%) Ant
1 1 (2.174%) TestDirector
1 1 (2.174%) MSI
General
1 20 (43.48%) Finance
2 10 (21.74%) Banking
3 9 (19.57%) Retail
4 5 (10.87%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.174%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.174%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Consultant
2 8 (17.39%) Analyst
3 6 (13.04%) Applications Consultant
4 5 (10.87%) Project Manager
4 5 (10.87%) Business Analyst
4 5 (10.87%) Designer
5 3 (6.522%) Solutions Designer
5 3 (6.522%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (4.348%) Infrastructure Designer
6 2 (4.348%) Change Manager
6 2 (4.348%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (4.348%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (4.348%) Applications Packager
6 2 (4.348%) Programme Manager
6 2 (4.348%) Developer
7 1 (2.174%) Test Manager
7 1 (2.174%) Business Systems Analyst
7 1 (2.174%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (2.174%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.174%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.696%) Mainframe
2 3 (6.522%) Replication
3 2 (4.348%) Clustering
3 2 (4.348%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.174%) IVR
4 1 (2.174%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.174%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.91%) Windows
2 8 (17.39%) UNIX
3 5 (10.87%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (10.87%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (6.522%) Linux
5 2 (4.348%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.174%) Windows 2000
6 1 (2.174%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (13.04%) Data Analysis
2 5 (10.87%) Project Management
2 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (6.522%) Validation
3 3 (6.522%) Information Management
3 3 (6.522%) Test Strategy
4 2 (4.348%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (4.348%) Workflow
4 2 (4.348%) Unit Testing
4 2 (4.348%) Release Management
4 2 (4.348%) Data Migration
5 1 (2.174%) ITIL
5 1 (2.174%) Data Modelling
5 1 (2.174%) ETL
5 1 (2.174%) BPR
5 1 (2.174%) Change Management
5 1 (2.174%) Identity Management
5 1 (2.174%) Risk Management
5 1 (2.174%) Content Management
5 1 (2.174%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.348%) Perl
2 1 (2.174%) SQL
2 1 (2.174%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.174%) JCL
2 1 (2.174%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.174%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) XenApp
2 4 (8.696%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (2.174%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (2.174%) PowerHA
3 1 (2.174%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (2.174%) Tivoli
1 1 (2.174%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 1 (2.174%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (36.96%) Citrix
2 6 (13.04%) Dell
3 3 (6.522%) IBM
3 3 (6.522%) HP
4 2 (4.348%) Brocade
4 2 (4.348%) AppSense
4 2 (4.348%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.348%) Oracle
5 1 (2.174%) Siebel
5 1 (2.174%) BMC
5 1 (2.174%) Hitachi
5 1 (2.174%) Informatica
5 1 (2.174%) NetApp
5 1 (2.174%) Lotus
5 1 (2.174%) Cisco