The first table below looks at the demand for Migration 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 Migration 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Migration
Rank 32 23 19
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -4
Contract jobs citing Migration 44 78 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 4.814% 5.995% 6.750%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.843% 9.341% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 50 39
Average daily rate £346 £313 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.80% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £274 £185 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £538 £455 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-4.10% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
Average hourly rate - £15.25 £21.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -29.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.45 £22.75 £24.50
% change year-on-year
-18.90% -7.14%
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
643 835 671
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 70.35% 64.18% 64.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 413 300
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £456 £454
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 41 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 £80.50 £37.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Migration
North West

Migration
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Migration Jobs Demand Trend

Migration
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Migration Daily Rate Trend

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Migration across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Manchester Migration Daily Rate Histogram

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Migration Hourly Rate Trend

Migration
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Stockport -1 1 £375 +3.44%
Wigan - 1 - -
Migration
North West

Migration
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 31 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 23 (24.73%) Finance
3 13 (13.98%) SQL Server
3 13 (13.98%) Microsoft
4 12 (12.90%) SAP
4 12 (12.90%) Windows
5 10 (10.75%) Oracle
5 10 (10.75%) SQL
5 10 (10.75%) Banking
6 9 (9.677%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (9.677%) SQL Server 2008
6 9 (9.677%) Project Management
6 9 (9.677%) Mainframe
7 8 (8.602%) Middleware
7 8 (8.602%) T-SQL
7 8 (8.602%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (8.602%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (8.602%) Retail
8 7 (7.527%) SharePoint
8 7 (7.527%) Cisco
8 7 (7.527%) Business Objects
8 7 (7.527%) Management Information System
8 7 (7.527%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (7.527%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (6.452%) OLAP
9 6 (6.452%) AIX
9 6 (6.452%) Active Directory
9 6 (6.452%) UNIX
9 6 (6.452%) QA
10 5 (5.376%) Retail Banking

Migration
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (8.602%) Middleware
2 5 (5.376%) .NET
2 5 (5.376%) XML
3 2 (2.151%) MDX
3 2 (2.151%) jQuery
3 2 (2.151%) CSS
3 2 (2.151%) HTML
3 2 (2.151%) Web Services
4 1 (1.075%) SOAP
4 1 (1.075%) LAMP
4 1 (1.075%) SAP XI
4 1 (1.075%) Ajax
4 1 (1.075%) Application Packaging
4 1 (1.075%) CSS3
4 1 (1.075%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.075%) XSL
4 1 (1.075%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (7.527%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.226%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (2.151%) MS Exchange
3 2 (2.151%) SAS
3 2 (2.151%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (1.075%) IIS
4 1 (1.075%) CMS
4 1 (1.075%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.075%) Drupal
Applications
1 5 (5.376%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.151%) MS Office
3 1 (1.075%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (7.527%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.226%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (3.226%) SAP SD
2 3 (3.226%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.075%) SAP SCM
3 1 (1.075%) SAP LE
3 1 (1.075%) SAP FI-AP
3 1 (1.075%) SAP R/3
3 1 (1.075%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.075%) SAP MM
3 1 (1.075%) Lawson
3 1 (1.075%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.075%) SAP CO
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.376%) Internet
1 5 (5.376%) SAN
2 4 (4.301%) Intranet
2 4 (4.301%) Firewall
2 4 (4.301%) Extranet
2 4 (4.301%) RFID
2 4 (4.301%) LAN
2 4 (4.301%) WAN
3 2 (2.151%) PBX
4 1 (1.075%) VoIP
4 1 (1.075%) VPN
4 1 (1.075%) NetScreen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.98%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.677%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 9 (9.677%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (8.602%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (6.452%) OLAP
5 5 (5.376%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (5.376%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.376%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (4.301%) MySQL
6 4 (4.301%) Oracle 11g
6 4 (4.301%) DTS
7 3 (3.226%) RDBMS
7 3 (3.226%) Star Schema
7 3 (3.226%) Oracle OWB
7 3 (3.226%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 3 (3.226%) Oracle BI EE
8 2 (2.151%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
8 2 (2.151%) SQL Server 2012
8 2 (2.151%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.075%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 4 (4.301%) TestPartner
2 2 (2.151%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.075%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (1.075%) TestDirector
General
1 23 (24.73%) Finance
2 10 (10.75%) Banking
3 8 (8.602%) Retail
4 5 (5.376%) Retail Banking
5 2 (2.151%) Marketing
5 2 (2.151%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.151%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.075%) Games
6 1 (1.075%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 13 (13.98%) Analyst
1 13 (13.98%) Consultant
2 12 (12.90%) Developer
3 10 (10.75%) SAP Consultant
4 9 (9.677%) Project Manager
4 9 (9.677%) Business Analyst
5 6 (6.452%) Programme Manager
6 5 (5.376%) Test Manager
6 5 (5.376%) Architect
6 5 (5.376%) Programme Test Manager
7 4 (4.301%) SAP SD Consultant
7 4 (4.301%) Technical Leader
7 4 (4.301%) Network Engineer
7 4 (4.301%) Migration Consultant
7 4 (4.301%) Telephony Engineer
7 4 (4.301%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.226%) Storage Systems Administrator
8 3 (3.226%) Oracle DBA
8 3 (3.226%) Administrator
8 3 (3.226%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.677%) Mainframe
2 7 (7.527%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.301%) Replication
3 4 (4.301%) HACMP
3 4 (4.301%) LPAR
4 3 (3.226%) DLPAR
5 2 (2.151%) NHS
5 2 (2.151%) Data Integration
6 1 (1.075%) CMDB
6 1 (1.075%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.075%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.90%) Windows
2 6 (6.452%) AIX
2 6 (6.452%) UNIX
3 5 (5.376%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (5.376%) Linux
4 3 (3.226%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (3.226%) Windows 7
5 2 (2.151%) Debian
5 2 (2.151%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.151%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.075%) VMS
6 1 (1.075%) SUSE
6 1 (1.075%) HPUX
6 1 (1.075%) Solaris
6 1 (1.075%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.075%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 9 (9.677%) Project Management
3 8 (8.602%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (7.527%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (5.376%) Data Modelling
6 4 (4.301%) CRM
6 4 (4.301%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (4.301%) Zachman Framework
6 4 (4.301%) TOGAF
6 4 (4.301%) Finite Element Analysis
6 4 (4.301%) Waterfall
6 4 (4.301%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (4.301%) ERD
6 4 (4.301%) Kimball Methodology
6 4 (4.301%) Data Transformation
7 3 (3.226%) Business Analysis
7 3 (3.226%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (3.226%) Change Management
7 3 (3.226%) Data Management
7 3 (3.226%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.75%) SQL
2 8 (8.602%) T-SQL
3 5 (5.376%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.301%) PHP
4 4 (4.301%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.226%) VB.NET
6 2 (2.151%) VBA
7 1 (1.075%) C#
7 1 (1.075%) ABAP
7 1 (1.075%) VBScript
7 1 (1.075%) PHP5
7 1 (1.075%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (4.301%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (4.301%) CCNA
2 3 (3.226%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.075%) ISEB
3 1 (1.075%) CCA
3 1 (1.075%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.075%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (1.075%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (1.075%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.075%) Degree
3 1 (1.075%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.452%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.452%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.226%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.075%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.075%) XenApp
3 1 (1.075%) XenServer
3 1 (1.075%) PowerHA
3 1 (1.075%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (2.151%) SCCM
2 1 (1.075%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.075%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (1.075%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (1.075%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (1.075%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 1 (1.075%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (1.075%) Cisco IPCC
Vendors
1 13 (13.98%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.90%) SAP
3 10 (10.75%) Oracle
4 7 (7.527%) Business Objects
4 7 (7.527%) Cisco
5 5 (5.376%) Citrix
6 4 (4.301%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.301%) Cognos
7 3 (3.226%) Sage
7 3 (3.226%) Mitel
8 2 (2.151%) Huawei
8 2 (2.151%) AppSense
8 2 (2.151%) Riverbed
8 2 (2.151%) IBM
8 2 (2.151%) HP
9 1 (1.075%) Symantec
9 1 (1.075%) Remedy
9 1 (1.075%) VMware
9 1 (1.075%) Ariba
9 1 (1.075%) Hitachi
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