The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing 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 Publishing over the 3 months to 24 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 General 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Publishing
Rank 111 121 104
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -17
Contract jobs citing Publishing 7 11 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.300% 0.354% 0.721%
As % of the General category 0.828% 1.043% 1.701%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 18
Average daily rate £323 £360 £329
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.41% +9.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £289 £207
10% offered a daily rate of more than £327 £425 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £365 £338
% change year-on-year
-8.21% +8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-6.06% -15.38%
All of the General Category
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
845 1055 1293
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 36.25% 33.91% 42.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 568 717
Average daily rate £353 £360 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.94% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £275 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £513 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 34 51
Average hourly rate £19.04 £20.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.80% +14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.30 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £30.60 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Publishing
England

Publishing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Publishing Jobs Demand Trend

Publishing
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Publishing Daily Rate Trend

Publishing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Publishing Hourly Rate Trend

Publishing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Publishing within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Manchester +11 5 £323 -14.00%
Merseyside +3 1 £328 -16.82%
Lancashire - 1 £300 -
Publishing
England

Publishing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Publishing 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 Publishing.

1 8 (40.00%) Java
2 7 (35.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (35.00%) Content Management
3 6 (30.00%) TDD
4 5 (25.00%) J2EE
4 5 (25.00%) Oracle
4 5 (25.00%) XML
5 4 (20.00%) CSS
5 4 (20.00%) SQL
5 4 (20.00%) XSLT
5 4 (20.00%) Web Services
5 4 (20.00%) Streaming Video
5 4 (20.00%) XQuery
5 4 (20.00%) Interactive TV
5 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (20.00%) BDD
5 4 (20.00%) MarkLogic
6 3 (15.00%) Use Case
6 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (15.00%) jQuery
6 3 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (15.00%) E-Commerce
6 3 (15.00%) HTML
7 2 (10.00%) MS Project
7 2 (10.00%) RDF
7 2 (10.00%) ETL
7 2 (10.00%) XML Schema
7 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
7 2 (10.00%) ITIL

Publishing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Publishing 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 Publishing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (25.00%) J2EE
1 5 (25.00%) XML
2 4 (20.00%) CSS
2 4 (20.00%) XSLT
2 4 (20.00%) Web Services
3 3 (15.00%) jQuery
3 3 (15.00%) HTML
4 2 (10.00%) XML Schema
4 2 (10.00%) XHTML
4 2 (10.00%) Hibernate
4 2 (10.00%) JSON
4 2 (10.00%) Spring
4 2 (10.00%) RESTful
4 2 (10.00%) JAX-RS
4 2 (10.00%) REST
5 1 (5.000%) soapUI
5 1 (5.000%) HTML5
5 1 (5.000%) Ajax
5 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET
5 1 (5.000%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.000%) ArcGIS
2 1 (5.000%) CMS
2 1 (5.000%) ArcSDE
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MS Project
1 2 (10.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.000%) Mingle
2 1 (5.000%) Acrobat
2 1 (5.000%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.000%) MS Office
2 1 (5.000%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (5.000%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) MarkLogic
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.000%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.000%) FitNesse
General
1 2 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (5.000%) Local Government
2 1 (5.000%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Business Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Testing Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Software Testing Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) NHS Project Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Agile Test Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Web Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Web Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Web Project Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Software Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Streaming Video
1 4 (20.00%) Interactive TV
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (10.00%) Social Network
2 2 (10.00%) Web 2.0
2 2 (10.00%) New Media
2 2 (10.00%) Semantic Web
3 1 (5.000%) Data Conversion
3 1 (5.000%) Visualisation
3 1 (5.000%) Social Media
3 1 (5.000%) LLPG
3 1 (5.000%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.000%) NHS
3 1 (5.000%) E-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Content Management
2 6 (30.00%) TDD
3 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (20.00%) BDD
4 3 (15.00%) Use Case
4 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (15.00%) E-Commerce
5 2 (10.00%) RDF
5 2 (10.00%) ETL
5 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (10.00%) ITIL
5 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2
5 2 (10.00%) UML
5 2 (10.00%) OO
5 2 (10.00%) Pair Programming
5 2 (10.00%) Web Design
5 2 (10.00%) Programme Management
5 2 (10.00%) Scrum
5 2 (10.00%) Benchmarking
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Java
2 7 (35.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 4 (20.00%) XQuery
4 2 (10.00%) XPath
4 2 (10.00%) Ruby
4 2 (10.00%) SPARQL
5 1 (5.000%) Python
5 1 (5.000%) C#
5 1 (5.000%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.000%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.000%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.000%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (5.000%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) JBoss
3 1 (5.000%) Google
3 1 (5.000%) ESRI
3 1 (5.000%) Adobe
3 1 (5.000%) SAP
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