Technical Author Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Author 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 Technical Author in their job title 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 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Author
Rank 113 125 118
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Author 5 7 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.215% 0.225% 0.262%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.230% 0.246% 0.284%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 7
Average daily rate - - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
Average hourly rate £22.00 £19.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.82% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £22.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year
+46.06% +1.13%
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 2173 2851 2817
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.22% 91.64% 92.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1036 1402 1393
Average daily rate £338 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £225 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £468
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 171 189
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.25% +8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £33.32 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Author
England

Technical Author
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Technical Author Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Author
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Technical Author Daily Rate Trend

Technical Author
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Technical Author Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Author
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Author 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
Lancashire - 3 - -
Manchester +3 1 - -
Cheshire - 1 - -
Technical Author
England

Technical Author
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Technical Author 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 Technical Author in their job title.

1 4 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (37.50%) FrameMaker
2 3 (37.50%) MS Office
3 2 (25.00%) Avionics
3 2 (25.00%) Electronics
3 2 (25.00%) Automotive
3 2 (25.00%) Military
3 2 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (25.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Adobe
4 1 (12.50%) RoboHelp
4 1 (12.50%) Internet
4 1 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (12.50%) IIS
4 1 (12.50%) Marketing
4 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
4 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (12.50%) Backbone.js
4 1 (12.50%) WCF
4 1 (12.50%) jQuery
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
4 1 (12.50%) Web Services

Technical Author
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Technical Author 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 Technical Author in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) Backbone.js
1 1 (12.50%) WCF
1 1 (12.50%) jQuery
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (37.50%) FrameMaker
2 3 (37.50%) MS Office
3 2 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (25.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (12.50%) RoboHelp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (25.00%) Avionics
1 2 (25.00%) Electronics
1 2 (25.00%) Automotive
1 2 (25.00%) Military
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe
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