The first table below looks at the demand for Eclipse skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Eclipse 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 Development Applications category for the Manchester 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
Eclipse
Rank 62 80 68
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -12
Contract jobs citing Eclipse 11 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.176% 0.386% 0.094%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.00% 4.386% 1.149%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 0
Average daily rate £293 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-4.28% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +9.58%
All Development Applications
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
100 114 87
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 10.70% 8.810% 8.208%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 58 44
Average daily rate £300 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £250 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £358 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 0
Average hourly rate £112.50 £33.30 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+237.83% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Eclipse
North West

Eclipse
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Eclipse Jobs Demand Trend

Eclipse
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Eclipse Daily Rate Trend

Eclipse
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Eclipse Hourly Rate Trend

Eclipse
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 25 (96.15%) Java
2 24 (92.31%) JavaScript
3 18 (69.23%) SQL
3 18 (69.23%) JSP
4 17 (65.38%) Servlets
4 17 (65.38%) HTML
4 17 (65.38%) Ajax
5 16 (61.54%) JSTL
6 15 (57.69%) Subversion
6 15 (57.69%) J2EE
6 15 (57.69%) OO
7 14 (53.85%) XML
8 13 (50.00%) Spring
9 12 (46.15%) CSS
10 11 (42.31%) XSLT
10 11 (42.31%) Hibernate
11 10 (38.46%) jQuery
11 10 (38.46%) Web Services
11 10 (38.46%) JUnit
11 10 (38.46%) Finance
11 10 (38.46%) XHTML
11 10 (38.46%) E-Commerce
11 10 (38.46%) RDBMS
12 9 (34.62%) IBM
12 9 (34.62%) MVC
12 9 (34.62%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
12 9 (34.62%) WebSphere Application Server
12 9 (34.62%) EJB
12 9 (34.62%) JDBC
12 9 (34.62%) DB2

Eclipse
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 18 (69.23%) JSP
2 17 (65.38%) Servlets
2 17 (65.38%) HTML
2 17 (65.38%) Ajax
3 16 (61.54%) JSTL
4 15 (57.69%) J2EE
5 14 (53.85%) XML
6 13 (50.00%) Spring
7 12 (46.15%) CSS
8 11 (42.31%) XSLT
8 11 (42.31%) Hibernate
9 10 (38.46%) jQuery
9 10 (38.46%) Web Services
9 10 (38.46%) XHTML
10 9 (34.62%) EJB
10 9 (34.62%) JDBC
10 9 (34.62%) Struts
10 9 (34.62%) WebSphere
11 8 (30.77%) JSON
11 8 (30.77%) XMLBeans
Application Platforms
1 9 (34.62%) WebSphere Application Server
2 8 (30.77%) MQSeries
3 2 (7.692%) Tomcat
4 1 (3.846%) Apache
4 1 (3.846%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) Internet
2 1 (3.846%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (38.46%) RDBMS
2 9 (34.62%) DB2
3 4 (15.38%) MySQL
4 3 (11.54%) Redis
5 1 (3.846%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (3.846%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.846%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.846%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 15 (57.69%) Subversion
2 10 (38.46%) JUnit
3 9 (34.62%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 8 (30.77%) Log4j
4 8 (30.77%) Ant
5 6 (23.08%) NetBeans
6 5 (19.23%) JIRA
7 2 (7.692%) Jenkins
7 2 (7.692%) Hudson
7 2 (7.692%) Xcode
7 2 (7.692%) Git (software)
8 1 (3.846%) TestNG
General
1 10 (38.46%) Finance
2 7 (26.92%) Games
2 7 (26.92%) Retail
3 2 (7.692%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (92.31%) Developer
2 20 (76.92%) Java Developer
3 11 (42.31%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 8 (30.77%) J2EE Developer
5 6 (23.08%) Web Developer
6 5 (19.23%) Applications Developer
6 5 (19.23%) Web Applications Developer
6 5 (19.23%) Java Web Developer
7 4 (15.38%) Java Applications Developer
8 2 (7.692%) Test Engineer
9 1 (3.846%) Software Developer
9 1 (3.846%) Senior Developer
9 1 (3.846%) WebSphere Developer
9 1 (3.846%) Android Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Web 2.0
2 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
3 3 (11.54%) Mathematics
3 3 (11.54%) Mobile Payment
4 2 (7.692%) Mobile App
4 2 (7.692%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (7.692%) Blackberry
5 1 (3.846%) Handset
5 1 (3.846%) Client/Server
5 1 (3.846%) E-Learning
5 1 (3.846%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) UNIX
2 8 (30.77%) HPUX
2 8 (30.77%) Solaris
2 8 (30.77%) Linux
3 3 (11.54%) Android
4 2 (7.692%) Apple iOS
4 2 (7.692%) Windows Mobile
4 2 (7.692%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) OO
2 10 (38.46%) E-Commerce
3 9 (34.62%) MVC
3 9 (34.62%) RAD
3 9 (34.62%) UML
3 9 (34.62%) Content Management
4 5 (19.23%) Web Design
5 4 (15.38%) ITIL
6 3 (11.54%) OOD
6 3 (11.54%) Code Coverage
6 3 (11.54%) Release Management
6 3 (11.54%) Time Management
6 3 (11.54%) Unit Testing
6 3 (11.54%) Integration Testing
6 3 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (11.54%) TDD
6 3 (11.54%) Scrum
7 2 (7.692%) Automated Testing
7 2 (7.692%) Web Development
7 2 (7.692%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 25 (96.15%) Java
2 24 (92.31%) JavaScript
3 18 (69.23%) SQL
4 9 (34.62%) Perl
4 9 (34.62%) XPath
4 9 (34.62%) Bash shell
5 3 (11.54%) Python
6 1 (3.846%) PHP
6 1 (3.846%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.846%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (3.846%) Sun Certification
1 1 (3.846%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) PCI DSS
2 2 (7.692%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.846%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) IBM
2 8 (30.77%) Elastic Path
2 8 (30.77%) Blue Martini
2 8 (30.77%) ATG
2 8 (30.77%) Interwoven
3 4 (15.38%) Oracle
4 2 (7.692%) Facebook
4 2 (7.692%) Twitter
5 1 (3.846%) Sun
5 1 (3.846%) VMware
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