The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Computing in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cloud Computing over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cloud Computing
Rank 74 82 66
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -16
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 1 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.107% 0.077% 0.576%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.452% 0.370% 2.857%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 4
Average daily rate - £450 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +28.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £375 £465
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -19.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
221 270 210
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 23.69% 20.90% 20.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 109 88
Average daily rate £302 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.23% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £191 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £436 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 21 20
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 £11.08 £17.00 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.49 £33.30 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Cloud Computing
North West

Cloud Computing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Cloud Computing Jobs Demand Trend

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Cloud Computing Daily Rate Trend

Cloud Computing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Cloud Computing 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 Cloud Computing.

1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Process Management
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) Objective-C
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) Batik
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
2 1 (33.33%) CouchDB
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) CRM

Cloud Computing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Cloud Computing 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 Cloud Computing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) Batik
1 1 (33.33%) jQuery
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) SVG
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon AWS
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) CouchDB
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce.com Developer
2 1 (33.33%) CRM Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Scala Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) Process Management
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
1 1 (33.33%) Web Development
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) BDD
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Objective-C
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) Siebel
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Sage
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce.com
Manchester, North West
You will initially be tasked with analysing the business needs and working with the business analysts to produce both technical and functional specifications.
Mason Frank International
Rate: £375 - £425 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013