The first table below looks at the demand for RDF 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 RDF over the 3 months to 18 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing RDF 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.513% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.744% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £323 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £416 £350
% change year-on-year
-22.52% +18.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
672 779 666
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 68.92% 63.18% 63.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 388 312
Average daily rate £338 £315 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £233 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 34 34
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 £12.01 £11.06
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £77.50 £35.00 £30.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
RDF
North West

RDF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester RDF Jobs Demand Trend

RDF
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester RDF Daily Rate Trend

RDF
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDF within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Vacancies
Salford - 4 £323 -
RDF
North West

RDF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing RDF 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 RDF.

1 12 (100.00%) Java
1 12 (100.00%) XML
1 12 (100.00%) TDD
1 12 (100.00%) RESTful
1 12 (100.00%) BDD
2 11 (91.67%) JSON
2 11 (91.67%) Web Services
3 10 (83.33%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (83.33%) Spring
3 10 (83.33%) XSLT
3 10 (83.33%) J2EE
3 10 (83.33%) XQuery
3 10 (83.33%) XPath
3 10 (83.33%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (83.33%) REST
4 9 (75.00%) JAX-RS
4 9 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 9 (75.00%) Pair Programming
5 8 (66.67%) Benchmarking
5 8 (66.67%) OO
5 8 (66.67%) Test Automation
6 5 (41.67%) Statistics
7 4 (33.33%) Content Management
7 4 (33.33%) Semantic Web
7 4 (33.33%) SPARQL
7 4 (33.33%) Cucumber
7 4 (33.33%) Ruby
8 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
9 2 (16.67%) Progressive Enhancement
9 2 (16.67%) Apple iOS

RDF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing RDF 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 RDF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (100.00%) XML
1 12 (100.00%) RESTful
2 11 (91.67%) JSON
2 11 (91.67%) Web Services
3 10 (83.33%) REST
3 10 (83.33%) XSLT
3 10 (83.33%) Spring
3 10 (83.33%) J2EE
4 9 (75.00%) JAX-RS
5 2 (16.67%) CSS
5 2 (16.67%) jQuery
5 2 (16.67%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (16.67%) MarkLogic
2 2 (16.67%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (16.67%) QUnit
2 2 (16.67%) Ant
2 2 (16.67%) Subversion
2 2 (16.67%) Git (software)
2 2 (16.67%) PHPUnit
General
1 2 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Developer
2 7 (58.33%) Java Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Web Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Android Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Statistics
2 4 (33.33%) Semantic Web
3 2 (16.67%) Linked Data
3 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 2 (16.67%) BBC
3 2 (16.67%) Streaming Video
3 2 (16.67%) Interactive TV
3 2 (16.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Android
1 2 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) TDD
1 12 (100.00%) BDD
2 10 (83.33%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (83.33%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (75.00%) Pair Programming
3 9 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 8 (66.67%) OO
4 8 (66.67%) Benchmarking
4 8 (66.67%) Test Automation
5 4 (33.33%) Content Management
6 2 (16.67%) Web Development
6 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Kanban
6 2 (16.67%) Progressive Enhancement
6 2 (16.67%) MVC
6 2 (16.67%) Scrum
6 2 (16.67%) OOP
6 2 (16.67%) Test-First Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (83.33%) XQuery
2 10 (83.33%) XPath
3 4 (33.33%) SPARQL
3 4 (33.33%) Ruby
4 2 (16.67%) Objective-C
4 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Apple
1 2 (16.67%) Zend
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