The first table below looks at the demand for Sun Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sun Certification 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 Qualifications 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
Sun Certification
Rank 73 80 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs citing Sun Certification 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.209% 0.081% -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.408% 0.562% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £350 £305
% change year-on-year
- +14.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £35.00
All Qualifications
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
142 178 116
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 14.81% 14.42% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 66 54
Average daily rate £325 £313 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -0.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £190 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £396 £423
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 9
Average hourly rate £21.00 £21.50 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.32% -10.41%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.30 £12.50 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £22.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
Sun Certification
North West

Sun Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Sun Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Sun Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Sun Certification Daily Rate Trend

Sun Certification
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sun Certification 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
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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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Altrincham - - - -
Sun Certification
North West

Sun Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) MVC
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) XML
3 4 (66.67%) Apple
3 4 (66.67%) OOP
3 4 (66.67%) PHP
3 4 (66.67%) Content Management
3 4 (66.67%) Zend
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (66.67%) Android
3 4 (66.67%) Apple iOS
3 4 (66.67%) Mobile App
4 3 (50.00%) JSON
4 3 (50.00%) HTML5
4 3 (50.00%) BDD
4 3 (50.00%) RESTful
4 3 (50.00%) jQuery
4 3 (50.00%) Objective-C
4 3 (50.00%) TDD
4 3 (50.00%) Web Services
4 3 (50.00%) HTTP
5 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
5 2 (33.33%) IBM
5 2 (33.33%) Sun
5 2 (33.33%) RDF
5 2 (33.33%) UNIX
5 2 (33.33%) UML
5 2 (33.33%) OO

Sun Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (83.33%) CSS
1 5 (83.33%) XML
2 3 (50.00%) JSON
2 3 (50.00%) HTML5
2 3 (50.00%) RESTful
2 3 (50.00%) jQuery
2 3 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) XHTML
3 2 (33.33%) J2EE
3 2 (33.33%) EJB
3 2 (33.33%) JDBC
3 2 (33.33%) JSP
3 2 (33.33%) Servlets
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) WebSphere
4 1 (16.67%) REST
4 1 (16.67%) DHTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Solr
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 2 (33.33%) DB2
1 2 (33.33%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 2 (33.33%) Ant
1 2 (33.33%) JUnit
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
1 2 (33.33%) Git (software)
1 2 (33.33%) QUnit
1 2 (33.33%) PHPUnit
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Android Developer
3 3 (50.00%) Web Developer
4 2 (33.33%) WebSphere Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (33.33%) BBC
2 2 (33.33%) Smartphone
2 2 (33.33%) Semantic Web
2 2 (33.33%) Linked Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Android
1 4 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) MVC
2 4 (66.67%) OOP
2 4 (66.67%) Content Management
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (50.00%) BDD
3 3 (50.00%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) RDF
4 2 (33.33%) UML
4 2 (33.33%) OO
4 2 (33.33%) RAD
4 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 2 (33.33%) Test-First Development
4 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Kanban
4 2 (33.33%) Web Development
4 2 (33.33%) Progressive Enhancement
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (66.67%) PHP
4 3 (50.00%) Objective-C
5 2 (33.33%) SQL
5 2 (33.33%) Perl
5 2 (33.33%) Bash shell
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Apple
1 4 (66.67%) Zend
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) Sun
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
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