The first table below looks at the demand for Refactoring 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 Refactoring 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
Refactoring
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £343 £292
% change year-on-year
-5.10% +17.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £31.00
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
550 498 663
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 74.83% 61.48% 69.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 254 367
Average daily rate £375 £351 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.99% +7.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £270 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 26
Average hourly rate £40.00 £22.41 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+78.49% +12.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.95 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.83 £31.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Refactoring
North West

Refactoring
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Refactoring across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Cheshire Refactoring Jobs Demand Trend

Refactoring
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Refactoring Daily Rate Trend

Refactoring
Top 22 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) ASP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) XPath
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ to SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Ninject
1 1 (100.00%) Unity DI Container

Refactoring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ to SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Ninject
1 1 (100.00%) Unity DI Container
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) XPath
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft