The first table below looks at the demand for Mercurial 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 Mercurial 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
Mercurial
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Mercurial 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.107% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 1.000% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £238 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £238 £365 £340
% change year-on-year
-34.93% +7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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% -
Mercurial
North West

Mercurial
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Mercurial Jobs Demand Trend

Mercurial
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Mercurial Daily Rate Trend

Mercurial
Top 29 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (50.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) ReSharper
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) Castle Windsor
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) Backbone.js
1 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) XHTML
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce

Mercurial
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) Castle Windsor
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) Backbone.js
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) XHTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) ReSharper
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL