The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automotive 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 terms in our General category 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.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automotive
Rank 74 - 67
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Automotive 1 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.106% - 0.195%
As % of the General category 0.295% - 0.481%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £225 - £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £345
% change year-on-year
- +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
All of the General Category
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
339 448 416
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 35.99% 34.12% 40.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 214 168
Average daily rate £353 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £267 £254 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £546 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 9 19
Average hourly rate £14.50 £17.75 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.30% -1.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Automotive
North West

Automotive
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Automotive Jobs Demand Trend

Automotive
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Automotive Daily Rate Trend

Automotive
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Automotive Hourly Rate Trend

Automotive
Top 22 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Advertising
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Drupal
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3

Automotive
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
General
1 1 (25.00%) Advertising
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) MVC
1 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PHP