The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mathematics in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mathematics 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
Mathematics (Maths)
Rank 67 77 65
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -12
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 3 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.309% 0.575% 0.292%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.364% 2.846% 1.604%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £295 £450 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.44% +14.64%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £375 £284
% change year-on-year
-12.00% +32.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
Average hourly rate £20.21 £19.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.64% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.44 £16.50 £16.75
% change year-on-year
-24.63% -1.49%
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%
Mathematics
North West

Mathematics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Mathematics Jobs Demand Trend

Mathematics
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Mathematics Daily Rate Trend

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Mathematics Hourly Rate Trend

Mathematics
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematics within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Altrincham - - - -
Cheadle - - - -
Mathematics
North West

Mathematics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (50.00%) C
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Django
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Management
3 1 (16.67%) Time Management
3 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Memcached
3 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (16.67%) Redis
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Payment
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 1 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) SSH
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 2000
3 1 (16.67%) OO

Mathematics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) Django
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (16.67%) Memcached
1 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) J2EE
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SSH
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
1 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
1 1 (16.67%) Test Management
1 1 (16.67%) Time Management
1 1 (16.67%) MVC
1 1 (16.67%) Migration
1 1 (16.67%) OO
1 1 (16.67%) OOD
1 1 (16.67%) Code Coverage
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) VMware
1 1 (16.67%) HP