The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Author role in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Author in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Merseyside 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Author
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Author 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-13.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £22.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+60.00% -
All Job Titles
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
201 248 242
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 96.17% 95.38% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 114 117
Average daily rate £325 £300 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -1.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £136 £188 £134
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £463 £464
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 46 36
Average hourly rate £11.50 £20.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.50% +37.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.66 £11.37 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £100.00 £25.00 £22.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Technical Author
North West

Technical Author
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside Technical Author Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Author
Daily Rate Trend

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

Merseyside Technical Author Daily Rate Trend

Technical Author
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region that cited Technical Author 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 Author in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Backbone.js

Technical Author
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region that cited Technical Author 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 Author in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Backbone.js
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft