The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Twitter products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Twitter over the 3 months to 24 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 Vendors for the Berkshire 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Twitter, Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Twitter
Rank 118 129 125
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -4
Contract jobs citing Twitter 2 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.084% 0.191% 0.134%
As % of the Vendors category 0.164% 0.382% 0.258%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 4
Average daily rate £340 £283 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.35% +2.72%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 - -
All Vendors
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1218 1569 1553
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 50.86% 49.89% 52.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 537 551
Average daily rate £363 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £225 £217
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 81 90
Average hourly rate £20.50 £20.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% -37.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.85 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.80 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Twitter
South East

Twitter
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Twitter across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Berkshire Twitter Jobs Demand Trend

Twitter
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Twitter across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Twitter Daily Rate Trend

Twitter
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Twitter within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Reading - 1 £340 -
Twitter
South East

Twitter
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Twitter also 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 that cited Twitter.

1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
1 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Google Maps API
2 1 (25.00%) Product Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (25.00%) ExpressionEngine
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) Social Media
2 1 (25.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (25.00%) Social Media Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (25.00%) Backbone.js
2 1 (25.00%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (25.00%) Facebook
2 1 (25.00%) CQRS
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 1 (25.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Advertising
2 1 (25.00%) CMS
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) TDD

Twitter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Twitter also 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 that cited Twitter. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Google Maps API
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (25.00%) Backbone.js
2 1 (25.00%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 1 (25.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 1 (25.00%) Ajax
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) ExpressionEngine
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (25.00%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (25.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Advertising
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Communications Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing Manager
2 1 (25.00%) PHP Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Social Media
1 1 (25.00%) Digital Media
1 1 (25.00%) Blog
1 1 (25.00%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Product Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) Social Media Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) CQRS
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Telemarketing
2 1 (25.00%) Email Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) PHP5
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCIE
1 1 (25.00%) CCSP
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) CCIP
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Facebook
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft