The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Google products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Google over the 3 months to 21 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 Liverpool 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 Google.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google
Rank 20 29 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing Google 3 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 1.974% 1.093% -
As % of the Vendors category 4.110% 2.174% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £300 £375
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.13 £16.50 £21.25
% change year-on-year
+40.15% -22.35%
All Vendors
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
73 92 86
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 48.03% 50.27% 54.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 46 43
Average daily rate £425 £300 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.66% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £188 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £356 £498
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 5
Average hourly rate £11.50 £16.50 £14.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.30% +16.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.25 £11.80 £10.23
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £67.40 £29.60 £20.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Google
Merseyside

Google
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool Google Jobs Demand Trend

Google
Daily Rate Trend

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

Liverpool Google Daily Rate Trend

Google
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool region citing Google 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 Google.

1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) XSD
1 5 (100.00%) XSLT
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) OO
1 5 (100.00%) OOD
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) SEO
1 5 (100.00%) CMS
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (100.00%) NetBeans
1 5 (100.00%) Web Development
1 5 (100.00%) Business Development
1 5 (100.00%) XPath
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
1 5 (100.00%) Zend
1 5 (100.00%) CodeIgniter
1 5 (100.00%) CakePHP
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery

Google
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool region citing Google 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 Google. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) XSD
1 5 (100.00%) XSLT
1 5 (100.00%) CodeIgniter
1 5 (100.00%) CakePHP
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
1 5 (100.00%) Google Maps API
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (100.00%) HTML5
1 5 (100.00%) CSS3
1 5 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) CMS
1 5 (100.00%) Umbraco
1 5 (100.00%) WordPress
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (100.00%) NetBeans
1 5 (100.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) OO
1 5 (100.00%) OOD
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) SEO
1 5 (100.00%) Web Development
1 5 (100.00%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
1 5 (100.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) Zend
1 5 (100.00%) Facebook
1 5 (100.00%) Twitter