The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Firmware in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firmware 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
Firmware
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Firmware 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
+37.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -10.44%
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%
Firmware
North West

Firmware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Firmware Jobs Demand Trend

Firmware
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Firmware Daily Rate Trend

Firmware
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Firmware Hourly Rate Trend

Firmware
Top 13 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) C
2 3 (75.00%) ZigBee
2 3 (75.00%) GPRS
2 3 (75.00%) GSM
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) Embedded C
3 1 (25.00%) Assembly Language
3 1 (25.00%) DTV
3 1 (25.00%) STB
3 1 (25.00%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) Linux

Firmware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) ZigBee
1 3 (75.00%) GPRS
1 3 (75.00%) GSM
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Firmware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) DTV
1 1 (25.00%) STB
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C
2 3 (75.00%) Embedded C
3 1 (25.00%) Assembly Language
3 1 (25.00%) C++