The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Foreign Exchange (FX) 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Foreign Exchange (FX)
Rank - 87 -
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - 0.076% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - 0.364% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £288 £408
% change year-on-year
+47.82% -29.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
226 275 207
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 23.99% 20.94% 20.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 107 87
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 £199 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £426 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 23 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 £11.08 £17.00 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.75 £32.47 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Foreign Exchange (FX)
North West

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Foreign Exchange (FX) Jobs Demand Trend

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) across the Manchester region.

Manchester Foreign Exchange (FX) Daily Rate Trend

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 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 Foreign Exchange (FX).

1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Equities
2 3 (75.00%) Drools
2 3 (75.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Esper
2 3 (75.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (75.00%) TIBCO EMS
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (75.00%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) XSD
2 3 (75.00%) XSLT
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) LDAP
2 3 (75.00%) EAI
2 3 (75.00%) SOA
2 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 3 (75.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (75.00%) TIBCO
2 3 (75.00%) TIBCO Hawk
2 3 (75.00%) BusinessWorks
2 3 (75.00%) Middleware

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) Drools
1 3 (75.00%) Esper
1 3 (75.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (75.00%) Web Services
1 3 (75.00%) XML
1 3 (75.00%) XSD
1 3 (75.00%) XSLT
1 3 (75.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) TIBCO EMS
1 3 (75.00%) WebSphere MQ
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
1 3 (75.00%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) LDAP
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Front Office
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) TIBCO Support
1 3 (75.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Equities
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) UNIX
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (75.00%) Problem Management
1 3 (75.00%) EAI
1 3 (75.00%) SOA
1 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
1 3 (75.00%) TIBCO