The first table below looks at the demand for Mercurial skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mercurial over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Development Applications category for the Cheshire 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.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mercurial
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Mercurial 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire - - -
As % of the Development Applications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £358 £346
% change year-on-year
-37.06% +3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.25 - -
All Development Applications
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
81 74 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 11.02% 9.136% 5.625%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 38 30
Average daily rate £375 £315 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.04% -3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £270 £261
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £355 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £33.75 £30.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.75 £30.00 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.75 £30.00 £31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Mercurial
North West

Mercurial
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Mercurial across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Cheshire Mercurial Jobs Demand Trend

Mercurial
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Mercurial Daily Rate Trend

Mercurial
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Mercurial 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 Mercurial.

1 2 (100.00%) Flash
1 2 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (100.00%) SNMP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe
1 2 (100.00%) TELNET
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) TestNG
1 2 (100.00%) MyEclipse
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (100.00%) HTML

Mercurial
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Mercurial 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 Mercurial. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) Flash
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SNMP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) TestNG
1 2 (100.00%) MyEclipse
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle