The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in IT contracts advertised for the Shropshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Manufacturing 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 General category for the Shropshire 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
Manufacturing
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Shropshire - - -
As % of the General category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £375 £410
% change year-on-year
+13.33% -8.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £28.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+22.80% +23.91%
All of the General Category
Shropshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
12 10 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Shropshire 11.01% 7.752% 21.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 18
Average daily rate £380 £365 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.10% +12.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £255 £147
10% offered a daily rate of more than £558 £479 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £10.00 - £11.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Manufacturing
West Midlands

Manufacturing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Manufacturing across the Shropshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Shropshire Manufacturing Jobs Demand Trend

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Shropshire Manufacturing Daily Rate Trend

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Shropshire Manufacturing Hourly Rate Trend

Manufacturing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Shropshire region citing Manufacturing 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 Manufacturing.

1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) Retail
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL V3
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) HPUX
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (25.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) CA
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) MS Project
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) CA Clarity

Manufacturing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Streams
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (25.00%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (25.00%) CA Clarity
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Retail
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) DBA
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Wintel Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) HP Superdome
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL V3
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (25.00%) HP Data Protector
1 1 (25.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) CA
2 1 (25.00%) VMware