The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Twitter products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge 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 Cambridge 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 - - -
Contract jobs citing Twitter 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge - - -
As % of the Vendors category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
156 176 87
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 47.42% 41.51% 33.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 89 37
Average daily rate £325 £315 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 14
Average hourly rate £20.00 £40.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% +220.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.45 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £47.50 £30.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Twitter
Cambridgeshire

Twitter
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Twitter Daily Rate Trend

Twitter
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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%) Military
1 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) VHDL
2 1 (33.33%) Verilog
2 1 (33.33%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Xilinx
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) OOD
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded C++
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) ISEB
2 1 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (33.33%) MATLAB
2 1 (33.33%) Simulink
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Finance

Twitter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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.

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 2 (66.67%) Military
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) FPGA Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) VHDL
2 1 (33.33%) Verilog
2 1 (33.33%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
1 1 (33.33%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded C++
1 1 (33.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Xilinx
1 1 (33.33%) HP