The first table below looks at the demand for JSON 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 JSON over the 3 months to 20 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 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JSON
Rank 48 77 59
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -18
Contract jobs citing JSON 22 7 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 2.263% 0.575% 0.877%
As % of the Application Development category 7.534% 1.966% 3.147%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 9
Average daily rate £300 £275 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% +5.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £275 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £324 £355 £287
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £310 £314
% change year-on-year
-3.22% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £32.00 -
% change year-on-year
-29.18% -
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
292 356 286
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 30.04% 29.25% 27.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 194 159
Average daily rate £300 £288 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% +4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £235 £125
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 17 16 19
Average hourly rate £25.00 £19.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.20% -40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £33.64 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
JSON
North West

JSON
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester JSON Jobs Demand Trend

JSON
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester JSON Daily Rate Trend

JSON
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSON across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Manchester JSON Daily Rate Histogram

JSON
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester JSON Hourly Rate Trend

JSON
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Salford +3 4 £323 +17.27%
Bolton - 1 - -
Rochdale - - - -
JSON
North West

JSON
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing JSON 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 JSON.

1 34 (70.83%) XML
2 31 (64.58%) Java
3 28 (58.33%) JavaScript
3 28 (58.33%) CSS
4 26 (54.17%) Web Services
5 23 (47.92%) HTML5
6 19 (39.58%) REST
6 19 (39.58%) CSS3
7 17 (35.42%) PHP
7 17 (35.42%) jQuery
8 16 (33.33%) TDD
8 16 (33.33%) RESTful
9 15 (31.25%) BDD
9 15 (31.25%) Agile Software Development
9 15 (31.25%) Spring
9 15 (31.25%) Ajax
10 14 (29.17%) Android
11 13 (27.08%) HTML
11 13 (27.08%) MySQL
12 12 (25.00%) SQL
12 12 (25.00%) MVC
13 11 (22.92%) RDF
13 11 (22.92%) J2EE
13 11 (22.92%) XSLT
13 11 (22.92%) OOP
13 11 (22.92%) OO
13 11 (22.92%) Apple iOS
14 10 (20.83%) Test Automation
14 10 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
14 10 (20.83%) SOAP

JSON
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 34 (70.83%) XML
2 28 (58.33%) CSS
3 26 (54.17%) Web Services
4 23 (47.92%) HTML5
5 19 (39.58%) REST
5 19 (39.58%) CSS3
6 17 (35.42%) jQuery
7 16 (33.33%) RESTful
8 15 (31.25%) Spring
8 15 (31.25%) Ajax
9 13 (27.08%) HTML
10 11 (22.92%) J2EE
10 11 (22.92%) XSLT
11 10 (20.83%) SOAP
12 9 (18.75%) JAX-RS
13 8 (16.67%) LAMP
14 7 (14.58%) XSL
15 6 (12.50%) JSTL
15 6 (12.50%) .NET
15 6 (12.50%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 6 (12.50%) Apache
2 4 (8.333%) Drupal
2 4 (8.333%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.083%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Photoshop
2 3 (6.250%) Fireworks
3 1 (2.083%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (2.083%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.083%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.58%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.08%) MySQL
2 3 (6.250%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.167%) CouchDB
3 2 (4.167%) MarkLogic
3 2 (4.167%) SQLite
3 2 (4.167%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.167%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 9 (18.75%) Subversion
2 8 (16.67%) Eclipse
3 6 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 6 (12.50%) Git (software)
3 6 (12.50%) NetBeans
4 5 (10.42%) JIRA
4 5 (10.42%) Xcode
5 3 (6.250%) QUnit
6 2 (4.167%) Hudson
6 2 (4.167%) PHPUnit
6 2 (4.167%) Robotium
6 2 (4.167%) Selenium
6 2 (4.167%) Firebug
6 2 (4.167%) Ant
7 1 (2.083%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (6.250%) Finance
2 2 (4.167%) Publishing
2 2 (4.167%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (77.08%) Developer
2 12 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 11 (22.92%) Web Developer
4 9 (18.75%) Android Developer
5 5 (10.42%) Applications Developer
5 5 (10.42%) Senior Developer
5 5 (10.42%) PHP Developer
5 5 (10.42%) Web Applications Developer
6 4 (8.333%) Drupal Developer
6 4 (8.333%) Senior Android Developer
6 4 (8.333%) Java Web Developer
6 4 (8.333%) Test Engineer
6 4 (8.333%) Java Applications Developer
7 3 (6.250%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.250%) UI Designer
7 3 (6.250%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (6.250%) PHP Drupal Developer
7 3 (6.250%) Front-End Developer
7 3 (6.250%) Designer
8 2 (4.167%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Mobile App
2 5 (10.42%) Statistics
2 5 (10.42%) Semantic Web
3 4 (8.333%) Blackberry
4 3 (6.250%) Streaming Video
4 3 (6.250%) iPhone
5 2 (4.167%) Social Media
5 2 (4.167%) Linked Data
5 2 (4.167%) Digital Media
5 2 (4.167%) Interactive TV
5 2 (4.167%) Smartphone
5 2 (4.167%) BBC
6 1 (2.083%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.083%) Social Network
6 1 (2.083%) Web 2.0
6 1 (2.083%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 14 (29.17%) Android
2 11 (22.92%) Apple iOS
3 4 (8.333%) Windows Mobile
3 4 (8.333%) Windows
4 2 (4.167%) bada
4 2 (4.167%) Maemo
4 2 (4.167%) Linux
4 2 (4.167%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (33.33%) TDD
2 15 (31.25%) BDD
2 15 (31.25%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (25.00%) MVC
4 11 (22.92%) RDF
4 11 (22.92%) OOP
4 11 (22.92%) OO
5 10 (20.83%) Test Automation
5 10 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (16.67%) Web Design
6 8 (16.67%) Pair Programming
6 8 (16.67%) Benchmarking
7 5 (10.42%) Scrum
7 5 (10.42%) ITIL
7 5 (10.42%) Content Management
8 4 (8.333%) Web Development
9 3 (6.250%) Release Management
9 3 (6.250%) Automated Testing
9 3 (6.250%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 31 (64.58%) Java
2 28 (58.33%) JavaScript
3 17 (35.42%) PHP
4 12 (25.00%) SQL
5 9 (18.75%) XQuery
5 9 (18.75%) XPath
6 7 (14.58%) C#
6 7 (14.58%) Objective-C
7 6 (12.50%) Ruby
8 4 (8.333%) PHP5
9 3 (6.250%) SPARQL
10 1 (2.083%) Shell Script
10 1 (2.083%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (6.250%) Sun Certification
1 3 (6.250%) Degree
2 2 (4.167%) ISTQB
2 2 (4.167%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 1 (2.083%) Plesk
Vendors
1 6 (12.50%) Zend
1 6 (12.50%) Apple
2 4 (8.333%) Facebook
2 4 (8.333%) Adobe
3 2 (4.167%) Twitter
3 2 (4.167%) Symbian
4 1 (2.083%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.083%) Oracle
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