The first table below looks at the demand for GitHub 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 GitHub 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 Development Applications 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
GitHub
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West - - -
As % of the Development Applications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £400 -
% change year-on-year
-37.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
253 251 220
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 10.85% 8.068% 7.213%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 130 115
Average daily rate £313 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £265 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £416 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 £25.93 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+44.62% -13.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.80 £16.15 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £128.00 £33.32 £31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
GitHub
England

GitHub
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West GitHub Jobs Demand Trend

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West GitHub Daily Rate Trend

GitHub
Top 8 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) Grails
1 2 (100.00%) Haskell
1 2 (100.00%) Scala
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source

GitHub
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) Grails
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Scala Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) Haskell
1 2 (100.00%) Scala