The first table below looks at the demand for the Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Designer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
Designer
Rank 40 56 38
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 30 27 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 3.077% 2.190% 3.125%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.286% 2.409% 3.330%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 10
Average daily rate £300 £413 £394
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.27% +4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £295 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £388 £400
% change year-on-year
-9.67% -3.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
Average hourly rate £23.75 £18.25 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+30.13% +4.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £20.00 £23.25
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -13.97%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
913 1121 991
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 93.64% 90.92% 93.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 548 459
Average daily rate £330 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £440 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 78 86
Average hourly rate £16.00 £19.50 £15.10
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.94% +29.13%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £11.30 £9.71
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £36.05 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Designer
North West

Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Designer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Designer Daily Rate Trend

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Manchester Designer Daily Rate Histogram

Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Designer Hourly Rate Trend

Designer
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Manchester Designer Hourly Rate Histogram

Designer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Designer 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
Rochdale - - - - 1
Stockport - - - -
Designer
North West

Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited Designer in their job title 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 with Designer in their job title.

1 25 (54.35%) Photoshop
2 23 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
3 22 (47.83%) HTML
3 22 (47.83%) CSS
4 15 (32.61%) JavaScript
5 13 (28.26%) jQuery
6 12 (26.09%) Orchard
6 12 (26.09%) Web Design
7 9 (19.57%) HTML5
8 8 (17.39%) SQL
9 7 (15.22%) .NET
9 7 (15.22%) Fireworks
9 7 (15.22%) CSS3
10 6 (13.04%) Flash
10 6 (13.04%) Ajax
11 5 (10.87%) Banking
11 5 (10.87%) IBM Mainframe
11 5 (10.87%) XML
11 5 (10.87%) MySQL
11 5 (10.87%) C#
11 5 (10.87%) Mainframe
11 5 (10.87%) Adobe
11 5 (10.87%) IBM
12 4 (8.696%) Quark
12 4 (8.696%) Middleware
12 4 (8.696%) Java
12 4 (8.696%) PHP
12 4 (8.696%) ASP.NET
12 4 (8.696%) XHTML
12 4 (8.696%) Web Services

Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited Designer in their job title 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 with Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 22 (47.83%) HTML
1 22 (47.83%) CSS
2 13 (28.26%) jQuery
3 9 (19.57%) HTML5
4 7 (15.22%) CSS3
4 7 (15.22%) .NET
5 6 (13.04%) Flash
5 6 (13.04%) Ajax
6 5 (10.87%) XML
7 4 (8.696%) XHTML
7 4 (8.696%) ASP.NET
7 4 (8.696%) WebSphere
7 4 (8.696%) Web Services
7 4 (8.696%) Middleware
8 3 (6.522%) .NET Framework
8 3 (6.522%) JSON
8 3 (6.522%) SOAP
8 3 (6.522%) REST
9 1 (2.174%) WebSphere MQ
9 1 (2.174%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 4 (8.696%) CMS
2 3 (6.522%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.522%) CICS
3 2 (4.348%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.174%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (2.174%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 25 (54.35%) Photoshop
2 23 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
3 7 (15.22%) Fireworks
4 3 (6.522%) InDesign
4 3 (6.522%) MS Office
4 3 (6.522%) Acrobat
4 3 (6.522%) QuarkXPress
5 2 (4.348%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.174%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (2.174%) Remedy AR System
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.522%) TCP/IP
1 3 (6.522%) SNA
1 3 (6.522%) Intranet
1 3 (6.522%) Internet
2 2 (4.348%) Firewall
2 2 (4.348%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) MySQL
2 3 (6.522%) DB2
3 2 (4.348%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.348%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (4.348%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (4.348%) QlikView
3 2 (4.348%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.522%) Subversion
2 2 (4.348%) Dreamweaver
General
1 5 (10.87%) Banking
2 3 (6.522%) Retail
3 2 (4.348%) Marketing
3 2 (4.348%) Finance
3 2 (4.348%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Mainframe
1 5 (10.87%) IBM Mainframe
2 3 (6.522%) Mobile Banking
2 3 (6.522%) VSAM
2 3 (6.522%) Online Banking
3 2 (4.348%) PKI
3 2 (4.348%) New Media
3 2 (4.348%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.174%) iPhone
4 1 (2.174%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.174%) Tandem
4 1 (2.174%) Graphic Design
4 1 (2.174%) Photography
4 1 (2.174%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.696%) UNIX
1 4 (8.696%) Windows
2 2 (4.348%) AIX
2 2 (4.348%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (4.348%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.174%) Android
3 1 (2.174%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.09%) Web Design
2 4 (8.696%) Content Management
3 3 (6.522%) Web Accessibility
4 2 (4.348%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (4.348%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (4.348%) Migration
4 2 (4.348%) ITIL
4 2 (4.348%) Data Modelling
4 2 (4.348%) ETL
4 2 (4.348%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (2.174%) ITSM
5 1 (2.174%) Risk Management
5 1 (2.174%) Workflow
5 1 (2.174%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (2.174%) Information Security
5 1 (2.174%) Time Management
5 1 (2.174%) Data Migration
5 1 (2.174%) Web Usability
5 1 (2.174%) Web Development
5 1 (2.174%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (32.61%) JavaScript
2 8 (17.39%) SQL
3 5 (10.87%) C#
4 4 (8.696%) Java
4 4 (8.696%) PHP
5 3 (6.522%) JCL
5 3 (6.522%) Ruby
6 2 (4.348%) T-SQL
6 2 (4.348%) VB.NET
6 2 (4.348%) VBA
7 1 (2.174%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (8.696%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (4.348%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.348%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 2 (4.348%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (4.348%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (4.348%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (26.09%) Orchard
2 5 (10.87%) IBM
2 5 (10.87%) Adobe
3 4 (8.696%) Quark
4 3 (6.522%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.522%) Oracle
5 2 (4.348%) Cisco
5 2 (4.348%) HP
5 2 (4.348%) Citrix
5 2 (4.348%) CheckPoint
5 2 (4.348%) CA
5 2 (4.348%) Apple
5 2 (4.348%) Brocade
5 2 (4.348%) VMware
6 1 (2.174%) Twitter
6 1 (2.174%) Remedy
6 1 (2.174%) BMC
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