The first table below looks at the demand for the Solutions Designer role 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 Solutions Designer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
Solution Designer
Rank 106 124 120
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Designer 11 8 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.479% 0.253% 0.390%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.513% 0.276% 0.420%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 8
Average daily rate £300 £388 £431
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.58% -10.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £256 £340 £367
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £500 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £475 £433
% change year-on-year
-15.78% +9.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2144 2900 2856
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.34% 91.57% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1014 1446 1426
Average daily rate £335 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 169 190
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.12% +14.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.29 £12.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £33.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Solutions Designer
England

Solutions Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Solutions Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Solutions Designer
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Solutions Designer Daily Rate Trend

Solutions Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solutions Designer across the North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

North West Solutions Designer Daily Rate Histogram

Solutions Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Solutions Designer Hourly Rate Trend

Solutions Designer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Designer 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 4 - -
Manchester - 4 £425 -
Lancashire +16 3 £300 -4.00%
Solutions Designer
England

Solutions Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Solutions Designer in their job title 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 with Solutions Designer in their job title.

1 9 (52.94%) Migration
2 6 (35.29%) Mainframe
2 6 (35.29%) Finance
3 5 (29.41%) Banking
3 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (29.41%) Windows
4 4 (23.53%) UNIX
4 4 (23.53%) IBM
4 4 (23.53%) Middleware
4 4 (23.53%) IBM Mainframe
4 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
5 3 (17.65%) Information Security
5 3 (17.65%) Tandem
5 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
5 3 (17.65%) ITIL
6 2 (11.76%) Firewall
6 2 (11.76%) McAfee
6 2 (11.76%) Retail Banking
6 2 (11.76%) Retail
6 2 (11.76%) Security Architecture
6 2 (11.76%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (11.76%) Test Strategy
6 2 (11.76%) Mobile Device Management
7 1 (5.882%) iPad
7 1 (5.882%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (5.882%) Local Government
7 1 (5.882%) Time Management
7 1 (5.882%) Data Migration
7 1 (5.882%) Android
7 1 (5.882%) Web Development

Solutions Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Solutions Designer in their job title 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 with Solutions Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (23.53%) Middleware
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
2 1 (5.882%) TCP/IP
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Retail
3 2 (11.76%) Retail Banking
4 1 (5.882%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Mainframe
2 4 (23.53%) IBM Mainframe
3 3 (17.65%) Tandem
4 1 (5.882%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) UNIX
3 1 (5.882%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Migration
2 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
4 3 (17.65%) ITIL
4 3 (17.65%) Information Security
5 2 (11.76%) Security Architecture
5 2 (11.76%) Test Strategy
5 2 (11.76%) Mobile Device Management
6 1 (5.882%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (5.882%) Web Development
6 1 (5.882%) Time Management
6 1 (5.882%) Data Migration
6 1 (5.882%) Business Continuity
System Software
1 1 (5.882%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (5.882%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) IBM
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) McAfee
4 1 (5.882%) AppSense