The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Web 2.0 in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web 2.0 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
Web 2.0
Rank 71 84 67
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -17
Contract jobs citing Web 2.0 2 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.214% 0.077% 0.189%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.885% 0.373% 0.943%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £275 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.66% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £300 £375
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
- +42.85%
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%
Web 2.0
North West

Web 2.0
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Web 2.0 across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Manchester Web 2.0 Jobs Demand Trend

Web 2.0
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Web 2.0 across the Manchester region.

Manchester Web 2.0 Daily Rate Trend

Web 2.0
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web 2.0 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 0 1 £300 -20.00%
Altrincham - 1 £250 -
Web 2.0
North West

Web 2.0
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Web 2.0 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 Web 2.0.

1 11 (91.67%) Internet
2 10 (83.33%) XHTML
2 10 (83.33%) UML
2 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 10 (83.33%) Content Management
2 10 (83.33%) Ajax
3 9 (75.00%) Blue Martini
3 9 (75.00%) WebSphere
3 9 (75.00%) Bash shell
3 9 (75.00%) ATG
3 9 (75.00%) Perl
3 9 (75.00%) HTML
3 9 (75.00%) Java
3 9 (75.00%) SQL
3 9 (75.00%) J2EE
3 9 (75.00%) JDBC
3 9 (75.00%) UNIX
3 9 (75.00%) HPUX
3 9 (75.00%) Solaris
3 9 (75.00%) Linux
3 9 (75.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 9 (75.00%) E-Commerce
3 9 (75.00%) IBM
4 8 (66.67%) Interwoven
4 8 (66.67%) Tridion
4 8 (66.67%) MQSeries
4 8 (66.67%) JMS
4 8 (66.67%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 8 (66.67%) Eclipse
4 8 (66.67%) RDBMS

Web 2.0
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Web 2.0 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 Web 2.0. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (83.33%) XHTML
1 10 (83.33%) Ajax
2 9 (75.00%) WebSphere
2 9 (75.00%) HTML
2 9 (75.00%) J2EE
2 9 (75.00%) JDBC
3 8 (66.67%) JMS
3 8 (66.67%) EJB
3 8 (66.67%) JSP
3 8 (66.67%) Servlets
3 8 (66.67%) Struts
3 8 (66.67%) XML
3 8 (66.67%) XSLT
3 8 (66.67%) XMLBeans
3 8 (66.67%) JSTL
4 1 (8.333%) CSS
4 1 (8.333%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 9 (75.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 8 (66.67%) MQSeries
3 1 (8.333%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 8 (66.67%) DB2
2 1 (8.333%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 8 (66.67%) Eclipse
1 8 (66.67%) Ant
1 8 (66.67%) JUnit
1 8 (66.67%) Log4j
1 8 (66.67%) Subversion
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
1 8 (66.67%) Retail
2 7 (58.33%) Games
3 2 (16.67%) Publishing
4 1 (8.333%) Investment Banking
4 1 (8.333%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Developer
2 9 (75.00%) Java Developer
3 8 (66.67%) J2EE Developer
3 8 (66.67%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Streaming Video
1 2 (16.67%) Interactive TV
1 2 (16.67%) Social Network
1 2 (16.67%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) UNIX
1 9 (75.00%) HPUX
1 9 (75.00%) Solaris
1 9 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) UML
1 10 (83.33%) Content Management
2 9 (75.00%) E-Commerce
3 8 (66.67%) OO
3 8 (66.67%) RAD
4 2 (16.67%) TDD
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Use Case
4 2 (16.67%) Competitor Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) BDD
4 2 (16.67%) User Stories
4 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 1 (8.333%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 9 (75.00%) Bash shell
2 9 (75.00%) Perl
2 9 (75.00%) Java
2 9 (75.00%) SQL
3 8 (66.67%) XPath
4 1 (8.333%) PHP
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Blue Martini
1 9 (75.00%) ATG
1 9 (75.00%) IBM
2 8 (66.67%) Interwoven
2 8 (66.67%) Elastic Path