Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 20 August 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 August 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 Aug 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 20 39 37
Rank change year-on-year +19 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 226 135 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 6.97% 4.70% 4.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.25% 5.71% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 68 89
Manchester median daily rate £375 £375 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - -11.76% +13.33%
10th Percentile £158 £160 £224
90th Percentile £487 £491 £500
North West median daily rate £375 £375 £400
% change year-on-year - -6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 10
Manchester median hourly rate £17.50 £40.00 £12.79
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -56.25% +212.74% -14.73%
10th Percentile £12.38 £20.20 £10.48
90th Percentile £41.80 £44.88 £47.13
North West median hourly rate £20.00 £42.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -52.94% +183.33% -49.53%

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 2,740 2,366 3,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 84.46% 82.35% 83.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,776 1,451 1,892
Manchester median daily rate £400 £388 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +3.23% -3.13% +9.59%
10th Percentile £263 £235 £250
90th Percentile £575 £538 £538
North West median daily rate £400 £400 £400
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 72 55
Manchester median hourly rate £25.36 £19.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +33.46% +24.59% -1.61%
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.75 £10.70
90th Percentile £41.40 £45.00 £40.90
North West median hourly rate £23.75 £35.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -32.14% +29.63% -1.82%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +5 19 £250 -44.44% 7
Stockport 0 6 £160 -58.71% 6
Wigan - 1 £388 - 1
Problem-Solving
North West

For the 6 months to 20 August 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 77 (34.07%) Analytical Skills
2 64 (28.32%) Microsoft
3 52 (23.01%) Windows
4 49 (21.68%) ITIL
5 45 (19.91%) Agile Software Development
6 31 (13.72%) Active Directory
7 30 (13.27%) SQL
8 29 (12.83%) Finance
9 27 (11.95%) Java
10 24 (10.62%) .NET
11 23 (10.18%) VMware
12 21 (9.29%) Linux
12 21 (9.29%) Citrix
12 21 (9.29%) Windows Server
13 20 (8.85%) JavaScript
14 19 (8.41%) SAP
14 19 (8.41%) Degree
14 19 (8.41%) Continuous Integration
14 19 (8.41%) Office 365
15 18 (7.96%) SCCM
15 18 (7.96%) VMware Infrastructure
15 18 (7.96%) Oracle
15 18 (7.96%) Microsoft Excel
15 18 (7.96%) Service Management
15 18 (7.96%) Change Management
16 17 (7.52%) Migration
16 17 (7.52%) Stakeholder Management
16 17 (7.52%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (7.52%) Analytics
17 16 (7.08%) Workflow

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 15 (6.64%) NetWeaver
2 13 (5.75%) MS Exchange
3 9 (3.98%) Exchange Server 2010
4 6 (2.65%) Exchange Server 2013
5 5 (2.21%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 5 (2.21%) IBM Notes
5 5 (2.21%) SAS
6 4 (1.77%) Skype for Business
7 3 (1.33%) IIS
7 3 (1.33%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.33%) WebLogic
7 3 (1.33%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.88%) Apache
8 2 (0.88%) CICS
8 2 (0.88%) Confluence
8 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.88%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.88%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.88%) SAP Portal
8 2 (0.88%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 18 (7.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.87%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.88%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.77%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.88%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 1 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.44%) Magento
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.44%) SAP APO
3 1 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.44%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.44%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 19 (8.41%) Office 365
2 13 (5.75%) Microsoft Azure
3 9 (3.98%) Amazon AWS
4 8 (3.54%) GitHub
5 3 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (1.33%) Google Cloud Platform
5 3 (1.33%) IaaS
6 2 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (0.88%) Google Analytics
6 2 (0.88%) Google Tag Manager
6 2 (0.88%) SaaS
7 1 (0.44%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.44%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (0.44%) Azure Active Directory
7 1 (0.44%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.44%) PaaS
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.64%) Internet
2 14 (6.19%) DNS
3 13 (5.75%) LAN
3 13 (5.75%) WAN
4 12 (5.31%) DHCP
5 11 (4.87%) Intranet
5 11 (4.87%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.54%) SMS
6 8 (3.54%) VPN
6 8 (3.54%) Wireless
7 7 (3.10%) HTTP
8 5 (2.21%) FTP
8 5 (2.21%) IPsec
8 5 (2.21%) SAN
9 4 (1.77%) SNMP
10 3 (1.33%) Firewall
10 3 (1.33%) Skype
10 3 (1.33%) VoIP
11 2 (0.88%) IPFIX
11 2 (0.88%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.08%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (6.19%) SAP BW
4 11 (4.87%) MySQL
5 8 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.54%) DB2
6 7 (3.10%) Big Data
6 7 (3.10%) Hadoop
6 7 (3.10%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.21%) Apache Hive
7 5 (2.21%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (2.21%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.21%) HBase
7 5 (2.21%) Pentaho
8 4 (1.77%) RavenDB
8 4 (1.77%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.33%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.33%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (5.31%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.87%) Eclipse
3 9 (3.98%) Git (software)
3 9 (3.98%) Visual Studio
4 8 (3.54%) JIRA
5 7 (3.10%) Mercurial
6 5 (2.21%) ERwin
7 4 (1.77%) Subversion
8 3 (1.33%) Selenium
8 3 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.88%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.88%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.44%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.44%) git-flow
10 1 (0.44%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.44%) RSpec
10 1 (0.44%) RStudio
10 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 29 (12.83%) Finance
2 15 (6.64%) Retail
3 9 (3.98%) Manufacturing
4 6 (2.65%) Games
5 5 (2.21%) Law
5 5 (2.21%) Legal
5 5 (2.21%) Marketing
5 5 (2.21%) Publishing
6 4 (1.77%) Banking
7 2 (0.88%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.88%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (26.55%) Analyst
2 44 (19.47%) Developer
3 18 (7.96%) Service Analyst
4 17 (7.52%) Service Desk Analyst
5 14 (6.19%) Business Analyst
5 14 (6.19%) Consultant
6 11 (4.87%) IT Analyst
6 11 (4.87%) SAP Analyst
7 10 (4.42%) .NET Developer
8 9 (3.98%) 2nd Line Support
8 9 (3.98%) Desktop Support
9 8 (3.54%) IT Support
9 8 (3.54%) Support Engineer
10 7 (3.10%) C# .NET Developer
10 7 (3.10%) C# Developer
10 7 (3.10%) Desktop Engineer
10 7 (3.10%) Technical Engineer
11 6 (2.65%) Administrator
11 6 (2.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (2.65%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.62%) .NET
2 16 (7.08%) Web Services
3 15 (6.64%) HTML
4 13 (5.75%) Web Dynpro
5 12 (5.31%) CSS
5 12 (5.31%) XML
6 11 (4.87%) SAPUI5
6 11 (4.87%) SOAP
7 10 (4.42%) JSON
7 10 (4.42%) RESTful
8 8 (3.54%) Django
9 7 (3.10%) Ajax
9 7 (3.10%) Middleware
10 6 (2.65%) ASP.NET
10 6 (2.65%) CSS3
10 6 (2.65%) HTML5
10 6 (2.65%) jQuery
10 6 (2.65%) Node.js
11 5 (2.21%) REST
11 5 (2.21%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 77 (34.07%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (6.19%) Management Information System
3 13 (5.75%) Mobile App
4 12 (5.31%) NHS
5 7 (3.10%) Blackberry
5 7 (3.10%) Computer Science
5 7 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.65%) Fat Client
6 6 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.65%) Thin Client
7 4 (1.77%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.77%) Life Science
7 4 (1.77%) User Experience
8 3 (1.33%) Blog
8 3 (1.33%) Kindle
8 3 (1.33%) Robotics
8 3 (1.33%) Semantic Web
9 2 (0.88%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 52 (23.01%) Windows
2 21 (9.29%) Linux
2 21 (9.29%) Windows Server
3 16 (7.08%) Android
4 13 (5.75%) Unix
4 13 (5.75%) Windows 10
5 12 (5.31%) Apple iOS
5 12 (5.31%) Windows 7
6 11 (4.87%) Windows XP
7 6 (2.65%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (2.65%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.33%) SUSE
9 2 (0.88%) AIX
9 2 (0.88%) CentOS
9 2 (0.88%) Debian
9 2 (0.88%) Solaris
9 2 (0.88%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.44%) HPUX
10 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (21.68%) ITIL
2 45 (19.91%) Agile Software Development
3 19 (8.41%) Continuous Integration
4 18 (7.96%) Change Management
4 18 (7.96%) Service Management
5 17 (7.52%) Analytics
5 17 (7.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (7.52%) Migration
5 17 (7.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (7.08%) Time Management
6 16 (7.08%) Workflow
7 15 (6.64%) Business Development
8 14 (6.19%) TDD
9 13 (5.75%) Decision-Making
9 13 (5.75%) Kalman Filter
9 13 (5.75%) Scrum
10 12 (5.31%) Data Management
10 12 (5.31%) Test Automation
11 11 (4.87%) Open Source
11 11 (4.87%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 30 (13.27%) SQL
2 27 (11.95%) Java
3 20 (8.85%) JavaScript
4 16 (7.08%) C#
5 13 (5.75%) Python
5 13 (5.75%) VB
6 11 (4.87%) ABAP
7 7 (3.10%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.10%) Scala
7 7 (3.10%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.10%) T-SQL
8 6 (2.65%) C++
9 5 (2.21%) Groovy
10 4 (1.77%) Perl
10 4 (1.77%) R
10 4 (1.77%) Ruby
11 3 (1.33%) Bash Shell
11 3 (1.33%) Erlang
11 3 (1.33%) Haskell
11 3 (1.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (8.41%) Degree
2 10 (4.42%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (3.54%) CCNA
3 8 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (2.65%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (2.65%) MCSE
5 4 (1.77%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.77%) MCP
5 4 (1.77%) MCSA
5 4 (1.77%) MCTS
5 4 (1.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 4 (1.77%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.88%) CCNP
7 2 (0.88%) CISA
7 2 (0.88%) CISM
7 2 (0.88%) CISSP
7 2 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.44%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.64%) QA
2 7 (3.10%) SLA
3 5 (2.21%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.33%) PMO
5 2 (0.88%) COBIT
5 2 (0.88%) COSO
5 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (13.72%) Active Directory
2 18 (7.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.54%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.21%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.21%) vSphere
6 3 (1.33%) Docker
6 3 (1.33%) XenApp
7 2 (0.88%) KVM
7 2 (0.88%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.88%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (7.96%) SCCM
2 7 (3.10%) Puppet
3 5 (2.21%) Ansible
3 5 (2.21%) NetBackup
3 5 (2.21%) Opscode Chef
3 5 (2.21%) Salt
3 5 (2.21%) vMotion
3 5 (2.21%) vRealize
4 4 (1.77%) Grafana
4 4 (1.77%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.77%) Terraform
4 4 (1.77%) ZABBIX
5 3 (1.33%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.88%) collectd
6 2 (0.88%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 2 (0.88%) Graphite
6 2 (0.88%) Icinga
6 2 (0.88%) Kibana
Vendors
1 64 (28.32%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.18%) VMware
3 21 (9.29%) Citrix
4 19 (8.41%) SAP
5 18 (7.96%) Oracle
6 16 (7.08%) Cisco
7 10 (4.42%) HP
8 9 (3.98%) Ivanti
9 8 (3.54%) Google
10 6 (2.65%) IBM
11 5 (2.21%) Altiris
11 5 (2.21%) CA
11 5 (2.21%) Informatica
11 5 (2.21%) Lotus
11 5 (2.21%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.21%) Tableau
11 5 (2.21%) Xerox
12 4 (1.77%) IronPort
12 4 (1.77%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.88%) Huawei