The first table below looks at the demand for ActiveX skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ActiveX 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 North West 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
Microsoft ActiveX
Rank 117 131 -
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -
Contract jobs citing ActiveX 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.043% 0.032% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.157% 0.112% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £213 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £213 £300 £188
% change year-on-year
-29.16% +60.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
- -22.50%
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
638 889 748
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 27.37% 28.58% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 476 428
Average daily rate £300 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £238 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 21
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.51 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.46% -36.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.31 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ActiveX
England

ActiveX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West ActiveX Jobs Demand Trend

ActiveX
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West ActiveX Daily Rate Trend

ActiveX
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ActiveX across the North West region.

North West ActiveX Hourly Rate Trend

ActiveX
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ActiveX within the North West 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
Lancashire - 1 £213 -
ActiveX
England

ActiveX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing ActiveX 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 ActiveX.

1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) VB
1 2 (100.00%) COM
1 2 (100.00%) DCOM
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) VC++
2 1 (50.00%) MSMQ
2 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) XSD
2 1 (50.00%) XSL
2 1 (50.00%) ODBC
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) VB6
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Remoting
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) Silverlight
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing

ActiveX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) COM
1 2 (100.00%) DCOM
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSD
2 1 (50.00%) XSL
2 1 (50.00%) ODBC
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Remoting
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) Silverlight
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) ADO
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) MSMQ
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) TortoiseSVN
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) UML
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) VB
2 1 (50.00%) VC++
2 1 (50.00%) VB6
2 1 (50.00%) VBA
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle