The first table below looks at the demand for Progressive Enhancement 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 Progressive Enhancement 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
Progressive Enhancement
Rank - 131 -
Contract jobs citing Progressive Enhancement 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West - 0.032% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.051% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £325 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £325 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.11 -
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1623 1947 2011
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 70.66% 61.48% 65.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 1006 1047
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £490 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 81 98
Average hourly rate £22.06 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.27% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.13 £13.26 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.00 £37.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Progressive Enhancement
England

Progressive Enhancement
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Progressive Enhancement across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

North West Progressive Enhancement Jobs Demand Trend

Progressive Enhancement
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Progressive Enhancement Daily Rate Trend

Progressive Enhancement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Test-First Development
3 2 (50.00%) Subversion
3 2 (50.00%) Content Management
3 2 (50.00%) Ajax
3 2 (50.00%) Web Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Smartphone
3 2 (50.00%) Web Development
3 2 (50.00%) JSON
3 2 (50.00%) Zend
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Kanban
3 2 (50.00%) Android
3 2 (50.00%) Semantic Web
3 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
3 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) CouchDB
3 2 (50.00%) PHPUnit
3 2 (50.00%) BBC
3 2 (50.00%) Games
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Objective-C
3 2 (50.00%) PHP

Progressive Enhancement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) CSS3
2 2 (50.00%) Sass
2 2 (50.00%) LESS
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) Semantic HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Ant
1 2 (50.00%) Subversion
1 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (50.00%) PHPUnit
1 2 (50.00%) QUnit
General
1 2 (50.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Android Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) BBC
1 2 (50.00%) Smartphone
1 2 (50.00%) Semantic Web
1 2 (50.00%) Linked Data
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Android
1 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Test-First Development
3 2 (50.00%) Content Management
3 2 (50.00%) Web Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Web Development
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) OOP
3 2 (50.00%) RDF
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Kanban
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) Graceful Degradation
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) Objective-C
2 2 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Apple
1 2 (50.00%) Zend