The first table below looks at the demand for QUnit 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 QUnit over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
QUnit
Rank - - 68
Contract jobs citing QUnit 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - - 0.098%
As % of the Development Applications category - - 1.176%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate - £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
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
98 115 85
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 10.40% 8.759% 8.301%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 59 43
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 £253 £250 £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 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% -
QUnit
North West

QUnit
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester QUnit Jobs Demand Trend

QUnit
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester QUnit Daily Rate Trend

QUnit
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing QUnit 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 QUnit.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) OOP
1 3 (100.00%) Apple
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) HTTP
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Content Management
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) Zend
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (66.67%) Linked Data
2 2 (66.67%) CouchDB
2 2 (66.67%) PHPUnit
2 2 (66.67%) Progressive Enhancement
2 2 (66.67%) Semantic Web
2 2 (66.67%) Git (software)

QUnit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing QUnit 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 QUnit. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) PHPUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Git (software)
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
1 2 (66.67%) Ant
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Android Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (66.67%) Linked Data
2 2 (66.67%) Semantic Web
2 2 (66.67%) Smartphone
2 2 (66.67%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) OOP
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Content Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Progressive Enhancement
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Web Development
2 2 (66.67%) Test-First Development
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) RDF
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Apple
1 3 (100.00%) Zend