The first table below looks at the demand for Lotus Notes 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 Lotus Notes over the 3 months to 20 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 Application Platforms 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Lotus Notes
Rank 72 80 67
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -13
Contract jobs citing Lotus Notes 2 4 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.218% 0.307% 0.592%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.124% 1.527% 3.409%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £146
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £280 £250
% change year-on-year
+10.71% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Average hourly rate - £20.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +53.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £15.50 £12.42
% change year-on-year
-6.45% +24.79%
All Application Platforms
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
178 262 176
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 19.37% 20.08% 17.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 143 87
Average daily rate £295 £325 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.23% +4.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £166 £135
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £443 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 21 16
Average hourly rate £21.00 £17.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.52% +36.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £10.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.90 £24.25 £20.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Lotus Notes
North West

Lotus Notes
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Lotus Notes Jobs Demand Trend

Lotus Notes
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Lotus Notes Daily Rate Trend

Lotus Notes
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Lotus Notes Hourly Rate Trend

Lotus Notes
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Lotus Notes 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 Lotus Notes.

1 5 (100.00%) Lotus
2 4 (80.00%) Blackberry
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) Citrix
3 3 (60.00%) VPN
3 3 (60.00%) MS Office
3 3 (60.00%) Windows XP
3 3 (60.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (40.00%) Thin Client
4 2 (40.00%) Terminal Services
4 2 (40.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (40.00%) ITIL
4 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
4 2 (40.00%) Fat Client
4 2 (40.00%) iPhone
4 2 (40.00%) XenDesktop
4 2 (40.00%) iPad
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Vista
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (20.00%) DNS
5 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
5 1 (20.00%) LAN
5 1 (20.00%) VoIP
5 1 (20.00%) WAN
5 1 (20.00%) DHCP
5 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
5 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (20.00%) 3G

Lotus Notes
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) MS Office
2 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) 3G
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) VoIP
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Service Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) IT Support
3 2 (40.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Services Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (40.00%) Fat Client
2 2 (40.00%) iPhone
2 2 (40.00%) iPad
2 2 (40.00%) Thin Client
3 1 (20.00%) AS400
3 1 (20.00%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Terminal Services
2 2 (40.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (20.00%) DameWare
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Lotus
2 4 (80.00%) Citrix
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft