Technical Specialist Contracts in West Yorkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Specialist in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the West Yorkshire 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
Technical Specialist
Rank 85 82 69
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Specialist 6 12 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.473% 0.742% 0.446%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.499% 0.782% 0.475%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 0
Average daily rate - £310 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £324 £303
% change year-on-year
+19.59% +7.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 - £15.58
All Job Titles
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1203 1535 1053
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 94.80% 94.87% 93.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 849 480
Average daily rate £313 £338 £326
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £210 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 65 78
Average hourly rate £12.75 £12.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.00% +4.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.59 £10.30 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £32.50 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Technical Specialist
Yorkshire

Technical Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Specialist across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

West Yorkshire Technical Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Technical Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Technical Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Technical Specialist across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Technical Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Specialist
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Specialist within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds -15 3 - -
Halifax - 1 - -
Technical Specialist
Yorkshire

Technical Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited Technical Specialist in their job title 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 with Technical Specialist in their job title.

1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Solaris
2 4 (30.77%) ITIL
2 4 (30.77%) PRINCE2
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) Sun
2 4 (30.77%) Internet
2 4 (30.77%) Process Management
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) GlassFish
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
4 2 (15.38%) UNIX
4 2 (15.38%) Tivoli
4 2 (15.38%) Web Services
4 2 (15.38%) IBM
4 2 (15.38%) Maximo
4 2 (15.38%) Asset Management
4 2 (15.38%) WebSphere
5 1 (7.692%) vSphere
5 1 (7.692%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (7.692%) XenApp
5 1 (7.692%) XenDesktop
5 1 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (7.692%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (7.692%) MCITP
5 1 (7.692%) Banking

Technical Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited Technical Specialist in their job title 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 with Technical Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (15.38%) Web Services
1 2 (15.38%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) GlassFish
2 1 (7.692%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Banking
2 1 (7.692%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Solaris
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (15.38%) UNIX
5 1 (7.692%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) ITIL
1 4 (30.77%) PRINCE2
1 4 (30.77%) Process Management
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (15.38%) Asset Management
3 1 (7.692%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (7.692%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 1 (7.692%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) CCA
1 1 (7.692%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (7.692%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (7.692%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (7.692%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.692%) XenApp
1 1 (7.692%) XenDesktop
1 1 (7.692%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Tivoli
2 1 (7.692%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Sun
2 2 (15.38%) IBM
3 1 (7.692%) Citrix
3 1 (7.692%) VMware
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