The first table below looks at the demand for Gradle 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 Gradle 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
Gradle
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Gradle 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.321% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 3.000% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £400 -
% change year-on-year
-25.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - -
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% -
Gradle
North West

Gradle
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Gradle Jobs Demand Trend

Gradle
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Gradle Daily Rate Trend

Gradle
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gradle within the Manchester 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
Stockport - 3 £350 -
Gradle
North West

Gradle
Top 17 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) JBoss
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) ESB
1 3 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery

Gradle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) ESB
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) JBoss