The first table below looks at the demand for NHibernate 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 NHibernate over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
NHibernate
Rank 71 62 65
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +3
Contract jobs citing NHibernate 4 21 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.429% 1.625% 0.672%
As % of the Application Development category 1.351% 5.526% 2.431%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 7
Average daily rate £275 £250 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -15.96%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £275 £330
% change year-on-year
+18.18% -16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £10.00 £32.25
% change year-on-year
- -68.99%
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
296 380 288
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 31.73% 29.41% 27.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 219 155
Average daily rate £295 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.66% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £235 £175
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 19 14 12
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.57% -36.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
NHibernate
North West

NHibernate
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester NHibernate Jobs Demand Trend

NHibernate
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester NHibernate Daily Rate Trend

NHibernate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing NHibernate 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 NHibernate.

1 12 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (91.67%) MVC
2 11 (91.67%) C#
2 11 (91.67%) ASP.NET
3 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 10 (83.33%) SQL Server
3 10 (83.33%) jQuery
4 9 (75.00%) TDD
5 8 (66.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 8 (66.67%) Telerik
5 8 (66.67%) Ajax
5 8 (66.67%) .NET Framework
5 8 (66.67%) WCF
5 8 (66.67%) LINQ
5 8 (66.67%) SharePoint
5 8 (66.67%) HTML
5 8 (66.67%) CSS
5 8 (66.67%) Web Services
6 3 (25.00%) SQL
6 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
7 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 1 (8.333%) Orchard CMS
8 1 (8.333%) MSBuild
8 1 (8.333%) NHS
8 1 (8.333%) CMS
8 1 (8.333%) OOP
8 1 (8.333%) OO
8 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
8 1 (8.333%) MongoDB

NHibernate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing NHibernate 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 NHibernate. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (91.67%) ASP.NET
3 10 (83.33%) jQuery
4 8 (66.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 8 (66.67%) Ajax
4 8 (66.67%) .NET Framework
4 8 (66.67%) WCF
4 8 (66.67%) LINQ
4 8 (66.67%) HTML
4 8 (66.67%) CSS
4 8 (66.67%) Web Services
5 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 1 (8.333%) OpenRasta
7 1 (8.333%) Castle Windsor
Application Platforms
1 8 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.333%) Orchard CMS
2 1 (8.333%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.333%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.333%) RavenDB
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MSBuild
1 1 (8.333%) TeamCity
1 1 (8.333%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (75.00%) C# Developer
3 8 (66.67%) Agile C# Developer
4 2 (16.67%) .NET Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) MVC
2 9 (75.00%) TDD
3 1 (8.333%) OOP
3 1 (8.333%) OO
3 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) C#
2 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Telerik
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft