The first table below looks at the demand for ISMS 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 ISMS 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 of the Processes & Methodologies 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
Information Security Management System (ISMS)
Rank 70 83 -
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -
Contract jobs citing ISMS 3 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.321% 0.155% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.452% 0.244% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
Average daily rate £292 £299 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.42% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £408 £175
% change year-on-year
-1.84% +132.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
664 821 689
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 71.02% 63.45% 65.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 413 316
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £230 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 37 38
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.01 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £77.50 £37.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
ISMS
North West

ISMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester ISMS Jobs Demand Trend

ISMS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester ISMS Daily Rate Trend

ISMS
Top 16 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) UML
2 2 (66.67%) RFID
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) E-business
3 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) BPEL
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) MS Project
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL

ISMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle 11g
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Information Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) UML
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) E-business
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) BPEL
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft