The first table below looks at the demand for Progressive Enhancement 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 Progressive Enhancement over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Processes & Methodologies 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Progressive Enhancement
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Progressive Enhancement 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £188 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.22 -
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
665 776 643
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 68.42% 63.76% 62.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 382 304
Average daily rate £338 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £220 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.06% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 32 35
Average hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 £12.01 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £77.50 £35.00 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
Progressive Enhancement
North West

Progressive Enhancement
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Progressive Enhancement across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Manchester Progressive Enhancement Jobs Demand Trend

Progressive Enhancement
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Progressive Enhancement Daily Rate Trend

Progressive Enhancement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Progressive Enhancement 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 Progressive Enhancement.

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

Progressive Enhancement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Progressive Enhancement 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 Progressive Enhancement. 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%) PHPUnit
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
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