The first table below looks at the demand for Benchmarking 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 Benchmarking over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Benchmarking
Rank 113 - 124
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 4 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.168% - 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.239% - 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £323 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £266 £225 £283
% change year-on-year
+18.33% -20.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £16.63 -
% change year-on-year
+155.63% -
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1671 1924 1924
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 70.00% 63.33% 63.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 989 1018
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £480 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 85 88
Average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £37.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Benchmarking
England

Benchmarking
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Benchmarking across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

North West Benchmarking Jobs Demand Trend

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Benchmarking Daily Rate Trend

Benchmarking
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Benchmarking Hourly Rate Trend

Benchmarking
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Benchmarking within the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Manchester - 4 £323 - 2
Cheshire - - - -
Benchmarking
England

Benchmarking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Benchmarking 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 Benchmarking.

1 8 (72.73%) Java
1 8 (72.73%) J2EE
1 8 (72.73%) Web Services
1 8 (72.73%) XML
1 8 (72.73%) XSLT
1 8 (72.73%) OO
1 8 (72.73%) RDF
1 8 (72.73%) XQuery
1 8 (72.73%) Agile Software Development
1 8 (72.73%) TDD
1 8 (72.73%) Pair Programming
1 8 (72.73%) Spring
1 8 (72.73%) Enterprise Architecture
1 8 (72.73%) XPath
1 8 (72.73%) JSON
1 8 (72.73%) Continuous Integration
1 8 (72.73%) Test Automation
1 8 (72.73%) RESTful
1 8 (72.73%) BDD
1 8 (72.73%) REST
1 8 (72.73%) JAX-RS
2 5 (45.45%) Statistics
3 2 (18.18%) Content Management
3 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 2 (18.18%) Interactive TV
3 2 (18.18%) Ruby
3 2 (18.18%) Service Management
3 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) Publishing
3 2 (18.18%) Streaming Video

Benchmarking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Benchmarking 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 Benchmarking. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (72.73%) J2EE
1 8 (72.73%) Web Services
1 8 (72.73%) XML
1 8 (72.73%) XSLT
1 8 (72.73%) Spring
1 8 (72.73%) JSON
1 8 (72.73%) RESTful
1 8 (72.73%) REST
1 8 (72.73%) JAX-RS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MarkLogic
1 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (18.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Java Developer
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Coordinator
4 1 (9.091%) Supplier Relationship Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Relationships Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Statistics
2 2 (18.18%) Interactive TV
2 2 (18.18%) Streaming Video
2 2 (18.18%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) OO
1 8 (72.73%) RDF
1 8 (72.73%) Agile Software Development
1 8 (72.73%) TDD
1 8 (72.73%) Pair Programming
1 8 (72.73%) Enterprise Architecture
1 8 (72.73%) Continuous Integration
1 8 (72.73%) Test Automation
1 8 (72.73%) BDD
2 2 (18.18%) Content Management
2 2 (18.18%) Service Management
2 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
2 2 (18.18%) ITIL
2 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Management
2 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
3 1 (9.091%) Performance Management
3 1 (9.091%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (9.091%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Java
1 8 (72.73%) XQuery
1 8 (72.73%) XPath
2 2 (18.18%) Ruby
2 2 (18.18%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) COBIT
Vendors
1 1 (9.091%) Remedy
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