The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CA 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 CA 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 CA Technologies.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CA
Rank 70 83 -
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -
Contract jobs citing CA 5 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.531% 0.381% -
As % of the Vendors category 1.305% 0.756% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £200 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £294 £338
% change year-on-year
+8.93% -12.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £20.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.02 £47.50 £21.75
% change year-on-year
-59.95% +118.39%
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%
CA
North West

CA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester CA Jobs Demand Trend

CA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester CA Daily Rate Trend

CA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester CA Hourly Rate Trend

CA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 11 (84.62%) IBM
2 8 (61.54%) zOS
2 8 (61.54%) Mainframe
3 7 (53.85%) VSAM
3 7 (53.85%) CICS
3 7 (53.85%) DB2
4 6 (46.15%) SQL
4 6 (46.15%) Tivoli
5 5 (38.46%) JCL
5 5 (38.46%) CheckPoint
5 5 (38.46%) Oracle
5 5 (38.46%) Windows
5 5 (38.46%) Cisco
5 5 (38.46%) PKI
5 5 (38.46%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (38.46%) REXX
5 5 (38.46%) Firewall
5 5 (38.46%) Banking
5 5 (38.46%) Retail
6 4 (30.77%) VMware
6 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (30.77%) Hyper-V
6 4 (30.77%) Brocade
6 4 (30.77%) WebSphere
6 4 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (30.77%) ETL
6 4 (30.77%) AIX
6 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
6 4 (30.77%) WebLogic

CA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (30.77%) WebSphere
1 4 (30.77%) Middleware
2 2 (15.38%) ISPF
Application Platforms
1 7 (53.85%) CICS
2 4 (30.77%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Firewall
2 4 (30.77%) SAN
3 3 (23.08%) Internet
3 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
3 3 (23.08%) SNA
4 1 (7.692%) CTI
4 1 (7.692%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) DB2
2 4 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 5 (38.46%) Banking
1 5 (38.46%) Retail
2 1 (7.692%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Designer
2 2 (15.38%) Technical Design Leader
2 2 (15.38%) Automation Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) DBA
2 2 (15.38%) Programmer
2 2 (15.38%) DB2 DBA
2 2 (15.38%) CICS Programmer
2 2 (15.38%) CICS Systems Programmer
2 2 (15.38%) Systems Programmer
3 1 (7.692%) Microsoft Consultant
3 1 (7.692%) Technical Architect
3 1 (7.692%) Consultant
3 1 (7.692%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Mainframe
2 7 (53.85%) VSAM
3 5 (38.46%) PKI
4 3 (23.08%) Online Banking
4 3 (23.08%) IBM Mainframe
4 3 (23.08%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (7.692%) Smartcard
5 1 (7.692%) CMDB
5 1 (7.692%) Visualisation
5 1 (7.692%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) zOS
2 5 (38.46%) Windows
3 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (30.77%) AIX
3 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (23.08%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (30.77%) ETL
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
4 2 (15.38%) Stress Testing
5 1 (7.692%) Data Management
5 1 (7.692%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) JCL
2 5 (38.46%) REXX
3 2 (15.38%) COBOL
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (30.77%) Hyper-V
1 4 (30.77%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) RACF
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Tivoli
2 2 (15.38%) OMEGAMON
3 1 (7.692%) NetBackup
3 1 (7.692%) Foglight
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) IBM
2 5 (38.46%) CheckPoint
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 5 (38.46%) Cisco
3 4 (30.77%) VMware
3 4 (30.77%) Brocade
3 4 (30.77%) HP
3 4 (30.77%) Citrix
4 1 (7.692%) Nokia
4 1 (7.692%) Microsoft