North West Electronics Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Electronics' in contract IT jobs within the North West region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Electronics over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Avon Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bracknell Bradford Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Ceredigion Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Cornwall Coventry Devon Dorset East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gloucestershire Gwent Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Kent Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Livingston London Maidenhead Manchester Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Quay Newquay Norfolk North East North West Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Prestwick Reading Scotland Sevenoaks Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley UK Wales West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	131	116
Rank change on same period last year	-15
Matching contract IT job ads	12	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	0.812 %	1.415 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£225
Average daily rate	£283	£238
% change on same period last year	+18.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£285	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£298
% change on same period last year	+8.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.67	£23.75
Average hourly rate	£19.17	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-19.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.67	£23.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.73	£31.36
% change on same period last year	-2.01 %
General North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1478	1555
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.970 %	1.573 %
Daily rates quoted	396	430
Average minimum daily rate	£355	£344
Average daily rate	£376	£360
% change on same period last year	+4.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	123	106
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.89	£22.43
Average hourly rate	£25.05	£24.77
% change on same period last year	+1.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.21	£27.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.78	£27.25
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
Electronics England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Electronics across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Electronics across the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Electronics within the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	-	6	£283	-
Cheshire	-9	4	-	-

Electronics England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Electronics 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 Electronics.

1 16 (51.61 %) C 2 6 (19.35 %) EMC 2 6 (19.35 %) Electric 2 6 (19.35 %) Manufacturing 3 5 (16.13 %) Military 3 5 (16.13 %) Automotive 3 5 (16.13 %) AutoCAD 4 4 (12.90 %) Embedded C 4 4 (12.90 %) Degree 5 3 (9.677 %) Telecoms 5 3 (9.677 %) LabVIEW 5 3 (9.677 %) Project Management 5 3 (9.677 %) VB 5 3 (9.677 %) Windows 6 2 (6.452 %) Linux

6 2 (6.452 %) UML 6 2 (6.452 %) MS Visio 6 2 (6.452 %) VxWorks 6 2 (6.452 %) Firmware 6 2 (6.452 %) QNX 6 2 (6.452 %) ThreadX 6 2 (6.452 %) pSOS 6 2 (6.452 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 6 2 (6.452 %) Software Testing 6 2 (6.452 %) Nucleus RTOS 6 2 (6.452 %) Green Hills 6 2 (6.452 %) Validation 6 2 (6.452 %) CATIA 7 1 (3.226 %) PDM 7 1 (3.226 %) 2G

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Electronics 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 Electronics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.226 %) .NET	Applications 1 5 (16.13 %) AutoCAD 2 2 (6.452 %) CATIA 2 2 (6.452 %) MS Visio
Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.226 %) GSM 1 1 (3.226 %) LAN 1 1 (3.226 %) UMTS 1 1 (3.226 %) Ethernet 1 1 (3.226 %) 3G 1 1 (3.226 %) 2G	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.226 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 3 (9.677 %) LabVIEW	General 1 6 (19.35 %) Electric 1 6 (19.35 %) Manufacturing 2 5 (16.13 %) Military 2 5 (16.13 %) Automotive 3 3 (9.677 %) Telecoms 4 1 (3.226 %) Aerospace 4 1 (3.226 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 6 (19.35 %) Test Engineer 2 5 (16.13 %) Hardware Engineer 2 5 (16.13 %) Design Engineer 2 5 (16.13 %) Electronics Engineer 3 4 (12.90 %) Software Engineer 3 4 (12.90 %) Embedded Software Engineer 4 2 (6.452 %) Test Development Engineer 4 2 (6.452 %) Developer 4 2 (6.452 %) Project Manager 4 2 (6.452 %) Hardware Design Engineer 5 1 (3.226 %) Software Developer 5 1 (3.226 %) Author 5 1 (3.226 %) Technical Author 5 1 (3.226 %) Systems Engineer 5 1 (3.226 %) Technical Support 5 1 (3.226 %) Senior Systems Engineer 5 1 (3.226 %) 1st Line Support 5 1 (3.226 %) Support Engineer 5 1 (3.226 %) Embedded C Developer 5 1 (3.226 %) C Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.452 %) Firmware 1 2 (6.452 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 2 1 (3.226 %) SCADA 2 1 (3.226 %) Computer Science 2 1 (3.226 %) Management Information System 2 1 (3.226 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 3 (9.677 %) Windows 2 2 (6.452 %) Linux 2 2 (6.452 %) VxWorks 2 2 (6.452 %) ThreadX 2 2 (6.452 %) pSOS 2 2 (6.452 %) Nucleus RTOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (9.677 %) Project Management 2 2 (6.452 %) Validation 2 2 (6.452 %) UML 2 2 (6.452 %) Software Testing 3 1 (3.226 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (3.226 %) CAD 3 1 (3.226 %) PDM 3 1 (3.226 %) Agile Software Development 3 1 (3.226 %) Network Planning 3 1 (3.226 %) Automated Testing 3 1 (3.226 %) Software Engineering
Programming Languages 1 16 (51.61 %) C 2 4 (12.90 %) Embedded C 3 3 (9.677 %) VB 4 1 (3.226 %) C# 4 1 (3.226 %) C++	Qualifications 1 4 (12.90 %) Degree 2 1 (3.226 %) HNC
Vendors 1 6 (19.35 %) EMC 2 2 (6.452 %) QNX 2 2 (6.452 %) Green Hills 3 1 (3.226 %) Nortel 3 1 (3.226 %) Ericsson 3 1 (3.226 %) Nokia