Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 26 February 2020

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 26 February 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Problem-Solving
North West > Manchester
6 months to
26 Feb 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 26 27 40
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 -5
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 133 176 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 5.55% 6.00% 4.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.72% 7.06% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 112 58
Manchester median daily rate £400 £410 £350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -2.44% +17.14% -12.50%
10th Percentile £193 £232 £190
90th Percentile £588 £574 £558
North West median daily rate £418 £405 £375
% change year-on-year +3.09% +8.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 11
Manchester median hourly rate £20.50 £17.31 £21.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +18.45% -17.58% +55.56%
10th Percentile £19.40 £15.50 £13.50
90th Percentile £35.28 £19.88 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £44.00 £22.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +100.00% -26.67% -26.15%

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,979 2,493 2,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 82.60% 85.00% 84.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,317 1,627 1,484
Manchester median daily rate £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +6.25% -
10th Percentile £250 £281 £256
90th Percentile £575 £588 £575
North West median daily rate £425 £425 £410
% change year-on-year - +3.66% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 95 88
Manchester median hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.85 £13.00
90th Percentile £35.00 £33.00 £45.50
North West median hourly rate £27.42 £25.00 £24.78
% change year-on-year +9.66% +0.89% -4.22%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Manchester

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Problem-Solving in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Manchester

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Problem-Solving in Manchester over the 6 months to 26 February 2020.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Manchester

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving in Manchester.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Manchester

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Problem-Solving in Manchester over the 6 months to 26 February 2020.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Manchester

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 26 February 2020. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Job
Vacancies
Salford +6 6 £385 -9.41% 4
Bolton +5 4 £300 +30.43% 6
Stockport +1 3 £375 +7.14% 16
Altrincham - 1 - - 12
Problem-Solving
North West

For the 6 months to 26 February 2020, IT contractor jobs citing Problem-Solving also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region with a requirement for Problem-Solving.

1 65 (48.87%) Agile Software Development
2 50 (37.59%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (31.58%) Windows
4 36 (27.07%) Continuous Integration
5 32 (24.06%) MySQL
5 32 (24.06%) Azure
6 31 (23.31%) SQL Server
7 30 (22.56%) AWS
8 28 (21.05%) Windows Server
9 25 (18.80%) Docker
9 25 (18.80%) MongoDB
9 25 (18.80%) Linux
10 24 (18.05%) VMware
10 24 (18.05%) Jenkins
10 24 (18.05%) Web Operations
11 23 (17.29%) High Availability
11 23 (17.29%) Finance
12 21 (15.79%) Octopus Deploy
13 20 (15.04%) Rancher
14 18 (13.53%) Public Sector
15 17 (12.78%) Java
15 17 (12.78%) Microsoft
16 15 (11.28%) Mentoring
17 14 (10.53%) Git (software)
17 14 (10.53%) Test Automation
17 14 (10.53%) Coaching
17 14 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
18 13 (9.77%) Degree
18 13 (9.77%) User Experience
18 13 (9.77%) Relational Database

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring IT Skills in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.26%) Commerce Server
2 3 (2.26%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.26%) Skype for Business
2 3 (2.26%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.50%) Confluence
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.75%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.75%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.50%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.75%) InVision
4 1 (0.75%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.75%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (24.06%) Azure
2 30 (22.56%) AWS
3 11 (8.27%) Office 365
4 10 (7.52%) GCP
5 8 (6.02%) GitHub
6 3 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.50%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.75%) IaaS
8 1 (0.75%) iTunes
8 1 (0.75%) npm
8 1 (0.75%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.75%) SaaS
8 1 (0.75%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.77%) Wireless
2 6 (4.51%) Skype
3 5 (3.76%) Structured Cabling
3 5 (3.76%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (3.01%) Firewall
5 3 (2.26%) IP Telephony
5 3 (2.26%) LAN
5 3 (2.26%) Network Security
5 3 (2.26%) Unified Communications
5 3 (2.26%) WAN
5 3 (2.26%) WLAN
6 2 (1.50%) VPN
7 1 (0.75%) BGP
7 1 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.75%) DHCP
7 1 (0.75%) DNS
7 1 (0.75%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.75%) HTTP
7 1 (0.75%) MPLS
7 1 (0.75%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (24.06%) MySQL
2 31 (23.31%) SQL Server
3 25 (18.80%) MongoDB
4 13 (9.77%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.01%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.26%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.50%) Big Data
7 2 (1.50%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.50%) DataStage
7 2 (1.50%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.75%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.75%) DTS
8 1 (0.75%) Looker
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.75%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.75%) Power BI
8 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.75%) SQL Server 2005
8 1 (0.75%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 24 (18.05%) Jenkins
2 21 (15.79%) Octopus Deploy
3 14 (10.53%) Git (software)
4 9 (6.77%) GitLab
5 4 (3.01%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.01%) Subversion
6 3 (2.26%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.26%) Gerrit
6 3 (2.26%) JUnit
6 3 (2.26%) Robot Framework
6 3 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.26%) Vagrant
7 2 (1.50%) JIRA
7 2 (1.50%) Moq
7 2 (1.50%) NUnit
7 2 (1.50%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.75%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.75%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio Team System
8 1 (0.75%) WinRunner
General
1 23 (17.29%) Finance
2 18 (13.53%) Public Sector
3 6 (4.51%) Banking
3 6 (4.51%) Legal
4 5 (3.76%) Games
5 2 (1.50%) Automotive
5 2 (1.50%) Housing Association
5 2 (1.50%) Local Government
5 2 (1.50%) Retail
6 1 (0.75%) Dutch Language
6 1 (0.75%) Law
6 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.75%) Police
6 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (17.29%) WebOps Engineer
2 20 (15.04%) Analyst
3 18 (13.53%) Developer
4 15 (11.28%) Web Engineer
5 13 (9.77%) Operations Engineer
6 9 (6.77%) Business Analyst
7 8 (6.02%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Architect
8 7 (5.26%) Designer
8 7 (5.26%) Project Manager
9 6 (4.51%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Java Developer
9 6 (4.51%) Java Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.51%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (4.51%) Senior Java Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.27%) CSS
1 11 (8.27%) HTML
2 10 (7.52%) HTML5
3 9 (6.77%) RESTful
4 8 (6.02%) .NET
4 8 (6.02%) React Native
4 8 (6.02%) Spring
4 8 (6.02%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.26%) XML
6 2 (1.50%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 2 (1.50%) WinForms
7 1 (0.75%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (0.75%) CSS3
7 1 (0.75%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.75%) Kafka
7 1 (0.75%) Node.js
7 1 (0.75%) React
7 1 (0.75%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 1 (0.75%) Vue.js
7 1 (0.75%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 50 (37.59%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (9.77%) User Experience
3 12 (9.02%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (7.52%) Mobile App
5 5 (3.76%) Smartphone
6 4 (3.01%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.01%) Smart Meter
7 3 (2.26%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.26%) NHS
7 3 (2.26%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (2.26%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.50%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.50%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.75%) iPhone
9 1 (0.75%) Life Science
9 1 (0.75%) PlayStation
9 1 (0.75%) Social Media
9 1 (0.75%) Xbox
Operating Systems
1 42 (31.58%) Windows
2 28 (21.05%) Windows Server
3 25 (18.80%) Linux
4 6 (4.51%) Windows 10
4 6 (4.51%) Windows 7
5 5 (3.76%) Apple iOS
5 5 (3.76%) Mac OS X
6 4 (3.01%) Android
7 3 (2.26%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (1.50%) Unix
8 2 (1.50%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.75%) CentOS
9 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.75%) VMS
9 1 (0.75%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.75%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (48.87%) Agile Software Development
2 36 (27.07%) Continuous Integration
3 24 (18.05%) Web Operations
4 23 (17.29%) High Availability
5 15 (11.28%) Mentoring
6 14 (10.53%) Coaching
6 14 (10.53%) Test Automation
7 12 (9.02%) Decision-Making
7 12 (9.02%) Software Engineering
7 12 (9.02%) TDD
8 11 (8.27%) OO
8 11 (8.27%) Project Management
8 11 (8.27%) Scrum
9 10 (7.52%) OOP
9 10 (7.52%) Software Delivery
9 10 (7.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (6.77%) Microservices
10 9 (6.77%) SOA
10 9 (6.77%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 8 (6.02%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.78%) Java
2 11 (8.27%) SQL
3 8 (6.02%) C
3 8 (6.02%) Python
4 7 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.51%) C#
5 6 (4.51%) ES6
6 5 (3.76%) ES7
6 5 (3.76%) ES8
7 4 (3.01%) Bash Shell
8 3 (2.26%) C++
8 3 (2.26%) Go
8 3 (2.26%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.75%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.75%) ActionScript 3.0
9 1 (0.75%) Perl
9 1 (0.75%) Ruby
9 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.75%) VB
9 1 (0.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (9.77%) Degree
2 8 (6.02%) MCP
3 3 (2.26%) A+ Certification
3 3 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.50%) CCNA
4 2 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.50%) MCSE
4 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.50%) RHCE
4 2 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (0.75%) CCIE
5 1 (0.75%) CCIE Routing and Switching
5 1 (0.75%) CCNP
5 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.75%) ISEB
5 1 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.75%) MCSA
5 1 (0.75%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.75%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.51%) QA
2 2 (1.50%) SLA
3 1 (0.75%) GMP
3 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.75%) PMO
System Software
1 25 (18.80%) Docker
2 7 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.51%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.75%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.75%) Firmware
5 1 (0.75%) RACF
5 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.75%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (15.04%) Rancher
2 7 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.01%) Ansible
3 4 (3.01%) Grafana
3 4 (3.01%) Terraform
4 3 (2.26%) FortiGate
4 3 (2.26%) Kibana
5 2 (1.50%) SCCM
6 1 (0.75%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.75%) Opscode Chef
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.75%) Puppet
6 1 (0.75%) Rsyslog
6 1 (0.75%) SCOM
6 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.75%) VictorOps
6 1 (0.75%) vMotion
6 1 (0.75%) vRealize
Vendors
1 24 (18.05%) VMware
2 17 (12.78%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.52%) Apple
3 10 (7.52%) Cisco
3 10 (7.52%) Google
4 6 (4.51%) Pega
5 5 (3.76%) HP
6 4 (3.01%) Citrix
7 3 (2.26%) Coverity
7 3 (2.26%) Meraki
7 3 (2.26%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.50%) F5
8 2 (1.50%) Informatica
8 2 (1.50%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.50%) Oracle
8 2 (1.50%) Sage
9 1 (0.75%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.75%) Perforce
9 1 (0.75%) Salesforce.com
9 1 (0.75%) UiPath