The first table below looks at the demand for Hudson 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 Hudson over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hudson (HudsonCI)
Rank 68 75 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs citing Hudson 7 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.730% 0.486% -
As % of the Development Applications category 7.071% 5.000% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 0
Average daily rate £325 £388 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.12% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £330 £388
% change year-on-year
+2.27% -14.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £45.00
All Development Applications
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
99 120 90
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 10.32% 9.724% 8.629%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 64 49
Average daily rate £300 £290 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +5.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £250 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £425 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 0
Average hourly rate £23.75 £32.90 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.81% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
Hudson
North West

Hudson
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Hudson Jobs Demand Trend

Hudson
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Hudson Daily Rate Trend

Hudson
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hudson within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Vacancies
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Hudson
North West

Hudson
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Hudson 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 Hudson.

1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) TDD
2 4 (57.14%) JIRA
3 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 3 (42.86%) Firewall
3 3 (42.86%) Mobile App
4 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) iPhone SDK
4 2 (28.57%) bada
4 2 (28.57%) Maemo
4 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
4 2 (28.57%) Apple iOS
4 2 (28.57%) iOS SDK
4 2 (28.57%) Robotium
4 2 (28.57%) OpenStack
4 2 (28.57%) MVC
4 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
4 2 (28.57%) Eclipse
4 2 (28.57%) Symbian
4 2 (28.57%) ISEB
4 2 (28.57%) Mac OS X
4 2 (28.57%) Blackberry
4 2 (28.57%) HTML

Hudson
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Hudson 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 Hudson. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (28.57%) iPhone SDK
1 2 (28.57%) iOS SDK
1 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
1 2 (28.57%) CSS
1 2 (28.57%) JSP
1 2 (28.57%) Web Services
1 2 (28.57%) XML
1 2 (28.57%) Series 60
1 2 (28.57%) Spring
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) Spring MVC
1 2 (28.57%) jQuery
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Security
2 1 (14.29%) DWR
2 1 (14.29%) JSTL
2 1 (14.29%) Ajax
2 1 (14.29%) Servlets
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) OpenStack
2 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) DVB
2 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
3 2 (28.57%) Robotium
3 2 (28.57%) Eclipse
3 2 (28.57%) Xcode
3 2 (28.57%) CruiseControl
3 2 (28.57%) Subversion
3 2 (28.57%) Selenium
3 2 (28.57%) Firebug
4 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Web Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Mobile App
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (28.57%) Blackberry
2 2 (28.57%) iPhone
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Semantic Web
3 1 (14.29%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) bada
2 2 (28.57%) Maemo
2 2 (28.57%) Apple iOS
2 2 (28.57%) Mac OS X
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Mobile
2 2 (28.57%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Scrum
1 4 (57.14%) TDD
2 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) MVC
2 2 (28.57%) Automated Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (28.57%) Kanban
3 1 (14.29%) Load Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
3 1 (14.29%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (14.29%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
3 1 (14.29%) Web Application Development
3 1 (14.29%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) ISEB
1 2 (28.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Symbian
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
Manchester, North West
Symbian (S40, S60, 3), iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, OSE, SHP, Bada, Maemo.*Good knowledge of device and app architecture e.g. Android SDK, iPhone SDK, Symbian SDK,...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per annum
Posted: 6 June 2013