The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Billing 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 Billing 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 General 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Billing
Rank 102 99 112
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +13
Contract jobs citing Billing 16 33 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.686% 1.061% 0.459%
As % of the General category 1.893% 3.128% 1.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 6
Average daily rate £370 £329 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.63% +14.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £276 £232 £244
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £423 £335
% change year-on-year
-17.15% +26.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
Average hourly rate £11.00 - £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.00 £17.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-35.29% -2.85%
All of the General Category
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
845 1055 1293
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 36.25% 33.91% 42.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 568 717
Average daily rate £353 £360 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.94% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £275 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £513 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 34 51
Average hourly rate £19.04 £20.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.80% +14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.30 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £30.60 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Billing
England

Billing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Billing Jobs Demand Trend

Billing
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Billing Daily Rate Trend

Billing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Billing across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West Billing Daily Rate Histogram

Billing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Billing Hourly Rate Trend

Billing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Billing within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Cheshire -3 7 £350 +6.54%
Manchester -3 4 £438 +16.66%
Lancashire +7 1 £305 -
Merseyside +3 1 £370 +124.24%
Billing
England

Billing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Billing 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 Billing.

1 11 (47.83%) Finance
2 7 (30.43%) Retail
3 6 (26.09%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (21.74%) Oracle
5 4 (17.39%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (17.39%) Hyperion
5 4 (17.39%) Oracle BI EE
5 4 (17.39%) HFM
5 4 (17.39%) Systems Analysis
5 4 (17.39%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (17.39%) Revenue Management
5 4 (17.39%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (13.04%) Cognos
6 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (13.04%) SQL
7 2 (8.696%) SQL Server
7 2 (8.696%) SAP
7 2 (8.696%) VB
7 2 (8.696%) CSG Singleview
7 2 (8.696%) Project Management
7 2 (8.696%) ISEB
7 2 (8.696%) Validation
7 2 (8.696%) Migration
7 2 (8.696%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (8.696%) Non-Functional Testing
7 2 (8.696%) PL/SQL
7 2 (8.696%) Change Management
7 2 (8.696%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (8.696%) Logistics

Billing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (4.348%) .NET
1 1 (4.348%) XHTML
1 1 (4.348%) ASP.NET
1 1 (4.348%) CSS
1 1 (4.348%) XML
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle Financials
1 4 (17.39%) HFM
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (8.696%) CSG Singleview
2 2 (8.696%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 1 (4.348%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (4.348%) Agresso
3 1 (4.348%) SAP SD
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.348%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (4.348%) IP Telephony
1 1 (4.348%) ISDN
1 1 (4.348%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.696%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (4.348%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (4.348%) MS Access
4 1 (4.348%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (4.348%) OLAP
4 1 (4.348%) Crystal Reports
General
1 11 (47.83%) Finance
2 7 (30.43%) Retail
3 1 (4.348%) Retail Banking
3 1 (4.348%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.348%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.348%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Systems Support
2 4 (17.39%) Developer
3 2 (8.696%) Test Analyst
3 2 (8.696%) Architect
3 2 (8.696%) Project Manager
3 2 (8.696%) Billing Analyst
3 2 (8.696%) Cognos Developer
4 1 (4.348%) Report Developer
4 1 (4.348%) Customer Analyst
4 1 (4.348%) Customer Support Analyst
4 1 (4.348%) IT Services Manager
4 1 (4.348%) Functional Architect
4 1 (4.348%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (4.348%) Insight Analyst
4 1 (4.348%) .NET Software Developer
4 1 (4.348%) Telephony Engineer
4 1 (4.348%) Services Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.348%) Service Manager
4 1 (4.348%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.348%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (17.39%) Systems Analysis
2 4 (17.39%) Revenue Management
3 2 (8.696%) Project Management
3 2 (8.696%) Validation
3 2 (8.696%) Migration
3 2 (8.696%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (8.696%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (8.696%) Change Management
3 2 (8.696%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (8.696%) Logistics
3 2 (8.696%) Data Migration
3 2 (8.696%) Test Scripting
4 1 (4.348%) Incident Management
4 1 (4.348%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (4.348%) Problem Management
4 1 (4.348%) Release Management
4 1 (4.348%) Information Management
4 1 (4.348%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
2 2 (8.696%) VB
2 2 (8.696%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.348%) VB.NET
3 1 (4.348%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.348%) C#
3 1 (4.348%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (8.696%) ISEB
2 1 (4.348%) Degree
2 1 (4.348%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.348%) PRINCE2 Certification
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle
2 4 (17.39%) Hyperion
3 3 (13.04%) Cognos
4 2 (8.696%) SAP
5 1 (4.348%) Cisco
5 1 (4.348%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.348%) Siemens
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