The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term N-Tier in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited N-Tier over the 3 months to 23 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Leeds 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
N-Tier
Rank 73 62 51
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -11
Contract jobs citing N-Tier 1 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.136% 0.681% 0.623%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.613% 4.615% 2.548%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.50
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
163 130 157
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 22.21% 14.76% 24.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 65 76
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £202 £250 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 10
Average hourly rate £11.75 £11.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.81% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
N-Tier
West Yorkshire

N-Tier
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing N-Tier across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Leeds N-Tier Jobs Demand Trend

N-Tier
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds N-Tier Daily Rate Trend

N-Tier
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds N-Tier Hourly Rate Trend

N-Tier
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing N-Tier 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 N-Tier.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (50.00%) Web Development
3 2 (50.00%) Ajax
3 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio Team System
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Web Application Development
3 2 (50.00%) XSL
3 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
3 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) MS Project
3 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (50.00%) OO
3 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (50.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) JBoss
4 1 (25.00%) Apache
4 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
4 1 (25.00%) TDD

N-Tier
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing N-Tier 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 N-Tier. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (75.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) XSL
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) JavaBeans
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
3 1 (25.00%) EJB
3 1 (25.00%) JDBC
3 1 (25.00%) JSP
3 1 (25.00%) Servlets
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) Struts
3 1 (25.00%) Apache FOP
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio Team System
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) SharePoint Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Web Development
1 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Web Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (50.00%) OO
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) JBoss