The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term IVR in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IVR over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
Rank 63 83 67
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -16
Contract jobs citing IVR 7 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.720% 0.082% 0.097%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.182% 0.407% 0.535%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
Average daily rate £363 £500 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £380 £375
% change year-on-year
-3.94% +1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.96 - £25.00
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
220 246 187
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 22.63% 20.21% 18.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 93 82
Average daily rate £325 £301 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.97% +0.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £162 £192
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £438 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 25
Average hourly rate £13.75 £21.50 £11.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.04% +86.95%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.75 £17.80 £9.71
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.25 £35.34 £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
IVR
North West

IVR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester IVR Jobs Demand Trend

IVR
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester IVR Daily Rate Trend

IVR
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IVR across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Manchester IVR Daily Rate Histogram

IVR
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester IVR Hourly Rate Trend

IVR
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing IVR 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 IVR.

1 9 (100.00%) Banking
2 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (44.44%) Speech Recognition
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Retail Banking
4 1 (11.11%) CMDB
4 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
4 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Firewall
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
4 1 (11.11%) Foglight
4 1 (11.11%) Retail
4 1 (11.11%) Data Management
4 1 (11.11%) VSAM
4 1 (11.11%) COBOL
4 1 (11.11%) VoIP
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) CICS
4 1 (11.11%) CA
4 1 (11.11%) Nokia
4 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
4 1 (11.11%) CTI
4 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) Mainframe

IVR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) VoIP
1 1 (11.11%) CTI
General
1 9 (100.00%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Retail Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Architect
2 6 (66.67%) Applications Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Voice Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Design Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Speech Recognition
2 1 (11.11%) CMDB
2 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
2 1 (11.11%) VSAM
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
2 1 (11.11%) Data Management
2 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
2 1 (11.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) COBOL
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Foglight
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco
1 1 (11.11%) CA
1 1 (11.11%) Nokia
1 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
Manchester, Lancashire
A global information technology company seek an experienced Interactive Voice Recognition / IVR Application Architect to work on client facing projects, implementing applications and technology such as IVR, speech...
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £350 to £375 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
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