The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Facebook products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Facebook over the 3 months to 17 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 Lancashire 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 Facebook, Inc.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Facebook
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Facebook 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 0.510% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.000% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £269 £295 £280
% change year-on-year
-8.89% +5.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.49 - £22.50
All Vendors
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
100 198 109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 51.02% 45.83% 48.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 94 61
Average daily rate £300 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £183 £155 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £490 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 5 19
Average hourly rate £20.00 £25.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.56% -27.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £20.00 £26.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.80 £30.00 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Facebook
North West

Facebook
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire Facebook Jobs Demand Trend

Facebook
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Facebook within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Preston - 1 - -
Facebook
North West

Facebook
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing Facebook 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 Facebook.

1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) SEO
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) LAMP
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Social Network
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (50.00%) Plesk
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) Social Media
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) Twitter
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App

Facebook
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing Facebook 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 Facebook. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) LAMP
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (50.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Coordinator
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Programmer
1 1 (50.00%) Project Coordinator
1 1 (50.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (50.00%) PHP Web Developer
1 1 (50.00%) PHP Programmer
1 1 (50.00%) Web Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Social Network
1 1 (50.00%) Social Media
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Plesk
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Twitter