The first table below looks at the demand for Umbraco 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 Umbraco 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 Application Platforms 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Umbraco
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Umbraco 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire - - -
As % of the Application Platforms category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £306 £286 £275
% change year-on-year
+6.98% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
28 74 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 13.79% 17.37% 23.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 37 24
Average daily rate £275 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £155 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £475 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 9
Average hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.80 £20.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £67.65 £30.00 £64.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Umbraco
North West

Umbraco
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire Umbraco Jobs Demand Trend

Umbraco
Daily Rate Trend

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

Lancashire Umbraco Daily Rate Trend

Umbraco
Top 17 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (80.00%) WCF
2 4 (80.00%) Retail
3 3 (60.00%) XML
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (20.00%) XHTML
4 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (20.00%) CMS
4 1 (20.00%) Content Management
4 1 (20.00%) Web Development
4 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture

Umbraco
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (80.00%) WCF
3 3 (60.00%) XML
4 1 (20.00%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (80.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Web Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Web Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Web Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (20.00%) Content Management
1 1 (20.00%) Web Development
1 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript