The first table below looks at the demand for RavenDB 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 RavenDB 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 of the Database & Business Intelligence 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
RavenDB
Rank 71 83 68
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -15
Contract jobs citing RavenDB 2 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.219% 0.077% 0.289%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.870% 0.344% 1.351%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £338 - £260
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 - £260
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
230 291 222
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 25.16% 22.37% 21.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 168 119
Average daily rate £300 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.08% +9.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £225 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £393 £407 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 19
Average hourly rate £40.50 £33.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.72% +46.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £10.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £190.00 £43.50 £34.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
RavenDB
North West

RavenDB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing RavenDB across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Manchester RavenDB Jobs Demand Trend

RavenDB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester RavenDB Daily Rate Trend

RavenDB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 9 (100.00%) TDD
2 7 (77.78%) ASP.NET
2 7 (77.78%) CSS
2 7 (77.78%) RESTful
3 6 (66.67%) Git (software)
4 5 (55.56%) C#
4 5 (55.56%) Scrum
4 5 (55.56%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (55.56%) Web Services
4 5 (55.56%) XML
4 5 (55.56%) Visual Studio
4 5 (55.56%) T-SQL
4 5 (55.56%) XHTML
4 5 (55.56%) Ajax
4 5 (55.56%) LINQ
4 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
4 5 (55.56%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (44.44%) TeamCity
5 4 (44.44%) jQuery
5 4 (44.44%) ASP.NET MVC
5 4 (44.44%) MongoDB
5 4 (44.44%) OpenRasta
5 4 (44.44%) Castle Windsor
5 4 (44.44%) Orchard CMS
5 4 (44.44%) MSBuild
5 4 (44.44%) OO
5 4 (44.44%) Microsoft

RavenDB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (77.78%) ASP.NET
2 7 (77.78%) CSS
2 7 (77.78%) RESTful
3 5 (55.56%) LINQ
3 5 (55.56%) Web Services
3 5 (55.56%) XML
3 5 (55.56%) XHTML
3 5 (55.56%) Ajax
4 4 (44.44%) NHibernate
4 4 (44.44%) jQuery
4 4 (44.44%) OpenRasta
4 4 (44.44%) Castle Windsor
4 4 (44.44%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (33.33%) .NET Framework
6 2 (22.22%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (22.22%) Lucene
6 2 (22.22%) HTML5
6 2 (22.22%) Sinatra
6 2 (22.22%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) CMS
1 4 (44.44%) Orchard CMS
2 2 (22.22%) Apache
2 2 (22.22%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (55.56%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (55.56%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (44.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git (software)
2 5 (55.56%) Visual Studio
3 4 (44.44%) TeamCity
3 4 (44.44%) MSBuild
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 3 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (33.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Agile .NET Developer
3 3 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) NHS
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
1 2 (22.22%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) TDD
2 5 (55.56%) Scrum
3 4 (44.44%) OO
3 4 (44.44%) MVC
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
4 2 (22.22%) OOP
4 2 (22.22%) Content Management
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (55.56%) T-SQL
2 5 (55.56%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) Ruby
3 2 (22.22%) CoffeeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft