The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Specialist in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
Technical Specialist
Rank 72 87 73
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Specialist 1 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.106% 0.154% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.113% 0.168% 0.105%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £401 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +54.03%
UK excluding London average daily rate £391 £324 £303
% change year-on-year
+20.75% +7.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 - £15.58
All Job Titles
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
883 1192 952
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 93.54% 91.69% 94.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 590 419
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £130
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 75 77
Average hourly rate £16.84 £18.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.00% +15.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £9.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £82.50 £33.32 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Specialist
North West

Technical Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Technical Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Technical Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Technical Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Technical Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Specialist
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited Technical Specialist in their job title 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 with Technical Specialist in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) XHTML
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) SAML
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Lucene
2 1 (50.00%) SSH
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Solr
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services

Technical Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited Technical Specialist in their job title 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 with Technical Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XHTML
2 1 (50.00%) SAML
2 1 (50.00%) Lucene
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft