The first table below looks at the demand for Google Maps API 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 Google Maps API over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google Maps
Rank - 83 -
Contract jobs citing Google Maps API 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - 0.077% -
As % of the Application Development category - 0.254% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £263 £376
% change year-on-year
+61.90% -30.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
281 393 288
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 30.58% 30.11% 28.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 235 158
Average daily rate £290 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 14
Average hourly rate £21.00 £16.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.25% -41.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £14.50 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Google Maps API
North West

Google Maps API
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Google Maps API Jobs Demand Trend

Google Maps API
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Google Maps API Daily Rate Trend

Google Maps API
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Google Maps API 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 Maps API.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) WAI
1 1 (100.00%) Zend
1 1 (100.00%) Zend Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal
1 1 (100.00%) PHP5
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Information Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Twitter

Google Maps API
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Zend Framework
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) PHP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) WAI
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Zend
1 1 (100.00%) Twitter