The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Visualisation in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Visualisation over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Visualisation
Rank 72 82 65
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -17
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 3 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.322% 0.077% 0.672%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.357% 0.370% 3.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
+5.71% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.50 £27.75
% change year-on-year
- -36.93%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
221 270 210
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 23.69% 20.90% 20.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 109 88
Average daily rate £302 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.23% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £191 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £436 £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 20
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 £17.00 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.49 £33.30 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Visualisation
North West

Visualisation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Visualisation Jobs Demand Trend

Visualisation
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Visualisation Daily Rate Trend

Visualisation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Visualisation 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 Visualisation.

1 2 (66.67%) Acrobat
1 2 (66.67%) Data Management
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) CICS
2 1 (33.33%) CA
2 1 (33.33%) Nokia
2 1 (33.33%) Apple
2 1 (33.33%) COBOL
2 1 (33.33%) Photoshop
2 1 (33.33%) MS Project
2 1 (33.33%) MS Office
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Postgraduate
2 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) VSAM
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Photography
2 1 (33.33%) CMDB
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Google Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Mingle
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis

Visualisation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Visualisation 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 Visualisation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Acrobat
2 1 (33.33%) Photoshop
2 1 (33.33%) MS Project
2 1 (33.33%) MS Office
2 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (33.33%) Mingle
2 1 (33.33%) QuarkXPress
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (33.33%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
1 1 (33.33%) CTI
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Publishing
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Web Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Creative Director
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Design Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Service Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Services Delivery Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) VSAM
1 1 (33.33%) Photography
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) IVR
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Postgraduate
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Foglight
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) CA
2 1 (33.33%) Nokia
2 1 (33.33%) Apple
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Quark
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint