Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 20 June 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 20 June 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
20 Jun 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 29 35 38
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 190 130 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 6.23% 4.87% 4.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.22% 5.96% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 57 96
Manchester median daily rate £375 £370 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +1.35% -12.94% +25.00%
10th Percentile £173 £126 £238
90th Percentile £533 £482 £500
North West median daily rate £375 £385 £400
% change year-on-year -2.60% -3.75% +3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 5
Manchester median hourly rate £17.50 £40.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -56.25% +207.69% +11.97%
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.85 £10.70
90th Percentile £42.00 £43.75 £29.90
North West median hourly rate £20.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -52.94% +112.50% -13.04%

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 2,633 2,180 3,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.38% 81.65% 83.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,713 1,316 1,818
Manchester median daily rate £400 £384 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +4.23% -4.06% +14.29%
10th Percentile £263 £225 £250
90th Percentile £575 £550 £540
North West median daily rate £400 £400 £400
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 54 51
Manchester median hourly rate £18.79 £20.25 £18.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -7.21% +12.50% +24.14%
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.75 £12.50
90th Percentile £40.40 £43.75 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £23.20 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -31.76% +4.62% +30.00%

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 20 June 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
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Problem-Solving in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 June 2018.

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 20 June 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 +11 20 £250 -39.39% 3
Stockport -1 7 £300 -4.00% 4
Bolton +7 3 £238 -31.16% 6
Sale - 1 £350 - 4
Wigan - 1 £388 - 3
Altrincham - 1 - - 2
Problem-Solving
North West

For the 6 months to 20 June 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 65 (34.21%) Analytical Skills
2 55 (28.95%) Agile Software Development
3 38 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 33 (17.37%) Windows
5 32 (16.84%) ITIL
6 28 (14.74%) SQL
7 27 (14.21%) Java
8 26 (13.68%) Linux
8 26 (13.68%) Degree
9 25 (13.16%) Oracle
9 25 (13.16%) Finance
10 24 (12.63%) JavaScript
11 22 (11.58%) Continuous Integration
12 20 (10.53%) Time Management
12 20 (10.53%) C#
12 20 (10.53%) Web Services
12 20 (10.53%) Scrum
13 19 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (10.00%) HTML
14 18 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (9.47%) Analytics
15 17 (8.95%) Windows Server
15 17 (8.95%) .NET
15 17 (8.95%) Active Directory
15 17 (8.95%) Android
16 16 (8.42%) QA
16 16 (8.42%) SQL Server
16 16 (8.42%) VB
16 16 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
17 15 (7.89%) SAP

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 9 (4.74%) MS Exchange
2 7 (3.68%) Apache
3 6 (3.16%) Exchange Server 2010
3 6 (3.16%) NetWeaver
3 6 (3.16%) WebLogic
4 5 (2.63%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 5 (2.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (2.63%) SAS
4 5 (2.63%) Tomcat
5 4 (2.11%) Exchange Server 2013
5 4 (2.11%) Skype for Business
5 4 (2.11%) WebLogic Integration
6 3 (1.58%) WebSphere
7 2 (1.05%) CICS
7 2 (1.05%) CMS
7 2 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.05%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (1.05%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (1.05%) SAP Portal
7 2 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (7.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.11%) SAP Hybris
2 3 (1.58%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.05%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 2 (1.05%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.53%) Magento
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.53%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.53%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.53%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.53%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 12 (6.32%) Office 365
2 10 (5.26%) Amazon AWS
3 9 (4.74%) Microsoft Azure
4 8 (4.21%) GitHub
5 4 (2.11%) SaaS
6 3 (1.58%) PaaS
7 2 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.05%) IaaS
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (0.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Active Directory
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.53%) Google Cloud Platform
8 1 (0.53%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.79%) DNS
2 10 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 9 (4.74%) DHCP
3 9 (4.74%) SMS
4 8 (4.21%) VPN
5 7 (3.68%) HTTP
6 6 (3.16%) FTP
6 6 (3.16%) LAN
6 6 (3.16%) WAN
7 4 (2.11%) Internet
7 4 (2.11%) SNMP
8 3 (1.58%) IPsec
8 3 (1.58%) SAN
8 3 (1.58%) Skype
8 3 (1.58%) SSL
8 3 (1.58%) Wireless
9 2 (1.05%) IPFIX
9 2 (1.05%) Junos
9 2 (1.05%) MRTG
9 2 (1.05%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
1 16 (8.42%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.32%) MySQL
3 11 (5.79%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (4.21%) Oracle Database
6 7 (3.68%) Big Data
6 7 (3.68%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.16%) DB2
7 6 (3.16%) Hadoop
7 6 (3.16%) SAP BW
8 5 (2.63%) Apache Hive
8 5 (2.63%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (2.63%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.63%) HBase
8 5 (2.63%) MS Access
8 5 (2.63%) Pentaho
9 4 (2.11%) RavenDB
9 4 (2.11%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (6.84%) Jenkins
1 13 (6.84%) Visual Studio
2 12 (6.32%) JIRA
3 10 (5.26%) Git (software)
4 8 (4.21%) Mercurial
5 5 (2.63%) ERwin
5 5 (2.63%) Subversion
6 4 (2.11%) Selenium
7 3 (1.58%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.58%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.58%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.05%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.05%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.05%) JMeter
8 2 (1.05%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.53%) git-flow
9 1 (0.53%) Mocha
9 1 (0.53%) RSpec
9 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.53%) Xcode
General
1 25 (13.16%) Finance
2 8 (4.21%) Retail
3 7 (3.68%) Banking
3 7 (3.68%) Games
4 6 (3.16%) Law
4 6 (3.16%) Legal
4 6 (3.16%) Manufacturing
4 6 (3.16%) Marketing
5 5 (2.63%) Publishing
6 3 (1.58%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.53%) International Banking
7 1 (0.53%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 46 (24.21%) Developer
2 35 (18.42%) Analyst
3 13 (6.84%) Business Analyst
3 13 (6.84%) Consultant
4 8 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (4.21%) Service Analyst
5 7 (3.68%) .NET Developer
5 7 (3.68%) Architect
5 7 (3.68%) Service Desk Analyst
6 6 (3.16%) C# Developer
6 6 (3.16%) Data Architect
6 6 (3.16%) User Researcher
7 5 (2.63%) 1st Line Support
7 5 (2.63%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
7 5 (2.63%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (2.63%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (2.63%) Java Developer
7 5 (2.63%) Service Desk Support
7 5 (2.63%) Service Desk Support Analyst
7 5 (2.63%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.53%) Web Services
2 19 (10.00%) HTML
3 17 (8.95%) .NET
4 15 (7.89%) CSS
5 13 (6.84%) JSON
6 12 (6.32%) SOAP
7 10 (5.26%) RESTful
7 10 (5.26%) XML
8 9 (4.74%) Ajax
8 9 (4.74%) CSS3
8 9 (4.74%) Django
8 9 (4.74%) HTML5
8 9 (4.74%) jQuery
8 9 (4.74%) Middleware
8 9 (4.74%) Node.js
9 8 (4.21%) ASP.NET
9 8 (4.21%) REST
10 5 (2.63%) AngularJS
10 5 (2.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 5 (2.63%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 65 (34.21%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (6.84%) Management Information System
2 13 (6.84%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.74%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.21%) Computer Science
5 7 (3.68%) Blackberry
6 6 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.11%) N-Tier
8 3 (1.58%) Kindle
8 3 (1.58%) Life Science
8 3 (1.58%) Semantic Web
8 3 (1.58%) User Experience
9 2 (1.05%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.05%) Blog
9 2 (1.05%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.05%) IBM Mainframe
9 2 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (17.37%) Windows
2 26 (13.68%) Linux
3 17 (8.95%) Android
3 17 (8.95%) Windows Server
4 14 (7.37%) Apple iOS
4 14 (7.37%) Unix
5 6 (3.16%) SUSE
5 6 (3.16%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (2.63%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (2.11%) HPUX
7 4 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.11%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.05%) AIX
8 2 (1.05%) CentOS
8 2 (1.05%) Debian
8 2 (1.05%) Solaris
8 2 (1.05%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.05%) Windows XP
9 1 (0.53%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (28.95%) Agile Software Development
2 32 (16.84%) ITIL
3 22 (11.58%) Continuous Integration
4 20 (10.53%) Scrum
4 20 (10.53%) Time Management
5 19 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (9.47%) Analytics
6 18 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (7.89%) Decision-Making
7 15 (7.89%) DevOps
7 15 (7.89%) TDD
8 14 (7.37%) Open Source
9 13 (6.84%) Change Management
9 13 (6.84%) Project Management
9 13 (6.84%) Service Management
9 13 (6.84%) SOA
10 12 (6.32%) Android Development
10 12 (6.32%) Migration
10 12 (6.32%) Service Delivery
11 11 (5.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (14.74%) SQL
2 27 (14.21%) Java
3 24 (12.63%) JavaScript
4 20 (10.53%) C#
5 16 (8.42%) VB
6 14 (7.37%) Python
7 8 (4.21%) C++
7 8 (4.21%) T-SQL
8 7 (3.68%) Scala
9 5 (2.63%) Groovy
9 5 (2.63%) Perl
9 5 (2.63%) Ruby
9 5 (2.63%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.11%) FoxPro (VFP)
10 4 (2.11%) R
11 3 (1.58%) Go
11 3 (1.58%) PHP
12 2 (1.05%) COBOL
12 2 (1.05%) F#
12 2 (1.05%) JCL
Qualifications
1 26 (13.68%) Degree
2 6 (3.16%) CCNA
2 6 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (3.16%) DBS Check
2 6 (3.16%) ISTQB
2 6 (3.16%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.63%) ISEB
3 5 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.58%) MBA
5 3 (1.58%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.05%) ACCA
6 2 (1.05%) CIMA
6 2 (1.05%) CISA
6 2 (1.05%) CISM
6 2 (1.05%) CISSP
6 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.42%) QA
2 5 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.63%) SLA
3 3 (1.58%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.58%) PMO
4 2 (1.05%) COBIT
4 2 (1.05%) COSO
4 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (8.95%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.63%) Docker
4 4 (2.11%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.05%) KVM
5 2 (1.05%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.05%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (3.16%) Puppet
2 5 (2.63%) Opscode Chef
3 4 (2.11%) HP ALM
3 4 (2.11%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.58%) Ansible
4 3 (1.58%) Salt
4 3 (1.58%) SCCM
5 2 (1.05%) Cacti
5 2 (1.05%) collectd
5 2 (1.05%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 2 (1.05%) Grafana
5 2 (1.05%) Graphite
5 2 (1.05%) Icinga
5 2 (1.05%) Kibana
5 2 (1.05%) Nagios
5 2 (1.05%) Netcool
5 2 (1.05%) OpenNMS
5 2 (1.05%) Terraform
5 2 (1.05%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 38 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.16%) Oracle
3 15 (7.89%) SAP
4 14 (7.37%) Cisco
5 11 (5.79%) VMware
6 10 (5.26%) Citrix
7 9 (4.74%) Ivanti
8 7 (3.68%) Red Hat
9 6 (3.16%) HP
9 6 (3.16%) IBM
10 5 (2.63%) CA
10 5 (2.63%) Informatica
10 5 (2.63%) Tableau
11 4 (2.11%) Apple
11 4 (2.11%) Google
11 4 (2.11%) hybris
11 4 (2.11%) IronPort
11 4 (2.11%) TIBCO
12 3 (1.58%) Atlassian
13 2 (1.05%) Huawei