The first table below looks at the demand for Refactoring 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 Refactoring over the 3 months to 19 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Refactoring
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.104% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.153% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £315 £309
% change year-on-year
-12.69% +1.94%
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
654 790 657
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 68.20% 64.02% 62.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 388 310
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 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 32 34
Average hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 £12.01 £11.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £77.50 £35.00 £33.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Refactoring
North West

Refactoring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Refactoring Jobs Demand Trend

Refactoring
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Refactoring Daily Rate Trend

Refactoring
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 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
Altrincham - - - -
Refactoring
North West

Refactoring
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Refactoring 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 Refactoring.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XHTML
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Streaming Video
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) Drupal
2 1 (50.00%) SQLite
2 1 (50.00%) PHP5
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App

Refactoring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Refactoring 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 Refactoring. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XHTML
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (50.00%) Drupal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Applications Developer
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL Developer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Android Developer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Android Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (50.00%) Streaming Video
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) PHP5
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
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Posted: 3 June 2013