The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Wiki 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 Wiki 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wikis
Rank 112 - 131
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Wiki 5 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.218% - 0.032%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.943% - 0.157%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £240 £250 £375
% change year-on-year
-4.00% -33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
530 654 638
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 23.07% 20.65% 20.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 324 327
Average daily rate £300 £325 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +6.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £200 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £470 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 56 66
Average hourly rate £16.72 £20.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.40% -4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.55 £13.35 £10.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.37 £25.00 £38.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Wiki
England

Wiki
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Wiki Jobs Demand Trend

Wiki
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Wiki Daily Rate Trend

Wiki
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wiki 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
Manchester - 5 - -
Wiki
England

Wiki
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Wiki 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 Wiki.

1 5 (100.00%) C
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) Perl
2 4 (80.00%) UNIX
2 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Apache
2 4 (80.00%) LDAP
2 4 (80.00%) MS Visio
2 4 (80.00%) IBM
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (80.00%) Netcool
2 4 (80.00%) Nagios
2 4 (80.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (80.00%) Ruby
2 4 (80.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) Regular Expression
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server

Wiki
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Wiki 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 Wiki. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 4 (80.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Systems Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Systems Support
1 4 (80.00%) Support Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Systems Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) UNIX
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) Perl
2 4 (80.00%) Ruby
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Netcool
1 4 (80.00%) Nagios
1 4 (80.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) IBM
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat