Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 16 December 2018

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 16 December 2018 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
16 Dec 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 20 39 31
Rank change year-on-year +19 -8 -2
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 217 143 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 6.82% 4.91% 5.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.31% 5.93% 6.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 67 111
Manchester median daily rate £378 £374 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +1.00% -12.05% +12.43%
10th Percentile £165 £186 £250
90th Percentile £527 £550 £573
North West median daily rate £375 £375 £413
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 11
Manchester median hourly rate £17.50 £40.00 £13.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -56.26% +196.30% -53.45%
10th Percentile £13.84 £14.91 £11.25
90th Percentile £19.72 £43.00 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £19.18 £40.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year -52.06% +166.67% -52.38%

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 2,610 2,413 2,918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 82.02% 82.89% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,670 1,570 1,845
Manchester median daily rate £400 £400 £400
10th Percentile £263 £263 £255
90th Percentile £575 £575 £538
North West median daily rate £410 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 83 61
Manchester median hourly rate £17.75 £19.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -6.58% +18.75% -15.79%
10th Percentile £12.44 £11.75 £11.25
90th Percentile £33.88 £45.00 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £22.43 £27.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.93% +12.50% -17.24%

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 16 December 2018.

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
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 16 December 2018. 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 -2 14 £250 -41.18% 6
Stockport +2 7 £350 -3.45% 11
Bolton +7 4 £240 - 5
Cheadle -3 1 £140 - 3
Problem-Solving
North West

For the 6 months to 16 December 2018, 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 63 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 59 (27.19%) Windows
3 58 (26.73%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (24.42%) Agile Software Development
5 52 (23.96%) ITIL
6 41 (18.89%) .NET
7 34 (15.67%) SQL
8 32 (14.75%) Internet
9 30 (13.82%) Java
10 29 (13.36%) Active Directory
11 28 (12.90%) Finance
12 25 (11.52%) Microsoft Azure
13 24 (11.06%) Intranet
14 23 (10.60%) NHS
15 22 (10.14%) HTML
15 22 (10.14%) Kalman Filter
15 22 (10.14%) Web Filtering
16 21 (9.68%) Windows Server
16 21 (9.68%) Windows 10
16 21 (9.68%) C#
16 21 (9.68%) CSS
17 20 (9.22%) VMware
18 19 (8.76%) Amazon AWS
18 19 (8.76%) Retail
19 18 (8.29%) SCCM
19 18 (8.29%) Linux
20 17 (7.83%) Security Cleared
20 17 (7.83%) Continuous Integration
20 17 (7.83%) DevOps
21 16 (7.37%) Test Automation

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 13 (5.99%) NetWeaver
2 8 (3.69%) MS Exchange
3 5 (2.30%) Confluence
3 5 (2.30%) IBM Notes
3 5 (2.30%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.84%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (1.38%) ArcGIS
5 3 (1.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 3 (1.38%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (1.38%) IIS
5 3 (1.38%) JBoss
5 3 (1.38%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.92%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.92%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.46%) Apache
7 1 (0.46%) Mongrel
7 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.46%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.46%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 13 (5.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (5.99%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.92%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Eikon
2 2 (0.92%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.46%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 25 (11.52%) Microsoft Azure
2 19 (8.76%) Amazon AWS
3 14 (6.45%) Office 365
4 8 (3.69%) GitHub
5 6 (2.76%) Google Cloud Platform
6 5 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (2.30%) IaaS
7 4 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.38%) PaaS
9 2 (0.92%) Google Analytics
9 2 (0.92%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (0.92%) SaaS
10 1 (0.46%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.46%) Google App Engine
10 1 (0.46%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 32 (14.75%) Internet
2 24 (11.06%) Intranet
3 11 (5.07%) TCP/IP
4 10 (4.61%) DNS
5 9 (4.15%) LAN
6 8 (3.69%) DHCP
6 8 (3.69%) WAN
7 7 (3.23%) HTTP
7 7 (3.23%) Wireless
8 6 (2.76%) Firewall
9 5 (2.30%) FTP
9 5 (2.30%) IPsec
9 5 (2.30%) VPN
10 4 (1.84%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (1.38%) SAN
11 3 (1.38%) Sourcefire
12 2 (0.92%) Skype
12 2 (0.92%) SSL
12 2 (0.92%) VoIP
13 1 (0.46%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.99%) SAP BW
2 11 (5.07%) MySQL
2 11 (5.07%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.15%) Hadoop
4 7 (3.23%) DB2
5 6 (2.76%) RavenDB
6 5 (2.30%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.84%) Ingres
7 4 (1.84%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.38%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.38%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.38%) OLAP
8 3 (1.38%) OLAP Cube
8 3 (1.38%) Pentaho
8 3 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.38%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.92%) Power BI
9 2 (0.92%) SQL Server 2016
10 1 (0.46%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 14 (6.45%) Git (software)
2 10 (4.61%) Eclipse
2 10 (4.61%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.69%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.23%) JIRA
5 6 (2.76%) Selenium
6 4 (1.84%) Visual Studio Coded UI
7 3 (1.38%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.38%) Metasploit
7 3 (1.38%) Visual Studio Team System
8 2 (0.92%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.46%) FishEye
9 1 (0.46%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.46%) Protractor
9 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.46%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.46%) Travis CI
General
1 28 (12.90%) Finance
2 19 (8.76%) Retail
3 8 (3.69%) Banking
3 8 (3.69%) Games
4 6 (2.76%) Legal
5 5 (2.30%) Financial Institution
5 5 (2.30%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.38%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.38%) Front Office
6 3 (1.38%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.38%) Military
7 2 (0.92%) Back Office
7 2 (0.92%) Law
7 2 (0.92%) Marketing
7 2 (0.92%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.46%) Automotive
8 1 (0.46%) French Language
8 1 (0.46%) German Language
8 1 (0.46%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 58 (26.73%) Analyst
2 44 (20.28%) Developer
3 25 (11.52%) Service Analyst
3 25 (11.52%) Service Desk Analyst
4 14 (6.45%) Consultant
5 13 (5.99%) .NET Developer
5 13 (5.99%) SAP Analyst
6 10 (4.61%) Administrator
6 10 (4.61%) IT Analyst
7 9 (4.15%) IT Support
8 8 (3.69%) Architect
8 8 (3.69%) C# .NET Developer
8 8 (3.69%) C# Developer
9 7 (3.23%) Business Analyst
9 7 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (3.23%) Support Engineer
10 6 (2.76%) Desktop Engineer
10 6 (2.76%) Software Developer
11 5 (2.30%) Senior Consultant
11 5 (2.30%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (18.89%) .NET
2 22 (10.14%) HTML
3 21 (9.68%) CSS
4 11 (5.07%) HTML5
5 10 (4.61%) XML
6 9 (4.15%) ASP.NET
6 9 (4.15%) CSS3
6 9 (4.15%) React
6 9 (4.15%) SAPUI5
6 9 (4.15%) SOAP
6 9 (4.15%) Web Dynpro
7 8 (3.69%) Web Services
8 7 (3.23%) jQuery
8 7 (3.23%) RESTful
8 7 (3.23%) Sass
8 7 (3.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 6 (2.76%) ASP.NET Core
9 6 (2.76%) Middleware
10 5 (2.30%) WinForms
11 4 (1.84%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 58 (26.73%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (10.60%) NHS
3 9 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.69%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.76%) Blackberry
5 6 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.30%) Fat Client
6 5 (2.30%) RIA
6 5 (2.30%) Semantic Web
6 5 (2.30%) Thin Client
6 5 (2.30%) User Experience
7 4 (1.84%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.84%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.84%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.38%) Equities
8 3 (1.38%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.38%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.38%) Robotics
9 2 (0.92%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 59 (27.19%) Windows
2 21 (9.68%) Windows 10
2 21 (9.68%) Windows Server
3 18 (8.29%) Linux
4 14 (6.45%) Windows 7
5 11 (5.07%) Unix
6 10 (4.61%) Windows XP
7 5 (2.30%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (1.84%) Android
8 4 (1.84%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.38%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (1.38%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.92%) Solaris
11 1 (0.46%) AIX
11 1 (0.46%) CentOS
11 1 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.46%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (24.42%) Agile Software Development
2 52 (23.96%) ITIL
3 22 (10.14%) Kalman Filter
3 22 (10.14%) Web Filtering
4 17 (7.83%) Continuous Integration
4 17 (7.83%) DevOps
5 16 (7.37%) Scrum
5 16 (7.37%) Service Management
5 16 (7.37%) Test Automation
6 15 (6.91%) TDD
7 13 (5.99%) Change Management
8 12 (5.53%) Configuration Management
8 12 (5.53%) Software Engineering
9 11 (5.07%) Project Management
10 10 (4.61%) Migration
10 10 (4.61%) Service Delivery
10 10 (4.61%) User Stories
11 9 (4.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (4.15%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (4.15%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (15.67%) SQL
2 30 (13.82%) Java
3 21 (9.68%) C#
4 16 (7.37%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.07%) ABAP
6 8 (3.69%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.23%) Python
7 7 (3.23%) VB
8 6 (2.76%) Bash Shell
8 6 (2.76%) ES6
8 6 (2.76%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.30%) R
10 4 (1.84%) C
10 4 (1.84%) C++
10 4 (1.84%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.84%) VB.NET
11 3 (1.38%) PHP
11 3 (1.38%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.92%) Perl
12 2 (0.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (7.83%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 10 (4.61%) Degree
3 10 (4.61%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.23%) MCSE
6 6 (2.76%) CISSP
7 5 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 4 (1.84%) CEH
8 4 (1.84%) MCP
8 4 (1.84%) MCSA
8 4 (1.84%) MCTS
9 3 (1.38%) CCNA
9 3 (1.38%) CREST Certified
9 3 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.92%) CCNP
10 2 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.92%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.46%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.15%) SLA
2 6 (2.76%) QA
3 4 (1.84%) COBIT
3 4 (1.84%) COSO
3 4 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.46%) PMO
System Software
1 29 (13.36%) Active Directory
2 15 (6.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.23%) vSphere
4 6 (2.76%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.30%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.38%) Terminal Services
6 3 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.92%) Docker
8 1 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.46%) Xen
8 1 (0.46%) XenApp
8 1 (0.46%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (8.29%) SCCM
2 10 (4.61%) Puppet
3 8 (3.69%) Ansible
3 8 (3.69%) Opscode Chef
3 8 (3.69%) Terraform
4 5 (2.30%) NetBackup
4 5 (2.30%) vMotion
4 5 (2.30%) vRealize
5 4 (1.84%) Grafana
5 4 (1.84%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.84%) QRadar
5 4 (1.84%) Salt
5 4 (1.84%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.46%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 63 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.22%) VMware
3 16 (7.37%) Citrix
3 16 (7.37%) SAP
4 12 (5.53%) HP
4 12 (5.53%) Oracle
5 8 (3.69%) Google
6 6 (2.76%) Cisco
6 6 (2.76%) McAfee
7 5 (2.30%) Altiris
7 5 (2.30%) Lotus
7 5 (2.30%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.30%) Xerox
8 4 (1.84%) BMC
8 4 (1.84%) Cloudera
8 4 (1.84%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.84%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.38%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.38%) Forcepoint
9 3 (1.38%) Sophos