The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services 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 Web Services over the 3 months to 20 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 of the Application Development 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services
Rank 26 36 31
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -5
Contract jobs citing Web Services 52 51 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 5.350% 4.191% 3.801%
As % of the Application Development category 17.81% 14.33% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 30 21
Average daily rate £303 £293 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.58% +6.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £233 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £358 £353 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £346
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -4.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £55.25 - £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -14.47%
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
292 356 286
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 30.04% 29.25% 27.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 194 159
Average daily rate £300 £288 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% +4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £235 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 19
Average hourly rate £25.00 £19.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.20% -40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £33.64 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Web Services
North West

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Web Services Jobs Demand Trend

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Web Services Daily Rate Trend

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Services across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Manchester Web Services Daily Rate Histogram

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Web Services Hourly Rate Trend

Web Services
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Services across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Manchester Web Services Hourly Rate Histogram

Web Services
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Services within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 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
(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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Salford - 4 £323 - 2
Stockport - 1 £310 - 7
Cheadle - 1 £370 - 3
Oldham - - - -
Altrincham - - - - 1
Bolton - - - - 2
Wigan - - - -
Web Services
North West

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Web Services 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 Services.

1 61 (58.10%) XML
2 50 (47.62%) CSS
3 49 (46.67%) JavaScript
3 49 (46.67%) .NET
4 48 (45.71%) C#
5 43 (40.95%) SQL Server
6 40 (38.10%) TDD
7 38 (36.19%) Java
8 34 (32.38%) ASP.NET
8 34 (32.38%) jQuery
9 32 (30.48%) SQL
10 31 (29.52%) Ajax
11 30 (28.57%) MVC
12 29 (27.62%) HTML
13 26 (24.76%) JSON
14 25 (23.81%) RESTful
15 23 (21.90%) Subversion
16 22 (20.95%) SharePoint
17 21 (20.00%) .NET Framework
17 21 (20.00%) HTML5
18 20 (19.05%) OO
19 19 (18.10%) Spring
20 18 (17.14%) XSLT
20 18 (17.14%) REST
21 17 (16.19%) Agile Software Development
22 16 (15.24%) WCF
22 16 (15.24%) Scrum
23 15 (14.29%) SOAP
23 15 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
23 15 (14.29%) BDD

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 61 (58.10%) XML
2 50 (47.62%) CSS
3 49 (46.67%) .NET
4 34 (32.38%) ASP.NET
4 34 (32.38%) jQuery
5 31 (29.52%) Ajax
6 29 (27.62%) HTML
7 26 (24.76%) JSON
8 25 (23.81%) RESTful
9 21 (20.00%) .NET Framework
9 21 (20.00%) HTML5
10 19 (18.10%) Spring
11 18 (17.14%) XSLT
11 18 (17.14%) REST
12 16 (15.24%) WCF
13 15 (14.29%) SOAP
14 14 (13.33%) CSS3
15 13 (12.38%) J2EE
16 12 (11.43%) LINQ
17 9 (8.571%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 22 (20.95%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.714%) Apache
3 5 (4.762%) SharePoint 2010
4 4 (3.810%) CMS
5 3 (2.857%) Jadu
6 2 (1.905%) IIS
6 2 (1.905%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.905%) Apache Solr
6 2 (1.905%) Amazon AWS
7 1 (0.952%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.952%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.952%) WordPress
7 1 (0.952%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 6 (5.714%) MS Excel
2 4 (3.810%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.952%) MS Office
3 1 (0.952%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.952%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (1.905%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.952%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.952%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.952%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.952%) Remedy AR System
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.667%) HTTP
2 6 (5.714%) Internet
3 4 (3.810%) Intranet
4 2 (1.905%) Extranet
4 2 (1.905%) RFID
5 1 (0.952%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.952%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.952%) FTP
5 1 (0.952%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (40.95%) SQL Server
2 15 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
3 13 (12.38%) SQL Server 2005
4 11 (10.48%) MySQL
5 4 (3.810%) CouchDB
5 4 (3.810%) Oracle 11g
5 4 (3.810%) RavenDB
6 3 (2.857%) SQL Server 2012
6 3 (2.857%) Oracle 8/8i
6 3 (2.857%) SQL Server 2000
7 2 (1.905%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.905%) MarkLogic
8 1 (0.952%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.952%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.952%) SQLite
8 1 (0.952%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.952%) TOAD
8 1 (0.952%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.952%) DB2
8 1 (0.952%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 23 (21.90%) Subversion
2 9 (8.571%) Git (software)
2 9 (8.571%) Visual Studio
2 9 (8.571%) Eclipse
3 7 (6.667%) JIRA
4 5 (4.762%) NetBeans
5 4 (3.810%) MTASC
5 4 (3.810%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.857%) QUnit
6 3 (2.857%) PhoneGap
7 2 (1.905%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.905%) Ant
7 2 (1.905%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.905%) Hudson
7 2 (1.905%) PHPUnit
7 2 (1.905%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.952%) Appcelerator Titanium
8 1 (0.952%) Selenium
8 1 (0.952%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.952%) WinRunner
General
1 4 (3.810%) Telecoms
1 4 (3.810%) Finance
2 2 (1.905%) Publishing
2 2 (1.905%) Law
2 2 (1.905%) Back Office
3 1 (0.952%) Banking
3 1 (0.952%) Legal
Job Titles
1 89 (84.76%) Developer
2 19 (18.10%) .NET Developer
2 19 (18.10%) C# Developer
3 16 (15.24%) Java Developer
4 13 (12.38%) Web Developer
5 9 (8.571%) Software Developer
6 7 (6.667%) C# .NET Developer
6 7 (6.667%) Agile C# Developer
7 6 (5.714%) Analyst
7 6 (5.714%) Android Developer
8 5 (4.762%) SharePoint Developer
8 5 (4.762%) Java Web Developer
8 5 (4.762%) ASP.NET Developer
8 5 (4.762%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 4 (3.810%) Applications Developer
9 4 (3.810%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.810%) C# Software Developer
9 4 (3.810%) PHP Developer
9 4 (3.810%) Web Applications Developer
9 4 (3.810%) Java Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.619%) Mobile App
2 6 (5.714%) W3C
3 5 (4.762%) Statistics
4 4 (3.810%) Semantic Web
4 4 (3.810%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (2.857%) iPad
5 3 (2.857%) Computer Science
5 3 (2.857%) iPhone
6 2 (1.905%) BBC
6 2 (1.905%) Streaming Video
6 2 (1.905%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.905%) NHS
6 2 (1.905%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.905%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.905%) Interactive TV
6 2 (1.905%) Smartphone
6 2 (1.905%) Open Source
6 2 (1.905%) Social Media
6 2 (1.905%) Linked Data
6 2 (1.905%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.48%) Android
2 9 (8.571%) Windows
3 8 (7.619%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.810%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (3.810%) Linux
4 4 (3.810%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (1.905%) UNIX
5 2 (1.905%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (0.952%) CentOS
6 1 (0.952%) Windows CE
6 1 (0.952%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (38.10%) TDD
2 30 (28.57%) MVC
3 20 (19.05%) OO
4 17 (16.19%) Agile Software Development
5 16 (15.24%) Scrum
6 15 (14.29%) BDD
7 14 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (12.38%) OOP
9 11 (10.48%) Enterprise Architecture
9 11 (10.48%) Pair Programming
9 11 (10.48%) RDF
10 9 (8.571%) Web Development
10 9 (8.571%) Test Automation
11 8 (7.619%) Benchmarking
11 8 (7.619%) Content Management
11 8 (7.619%) Web Design
12 6 (5.714%) Project Management
12 6 (5.714%) ITIL
12 6 (5.714%) Performance Testing
13 5 (4.762%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 49 (46.67%) JavaScript
2 48 (45.71%) C#
3 38 (36.19%) Java
4 32 (30.48%) SQL
5 13 (12.38%) PHP
6 11 (10.48%) XPath
7 9 (8.571%) XQuery
8 8 (7.619%) T-SQL
8 8 (7.619%) Ruby
9 7 (6.667%) C++
10 6 (5.714%) Objective-C
11 4 (3.810%) ActionScript
11 4 (3.810%) ActionScript 2.0
12 3 (2.857%) SPARQL
12 3 (2.857%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.905%) C
13 2 (1.905%) Scala
14 1 (0.952%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.952%) VBA
14 1 (0.952%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (9.524%) Degree
2 3 (2.857%) Sun Certification
3 2 (1.905%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.952%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.905%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.952%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (0.952%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.952%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 2 (1.905%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.952%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 11 (10.48%) Oracle
2 7 (6.667%) Telerik
2 7 (6.667%) Apple
3 6 (5.714%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.714%) Zend
4 3 (2.857%) Facebook
4 3 (2.857%) Twitter
4 3 (2.857%) VMware
5 2 (1.905%) HP
6 1 (0.952%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.952%) Adobe
6 1 (0.952%) NetApp
6 1 (0.952%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.952%) Sage
6 1 (0.952%) BMC
6 1 (0.952%) Remedy
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