The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Multimedia in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Multimedia 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 General 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
Multimedia
Rank - 80 67
Contract jobs citing Multimedia 0 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - 0.329% 0.097%
As % of the General category - 0.985% 0.254%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £263 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.36%
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £318 £325
% change year-on-year
-8.66% -2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £12.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £16.50 £34.25
% change year-on-year
+12.12% -51.82%
All of the General Category
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
382 406 394
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 39.30% 33.36% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 196 178
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £213 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £478 £500 £496
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 18
Average hourly rate £14.50 £17.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.70% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £11.30 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £77.50 £34.00 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
Multimedia
North West

Multimedia
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Multimedia Jobs Demand Trend

Multimedia
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Multimedia Daily Rate Trend

Multimedia
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Multimedia Hourly Rate Trend

Multimedia
Top 16 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) Games
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) ActionScript
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) Flash
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce

Multimedia
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XSLT
1 1 (50.00%) Flash
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
General
1 1 (50.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Project Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) ActionScript