The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Twitter products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Twitter over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Bristol 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Twitter
Rank 42 - 53
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Twitter 3 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.609% - 0.577%
As % of the Vendors category 1.630% - 1.338%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
Average daily rate £325 - £145
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 £22.66 - £22.50
All Vendors
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
184 285 299
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 37.32% 32.53% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 168 132
Average daily rate £325 £301 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.15% +0.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £135 £218
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £413 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 26
Average hourly rate £16.00 £22.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.88% +28.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £12.90 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.50 £41.20 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Twitter
South West

Twitter
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol Twitter Daily Rate Trend

Twitter
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 (66.67%) MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) VB6
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) VB
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) ASP
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) XML
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Requirements Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) ReSharper
1 2 (66.67%) LINQ
1 2 (66.67%) jQuery
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Inversion of Control
1 2 (66.67%) Social Media
1 2 (66.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 2 (66.67%) Facebook

Twitter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) ASP
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) XML
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) LINQ
1 2 (66.67%) jQuery
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (66.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) ReSharper
1 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Vignette Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Inversion of Control
1 2 (66.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) Requirements Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) VB6
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) VB
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Facebook
2 1 (33.33%) Vignette