The first table below looks at the demand for Unified Communications 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 Unified Communications over the 3 months to 23 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 Communications & Networking 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unified Communications
Rank 69 84 -
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications 4 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.428% 0.077% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.738% 0.415% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £550 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £358 £388
% change year-on-year
-2.09% -7.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 - £35.00
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
107 241 118
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 11.44% 18.62% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 84 36
Average daily rate £292 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.83% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £130 £190 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £441 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 15
Average hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +60.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £32.50 £17.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
Unified Communications
North West

Unified Communications
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Unified Communications Jobs Demand Trend

Unified Communications
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Unified Communications Daily Rate Trend

Unified Communications
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Unified Communications 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 Unified Communications.

1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) WebSphere
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (42.86%) Data Guard
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle Identity Manager
3 3 (42.86%) J2EE
3 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
3 3 (42.86%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
3 3 (42.86%) JDBC
3 3 (42.86%) Struts
3 3 (42.86%) UNIX
3 3 (42.86%) UML
3 3 (42.86%) RAD
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Change Management
4 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
4 2 (28.57%) Data Management
5 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 1 (14.29%) DHCP
5 1 (14.29%) DNS
5 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
5 1 (14.29%) VBScript
5 1 (14.29%) Active Directory

Unified Communications
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Unified Communications 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 Unified Communications. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (42.86%) WebSphere
1 3 (42.86%) J2EE
1 3 (42.86%) JDBC
1 3 (42.86%) Struts
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Access Developer
2 3 (42.86%) DBA
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Specialist
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) UML
1 3 (42.86%) RAD
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Change Management
2 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
2 2 (28.57%) Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
2 3 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) VBScript
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Data Guard
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle