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

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term EPoS 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 EPoS over the 3 months to 17 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 Miscellaneous 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronic Point Of Sale (EPoS)
Rank 112 130 122
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -8
Contract jobs citing EPoS 5 2 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.218% 0.063% 0.325%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.943% 0.306% 1.567%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
Average daily rate £80 £95 £245
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.78% -61.22%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £289
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +12.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £10.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.25 £19.50 £12.25
% change year-on-year
-6.41% +59.18%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 530 654 638
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 23.07% 20.65% 20.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 324 327
Average daily rate £300 £325 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +6.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £200 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £470 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 56 66
Average hourly rate £16.72 £20.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.40% -4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.55 £13.35 £10.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.37 £25.00 £38.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
EPoS
England

EPoS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West EPoS Jobs Demand Trend

EPoS
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West EPoS Daily Rate Trend

EPoS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West EPoS Hourly Rate Trend

EPoS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EPoS within the North West region over the 3 months to 17 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 - 5 £80 -
EPoS
England

EPoS
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing EPoS 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 EPoS.

1 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 3 (33.33%) SLA
2 3 (33.33%) Retail
3 2 (22.22%) JIRA
3 2 (22.22%) WSUS
3 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
3 2 (22.22%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
3 2 (22.22%) DameWare
4 1 (11.11%) Back Office
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Windows
4 1 (11.11%) CRM
4 1 (11.11%) ATM
4 1 (11.11%) LAN
4 1 (11.11%) VoIP

EPoS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing EPoS 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 EPoS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) ATM
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
1 2 (22.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Back Office
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) 1st Line Support
1 2 (22.22%) Applications Support
1 2 (22.22%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (22.22%) Desktop Support
1 2 (22.22%) EPoS Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Support Technician
2 1 (11.11%) Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) ATM Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
3 1 (11.11%) CRM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) DameWare
1 2 (22.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
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