Life Science Contracts in Manchester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Life Science over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Life Sciences
Rank 70 - 70
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Life Science 3 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.328% - 0.096%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.357% - 0.469%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £258 - £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £11.50
% change year-on-year
-50.00% +334.78%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 221 269 213
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 24.18% 20.68% 20.54%
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 £175 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £431 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 20 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 £13.50 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.75 £25.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Life Science
North West

Life Science
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Life Science Jobs Demand Trend

Life Science
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Life Science Daily Rate Trend

Life Science
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Life Science Hourly Rate Trend

Life Science
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Life Science 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 Life Science.

1 2 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (33.33%) Product Management
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Testing
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Siebel
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) SAP IS-U

Life Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Life Science 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 Life Science. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP IS-U
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Test Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Validation
1 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Product Management
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Testing
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) Siebel
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