The first table below looks at the demand for RESTful 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 RESTful 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 Application Development 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
RESTful
Rank 63 78 65
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -13
Contract jobs citing RESTful 12 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.251% 0.243% 0.575%
As % of the Application Development category 4.196% 0.824% 2.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 2
Average daily rate £323 £240 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.37% -40.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £365
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -10.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £37.50 -
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
286 364 286
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 29.82% 29.50% 27.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 197 159
Average daily rate £300 £288 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% +4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £235 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 17
Average hourly rate £25.00 £19.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.20% -40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £16.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £33.64 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
RESTful
North West

RESTful
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester RESTful Jobs Demand Trend

RESTful
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester RESTful Daily Rate Trend

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RESTful across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Manchester RESTful Daily Rate Histogram

RESTful
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RESTful 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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Job
Vacancies
Salford - 4 £323 -
Bolton - - - -
RESTful
North West

RESTful
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 25 (92.59%) Web Services
2 22 (81.48%) XML
3 19 (70.37%) Java
3 19 (70.37%) TDD
4 16 (59.26%) JSON
5 14 (51.85%) BDD
6 13 (48.15%) JavaScript
6 13 (48.15%) CSS
7 12 (44.44%) XSLT
7 12 (44.44%) RDF
7 12 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (40.74%) XPath
8 11 (40.74%) Agile Software Development
8 11 (40.74%) J2EE
9 10 (37.04%) XQuery
9 10 (37.04%) Spring
9 10 (37.04%) REST
10 9 (33.33%) JAX-RS
10 9 (33.33%) Pair Programming
10 9 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
10 9 (33.33%) Scrum
10 9 (33.33%) OO
11 8 (29.63%) Benchmarking
11 8 (29.63%) Test Automation
12 7 (25.93%) HTML5
12 7 (25.93%) jQuery
13 6 (22.22%) Apache
13 6 (22.22%) XHTML
13 6 (22.22%) PHP
13 6 (22.22%) C#

RESTful
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 25 (92.59%) Web Services
2 22 (81.48%) XML
3 16 (59.26%) JSON
4 13 (48.15%) CSS
5 12 (44.44%) XSLT
6 11 (40.74%) J2EE
7 10 (37.04%) Spring
7 10 (37.04%) REST
8 9 (33.33%) JAX-RS
9 7 (25.93%) HTML5
9 7 (25.93%) jQuery
10 6 (22.22%) XHTML
10 6 (22.22%) Ajax
11 5 (18.52%) HTML
11 5 (18.52%) .NET
12 4 (14.81%) LINQ
13 3 (11.11%) CSS3
14 2 (7.407%) ASP.NET
14 2 (7.407%) SOAP
14 2 (7.407%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 6 (22.22%) Apache
2 2 (7.407%) Apache Solr
3 1 (3.704%) WordPress
3 1 (3.704%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.704%) MS Excel
1 1 (3.704%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) HTTP
2 2 (7.407%) Intranet
3 1 (3.704%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.81%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (14.81%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (14.81%) RavenDB
3 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.407%) MySQL
4 2 (7.407%) MarkLogic
4 2 (7.407%) CouchDB
5 1 (3.704%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git (software)
2 4 (14.81%) Cucumber
2 4 (14.81%) Visual Studio
3 3 (11.11%) QUnit
3 3 (11.11%) Subversion
4 2 (7.407%) Ant
4 2 (7.407%) PHPUnit
5 1 (3.704%) JIRA
5 1 (3.704%) Eclipse
5 1 (3.704%) Xcode
General
1 2 (7.407%) Publishing
2 1 (3.704%) Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (88.89%) Developer
2 7 (25.93%) Web Developer
2 7 (25.93%) Java Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Android Developer
4 4 (14.81%) .NET Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (7.407%) Software Developer
6 2 (7.407%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (7.407%) ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (7.407%) C# Developer
6 2 (7.407%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (7.407%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 2 (7.407%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (7.407%) Agile .NET Developer
7 1 (3.704%) Mobile Applications Developer
7 1 (3.704%) Mobile Developer
7 1 (3.704%) Front-End Developer
7 1 (3.704%) Front-End Web Developer
7 1 (3.704%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Statistics
1 5 (18.52%) Mobile App
2 4 (14.81%) Semantic Web
3 2 (7.407%) NHS
3 2 (7.407%) BBC
3 2 (7.407%) Streaming Video
3 2 (7.407%) Computer Science
3 2 (7.407%) Interactive TV
3 2 (7.407%) Smartphone
3 2 (7.407%) Linked Data
3 2 (7.407%) Open Source
4 1 (3.704%) Social Media
4 1 (3.704%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Android
1 6 (22.22%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.704%) Windows Mobile
2 1 (3.704%) Windows
2 1 (3.704%) Fedora
2 1 (3.704%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) TDD
2 14 (51.85%) BDD
3 12 (44.44%) RDF
3 12 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (40.74%) Agile Software Development
5 9 (33.33%) Pair Programming
5 9 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 9 (33.33%) Scrum
5 9 (33.33%) OO
6 8 (29.63%) Benchmarking
6 8 (29.63%) Test Automation
7 5 (18.52%) Content Management
7 5 (18.52%) OOP
7 5 (18.52%) MVC
8 3 (11.11%) Kanban
9 2 (7.407%) Project Management
9 2 (7.407%) Test-First Development
9 2 (7.407%) ITIL
9 2 (7.407%) PRINCE2
9 2 (7.407%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (70.37%) Java
2 13 (48.15%) JavaScript
3 11 (40.74%) XPath
4 10 (37.04%) XQuery
5 6 (22.22%) PHP
5 6 (22.22%) C#
5 6 (22.22%) Ruby
6 4 (14.81%) Objective-C
6 4 (14.81%) T-SQL
6 4 (14.81%) SPARQL
7 1 (3.704%) C++
7 1 (3.704%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
1 3 (11.11%) Sun Certification
2 2 (7.407%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Zend
1 5 (18.52%) Apple
2 2 (7.407%) Oracle
3 1 (3.704%) Facebook
3 1 (3.704%) Adobe
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