The first table below looks at the demand for JSON skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JSON 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 of the Application Development category for the Leicestershire 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
JSON
Rank 26 - 33
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing JSON 4 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 1.896% - 0.426%
As % of the Application Development category 5.333% - 0.917%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £265 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-0.76% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year
-43.35% -
All Application Development
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
75 59 109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 35.55% 27.44% 46.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 22 26
Average daily rate £300 £275 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -6.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £150 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £406 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 20
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £33.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -74.90%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JSON
East Midlands

JSON
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire JSON Jobs Demand Trend

JSON
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leicestershire JSON Daily Rate Trend

JSON
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Loughborough - 1 £265 -
JSON
East Midlands

JSON
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire region citing JSON 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 JSON.

1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) XHTML
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
1 4 (100.00%) LAMP
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Ajax
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) PHPUnit
1 4 (100.00%) REST
2 3 (75.00%) Subversion
2 3 (75.00%) SEO
3 2 (50.00%) CMS
3 2 (50.00%) MVC
4 1 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (25.00%) Zend
4 1 (25.00%) HTML5
4 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (25.00%) WordPress
4 1 (25.00%) Android
4 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
4 1 (25.00%) Apache Solr

JSON
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire region citing JSON 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 JSON. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) XHTML
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) LAMP
1 4 (100.00%) Ajax
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (25.00%) WordPress
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) PHPUnit
2 3 (75.00%) Subversion
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
3 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) PHP Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 2 (50.00%) PHP Web Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) SEO
3 2 (50.00%) MVC
4 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (25.00%) Mobile Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Zend
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe
1 1 (25.00%) Apple