The first table below looks at the demand for assyst skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited assyst 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 of the Business Applications category for the North West 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
Axios Systems assyst
Rank 118 - 129
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing assyst 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.042% - 0.033%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.410% - 0.350%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £127 £175 £275
% change year-on-year
-27.71% -36.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £22.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-22.22% +50.00%
All Business Applications
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
244 324 286
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 10.33% 10.27% 9.502%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 136 132
Average daily rate £425 £425 £425
90% offered a daily rate of more than £294 £300 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £675 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 16
Average hourly rate £50.00 £37.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+35.13% +105.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 £37.00 £17.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.39 £47.40 £34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £21.96
% change year-on-year
+68.00% +2.45%
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England

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Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing assyst across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

North West assyst Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

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

North West assyst Daily Rate Trend

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West assyst Hourly Rate Trend

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing assyst within the North West 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
Manchester - 1 - -
assyst
England

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Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing assyst 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 assyst.

1 2 (66.67%) Crystal Reports
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects XI
2 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
2 1 (33.33%) Business Objects
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 11i
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects XI
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Business Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Business Objects Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Crystal Reports Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Report Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Report Writer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Business Objects