The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term W3C in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited W3C over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C)
Rank 69 72 64
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -8
Contract jobs citing W3C 4 12 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.438% 0.922% 0.675%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.810% 4.461% 3.286%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
Average daily rate £263 £320 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.96% +50.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £259 £320 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £293 £320 £255
UK excluding London average daily rate £301 £350 £265
% change year-on-year
-14.14% +32.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £28.75 £23.75
% change year-on-year
-47.82% +21.05%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
221 269 213
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 24.18% 20.68% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 107 87
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 £175 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £431 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 20 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 £11.08 £13.50 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.75 £25.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
W3C
North West

W3C
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing W3C across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Manchester W3C Jobs Demand Trend

W3C
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing W3C across the Manchester region.

Manchester W3C Daily Rate Trend

W3C
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing W3C across the Manchester region.

Manchester W3C Hourly Rate Trend

W3C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing W3C 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 W3C.

1 9 (100.00%) CSS
2 7 (77.78%) ASP.NET
2 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 7 (77.78%) .NET
3 6 (66.67%) C#
3 6 (66.67%) Web Services
3 6 (66.67%) XML
4 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
4 4 (44.44%) MS Excel
4 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 4 (44.44%) Ajax
4 4 (44.44%) Degree
5 3 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
5 3 (33.33%) .NET Framework
5 3 (33.33%) Subversion
5 3 (33.33%) jQuery
5 3 (33.33%) SQL
5 3 (33.33%) HTML
6 2 (22.22%) C++
6 2 (22.22%) IIS
6 2 (22.22%) XSD
6 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (22.22%) Project Management
6 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
6 2 (22.22%) XSL
6 2 (22.22%) Windows
6 2 (22.22%) JIRA
6 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (22.22%) MVC

W3C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing W3C 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 W3C. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) CSS
2 7 (77.78%) .NET
2 7 (77.78%) ASP.NET
3 6 (66.67%) Web Services
3 6 (66.67%) XML
4 4 (44.44%) Ajax
5 3 (33.33%) .NET Framework
5 3 (33.33%) HTML
5 3 (33.33%) jQuery
6 2 (22.22%) XSD
6 2 (22.22%) XSL
7 1 (11.11%) XSLT
7 1 (11.11%) Flash
7 1 (11.11%) XHTML
7 1 (11.11%) Spring
7 1 (11.11%) Spring MVC
7 1 (11.11%) Zend Framework
7 1 (11.11%) DOM
7 1 (11.11%) J2EE
7 1 (11.11%) Google Maps API
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) IIS
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) MS Excel
2 1 (11.11%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Subversion
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 2 (22.22%) C# Developer
3 2 (22.22%) C# Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Drupal Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Designer
4 1 (11.11%) Web Designer
4 1 (11.11%) Junior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Junior
4 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Project Management
2 2 (22.22%) MVC
3 1 (11.11%) SEO
3 1 (11.11%) Web Accessibility
3 1 (11.11%) Information Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 6 (66.67%) C#
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) C++
5 1 (11.11%) Java
5 1 (11.11%) PHP
5 1 (11.11%) Python
5 1 (11.11%) Ruby
5 1 (11.11%) XPath
5 1 (11.11%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) WAI
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Zend
2 1 (11.11%) Twitter