The first table below looks at the demand for MTASC 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 MTASC over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Motion-Twin ActionScript 2 Compiler (MTASC)
Rank 115 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MTASC 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.087% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.794% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 - -
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
252 263 222
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 10.97% 8.304% 7.210%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 138 118
Average daily rate £314 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.46% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £270 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 £21.86 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+71.54% -27.13%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.96 £15.60 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £34.79 £31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
MTASC
England

MTASC
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MTASC within the North West region over the 3 months to 17 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 - 2 £350 -
MTASC
England

MTASC
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing MTASC 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 MTASC.

1 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) OOP
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) Flash
1 4 (100.00%) Internet
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) ActionScript 2.0
1 4 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded Systems

MTASC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing MTASC 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 MTASC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) Flash
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Flash Developer
1 3 (75.00%) ActionScript Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Flash ActionScript Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) OOP
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 4 (100.00%) ActionScript 2.0