The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Statistics 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 Statistics 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 Miscellaneous 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
Statistics
Rank 112 121 106
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -15
Contract jobs citing Statistics 6 11 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.257% 0.354% 0.656%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.124% 1.780% 3.200%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 7
Average daily rate £323 £300 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.50% +36.36%
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £288 £285
% change year-on-year
+12.17% +0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Average hourly rate - £15.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -62.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £16.00 £13.64
% change year-on-year
-9.37% +17.30%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
534 618 625
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 22.91% 19.86% 20.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 301 312
Average daily rate £300 £325 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +1.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £205 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £470 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 56 71
Average hourly rate £15.00 £19.75 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.05% -1.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £13.35 £10.47
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.00 £25.00 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Statistics
England

Statistics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Statistics Jobs Demand Trend

Statistics
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Statistics Daily Rate Trend

Statistics
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Statistics across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West Statistics Daily Rate Histogram

Statistics
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Statistics Hourly Rate Trend

Statistics
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Statistics 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 +8 4 £323 -
Merseyside +5 2 £175 -41.66%
Statistics
England

Statistics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 19 (70.37%) Microsoft
2 17 (62.96%) Windows
2 17 (62.96%) MS Excel
3 16 (59.26%) Active Directory
3 16 (59.26%) MS Exchange
3 16 (59.26%) SC Cleared
3 16 (59.26%) Security Cleared
4 14 (51.85%) Incident Management
4 14 (51.85%) VPN
4 14 (51.85%) SLA
4 14 (51.85%) Citrix
4 14 (51.85%) C
5 13 (48.15%) Windows NT
5 13 (48.15%) ISO 9000
5 13 (48.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (48.15%) DV Cleared
6 5 (18.52%) Benchmarking
6 5 (18.52%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (18.52%) TDD
6 5 (18.52%) Pair Programming
6 5 (18.52%) Spring
6 5 (18.52%) OO
6 5 (18.52%) J2EE
6 5 (18.52%) Java
6 5 (18.52%) Web Services
6 5 (18.52%) XML
6 5 (18.52%) XSLT
6 5 (18.52%) RDF
6 5 (18.52%) XQuery
6 5 (18.52%) BDD

Statistics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (18.52%) Spring
1 5 (18.52%) J2EE
1 5 (18.52%) Web Services
1 5 (18.52%) XML
1 5 (18.52%) XSLT
1 5 (18.52%) RESTful
1 5 (18.52%) REST
1 5 (18.52%) JAX-RS
1 5 (18.52%) JSON
2 1 (3.704%) WSH
2 1 (3.704%) DWR
Application Platforms
1 16 (59.26%) MS Exchange
2 1 (3.704%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (62.96%) MS Excel
2 4 (14.81%) MS Office
3 1 (3.704%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 14 (51.85%) VPN
2 1 (3.704%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.704%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.704%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (3.704%) GIS
1 1 (3.704%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 1 (3.704%) Retail
1 1 (3.704%) Finance
1 1 (3.704%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Help Desk Support
2 10 (37.04%) IT Support
2 10 (37.04%) Analyst
2 10 (37.04%) Help Desk Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Java Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Administrator
5 1 (3.704%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Team Leader
5 1 (3.704%) SQL DBA
5 1 (3.704%) Project Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Storage Administrator
5 1 (3.704%) Help Desk Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Applications Specialist
5 1 (3.704%) DBA
5 1 (3.704%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Service Desk Team Leader
5 1 (3.704%) Document Controller
5 1 (3.704%) Backup Administrator
5 1 (3.704%) Desktop Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.407%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.704%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.704%) Replication
3 1 (3.704%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 17 (62.96%) Windows
2 13 (48.15%) Windows NT
3 2 (7.407%) Windows XP
4 1 (3.704%) Windows 2000
4 1 (3.704%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Incident Management
2 5 (18.52%) Benchmarking
2 5 (18.52%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (18.52%) TDD
2 5 (18.52%) Pair Programming
2 5 (18.52%) OO
2 5 (18.52%) RDF
2 5 (18.52%) BDD
2 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
2 5 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (18.52%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (11.11%) Change Control
4 2 (7.407%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (7.407%) Data Protection
4 2 (7.407%) Problem Management
4 2 (7.407%) Change Management
4 2 (7.407%) ITIL
5 1 (3.704%) SOA
5 1 (3.704%) Supplier Management
5 1 (3.704%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) C
2 5 (18.52%) Java
2 5 (18.52%) XQuery
2 5 (18.52%) XPath
3 1 (3.704%) SQL
3 1 (3.704%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.704%) VBScript
3 1 (3.704%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (59.26%) SC Cleared
1 16 (59.26%) Security Cleared
2 13 (48.15%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.704%) MCDBA
3 1 (3.704%) MCT
3 1 (3.704%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.704%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (51.85%) SLA
2 13 (48.15%) ISO 9000
2 13 (48.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (7.407%) QA
System Software
1 16 (59.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.407%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (3.704%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 19 (70.37%) Microsoft
2 14 (51.85%) Citrix
3 2 (7.407%) Cisco
4 1 (3.704%) EMC
4 1 (3.704%) Avaya
4 1 (3.704%) Veritas