Manchester ESB Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ESB over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Location Berkshire Birmingham Buckinghamshire Cardiff City of London Croydon East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Epsom Farnborough Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Home Counties Leatherhead Livingston London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Shropshire South East South Wales South West Southampton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Wales West Lothian West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	67
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.389 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£481	£488
% change on same period last year	-1.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£52.50	£44.00
% change on same period last year	+19.31 %
Application Platforms Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	153	144
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.202 %	0.143 %
Daily rates quoted	21	22
Average minimum daily rate	£308	£245
Average daily rate	£331	£261
% change on same period last year	+26.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£278
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£347
% change on same period last year	+1.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.09	£18.58
Average hourly rate	£23.05	£19.67
% change on same period last year	+17.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.02	£20.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.10	£24.95
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
ESB North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

ESB
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ESB across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.