Manchester RedDot Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of RedDot products and/or services in IT contracts within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited RedDot over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Bournemouth City of London Dorset England Glasgow Leeds London Manchester Middlesex North West Scotland South East South West Surrey Twickenham UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	80	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.204 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£425
% change on same period last year	-32.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Vendors Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	489	510
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.645 %	0.508 %
Daily rates quoted	90	103
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£332
Average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	64	60
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.56	£19.45
Average hourly rate	£18.80	£20.97
% change on same period last year	-10.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.04	£22.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£24.82
% change on same period last year	-4.13 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within RedDot Solutions.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing RedDot across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing RedDot 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 RedDot.

1 2 (100.00 %) JavaScript 1 2 (100.00 %) CSS 2 1 (50.00 %) Finance 2 1 (50.00 %) CMS 2 1 (50.00 %) XHTML 2 1 (50.00 %) Java

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing RedDot 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 RedDot. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (100.00 %) CSS 2 1 (50.00 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 1 (50.00 %) CMS
General 1 1 (50.00 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Developer
Programming Languages 1 2 (100.00 %) JavaScript 2 1 (50.00 %) Java