The first table below looks at the demand for PowerHouse 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 PowerHouse over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Programming Languages 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Cognos PowerHouse
Rank 121 133 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing PowerHouse 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.041% 0.033% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.128% 0.092% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £400 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.45% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £335 -
% change year-on-year
+34.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Programming Languages
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
781 1091 942
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 32.41% 35.83% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 610 526
Average daily rate £315 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 57 49
Average hourly rate £37.50 £21.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+74.41% -28.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £15.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £82.00 £40.00 £40.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PowerHouse
England

PowerHouse
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West PowerHouse Jobs Demand Trend

PowerHouse
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West PowerHouse Daily Rate Trend

PowerHouse
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerHouse within the North West region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Vacancies
Manchester - - - -
PowerHouse
England

PowerHouse
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing PowerHouse 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 PowerHouse.

1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) VMS
1 2 (100.00%) OpenVMS
1 2 (100.00%) Pascal
1 2 (100.00%) DCL
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) IBM

PowerHouse
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing PowerHouse 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 PowerHouse. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) VMS
1 2 (100.00%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Pascal
1 2 (100.00%) DCL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
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