South West Manufacturing Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Manufacturing' in contract IT jobs within the South West region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Manufacturing over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Manufacturing
Location Abingdon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cannock Chesham Cheshire Chester City of London Cobham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harlow Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Inverness Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newcastle North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrew Renfrewshire Scotland Sevenoaks Shrewsbury Shropshire Sittingbourne Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Strathclyde Street Surrey Sussex Swindon Teddington Templecombe Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Waterlooville Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcestershire Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	94	101
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	52	73
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.073 %	0.074 %
As % of the category below	2.371 %	2.780 %
Daily rates quoted	11	11
Average minimum daily rate	£371	£334
Average daily rate	£390	£345
% change on same period last year	+12.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£406	£399
% change on same period last year	+1.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.88	£27.44
Average hourly rate	£32.56	£29.31
% change on same period last year	+11.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.24	£31.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.43	£23.37
% change on same period last year	+25.89 %
General South West
Matching contract IT job ads	2193	2626
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.088 %	2.654 %
Daily rates quoted	796	871
Average minimum daily rate	£381	£367
Average daily rate	£401	£385
% change on same period last year	+4.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£421	£404
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	326	259
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.65	£27.88
Average hourly rate	£31.41	£29.66
% change on same period last year	+5.89 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.17	£31.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.08	£26.78
% change on same period last year	+4.82 %
Manufacturing England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Manufacturing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Manufacturing across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Manufacturing across the South West region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Manufacturing across the South West region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Manufacturing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the South West region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bristol	+3	14	-	-
Somerset	+7	7	£519	-
Wiltshire	-14	5	-	-
Gloucestershire	-10	2	-	-
Devon	+16	2	-	-

Manufacturing England

Manufacturing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 22 (21.78 %) C++ 2 20 (19.80 %) C 3 19 (18.81 %) Java 4 17 (16.83 %) SAP 5 16 (15.84 %) UNIX 6 10 (9.901 %) 3G 7 9 (8.911 %) Ethernet 7 9 (8.911 %) STB 8 8 (7.921 %) Security Cleared 8 8 (7.921 %) JTAG 8 8 (7.921 %) Wireless 8 8 (7.921 %) Validation 8 8 (7.921 %) Handset 8 8 (7.921 %) CAD 9 7 (6.931 %) CDMA

9 7 (6.931 %) Perl 9 7 (6.931 %) Aerospace 10 6 (5.941 %) GSM 10 6 (5.941 %) Microsoft 11 5 (4.950 %) UMTS 11 5 (4.950 %) Project Management 11 5 (4.950 %) Oracle 11 5 (4.950 %) SQL Server 11 5 (4.950 %) Windows 11 5 (4.950 %) XML 11 5 (4.950 %) Automotive 11 5 (4.950 %) Retail 12 4 (3.960 %) Electric 12 4 (3.960 %) 2G 12 4 (3.960 %) Finance

Manufacturing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 5 (4.950 %) XML 2 4 (3.960 %) HTML 2 4 (3.960 %) .NET 2 4 (3.960 %) ASP.NET 3 3 (2.970 %) ADO.NET 3 3 (2.970 %) XSL 4 2 (1.980 %) Hibernate 4 2 (1.980 %) Spring 4 2 (1.980 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 3 (2.970 %) IIS 1 3 (2.970 %) BizTalk Server 2 2 (1.980 %) Commerce Server 3 1 (0.990 %) Apache
Applications 1 3 (2.970 %) MS Excel 2 2 (1.980 %) AutoCAD 2 2 (1.980 %) MATLAB 2 2 (1.980 %) CATIA 3 1 (0.990 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 4 (3.960 %) SAP MM 2 2 (1.980 %) Oracle 11i 2 2 (1.980 %) SAP HR 2 2 (1.980 %) SAP Payroll 2 2 (1.980 %) SAP ERP 2 2 (1.980 %) AWD 3 1 (0.990 %) ENOVIA 3 1 (0.990 %) Oracle Manufacturing 3 1 (0.990 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 10 (9.901 %) 3G 2 9 (8.911 %) Ethernet 3 8 (7.921 %) Wireless 4 7 (6.931 %) CDMA 5 6 (5.941 %) GSM 6 5 (4.950 %) UMTS 7 4 (3.960 %) 2G 8 2 (1.980 %) WiMAX 8 2 (1.980 %) Broadband 9 1 (0.990 %) TCP/IP 9 1 (0.990 %) WCDMA 9 1 (0.990 %) LAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (4.950 %) SQL Server 2 1 (0.990 %) Crystal Reports 2 1 (0.990 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 1 (0.990 %) SQL Server Integration Services 2 1 (0.990 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 2 1 (0.990 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 2 (1.980 %) C++Builder 2 1 (0.990 %) Subversion 2 1 (0.990 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (0.990 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (0.990 %) Flash 2 1 (0.990 %) ARTiSAN	General 1 7 (6.931 %) Aerospace 2 5 (4.950 %) Automotive 2 5 (4.950 %) Retail 3 4 (3.960 %) Finance 3 4 (3.960 %) Pharmaceutical 3 4 (3.960 %) Electric 4 3 (2.970 %) Electronics 4 3 (2.970 %) Avionics 5 2 (1.980 %) Marketing 5 2 (1.980 %) Legal 6 1 (0.990 %) Banking 6 1 (0.990 %) Government 6 1 (0.990 %) Telecoms 6 1 (0.990 %) Education 6 1 (0.990 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 19 (18.81 %) Software Engineer 2 12 (11.88 %) Design Engineer 3 10 (9.901 %) Project Manager 4 9 (8.911 %) Consultant 4 9 (8.911 %) Test Engineer 5 8 (7.921 %) RF Engineer 6 7 (6.931 %) SAP Manager 7 6 (5.941 %) SAP Project Manager 7 6 (5.941 %) SAP Consultant 7 6 (5.941 %) Developer 8 5 (4.950 %) RF Design Engineer 8 5 (4.950 %) Functional Consultant 9 4 (3.960 %) Products Support Engineer 9 4 (3.960 %) SAP Functional Consultant 9 4 (3.960 %) SAP MM Functional Consultant 9 4 (3.960 %) Analyst 9 4 (3.960 %) Support Engineer 9 4 (3.960 %) SAP MM Consultant 10 3 (2.970 %) Technical Consultant 10 3 (2.970 %) Junior	Miscellaneous 1 9 (8.911 %) STB 2 8 (7.921 %) Handset 3 1 (0.990 %) iDTV 3 1 (0.990 %) Device Driver 3 1 (0.990 %) Robotics 3 1 (0.990 %) French Language 3 1 (0.990 %) German Language 3 1 (0.990 %) Polish Language
Operating Systems 1 16 (15.84 %) UNIX 2 5 (4.950 %) Windows 3 3 (2.970 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (7.921 %) CAD 1 8 (7.921 %) Validation 1 8 (7.921 %) Security Cleared 2 5 (4.950 %) Project Management 3 4 (3.960 %) ERP 4 3 (2.970 %) BC Cleared 4 3 (2.970 %) SAP Implementation 5 2 (1.980 %) Lean Manufacturing 5 2 (1.980 %) Time Management 5 2 (1.980 %) SC Cleared 5 2 (1.980 %) Software Engineering 5 2 (1.980 %) OO 5 2 (1.980 %) E-Commerce 5 2 (1.980 %) E-business 5 2 (1.980 %) GAP Analysis 5 2 (1.980 %) FMECA 5 2 (1.980 %) Risk Assessment 6 1 (0.990 %) PDM 6 1 (0.990 %) IC Design 6 1 (0.990 %) TDD
Programming Languages 1 22 (21.78 %) C++ 2 20 (19.80 %) C 3 19 (18.81 %) Java 4 7 (6.931 %) Perl 5 4 (3.960 %) JavaScript 5 4 (3.960 %) C# 6 3 (2.970 %) PL/SQL 6 3 (2.970 %) SQL 6 3 (2.970 %) VC++ 6 3 (2.970 %) Embedded C 7 2 (1.980 %) Fortran 7 2 (1.980 %) Python 8 1 (0.990 %) Ada 8 1 (0.990 %) Embedded C++ 8 1 (0.990 %) Assembly Language 8 1 (0.990 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 1 (0.990 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (7.921 %) JTAG 2 2 (1.980 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (0.990 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 17 (16.83 %) SAP 2 6 (5.941 %) Microsoft 3 5 (4.950 %) Oracle 4 3 (2.970 %) Borland 5 1 (0.990 %) Remedy 5 1 (0.990 %) Primavera 5 1 (0.990 %) SolidWorks 5 1 (0.990 %) Green Hills 5 1 (0.990 %) Mentor Graphics 5 1 (0.990 %) Agilent 5 1 (0.990 %) EMC