JSON Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for JSON 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 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 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JSON
Rank 80 118 113
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -5
Contract jobs citing JSON 39 17 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 1.652% 0.539% 0.565%
As % of the Application Development category 6.122% 1.852% 2.322%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 12 14
Average daily rate £300 £325 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £278 £252
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £330 £275
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
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 637 918 732
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 26.98% 29.11% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 504 424
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 £226 £238 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 32 22
Average hourly rate £29.96 £18.51 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+61.90% -32.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.37 £33.31 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JSON
England

JSON
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West JSON Daily Rate Trend

JSON
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSON across the North West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

North West JSON Daily Rate Histogram

JSON
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West JSON Hourly 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 North West 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
Manchester +32 24 £300 -4.00%
Cheshire +6 11 £338 +3.84%
Lancashire - 3 £325 -
Merseyside +1 1 - -
JSON
England

JSON
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 45 (67.16%) JavaScript
2 41 (61.19%) XML
3 39 (58.21%) CSS
4 35 (52.24%) Java
4 35 (52.24%) jQuery
5 30 (44.78%) HTML5
5 30 (44.78%) Web Services
6 28 (41.79%) Ajax
7 27 (40.30%) MVC
7 27 (40.30%) HTML
8 24 (35.82%) TDD
9 23 (34.33%) CSS3
10 21 (31.34%) Agile Software Development
10 21 (31.34%) C#
11 20 (29.85%) PHP
11 20 (29.85%) .NET
11 20 (29.85%) ASP.NET
11 20 (29.85%) REST
12 17 (25.37%) RESTful
12 17 (25.37%) SQL
12 17 (25.37%) OO
12 17 (25.37%) Spring
13 16 (23.88%) XSLT
13 16 (23.88%) BDD
13 16 (23.88%) Android
14 15 (22.39%) MySQL
15 13 (19.40%) OOP
15 13 (19.40%) RDF
15 13 (19.40%) XPath
16 12 (17.91%) J2EE

JSON
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 41 (61.19%) XML
2 39 (58.21%) CSS
3 35 (52.24%) jQuery
4 30 (44.78%) HTML5
4 30 (44.78%) Web Services
5 28 (41.79%) Ajax
6 27 (40.30%) HTML
7 23 (34.33%) CSS3
8 20 (29.85%) .NET
8 20 (29.85%) ASP.NET
8 20 (29.85%) REST
9 17 (25.37%) RESTful
9 17 (25.37%) Spring
10 16 (23.88%) XSLT
11 12 (17.91%) J2EE
12 11 (16.42%) WCF
12 11 (16.42%) JAX-RS
13 10 (14.93%) XSL
14 9 (13.43%) ASP.NET MVC
14 9 (13.43%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 5 (7.463%) Apache
1 5 (7.463%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.970%) Drupal
3 2 (2.985%) CMS
4 1 (1.493%) EPiServer CMS
4 1 (1.493%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (5.970%) Photoshop
2 3 (4.478%) Fireworks
3 1 (1.493%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.493%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (1.493%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.493%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.94%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.39%) MySQL
2 11 (16.42%) SQL Server
3 8 (11.94%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (7.463%) SQLite
4 5 (7.463%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (4.478%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.478%) SQL Server 2000
6 2 (2.985%) MarkLogic
6 2 (2.985%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 9 (13.43%) Visual Studio
2 8 (11.94%) Subversion
3 7 (10.45%) Eclipse
4 6 (8.955%) Git (software)
4 6 (8.955%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (7.463%) Cucumber
5 5 (7.463%) NetBeans
6 4 (5.970%) JIRA
6 4 (5.970%) Xcode
7 3 (4.478%) QUnit
8 2 (2.985%) Ant
8 2 (2.985%) PHPUnit
9 1 (1.493%) Firebug
9 1 (1.493%) Selenium
9 1 (1.493%) Robotium
General
1 6 (8.955%) Finance
2 3 (4.478%) Banking
2 3 (4.478%) Retail
3 2 (2.985%) Publishing
3 2 (2.985%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (83.58%) Developer
2 16 (23.88%) Web Developer
3 12 (17.91%) .NET Developer
4 11 (16.42%) Java Developer
5 9 (13.43%) Android Developer
6 8 (11.94%) Senior Developer
7 7 (10.45%) Applications Developer
7 7 (10.45%) Web Applications Developer
8 6 (8.955%) PHP Developer
9 5 (7.463%) Front-End Developer
9 5 (7.463%) Software Engineer
10 4 (5.970%) Drupal Developer
10 4 (5.970%) Designer
11 3 (4.478%) UI Developer
11 3 (4.478%) PHP Drupal Developer
11 3 (4.478%) .NET Applications Developer
11 3 (4.478%) UI Designer
11 3 (4.478%) UI Programmer
11 3 (4.478%) Lead Developer
11 3 (4.478%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.463%) Semantic Web
2 5 (7.463%) Statistics
3 4 (5.970%) N-Tier
4 3 (4.478%) Blackberry
4 3 (4.478%) Streaming Video
4 3 (4.478%) Smartphone
4 3 (4.478%) Interactive TV
5 2 (2.985%) BBC
5 2 (2.985%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.985%) Linked Data
5 2 (2.985%) iPhone
6 1 (1.493%) Social Media
6 1 (1.493%) iPad
6 1 (1.493%) Social Network
6 1 (1.493%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 16 (23.88%) Android
2 12 (17.91%) Apple iOS
3 9 (13.43%) Windows
4 3 (4.478%) Windows CE
4 3 (4.478%) Windows Mobile
5 2 (2.985%) Linux
5 2 (2.985%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.493%) bada
6 1 (1.493%) Maemo
6 1 (1.493%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.30%) MVC
2 24 (35.82%) TDD
3 21 (31.34%) Agile Software Development
4 17 (25.37%) OO
5 16 (23.88%) BDD
6 13 (19.40%) OOP
6 13 (19.40%) RDF
7 11 (16.42%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (14.93%) Pair Programming
8 10 (14.93%) Test Automation
9 9 (13.43%) Benchmarking
9 9 (13.43%) Enterprise Architecture
10 8 (11.94%) Web Design
11 7 (10.45%) Web Development
12 6 (8.955%) Scrum
12 6 (8.955%) SOA
12 6 (8.955%) MVVM
13 5 (7.463%) Web Application Development
13 5 (7.463%) Content Management
14 4 (5.970%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 45 (67.16%) JavaScript
2 35 (52.24%) Java
3 21 (31.34%) C#
4 20 (29.85%) PHP
5 17 (25.37%) SQL
6 13 (19.40%) XPath
7 10 (14.93%) XQuery
8 7 (10.45%) Objective-C
8 7 (10.45%) Ruby
9 4 (5.970%) C++
9 4 (5.970%) PHP5
10 3 (4.478%) SPARQL
10 3 (4.478%) C
11 2 (2.985%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.493%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.493%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (4.478%) PhD
1 3 (4.478%) Sun Certification
1 3 (4.478%) Degree
2 1 (1.493%) ISEB
2 1 (1.493%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 1 (1.493%) Plesk
Vendors
1 9 (13.43%) Zend
2 6 (8.955%) Apple
3 3 (4.478%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.478%) Adobe
4 2 (2.985%) Facebook
4 2 (2.985%) EPiServer
4 2 (2.985%) Razor Risk
5 1 (1.493%) Twitter
5 1 (1.493%) Symbian
5 1 (1.493%) Oracle
5 1 (1.493%) SolidWorks
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