The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Banking over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Banking
Rank 13 16 12
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 89 100 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 9.128% 8.110% 9.470%
As % of the General category 23.61% 24.51% 24.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 38 51
Average daily rate £365 £365 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.12% +82.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £150 £105
10% offered a daily rate of more than £534 £550 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £388
% change year-on-year
- +3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £14.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £22.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-6.74% +5.95%
All of the General Category
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
377 408 410
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 38.67% 33.09% 38.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 200 182
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £213 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £545 £499
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 19
Average hourly rate £14.50 £17.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.70% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £11.30 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £77.50 £34.00 £19.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Banking
North West

Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Banking Jobs Demand Trend

Banking
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Banking Daily Rate Trend

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Banking across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Manchester Banking Daily Rate Histogram

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Banking Hourly Rate Trend

Banking
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Altrincham - - - -
Banking
North West

Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Banking 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 Banking.

1 74 (51.75%) Finance
2 49 (34.27%) Retail
3 37 (25.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (25.87%) Project Management
4 33 (23.08%) Retail Banking
5 18 (12.59%) IBM
6 17 (11.89%) Mainframe
7 16 (11.19%) UNIX
7 16 (11.19%) Windows
8 14 (9.790%) AIX
8 14 (9.790%) ITIL
9 13 (9.091%) Middleware
10 12 (8.392%) Migration
11 11 (7.692%) Firewall
11 11 (7.692%) WebSphere
11 11 (7.692%) Microsoft
12 10 (6.993%) Internet
12 10 (6.993%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (6.993%) Oracle
13 9 (6.294%) Java
13 9 (6.294%) IVR
14 8 (5.594%) Risk Management
14 8 (5.594%) Content Management
14 8 (5.594%) SQL
14 8 (5.594%) PRINCE2
14 8 (5.594%) XML
14 8 (5.594%) ETL
14 8 (5.594%) Tivoli
15 7 (4.895%) SAN
15 7 (4.895%) CICS

Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Banking 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 Banking. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (9.091%) Middleware
2 11 (7.692%) WebSphere
3 8 (5.594%) XML
4 7 (4.895%) HTML
5 6 (4.196%) ASP
5 6 (4.196%) CSS
6 5 (3.497%) jQuery
6 5 (3.497%) HTML5
6 5 (3.497%) CSS3
7 3 (2.098%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
7 3 (2.098%) SPNEGO
8 1 (0.699%) JDBC
8 1 (0.699%) Web Services
8 1 (0.699%) XSD
8 1 (0.699%) XSLT
8 1 (0.699%) XHTML
8 1 (0.699%) XML Schema
8 1 (0.699%) WebSphere MQ
8 1 (0.699%) .NET
8 1 (0.699%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 7 (4.895%) SAS
1 7 (4.895%) CICS
1 7 (4.895%) CMS
2 5 (3.497%) TeamSite
2 5 (3.497%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (2.797%) WebLogic
4 3 (2.098%) MS Exchange
4 3 (2.098%) Documentum
4 3 (2.098%) FileNet
5 2 (1.399%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.399%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.699%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
6 1 (0.699%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 5 (3.497%) MS Project
1 5 (3.497%) MS Office
2 3 (2.098%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (2.098%) MS PowerPoint
2 3 (2.098%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.399%) MS Excel
4 1 (0.699%) Maya
4 1 (0.699%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.699%) SAP FI
1 1 (0.699%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (0.699%) SAP CO
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.692%) Firewall
2 10 (6.993%) Internet
3 7 (4.895%) SAN
3 7 (4.895%) LDAP
4 4 (2.797%) WAN
4 4 (2.797%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.797%) SNA
5 3 (2.098%) LAN
5 3 (2.098%) SMS
5 3 (2.098%) Kerberos
5 3 (2.098%) X.509
5 3 (2.098%) Network Security
6 2 (1.399%) FTP
6 2 (1.399%) CTI
7 1 (0.699%) Intranet
7 1 (0.699%) DNS
7 1 (0.699%) SSL
7 1 (0.699%) OSPF
7 1 (0.699%) BGP
7 1 (0.699%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.993%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (4.196%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.797%) DB2
4 2 (1.399%) OLAP
4 2 (1.399%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 1 (0.699%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (0.699%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (0.699%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.699%) DTS
5 1 (0.699%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.699%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.699%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (0.699%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (0.699%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.699%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 4 (2.797%) TestPartner
2 1 (0.699%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (0.699%) RequisitePro
2 1 (0.699%) ERwin
General
1 74 (51.75%) Finance
2 49 (34.27%) Retail
3 33 (23.08%) Retail Banking
4 6 (4.196%) Investment Banking
5 4 (2.797%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.098%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.399%) Legal
7 2 (1.399%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.399%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.399%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.699%) Marketing
8 1 (0.699%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.699%) Front Office
8 1 (0.699%) Law
Job Titles
1 33 (23.08%) Project Manager
2 26 (18.18%) Analyst
3 19 (13.29%) Architect
4 14 (9.790%) Business Analyst
5 12 (8.392%) Developer
6 8 (5.594%) Consultant
7 7 (4.895%) Programme Manager
8 6 (4.196%) Test Manager
8 6 (4.196%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.196%) Senior Manager
8 6 (4.196%) Infrastructure Manager
8 6 (4.196%) Applications Architect
9 5 (3.497%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (3.497%) Business Manager
9 5 (3.497%) Support Analyst
9 5 (3.497%) Senior Project Manager
9 5 (3.497%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 5 (3.497%) Web Developer
9 5 (3.497%) Programme Test Manager
9 5 (3.497%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.89%) Mainframe
2 9 (6.294%) IVR
3 7 (4.895%) VSAM
4 6 (4.196%) PKI
5 5 (3.497%) Online Banking
5 5 (3.497%) Client/Server
5 5 (3.497%) Data Integration
6 4 (2.797%) IBM Mainframe
6 4 (2.797%) Mobile Banking
6 4 (2.797%) Speech Recognition
7 3 (2.098%) HACMP
8 2 (1.399%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.699%) Clustering
9 1 (0.699%) Cryptography
9 1 (0.699%) Blackberry
9 1 (0.699%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.699%) Thin Client
9 1 (0.699%) Web 2.0
9 1 (0.699%) Graphic Design
9 1 (0.699%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.19%) UNIX
1 16 (11.19%) Windows
2 14 (9.790%) AIX
3 5 (3.497%) HPUX
3 5 (3.497%) Solaris
4 4 (2.797%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (2.797%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (2.098%) zOS
5 3 (2.098%) Linux
6 1 (0.699%) VMS
6 1 (0.699%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (25.87%) Project Management
1 37 (25.87%) Stakeholder Management
2 14 (9.790%) ITIL
3 12 (8.392%) Migration
4 8 (5.594%) Risk Management
4 8 (5.594%) PRINCE2
4 8 (5.594%) ETL
4 8 (5.594%) Content Management
5 7 (4.895%) Project Planning
5 7 (4.895%) Programme Management
6 6 (4.196%) Change Management
6 6 (4.196%) Analytics
7 5 (3.497%) Data Migration
7 5 (3.497%) Web Analytics
7 5 (3.497%) SEO
8 4 (2.797%) Business Analysis
8 4 (2.797%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (2.797%) Waterfall
8 4 (2.797%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (2.098%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.294%) Java
2 8 (5.594%) SQL
3 7 (4.895%) JavaScript
4 6 (4.196%) Shell Script
5 5 (3.497%) JCL
6 4 (2.797%) Perl
6 4 (2.797%) C
7 3 (2.098%) COBOL
8 1 (0.699%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.699%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.699%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.699%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 6 (4.196%) Degree
1 6 (4.196%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 3 (2.098%) CISSP
3 2 (1.399%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (0.699%) CISA
4 1 (0.699%) CISM
4 1 (0.699%) CGEIT
4 1 (0.699%) CBAP
4 1 (0.699%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.098%) Solvency II
2 1 (0.699%) SLA
2 1 (0.699%) COBIT
System Software
1 4 (2.797%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.797%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 4 (2.797%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (2.797%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.399%) PowerHA
3 1 (0.699%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (5.594%) Tivoli
2 3 (2.098%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 1 (0.699%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (0.699%) Foglight
3 1 (0.699%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.699%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.699%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.699%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 18 (12.59%) IBM
2 11 (7.692%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.993%) Oracle
4 6 (4.196%) Citrix
4 6 (4.196%) Brocade
5 5 (3.497%) Interwoven
5 5 (3.497%) Cisco
5 5 (3.497%) HP
5 5 (3.497%) CA
5 5 (3.497%) CheckPoint
6 4 (2.797%) VMware
7 3 (2.098%) SAP
8 2 (1.399%) Hitachi
8 2 (1.399%) Planview
9 1 (0.699%) Fundtech
9 1 (0.699%) Pega
9 1 (0.699%) F5
9 1 (0.699%) Nokia
9 1 (0.699%) Veritas
9 1 (0.699%) ILOG
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