Open Source Contracts in Manchester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 17 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 72 75 61
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -14
Contract jobs citing Open Source 1 9 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.109% 0.692% 0.964%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.452% 3.346% 4.695%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 6
Average daily rate £350 £325 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -23.52%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £19.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £41.25 £33.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +23.13%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 221 269 213
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 24.18% 20.68% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 107 87
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 £174 £175 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £431 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 20 21
Average hourly rate £13.50 £20.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.14% +57.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.08 £13.50 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.75 £25.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Open Source
North West

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Open Source Jobs Demand Trend

Open Source
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Open Source Daily Rate Trend

Open Source
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Open Source Hourly Rate Trend

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Open Source 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 Open Source.

1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
1 4 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 4 (50.00%) Ruby
2 3 (37.50%) Ajax
2 3 (37.50%) Web Services
2 3 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (37.50%) XHTML
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) CMS
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) Lucene
3 2 (25.00%) MySQL
3 2 (25.00%) PHP
3 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) HTML
3 2 (25.00%) Apache
3 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (25.00%) XML
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 2 (25.00%) Joomla!
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Open Source 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 Open Source. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
1 4 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (37.50%) Web Services
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) XHTML
2 3 (37.50%) Ajax
3 2 (25.00%) HTML
3 2 (25.00%) Lucene
3 2 (25.00%) XML
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (25.00%) LINQ
3 2 (25.00%) Grails
3 2 (25.00%) jQuery
3 2 (25.00%) RESTful
3 2 (25.00%) Sinatra
3 2 (25.00%) Regular Expression
4 1 (12.50%) CSS3
4 1 (12.50%) HTML5
4 1 (12.50%) MooTools
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) CMS
1 2 (25.00%) Joomla!
1 2 (25.00%) WordPress
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (25.00%) RavenDB
2 2 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (25.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Agile .NET Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Scala Developer
3 1 (12.50%) PHP Developer
3 1 (12.50%) OpenView Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) NHS
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (12.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) ITIL
1 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (25.00%) Scrum
1 2 (25.00%) TDD
1 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (12.50%) Time Management
2 1 (12.50%) Network Design
2 1 (12.50%) Requirements Management
2 1 (12.50%) Web Development
2 1 (12.50%) UML
2 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (50.00%) Ruby
2 3 (37.50%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) PHP
3 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Haskell
3 2 (25.00%) Scala
4 1 (12.50%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) OpenView
1 1 (12.50%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
1 1 (12.50%) HP
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