The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Alterian products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Alterian over the 3 months to 24 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 Vendors for the Manchester 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Alterian.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Alterian
Rank - - 71
Contract jobs citing Alterian 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - - 0.096%
As % of the Vendors category - - 0.230%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £283 £315
% change year-on-year
-2.65% -10.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
381 657 434
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 40.84% 50.85% 41.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 293 177
Average daily rate £313 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £200 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 35 45
Average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £13.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% +27.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.77 £12.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.40 £25.00 £22.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Alterian
North West

Alterian
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Alterian across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Manchester Alterian Jobs Demand Trend

Alterian
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Alterian 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 Alterian.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe CQ

Alterian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Alterian 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 Alterian. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe CQ
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe