The first table below looks at the demand for PHPUnit 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 PHPUnit 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHPUnit
Rank - 83 -
Contract jobs citing PHPUnit 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - 0.077% -
As % of the Development Applications category - 0.877% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £325 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £325 £225
% change year-on-year
-13.84% +44.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £190.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
- +783.72%
All Development Applications
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
95 114 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 10.34% 8.736% 8.193%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 59 41
Average daily rate £300 £325 £306
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +6.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £251 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £360 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 0
Average hourly rate £112.50 £32.91 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+241.84% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
PHPUnit
North West

PHPUnit
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester PHPUnit Jobs Demand Trend

PHPUnit
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester PHPUnit Daily Rate Trend

PHPUnit
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) Ant
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) RDF
1 2 (100.00%) Sun Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Apple
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) BBC
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test-First Development
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) Content Management
1 2 (100.00%) Smartphone
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Zend
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban

PHPUnit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Ant
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (100.00%) QUnit
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Android Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) BBC
1 2 (100.00%) Smartphone
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Web
1 2 (100.00%) Linked Data
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) RDF
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test-First Development
1 2 (100.00%) Content Management
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Progressive Enhancement
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Apple
1 2 (100.00%) Zend