The first table below looks at the demand for Internet skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Internet 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the Chester 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet
Rank 20 18 19
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +1
Contract jobs citing Internet 4 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 3.101% 3.540% 1.460%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.05% 21.05% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £375 - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.15% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £14.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £14.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -15.15%
All Communications & Networking
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
21 19 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 16.28% 16.81% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 9
Average daily rate £275 £450 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-38.88% +50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £370 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £530 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
Average hourly rate £16.70 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.28% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
Internet
Cheshire

Internet
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Internet across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Chester Internet Jobs Demand Trend

Internet
Daily Rate Trend

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

Chester Internet Daily Rate Trend

Internet
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Internet across the Chester region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Chester Internet Daily Rate Histogram

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Internet across the Chester region.

Chester Internet Hourly Rate Trend

Internet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing Internet 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 Internet.

1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Axis
2 2 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (50.00%) JSP
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) J2EE
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) SOAP
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) XSLT
2 2 (50.00%) Apache
2 2 (50.00%) WSDL
2 2 (50.00%) JAX-RPC
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Security
3 1 (25.00%) Mule
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) ICEfaces
3 1 (25.00%) RichFaces

Internet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing Internet 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 Internet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Axis
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Ajax
1 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (50.00%) JSP
1 2 (50.00%) J2EE
1 2 (50.00%) SOAP
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) XSLT
1 2 (50.00%) WSDL
1 2 (50.00%) JAX-RPC
2 1 (25.00%) ICEfaces
2 1 (25.00%) RichFaces
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
2 1 (25.00%) XML Schema
2 1 (25.00%) XHTML
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) DOM
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) Mule
2 1 (25.00%) iPlanet
2 1 (25.00%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) GIS
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Junior Information Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Junior
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Graduate
1 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Information Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Information Security Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Junior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (25.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Web 2.0
2 1 (25.00%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Security
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) Extreme Programming
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) CEH
2 1 (25.00%) EnCE
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) JBoss
2 1 (25.00%) Perforce
Chester, North West
skills/attributes for this position include: - - 3-5 year's recent relevant software test experience of Web based Client / Server applications, especially Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using Adobe...
Computer Futures
Rate: £30 - £35 per hour
Posted: 31 May 2013