The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Client/Server over the 3 months to 23 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 Miscellaneous 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Client Server
Rank 67 81 62
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -19
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 6 4 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.642% 0.309% 0.660%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.655% 1.493% 3.302%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
Average daily rate £325 £273 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.26% -39.44%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £333 £350
% change year-on-year
-17.29% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £37.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-22.66% +92.30%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
226 268 212
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 24.17% 20.71% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 106 88
Average daily rate £300 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £174 £198 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £428 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 21
Average hourly rate £13.50 £20.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.14% +57.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £17.00 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.50 £33.30 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Client/Server
North West

Client/Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Client/Server Jobs Demand Trend

Client/Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Client/Server Daily Rate Trend

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Client/Server Hourly Rate Trend

Client/Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Client/Server 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 Client/Server.

1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) CSS
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) XML
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Ethernet
2 2 (28.57%) XHTML
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Android
2 2 (28.57%) HTML5
2 2 (28.57%) jQuery
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Time Management
3 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) CSS3
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) Application Packaging
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Refactoring
3 1 (14.29%) Social Network
3 1 (14.29%) SQLite
3 1 (14.29%) Windows XP

Client/Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Client/Server 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 Client/Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (42.86%) CSS
2 2 (28.57%) XML
2 2 (28.57%) XHTML
2 2 (28.57%) HTML5
2 2 (28.57%) jQuery
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) CSS3
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) Application Packaging
3 1 (14.29%) JSF
3 1 (14.29%) Ajax
3 1 (14.29%) ASP
3 1 (14.29%) XSLT
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) CMS
1 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (14.29%) TeamSite
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Ethernet
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) Wireless
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQLite
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
1 1 (14.29%) Xcode
1 1 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 1 (14.29%) Games
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) iOS Developer
2 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Android Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Server Support
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (14.29%) Server Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Server Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 1 (14.29%) Social Network
1 1 (14.29%) Streaming Video
1 1 (14.29%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Android
3 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
3 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
3 1 (14.29%) Mac OS X
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
1 1 (14.29%) Time Management
1 1 (14.29%) Analytics
1 1 (14.29%) Refactoring
1 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (14.29%) SEO
1 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
1 1 (14.29%) Content Management
1 1 (14.29%) Web Analytics
1 1 (14.29%) Project Management
1 1 (14.29%) OOP
1 1 (14.29%) OO
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Objective-C
3 1 (14.29%) XPath
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) VBScript
3 1 (14.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) SurfControl
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Dell
1 1 (14.29%) EMC
1 1 (14.29%) Intel
1 1 (14.29%) Interwoven
1 1 (14.29%) Apple
1 1 (14.29%) Websense
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle