The first table below looks at the demand for JSON 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 JSON over the 3 months to 21 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 Application Development 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JSON
Rank 32 33 31
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -2
Contract jobs citing JSON 1 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.461% 0.388% 0.403%
As % of the Application Development category 1.639% 1.351% 2.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £330 £210
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +57.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-0.76% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year
-43.35% -
All Application Development
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
61 74 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 28.11% 28.68% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 37 16
Average daily rate £300 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £275 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £400 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 2
Average hourly rate £14.79 £21.86 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.35% +61.92%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JSON
North West

JSON
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside JSON Jobs Demand Trend

JSON
Daily Rate Trend

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

Merseyside JSON Daily Rate Trend

JSON
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 21 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
Liverpool +8 1 - -
Wirral - 1 - -
JSON
North West

JSON
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing JSON 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 JSON.

1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
2 3 (75.00%) Ajax
2 3 (75.00%) Zend
2 3 (75.00%) CodeIgniter
2 3 (75.00%) CSS3
2 3 (75.00%) OOP
2 3 (75.00%) OO
2 3 (75.00%) MySQL
2 3 (75.00%) MVC
2 3 (75.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 2 (50.00%) Node.js
3 2 (50.00%) Backbone.js
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
4 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
4 1 (25.00%) Plesk
4 1 (25.00%) Social Network
4 1 (25.00%) Facebook
4 1 (25.00%) Web Application Development
4 1 (25.00%) SEO
4 1 (25.00%) LAMP
4 1 (25.00%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (25.00%) Photoshop
4 1 (25.00%) XML

JSON
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing JSON 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 JSON. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
2 3 (75.00%) Ajax
2 3 (75.00%) CodeIgniter
2 3 (75.00%) CSS3
2 3 (75.00%) HTML5
3 2 (50.00%) Node.js
3 2 (50.00%) Backbone.js
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
4 1 (25.00%) LAMP
4 1 (25.00%) XML
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (25.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Web Developer
3 2 (50.00%) PHP Developer
3 2 (50.00%) Mobile Developer
3 2 (50.00%) Front-End Developer
3 2 (50.00%) Front-End Web Developer
4 1 (25.00%) Programmer
4 1 (25.00%) PHP Web Developer
4 1 (25.00%) PHP Programmer
4 1 (25.00%) Web Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) OOP
1 3 (75.00%) OO
1 3 (75.00%) MVC
1 3 (75.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (25.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (25.00%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Plesk
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Zend
2 1 (25.00%) Facebook