The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Twitter products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Twitter 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Twitter, Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Twitter
Rank 29 34 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Contract jobs citing Twitter 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.990% 0.383% -
As % of the Vendors category 2.128% 0.746% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £300 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 - -
All Vendors
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
94 134 118
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 46.53% 51.34% 47.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 55 55
Average daily rate £363 £300 £317
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.83% -5.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £155 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £462
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 23 14
Average hourly rate £11.29 £16.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.59% +10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.96 £11.68
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.65 £21.86 £22.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Twitter
North West

Twitter
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside Twitter Jobs Demand Trend

Twitter
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Twitter within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 24 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 +9 2 - -
Twitter
North West

Twitter
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 7 (100.00%) .NET
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 6 (85.71%) SEO
2 6 (85.71%) CMS
2 6 (85.71%) OO
2 6 (85.71%) CSS
2 6 (85.71%) C#
2 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 6 (85.71%) jQuery
2 6 (85.71%) Umbraco
2 6 (85.71%) HTML5
2 6 (85.71%) CSS3
3 5 (71.43%) Razor View Engine
3 5 (71.43%) Facebook
3 5 (71.43%) Git (software)
3 5 (71.43%) ASP.NET MVC
3 5 (71.43%) Mobile App
3 5 (71.43%) WordPress
3 5 (71.43%) Google Maps API
3 5 (71.43%) ASP.NET
3 5 (71.43%) MVC
3 5 (71.43%) Google
3 5 (71.43%) Web Development
3 5 (71.43%) Business Development
3 5 (71.43%) XPath
3 5 (71.43%) Degree
3 5 (71.43%) Zend
3 5 (71.43%) CodeIgniter
3 5 (71.43%) CakePHP

Twitter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (85.71%) CSS
2 6 (85.71%) jQuery
2 6 (85.71%) HTML5
2 6 (85.71%) CSS3
3 5 (71.43%) Razor View Engine
3 5 (71.43%) ASP.NET MVC
3 5 (71.43%) Google Maps API
3 5 (71.43%) ASP.NET
3 5 (71.43%) CodeIgniter
3 5 (71.43%) CakePHP
3 5 (71.43%) XML
3 5 (71.43%) XSD
3 5 (71.43%) XSLT
4 1 (14.29%) ASP
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
4 1 (14.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
Application Platforms
1 6 (85.71%) CMS
1 6 (85.71%) Umbraco
2 5 (71.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (71.43%) MySQL
2 5 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 5 (71.43%) Git (software)
2 5 (71.43%) NetBeans
3 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
3 1 (14.29%) Dreamweaver
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) .NET Developer
2 5 (71.43%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Front-End Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Android
2 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) SEO
1 6 (85.71%) OO
2 5 (71.43%) MVC
2 5 (71.43%) Web Development
2 5 (71.43%) Business Development
2 5 (71.43%) OOD
3 1 (14.29%) Web Design
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) C#
1 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 5 (71.43%) XPath
2 5 (71.43%) PHP
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) VBScript
3 1 (14.29%) VB
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Facebook
1 5 (71.43%) Google
1 5 (71.43%) Zend
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Adobe
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