The first table below looks at the demand for NHibernate 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 NHibernate over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
NHibernate
Rank 114 101 118
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +17
Contract jobs citing NHibernate 4 28 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.171% 0.897% 0.290%
As % of the Application Development category 0.625% 3.084% 1.184%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 22 8
Average daily rate £275 £244 £286
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.82% -14.84%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £275 £330
% change year-on-year
+18.18% -16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £10.00 £32.25
% change year-on-year
- -68.99%
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
640 908 760
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 27.30% 29.08% 24.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 491 434
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 £230
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 29 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%
NHibernate
England

NHibernate
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West NHibernate Jobs Demand Trend

NHibernate
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West NHibernate Daily Rate Trend

NHibernate
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHibernate within the North West region over the 3 months to 23 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 -6 4 £275 +15.78%
NHibernate
England

NHibernate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing NHibernate 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 NHibernate.

1 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (93.33%) C#
3 13 (86.67%) JavaScript
3 13 (86.67%) ASP.NET
4 12 (80.00%) MVC
4 12 (80.00%) SQL Server
5 11 (73.33%) jQuery
5 11 (73.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 10 (66.67%) .NET Framework
7 9 (60.00%) TDD
7 9 (60.00%) Telerik
7 9 (60.00%) LINQ
8 8 (53.33%) WCF
8 8 (53.33%) Ajax
8 8 (53.33%) SharePoint
8 8 (53.33%) CSS
8 8 (53.33%) Web Services
8 8 (53.33%) HTML
9 6 (40.00%) SQL
10 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
11 3 (20.00%) Git (software)
11 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
11 3 (20.00%) LINQ to SQL
11 3 (20.00%) Ninject
11 3 (20.00%) Unity DI Container
12 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 2 (13.33%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
12 2 (13.33%) Subversion

NHibernate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing NHibernate 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 NHibernate. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 13 (86.67%) ASP.NET
3 11 (73.33%) jQuery
3 11 (73.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 10 (66.67%) .NET Framework
5 9 (60.00%) LINQ
6 8 (53.33%) WCF
6 8 (53.33%) Ajax
6 8 (53.33%) CSS
6 8 (53.33%) Web Services
6 8 (53.33%) HTML
7 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (20.00%) LINQ to SQL
7 3 (20.00%) Ninject
7 3 (20.00%) Unity DI Container
8 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 2 (13.33%) ASP
9 1 (6.667%) XML
9 1 (6.667%) OpenRasta
9 1 (6.667%) Castle Windsor
Application Platforms
1 8 (53.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.667%) CMS
2 1 (6.667%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (6.667%) RavenDB
3 1 (6.667%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git (software)
2 2 (13.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (13.33%) Subversion
3 1 (6.667%) TeamCity
3 1 (6.667%) MSBuild
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (60.00%) C# Developer
3 8 (53.33%) Agile C# Developer
4 5 (33.33%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) NHS
1 1 (6.667%) Inversion of Control
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) MVC
2 9 (60.00%) TDD
3 3 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (6.667%) Workflow
4 1 (6.667%) OOP
4 1 (6.667%) OO
4 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (6.667%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) C#
2 13 (86.67%) JavaScript
3 6 (40.00%) SQL
4 1 (6.667%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Telerik
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft