The first table below looks at the demand for CTI skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CTI 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 of the Communications & Networking 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
Computer Telephony Integration (CTI)
Rank 71 87 67
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -20
Contract jobs citing CTI 4 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.425% 0.076% 0.195%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.810% 0.413% 1.770%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
Average daily rate £120 £425 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-71.76% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £515 £425
% change year-on-year
-22.29% +21.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.60 - £36.00
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
105 242 113
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 11.15% 18.43% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 84 34
Average daily rate £290 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.50% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £129 £190 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £441 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 15
Average hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +60.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £32.50 £17.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
CTI
North West

CTI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester CTI Jobs Demand Trend

CTI
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester CTI Daily Rate Trend

CTI
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CTI across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Manchester CTI Daily Rate Histogram

CTI
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester CTI Hourly Rate Trend

CTI
Top 19 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Foglight
2 1 (25.00%) IVR
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) VSAM
2 1 (25.00%) CMDB
2 1 (25.00%) Pega
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) COBOL
2 1 (25.00%) VoIP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) CICS
2 1 (25.00%) CA
2 1 (25.00%) Nokia
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe

CTI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) VoIP
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Help Desk Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Design Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) IVR
1 1 (25.00%) VSAM
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
1 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Data Management
1 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) COBOL
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Foglight
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Pega
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) CA
1 1 (25.00%) Nokia
1 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint