The first table below looks at the demand for Subversion 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 Subversion over the 3 months to 21 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 Development Applications 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Subversion (SVN)
Rank 53 70 62
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -8
Contract jobs citing Subversion 20 19 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 2.119% 1.462% 1.189%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.00% 16.24% 14.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 10
Average daily rate £270 £313 £299
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.60% +4.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £268 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £33.31 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.66 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+5.15% -4.90%
All Development Applications
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
100 117 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 10.59% 9.000% 8.127%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 61 41
Average daily rate £300 £325 £306
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +6.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £251 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £360 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 0
Average hourly rate £112.50 £33.30 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+237.83% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Subversion
North West

Subversion
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Subversion Jobs Demand Trend

Subversion
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Subversion Daily Rate Trend

Subversion
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Subversion across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Manchester Subversion Daily Rate Histogram

Subversion
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Subversion across the Manchester region.

Manchester Subversion Hourly Rate Trend

Subversion
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Subversion within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 21 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
Oldham - 3 £170 -
Salford -2 1 £350 -
Subversion
North West

Subversion
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Subversion 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 Subversion.

1 28 (70.00%) SQL
2 25 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 24 (60.00%) Web Services
4 22 (55.00%) XML
4 22 (55.00%) Java
5 20 (50.00%) CSS
5 20 (50.00%) Ajax
6 17 (42.50%) HTML
7 15 (37.50%) OO
8 13 (32.50%) Eclipse
8 13 (32.50%) JSP
8 13 (32.50%) MVC
8 13 (32.50%) jQuery
9 12 (30.00%) Internet
9 12 (30.00%) C#
9 12 (30.00%) SQL Server
9 12 (30.00%) XSLT
10 11 (27.50%) Linux
10 11 (27.50%) XHTML
10 11 (27.50%) .NET
10 11 (27.50%) Servlets
10 11 (27.50%) JSTL
10 11 (27.50%) HTML5
11 10 (25.00%) Content Management
11 10 (25.00%) Ant
11 10 (25.00%) E-Commerce
12 9 (22.50%) J2EE
12 9 (22.50%) XPath
12 9 (22.50%) Scrum
12 9 (22.50%) CSS3

Subversion
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Subversion 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 Subversion. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (60.00%) Web Services
2 22 (55.00%) XML
3 20 (50.00%) CSS
3 20 (50.00%) Ajax
4 17 (42.50%) HTML
5 13 (32.50%) JSP
5 13 (32.50%) jQuery
6 12 (30.00%) XSLT
7 11 (27.50%) XHTML
7 11 (27.50%) .NET
7 11 (27.50%) Servlets
7 11 (27.50%) JSTL
7 11 (27.50%) HTML5
8 9 (22.50%) J2EE
8 9 (22.50%) CSS3
9 8 (20.00%) JSON
9 8 (20.00%) WebSphere
9 8 (20.00%) XMLBeans
9 8 (20.00%) ASP.NET
9 8 (20.00%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 8 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 8 (20.00%) MQSeries
2 6 (15.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (12.50%) Tomcat
3 5 (12.50%) Apache
4 2 (5.000%) IIS
5 1 (2.500%) Confluence
5 1 (2.500%) WordPress
5 1 (2.500%) CMS
5 1 (2.500%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (5.000%) Photoshop
1 2 (5.000%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (20.00%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.00%) Internet
2 3 (7.500%) LDAP
3 2 (5.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (20.00%) MySQL
2 8 (20.00%) DB2
2 8 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 5 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (5.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (5.000%) CouchDB
4 2 (5.000%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.500%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) Eclipse
2 10 (25.00%) Ant
3 8 (20.00%) Log4j
3 8 (20.00%) JUnit
3 8 (20.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 7 (17.50%) JIRA
5 5 (12.50%) Visual Studio
6 4 (10.00%) MTASC
7 3 (7.500%) Cucumber
7 3 (7.500%) Git (software)
7 3 (7.500%) TeamCity
7 3 (7.500%) NetBeans
8 2 (5.000%) QUnit
8 2 (5.000%) PHPUnit
9 1 (2.500%) Hudson
9 1 (2.500%) Redmine
9 1 (2.500%) Jenkins
9 1 (2.500%) Mercurial
9 1 (2.500%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 8 (20.00%) Finance
2 7 (17.50%) Retail
2 7 (17.50%) Games
3 1 (2.500%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (82.50%) Developer
2 12 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 7 (17.50%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 7 (17.50%) J2EE Developer
4 6 (15.00%) Web Developer
5 4 (10.00%) .NET Developer
6 3 (7.500%) Flash ActionScript Developer
6 3 (7.500%) UI Designer
6 3 (7.500%) Designer
6 3 (7.500%) Front-End Developer
6 3 (7.500%) PHP Developer
6 3 (7.500%) Flash Developer
6 3 (7.500%) ActionScript Developer
6 3 (7.500%) Java Web Developer
7 2 (5.000%) Junior PHP Developer
7 2 (5.000%) Java Applications Developer
7 2 (5.000%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.000%) Junior
7 2 (5.000%) Applications Developer
7 2 (5.000%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Web 2.0
2 4 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (7.500%) W3C
3 3 (7.500%) N-Tier
4 2 (5.000%) Smartphone
4 2 (5.000%) BBC
4 2 (5.000%) Semantic Web
4 2 (5.000%) Linked Data
4 2 (5.000%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.500%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.500%) Open Source
5 1 (2.500%) E-Learning
5 1 (2.500%) Derivative
5 1 (2.500%) Taxonomies
5 1 (2.500%) NHS
5 1 (2.500%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 11 (27.50%) Linux
2 8 (20.00%) UNIX
2 8 (20.00%) HPUX
2 8 (20.00%) Solaris
3 3 (7.500%) Apple iOS
3 3 (7.500%) Android
4 1 (2.500%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) OO
2 13 (32.50%) MVC
3 10 (25.00%) Content Management
3 10 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 9 (22.50%) Scrum
5 8 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (20.00%) UML
5 8 (20.00%) RAD
6 7 (17.50%) TDD
7 6 (15.00%) Web Design
7 6 (15.00%) OOP
8 5 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (10.00%) Requirements Analysis
9 4 (10.00%) Kanban
9 4 (10.00%) Performance Testing
9 4 (10.00%) Memory Management
10 3 (7.500%) Project Management
10 3 (7.500%) Web Development
10 3 (7.500%) ITIL
11 2 (5.000%) RDF
Programming Languages
1 28 (70.00%) SQL
2 25 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 22 (55.00%) Java
4 12 (30.00%) C#
5 9 (22.50%) XPath
6 8 (20.00%) Bash shell
6 8 (20.00%) Perl
7 7 (17.50%) PHP
8 6 (15.00%) Ruby
9 4 (10.00%) C++
9 4 (10.00%) ActionScript
9 4 (10.00%) ActionScript 2.0
10 3 (7.500%) PowerShell
10 3 (7.500%) C
11 2 (5.000%) Objective-C
12 1 (2.500%) PHP5
12 1 (2.500%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.000%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.500%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.000%) Shibboleth
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Elastic Path
1 8 (20.00%) ATG
1 8 (20.00%) Blue Martini
1 8 (20.00%) IBM
1 8 (20.00%) Interwoven
2 2 (5.000%) Apple
2 2 (5.000%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.000%) Zend
3 1 (2.500%) Facebook
3 1 (2.500%) Twitter
3 1 (2.500%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.500%) Telerik
3 1 (2.500%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.500%) Oracle
Manchester, North West
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Posted: 20 May 2013