The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Semantic Web in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Semantic Web over the 3 months to 23 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Semantic Web
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Semantic Web 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.107% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.442% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £323 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £416 -
% change year-on-year
+8.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
226 268 212
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 24.17% 20.71% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 106 88
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 £174 £198 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £428 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 21
Average hourly rate £13.50 £20.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.14% +57.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £17.00 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.50 £33.30 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Semantic Web
North West

Semantic Web
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Semantic Web Jobs Demand Trend

Semantic Web
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Semantic Web Daily Rate Trend

Semantic Web
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic Web within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Salford - 1 £323 -
Semantic Web
North West

Semantic Web
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Semantic Web 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 Semantic Web.

1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
1 5 (100.00%) JSON
2 4 (80.00%) Content Management
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) RESTful
2 4 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (80.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) Web Services
2 4 (80.00%) RDF
2 4 (80.00%) BDD
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (60.00%) Apple iOS
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 3 (60.00%) Android
3 3 (60.00%) Interactive TV
4 2 (40.00%) Ruby
4 2 (40.00%) Test-First Development
4 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
4 2 (40.00%) Subversion
4 2 (40.00%) Spring
4 2 (40.00%) Smartphone
4 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) Web Development
4 2 (40.00%) XPath
4 2 (40.00%) Kanban
4 2 (40.00%) Zend
4 2 (40.00%) jQuery
4 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing

Semantic Web
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Semantic Web 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 Semantic Web. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) JSON
2 4 (80.00%) RESTful
2 4 (80.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) Spring
3 2 (40.00%) jQuery
3 2 (40.00%) HTML5
3 2 (40.00%) J2EE
3 2 (40.00%) CSS
3 2 (40.00%) XSLT
3 2 (40.00%) REST
3 2 (40.00%) JAX-RS
4 1 (20.00%) iOS SDK
4 1 (20.00%) Series 60
4 1 (20.00%) iPhone SDK
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) CouchDB
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (40.00%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) Subversion
2 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
2 2 (40.00%) PHPUnit
2 2 (40.00%) Ant
2 2 (40.00%) QUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Robotium
3 1 (20.00%) Xcode
3 1 (20.00%) Firebug
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (40.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Android Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Interactive TV
2 2 (40.00%) Smartphone
2 2 (40.00%) BBC
2 2 (40.00%) Streaming Video
2 2 (40.00%) Linked Data
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
3 1 (20.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (60.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Mac OS X
2 1 (20.00%) bada
2 1 (20.00%) Maemo
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) Content Management
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (80.00%) RDF
2 4 (80.00%) BDD
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) Test-First Development
4 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
4 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) Web Development
4 2 (40.00%) Kanban
4 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Benchmarking
4 2 (40.00%) MVC
4 2 (40.00%) OOP
4 2 (40.00%) OO
4 2 (40.00%) Progressive Enhancement
5 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby
2 2 (40.00%) XPath
2 2 (40.00%) SPARQL
2 2 (40.00%) Objective-C
2 2 (40.00%) XQuery
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) PHP
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Sun Certification
2 1 (20.00%) ISEB
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Zend
1 2 (40.00%) Apple
2 1 (20.00%) Symbian