The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Statistics in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Statistics over the 3 months to 21 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Statistics
Rank 68 84 66
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -18
Contract jobs citing Statistics 5 5 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.530% 0.385% 0.793%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.232% 1.818% 3.883%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
Average daily rate £323 £325 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.76% +47.72%
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £288 £275
% change year-on-year
+12.17% +4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £16.00 £13.64
% change year-on-year
-9.37% +17.30%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
224 275 206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 23.73% 21.15% 20.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 109 83
Average daily rate £300 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £174 £180 £207
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £421 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 21 22
Average hourly rate £13.50 £20.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.14% +57.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.08 £16.60 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.75 £25.83 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
Statistics
North West

Statistics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Statistics Jobs Demand Trend

Statistics
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Statistics Daily Rate Trend

Statistics
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Statistics Hourly Rate Trend

Statistics
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Statistics within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 21 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
Salford +3 3 £323 -0.76%
Statistics
North West

Statistics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Statistics 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 Statistics.

1 5 (55.56%) Java
1 5 (55.56%) J2EE
1 5 (55.56%) Web Services
1 5 (55.56%) XML
1 5 (55.56%) XSLT
1 5 (55.56%) OO
1 5 (55.56%) RDF
1 5 (55.56%) XQuery
1 5 (55.56%) Benchmarking
1 5 (55.56%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (55.56%) TDD
1 5 (55.56%) Pair Programming
1 5 (55.56%) Enterprise Architecture
1 5 (55.56%) XPath
1 5 (55.56%) JSON
1 5 (55.56%) Spring
1 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
1 5 (55.56%) RESTful
1 5 (55.56%) BDD
1 5 (55.56%) REST
1 5 (55.56%) JAX-RS
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 3 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (33.33%) Windows
3 3 (33.33%) MS Office
3 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 3 (33.33%) Change Control

Statistics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Statistics 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 Statistics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (55.56%) J2EE
1 5 (55.56%) Web Services
1 5 (55.56%) XML
1 5 (55.56%) XSLT
1 5 (55.56%) JSON
1 5 (55.56%) Spring
1 5 (55.56%) RESTful
1 5 (55.56%) REST
1 5 (55.56%) JAX-RS
2 1 (11.11%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 3 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
1 4 (44.44%) Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Team Leader
2 1 (11.11%) DBA
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
2 1 (11.11%) SQL DBA
2 1 (11.11%) Project Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Help Desk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) Blackberry
3 1 (11.11%) Replication
3 1 (11.11%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) OO
1 5 (55.56%) RDF
1 5 (55.56%) Benchmarking
1 5 (55.56%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (55.56%) TDD
1 5 (55.56%) Pair Programming
1 5 (55.56%) Enterprise Architecture
1 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
1 5 (55.56%) BDD
2 3 (33.33%) Change Control
3 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) SOA
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
1 5 (55.56%) XQuery
1 5 (55.56%) XPath
2 1 (11.11%) C
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
2 1 (11.11%) VBScript
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (11.11%) MCDBA
1 1 (11.11%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) Avaya