Degree Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Degree 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 Degree over the 3 months to 22 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 Qualifications 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Degree
Rank 46 43 72
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +29
Contract jobs citing Degree 83 113 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 3.526% 3.558% 1.827%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.00% 16.89% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 41 27
Average daily rate £300 £295 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.69% -1.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £128 £110 £189
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £400 £383
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 7
Average hourly rate £21.00 £19.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -29.09%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £33.75
% change year-on-year
-30.00% -11.11%
All Qualifications
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 461 669 458
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 19.58% 21.06% 15.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 334 199
Average daily rate £350 £370 £266
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.40% +39.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £189 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £515 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 26 42
Average hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £22.73
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -12.01%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.66 £14.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £30.25 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Degree
England

Degree
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Degree Jobs Demand Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Degree Daily Rate Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the North West region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

North West Degree Daily Rate Histogram

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Degree Hourly Rate Trend

Degree
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the North West region over the 3 months to 22 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 33 £260 -20.00%
Cheshire -4 24 £200 -31.91%
Lancashire +18 9 £250 +61.29%
Merseyside -8 8 £500 +60.00%
Cumbria - 4 £438 -
Degree
England

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Degree 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 Degree.

1 41 (28.87%) Project Management
2 38 (26.76%) .NET
3 34 (23.94%) Finance
4 28 (19.72%) SQL
4 28 (19.72%) SQL Server
5 26 (18.31%) Computer Science
6 25 (17.61%) PRINCE2
7 24 (16.90%) Java
8 23 (16.20%) ITIL
9 22 (15.49%) XML
10 20 (14.08%) C#
11 18 (12.68%) JavaScript
11 18 (12.68%) CSS
11 18 (12.68%) Windows
11 18 (12.68%) Microsoft
12 17 (11.97%) MS Excel
12 17 (11.97%) ASP.NET
12 17 (11.97%) Web Services
13 16 (11.27%) SAP
13 16 (11.27%) Oracle
13 16 (11.27%) Agile Software Development
14 15 (10.56%) Management Information System
15 14 (9.859%) Service Delivery
16 13 (9.155%) WebSphere
16 13 (9.155%) .NET Framework
17 12 (8.451%) SQL Server 2005
17 12 (8.451%) SQL Server 2008
17 12 (8.451%) MySQL
17 12 (8.451%) Visual Studio
17 12 (8.451%) SharePoint

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Degree 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 Degree. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 38 (26.76%) .NET
2 22 (15.49%) XML
3 18 (12.68%) CSS
4 17 (11.97%) ASP.NET
4 17 (11.97%) Web Services
5 13 (9.155%) WebSphere
5 13 (9.155%) .NET Framework
6 11 (7.746%) Ajax
6 11 (7.746%) jQuery
7 10 (7.042%) HTML5
7 10 (7.042%) CSS3
7 10 (7.042%) XSLT
8 8 (5.634%) XSD
9 6 (4.225%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (3.521%) XHTML
10 5 (3.521%) Razor View Engine
10 5 (3.521%) Google Maps API
10 5 (3.521%) CodeIgniter
10 5 (3.521%) CakePHP
10 5 (3.521%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 12 (8.451%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.338%) Apache
3 8 (5.634%) CMS
4 6 (4.225%) IIS
5 5 (3.521%) Tomcat
5 5 (3.521%) Umbraco
5 5 (3.521%) WordPress
6 3 (2.113%) WebSphere MQ
6 3 (2.113%) Apache Solr
6 3 (2.113%) MS Project Server
6 3 (2.113%) TIBCO EMS
7 2 (1.408%) Lotus Domino
7 2 (1.408%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.704%) TeamSite
8 1 (0.704%) MS Exchange
8 1 (0.704%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.704%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 17 (11.97%) MS Excel
2 10 (7.042%) MS Office
3 9 (6.338%) MS Project
4 4 (2.817%) Windchill
5 3 (2.113%) AutoCAD
5 3 (2.113%) MS Visio
6 2 (1.408%) MS PowerPoint
7 1 (0.704%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.704%) InDesign
7 1 (0.704%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.704%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 5 (3.521%) Teamcenter
2 4 (2.817%) ENOVIA
3 3 (2.113%) Maximo
3 3 (2.113%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (2.113%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
3 3 (2.113%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.704%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.704%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.704%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.704%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.704%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.704%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.225%) Internet
2 5 (3.521%) Firewall
3 3 (2.113%) LDAP
3 3 (2.113%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.408%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.408%) MPLS
5 1 (0.704%) IP Telephony
5 1 (0.704%) DWDM
5 1 (0.704%) SAN
5 1 (0.704%) GSM
5 1 (0.704%) LAN
5 1 (0.704%) SDH
5 1 (0.704%) UMTS
5 1 (0.704%) VoIP
5 1 (0.704%) WAN
5 1 (0.704%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.704%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (19.72%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.451%) SQL Server 2005
2 12 (8.451%) SQL Server 2008
2 12 (8.451%) MySQL
3 6 (4.225%) GIS
4 5 (3.521%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.817%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.817%) SAP BI
6 3 (2.113%) SAP BW
6 3 (2.113%) SQL Server 2000
6 3 (2.113%) Oracle 8/8i
7 2 (1.408%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.408%) IDMS
7 2 (1.408%) RavenDB
7 2 (1.408%) SQL Server 2012
7 2 (1.408%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.408%) Informix
7 2 (1.408%) DB2
7 2 (1.408%) OLTP
7 2 (1.408%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 12 (8.451%) Visual Studio
2 7 (4.930%) Git (software)
3 6 (4.225%) Subversion
4 5 (3.521%) NetBeans
5 3 (2.113%) JIRA
6 1 (0.704%) NUnit
6 1 (0.704%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.704%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.704%) Eclipse
General
1 34 (23.94%) Finance
2 8 (5.634%) Banking
3 7 (4.930%) Retail
3 7 (4.930%) Legal
4 6 (4.225%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.817%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (2.817%) Games
6 3 (2.113%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.408%) Marketing
7 2 (1.408%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.408%) Electronics
7 2 (1.408%) Automotive
8 1 (0.704%) Billing
8 1 (0.704%) Publishing
8 1 (0.704%) Law
Job Titles
1 28 (19.72%) Developer
2 23 (16.20%) Analyst
3 12 (8.451%) .NET Developer
4 11 (7.746%) Project Manager
5 7 (4.930%) Graduate
6 6 (4.225%) Supplier Manager
6 6 (4.225%) Software Engineer
6 6 (4.225%) Architect
6 6 (4.225%) Consultant
6 6 (4.225%) ASP.NET Developer
7 5 (3.521%) Business Analyst
7 5 (3.521%) Tester
7 5 (3.521%) SAP Tester
7 5 (3.521%) Project Officer
8 4 (2.817%) Designer
8 4 (2.817%) Development Manager
8 4 (2.817%) Programmer
8 4 (2.817%) Software Developer
8 4 (2.817%) Project Support Officer
8 4 (2.817%) Project Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 26 (18.31%) Computer Science
2 15 (10.56%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.930%) NHS
4 5 (3.521%) W3C
4 5 (3.521%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.817%) Mathematics
5 4 (2.817%) PMI
6 3 (2.113%) Equities
6 3 (2.113%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.408%) Animation
7 2 (1.408%) Physics
7 2 (1.408%) Data Integration
7 2 (1.408%) Social Media
7 2 (1.408%) Open Source
7 2 (1.408%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.408%) Replication
8 1 (0.704%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.704%) Smart Meter
8 1 (0.704%) Life Science
8 1 (0.704%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.68%) Windows
2 11 (7.746%) Linux
3 5 (3.521%) UNIX
4 3 (2.113%) AIX
5 2 (1.408%) Android
5 2 (1.408%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.408%) HPUX
5 2 (1.408%) Solaris
6 1 (0.704%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.704%) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (28.87%) Project Management
2 25 (17.61%) PRINCE2
3 23 (16.20%) ITIL
4 16 (11.27%) Agile Software Development
5 14 (9.859%) Service Delivery
6 11 (7.746%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (7.042%) OO
8 9 (6.338%) Waterfall
9 8 (5.634%) Service Management
9 8 (5.634%) MVC
9 8 (5.634%) Information Security
10 7 (4.930%) Scrum
10 7 (4.930%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (4.930%) Business Development
10 7 (4.930%) Resource Management
10 7 (4.930%) Supplier Management
11 6 (4.225%) Data Management
11 6 (4.225%) Business Analysis
11 6 (4.225%) Problem Management
11 6 (4.225%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (19.72%) SQL
2 24 (16.90%) Java
3 20 (14.08%) C#
4 18 (12.68%) JavaScript
5 10 (7.042%) C++
6 7 (4.930%) XPath
7 6 (4.225%) PHP
7 6 (4.225%) T-SQL
8 5 (3.521%) C
8 5 (3.521%) Ruby
9 4 (2.817%) VB.NET
10 3 (2.113%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.113%) VBA
11 2 (1.408%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.704%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 10 (7.042%) APMP
2 8 (5.634%) ISEB
3 7 (4.930%) PMI Certification
3 7 (4.930%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.225%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (3.521%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 5 (3.521%) HNC
5 5 (3.521%) HND
6 4 (2.817%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.113%) PMP
7 3 (2.113%) CISSP
7 3 (2.113%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.113%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (1.408%) CEH
8 2 (1.408%) EnCE
8 2 (1.408%) CCNA
9 1 (0.704%) MBA
9 1 (0.704%) CCDA
9 1 (0.704%) CCDP
9 1 (0.704%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.225%) QA
2 2 (1.408%) COBIT
2 2 (1.408%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.408%) SLA
3 1 (0.704%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.704%) XenApp
1 1 (0.704%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (4.225%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (2.113%) TIBCO Hawk
3 1 (0.704%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.704%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 18 (12.68%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.27%) SAP
2 16 (11.27%) Oracle
3 10 (7.042%) IBM
4 8 (5.634%) Twitter
5 7 (4.930%) Facebook
5 7 (4.930%) Google
6 6 (4.225%) CheckPoint
6 6 (4.225%) HP
7 5 (3.521%) Siemens
7 5 (3.521%) Zend
8 4 (2.817%) Baan
9 3 (2.113%) AppSense
9 3 (2.113%) TIBCO
9 3 (2.113%) Cisco
10 2 (1.408%) Infor
10 2 (1.408%) Citrix
10 2 (1.408%) Sun
10 2 (1.408%) Mapinfo
10 2 (1.408%) JD Edwards
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