North West Manufacturing Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Manufacturing' 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 Manufacturing over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Manufacturing
Location Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cannock Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Cramlington Crawley Daventry Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Fife Flintshire Glasgow Hampshire Havant Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northumberland Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Scotland Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Walsall Ware Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	97	86
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching contract IT job ads	46	53
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.061 %	0.054 %
As % of the category below	3.112 %	3.408 %
Daily rates quoted	4	6
Average minimum daily rate	£425	£278
Average daily rate	£450	£287
% change on same period last year	+56.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£475	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£406	£411
% change on same period last year	-1.03 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.78	£22.75
Average hourly rate	£25.81	£25.69
% change on same period last year	+0.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.84	£28.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.60	£26.19
% change on same period last year	+1.56 %
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 %
Manufacturing 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.

Manufacturing
Demand Trend

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

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Manufacturing
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing 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	-5	20	£388	+10.71 %
Cheshire	-7	4	-	-
Lancashire	-3	3	-	-

Manufacturing England

Manufacturing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 28 (28.00 %) SAP 2 18 (18.00 %) Electric 3 17 (17.00 %) SAP CO 4 14 (14.00 %) SAP FI 4 14 (14.00 %) SAP FI/CO 5 10 (10.00 %) Aerospace 5 10 (10.00 %) Automotive 6 9 (9.000 %) HNC 6 9 (9.000 %) VB 6 9 (9.000 %) .NET 7 8 (8.000 %) SQL 7 8 (8.000 %) Education 7 8 (8.000 %) NVQ Level 3 8 7 (7.000 %) Finance 9 6 (6.000 %) Electronics

9 6 (6.000 %) JavaScript 9 6 (6.000 %) C 9 6 (6.000 %) Oracle 9 6 (6.000 %) ASP.NET 10 5 (5.000 %) CSS 10 5 (5.000 %) Visual Studio 10 5 (5.000 %) Microsoft 10 5 (5.000 %) VB.NET 10 5 (5.000 %) Windows 10 5 (5.000 %) CAD 11 4 (4.000 %) Pharmaceutical 11 4 (4.000 %) Telecoms 11 4 (4.000 %) Change Management 11 4 (4.000 %) C++ 11 4 (4.000 %) HTML

Manufacturing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 9 (9.000 %) .NET 2 6 (6.000 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (5.000 %) CSS 4 4 (4.000 %) HTML 4 4 (4.000 %) ASP 5 2 (2.000 %) XML 6 1 (1.000 %) XSLT 6 1 (1.000 %) Swing 6 1 (1.000 %) XHTML 6 1 (1.000 %) J2ME 6 1 (1.000 %) J2SE 6 1 (1.000 %) XML Schema 6 1 (1.000 %) JavaBeans 6 1 (1.000 %) AJAX 6 1 (1.000 %) WebSphere 6 1 (1.000 %) Silverlight 6 1 (1.000 %) J2EE 6 1 (1.000 %) SOAP 6 1 (1.000 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.000 %) Lotus Notes 1 1 (1.000 %) SharePoint 1 1 (1.000 %) BizTalk Server 1 1 (1.000 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 2 (2.000 %) MS Office 1 2 (2.000 %) CATIA 2 1 (1.000 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.000 %) MS Visio 2 1 (1.000 %) AutoCAD	Business Applications 1 17 (17.00 %) SAP CO 2 14 (14.00 %) SAP FI 2 14 (14.00 %) SAP FI/CO 3 3 (3.000 %) SAP PP 3 3 (3.000 %) Oracle ASCP 4 1 (1.000 %) Oracle EBS 4 1 (1.000 %) Oracle Applications 4 1 (1.000 %) Teamcenter 4 1 (1.000 %) SAP MM 4 1 (1.000 %) SAP HR 4 1 (1.000 %) SAP SD
Communications & Networking 1 3 (3.000 %) LAN 2 2 (2.000 %) VoIP 3 1 (1.000 %) IP Telephony	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (3.000 %) Crystal Reports 1 3 (3.000 %) SQL Server 1 3 (3.000 %) BusinessObjects 1 3 (3.000 %) SQL Server 2005 2 2 (2.000 %) SAP BW 3 1 (1.000 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (1.000 %) DB2 3 1 (1.000 %) Oracle Reports 3 1 (1.000 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (1.000 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (1.000 %) Oracle Discoverer 3 1 (1.000 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 5 (5.000 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (1.000 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (1.000 %) Eclipse 2 1 (1.000 %) LabVIEW	General 1 18 (18.00 %) Electric 2 10 (10.00 %) Aerospace 2 10 (10.00 %) Automotive 3 8 (8.000 %) Education 4 7 (7.000 %) Finance 5 6 (6.000 %) Electronics 6 4 (4.000 %) Telecoms 6 4 (4.000 %) Pharmaceutical 7 3 (3.000 %) FMCG 7 3 (3.000 %) Retail 7 3 (3.000 %) Military 8 2 (2.000 %) Banking 9 1 (1.000 %) Construction 9 1 (1.000 %) General Ledger 9 1 (1.000 %) Government 9 1 (1.000 %) Health 9 1 (1.000 %) Home Office
Job Titles 1 29 (29.00 %) Consultant 2 22 (22.00 %) SAP Consultant 3 17 (17.00 %) Developer 4 14 (14.00 %) SAP FI/CO Consultant 5 7 (7.000 %) Analyst 6 6 (6.000 %) .NET Developer 7 5 (5.000 %) VB.NET Developer 7 5 (5.000 %) Project Manager 7 5 (5.000 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 5 (5.000 %) SAP CO Consultant 8 4 (4.000 %) Support Consultant 8 4 (4.000 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 9 3 (3.000 %) Engineering Manager 9 3 (3.000 %) Design Engineer 9 3 (3.000 %) Java Developer 9 3 (3.000 %) Software Developer 9 3 (3.000 %) Business Analyst 9 3 (3.000 %) Network Engineer 9 3 (3.000 %) Supply Chain Consultant 9 3 (3.000 %) Software Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 2 (2.000 %) Mainframe 1 2 (2.000 %) French Language 1 2 (2.000 %) Italian Language 1 2 (2.000 %) Spanish Language 1 2 (2.000 %) Video Conferencing 2 1 (1.000 %) N-Tier 2 1 (1.000 %) Firmware 2 1 (1.000 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 5 (5.000 %) Windows 2 2 (2.000 %) Windows XP 3 1 (1.000 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (5.000 %) CAD 2 4 (4.000 %) ITIL 2 4 (4.000 %) Change Management 3 3 (3.000 %) Validation 3 3 (3.000 %) Business Intelligence 3 3 (3.000 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (2.000 %) Project Management 4 2 (2.000 %) Service Delivery 4 2 (2.000 %) PDM 4 2 (2.000 %) SAP Implementation 4 2 (2.000 %) Scrum 4 2 (2.000 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (1.000 %) PLM 5 1 (1.000 %) Test Scripting 5 1 (1.000 %) Data Migration 5 1 (1.000 %) BC Cleared 5 1 (1.000 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (1.000 %) Logistics 5 1 (1.000 %) Systems Analysis 5 1 (1.000 %) Incident Management
Programming Languages 1 9 (9.000 %) VB 2 8 (8.000 %) SQL 3 6 (6.000 %) JavaScript 3 6 (6.000 %) C 4 5 (5.000 %) VB.NET 5 4 (4.000 %) C++ 5 4 (4.000 %) Java 6 3 (3.000 %) C# 6 3 (3.000 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (1.000 %) Perl 7 1 (1.000 %) LotusScript 7 1 (1.000 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 9 (9.000 %) HNC 2 8 (8.000 %) NVQ Level 3 3 3 (3.000 %) CCNP 3 3 (3.000 %) Citrix Certification 3 3 (3.000 %) Cisco Certification 4 2 (2.000 %) Degree 5 1 (1.000 %) Microsoft Certification 5 1 (1.000 %) ITIL Certification 5 1 (1.000 %) CCNA 5 1 (1.000 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.000 %) SLA	System Software 1 2 (2.000 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 28 (28.00 %) SAP 2 6 (6.000 %) Oracle 3 5 (5.000 %) Microsoft 4 3 (3.000 %) EMC 4 3 (3.000 %) Business Objects 4 3 (3.000 %) Cisco 5 2 (2.000 %) Citrix 6 1 (1.000 %) Lotus 6 1 (1.000 %) Remedy 6 1 (1.000 %) VMware 6 1 (1.000 %) UGS 6 1 (1.000 %) IBM