The first table below looks at the demand for Domain-Driven Design skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Domain-Driven Design 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Merseyside 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
Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
Rank - - 30
Contract jobs citing Domain-Driven Design 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside - - 0.389%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 0.637%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 £400 £338
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +18.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
143 154 157
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 68.42% 59.23% 61.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 84 77
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £263 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £485 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 14
Average hourly rate - £21.86 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Domain-Driven Design
North West

Domain-Driven Design
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Domain-Driven Design across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Merseyside Domain-Driven Design Jobs Demand Trend

Domain-Driven Design
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Domain-Driven Design across the Merseyside region.

Merseyside Domain-Driven Design Daily Rate Trend

Domain-Driven Design
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing Domain-Driven Design 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 Domain-Driven Design.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) LINQ
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2

Domain-Driven Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing Domain-Driven Design 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 Domain-Driven Design. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) LINQ
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#