The first table below looks at the demand for Visualfiles 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 Visualfiles over the 3 months to 19 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 Business Applications 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LexisNexis Visualfiles
Rank 114 - 123
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Visualfiles 3 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.126% - 0.066%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.245% - 0.694%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Average daily rate £300 - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £263 £275
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Business Applications
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
241 305 288
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 10.10% 10.04% 9.527%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 129 146
Average daily rate £425 £419 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.40% +4.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £525 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £408
% change year-on-year
- +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 13
Average hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +177.77%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+44.00% -13.79%
Visualfiles
England

Visualfiles
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Visualfiles Jobs Demand Trend

Visualfiles
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Visualfiles Daily Rate Trend

Visualfiles
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visualfiles within the North West region over the 3 months to 19 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Manchester - 3 £300 - 1
Lancashire - - - -
Merseyside - - - -
Visualfiles
England

Visualfiles
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Visualfiles 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 Visualfiles.

1 4 (80.00%) Practice Management
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
2 2 (40.00%) RAD
2 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 2 (40.00%) CMS
2 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (40.00%) QlikView
3 1 (20.00%) VBA
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) Law
3 1 (20.00%) HTML

Visualfiles
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Visualfiles 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 Visualfiles. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Crystal Reports
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (40.00%) QlikView
General
1 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) MI Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Practice Management
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
2 2 (40.00%) RAD
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
1 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (20.00%) VBA
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