The first table below looks at the demand for Node.js 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 Node.js over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Nodejs
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Node.js 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £375 £175
% change year-on-year
-26.66% +114.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - -
All Application Development
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
58 75 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 28.71% 28.74% 19.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 37 17
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 £450 £400 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 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%
Node.js
North West

Node.js
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside Node.js Jobs Demand Trend

Node.js
Daily Rate Trend

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

Merseyside Node.js Daily Rate Trend

Node.js
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing Node.js 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 Node.js.

1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Zend
1 2 (100.00%) CodeIgniter
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) CSS3
1 2 (100.00%) Backbone.js
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development

Node.js
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing Node.js 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 Node.js. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) CodeIgniter
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) CSS3
1 2 (100.00%) Backbone.js
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Front-End Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Front-End Web Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Zend