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This section looks at the demand for FreeMarker skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited FreeMarker over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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20 Aug 2008
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Cheshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads214217
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.282 %0.216 %
Daily rates quoted5735
Average minimum daily rate£336£328
Average daily rate£351£365
% change on same period last year-3.77 %
Average maximum daily rate£366£402
UK excluding London average daily rate£338£337
% change on same period last year+0.55 %
Hourly rates quoted1719
Average minimum hourly rate£33.04£30.12
Average hourly rate£36.54£32.50
% change on same period last year+12.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate£40.04£34.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.72£33.29
% change on same period last year-1.69 %
FreeMarker North WestFreeMarker
North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

FreeMarker
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing FreeMarker across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Cheshire FreeMarker Demand Trend

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Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing FreeMarker 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 FreeMarker.

12 (100.00 %)HTML
12 (100.00 %)Java
12 (100.00 %)JavaScript
12 (100.00 %)SQL
12 (100.00 %)CSS
12 (100.00 %)JSP
12 (100.00 %)Struts
12 (100.00 %)XML
12 (100.00 %)XHTML
12 (100.00 %)Hibernate
12 (100.00 %)SiteMesh
12 (100.00 %)Oracle
12 (100.00 %)SQL Server
12 (100.00 %)Spring
12 (100.00 %)AJAX
12 (100.00 %)Velocity
21 (50.00 %)Ant
21 (50.00 %)ASP
21 (50.00 %)Web Design
21 (50.00 %)VBScript
21 (50.00 %)VB
21 (50.00 %)J2EE
21 (50.00 %)PHP

FreeMarker
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing FreeMarker 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 FreeMarker. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Cheshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
12 (100.00 %)HTML
12 (100.00 %)CSS
12 (100.00 %)JSP
12 (100.00 %)Struts
12 (100.00 %)XML
12 (100.00 %)XHTML
12 (100.00 %)Hibernate
12 (100.00 %)SiteMesh
12 (100.00 %)Spring
12 (100.00 %)AJAX
12 (100.00 %)Velocity
21 (50.00 %)ASP
21 (50.00 %)J2EE
Cheshire IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (100.00 %)SQL Server
Cheshire IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
11 (50.00 %)Ant
Cheshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
12 (100.00 %)Developer
12 (100.00 %)Web Developer
21 (50.00 %)Web Designer
Cheshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
11 (50.00 %)Web Design
Cheshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
12 (100.00 %)Java
12 (100.00 %)JavaScript
12 (100.00 %)SQL
21 (50.00 %)VBScript
21 (50.00 %)VB
21 (50.00 %)PHP
Cheshire IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
12 (100.00 %)Oracle