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

The first table below looks at the demand for NFC skills 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 NFC 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 of the Communications & Networking 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
Near Field Communication (NFC)
Rank 115 126 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Contract jobs citing NFC 2 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.087% 0.189% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.685% 1.068% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £425 £545 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.06% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £478 £481 £475
% change year-on-year
-0.77% +1.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Communications & Networking
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 292 562 479
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 12.71% 17.75% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 229 247
Average daily rate £308 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.82% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £175 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £461 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 35 45
Average hourly rate £22.50 £21.86 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.92% -39.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £14.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £30.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
NFC
England

NFC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West NFC Jobs Demand Trend

NFC
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West NFC Daily Rate Trend

NFC
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NFC 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 +4 2 £425 -
NFC
England

NFC
Top 20 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (100.00%) Android
2 4 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 4 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 4 (66.67%) J2EE
2 4 (66.67%) Blackberry
2 4 (66.67%) Cryptography
3 3 (50.00%) HTML
4 2 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (33.33%) Network Design
4 2 (33.33%) PKI
4 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Hyperion
4 2 (33.33%) EMV
4 2 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (16.67%) Wireless
5 1 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (16.67%) Windows
5 1 (16.67%) C
5 1 (16.67%) Windows 8

NFC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (66.67%) J2EE
2 3 (50.00%) HTML
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Mobile Applications Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Web Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Applications Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Security Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Web Applications Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Blackberry
1 4 (66.67%) Cryptography
1 4 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (33.33%) EMV
2 2 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Android
2 4 (66.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 8
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (33.33%) Network Design
1 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Hyperion
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