The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of ATG 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 ATG over the 3 months to 22 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 ATG (Art Technology Group).

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ATG
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing ATG 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - - -
As % of the Vendors category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £363 £450
% change year-on-year
+17.24% -19.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £14.00 -
All Vendors
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
383 661 420
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 40.66% 50.34% 41.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 295 172
Average daily rate £320 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £200 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £467 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 38 45
Average hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% +29.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.77 £12.10 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.50 £25.00 £18.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
ATG
North West

ATG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester ATG Jobs Demand Trend

ATG
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester ATG Daily Rate Trend

ATG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing ATG 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 ATG.

1 9 (100.00%) HTML
1 9 (100.00%) Java
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (100.00%) Perl
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
1 9 (100.00%) J2EE
1 9 (100.00%) JDBC
1 9 (100.00%) UNIX
1 9 (100.00%) HPUX
1 9 (100.00%) Solaris
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 9 (100.00%) XHTML
1 9 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 9 (100.00%) Internet
1 9 (100.00%) IBM
1 9 (100.00%) Ajax
1 9 (100.00%) Blue Martini
1 9 (100.00%) Web 2.0
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 9 (100.00%) Bash shell
2 8 (88.89%) Elastic Path
2 8 (88.89%) Log4j
2 8 (88.89%) XMLBeans
2 8 (88.89%) XPath
2 8 (88.89%) JSTL
2 8 (88.89%) Retail
2 8 (88.89%) Subversion
2 8 (88.89%) Content Management
2 8 (88.89%) Interwoven

ATG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing ATG 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 ATG. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) HTML
1 9 (100.00%) J2EE
1 9 (100.00%) JDBC
1 9 (100.00%) XHTML
1 9 (100.00%) Ajax
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 8 (88.89%) XMLBeans
2 8 (88.89%) JSTL
2 8 (88.89%) JMS
2 8 (88.89%) EJB
2 8 (88.89%) JSP
2 8 (88.89%) Servlets
2 8 (88.89%) Struts
2 8 (88.89%) XML
2 8 (88.89%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 8 (88.89%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) RDBMS
1 8 (88.89%) DB2
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Log4j
1 8 (88.89%) Subversion
1 8 (88.89%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 8 (88.89%) Eclipse
1 8 (88.89%) Ant
1 8 (88.89%) JUnit
General
1 8 (88.89%) Retail
1 8 (88.89%) Finance
2 7 (77.78%) Games
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
1 9 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 8 (88.89%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 8 (88.89%) J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) UNIX
1 9 (100.00%) HPUX
1 9 (100.00%) Solaris
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 8 (88.89%) Content Management
2 8 (88.89%) UML
2 8 (88.89%) OO
2 8 (88.89%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (100.00%) Perl
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
1 9 (100.00%) Bash shell
2 8 (88.89%) XPath
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) IBM
1 9 (100.00%) Blue Martini
2 8 (88.89%) Elastic Path
2 8 (88.89%) Interwoven