The first table below looks at the demand for Refactoring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Refactoring over the 3 months to 20 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 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.

Location
3 months to
20 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 Lancashire - - -
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 £309
% change year-on-year
-5.10% +10.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £31.00
All Processes & Methodologies
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
124 250 116
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 61.69% 58.00% 52.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 142 53
Average daily rate £315 £375 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.00% +14.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £421 £499 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 16
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -42.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.90 £16.80 £21.94
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £65.07 £26.60 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Refactoring
North West

Refactoring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire Refactoring Jobs Demand Trend

Refactoring
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Sybase
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Stripes Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement

Refactoring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Stripes Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Sybase
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss