The first table below looks at the demand for Maemo 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 Maemo 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 Operating Systems 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
Nokia Maemo
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Maemo 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - - -
As % of the Operating Systems category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £36.00
All Operating Systems
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
166 287 149
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 18.06% 21.99% 14.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 104 58
Average daily rate £275 £300 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £180 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 39 32
Average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +36.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.00 £25.00 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +4.93%
Maemo
North West

Maemo
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Maemo Jobs Demand Trend

Maemo
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Symbian
1 4 (100.00%) ISEB
1 4 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 4 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 4 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 4 (100.00%) Android
1 4 (100.00%) iPhone
1 4 (100.00%) iPhone SDK
1 4 (100.00%) bada
1 4 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 4 (100.00%) iOS SDK
2 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (75.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Series 60
3 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Xcode
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) JSON
4 1 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (25.00%) Selenium
4 1 (25.00%) Firebug
4 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (25.00%) Interactive TV
4 1 (25.00%) Semantic Web

Maemo
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) iPhone SDK
1 4 (100.00%) iOS SDK
2 2 (50.00%) Series 60
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) XML
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Robotium
2 1 (25.00%) Xcode
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) Firebug
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Web Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Web Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 4 (100.00%) iPhone
2 1 (25.00%) Semantic Web
2 1 (25.00%) Interactive TV
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 4 (100.00%) Android
1 4 (100.00%) bada
1 4 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) ISEB
1 4 (100.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Symbian