The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Manufacturing over the 3 months to 22 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 Staffordshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Manufacturing
Rank 19 35 33
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -2
Contract jobs citing Manufacturing 1 2 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 1.149% 0.909% 3.333%
As % of the General category 3.333% 2.703% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £115 £350 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-67.14% -15.15%
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £360 £405
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+36.36% +19.56%
All of the General Category
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
30 74 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 34.48% 33.64% 30.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 29
Average daily rate £250 £300 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £336 £355 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 2
Average hourly rate £21.29 £29.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-26.58% -17.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -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 Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire Manufacturing Hourly Rate Trend

Manufacturing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (50.00%) ERP
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Logistics
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN

Manufacturing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Software Team Leader
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (25.00%) Team Leader
1 1 (25.00%) Development Team Leader
1 1 (25.00%) IT Programme Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Director
1 1 (25.00%) Project Director
1 1 (25.00%) Software Development Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ERP
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Logistics
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) SAP
1 1 (25.00%) VMware
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Nortel
1 1 (25.00%) Avaya
1 1 (25.00%) Sage
1 1 (25.00%) Symantec