The first table below looks at the demand for QUnit 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 QUnit over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
QUnit
Rank 116 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing QUnit 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.042% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.383% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 - £325
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
261 265 242
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 10.93% 8.723% 8.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 147 137
Average daily rate £325 £318 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.20% +6.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £250 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £396 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 9
Average hourly rate £37.50 £21.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+74.41% -28.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.75 £17.23 £21.82
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £35.00 £32.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
QUnit
England

QUnit
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West QUnit Jobs Demand Trend

QUnit
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West QUnit Daily Rate Trend

QUnit
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QUnit within the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Cheshire - 1 £350 -
Manchester - - - - 1
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QUnit
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing QUnit 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 QUnit.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
2 3 (75.00%) HTTP
2 3 (75.00%) Apple
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) OOP
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Objective-C
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) JSON
2 3 (75.00%) Zend
2 3 (75.00%) jQuery
2 3 (75.00%) Kanban
2 3 (75.00%) Android
2 3 (75.00%) Content Management
2 3 (75.00%) RESTful
2 3 (75.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (50.00%) Web Development
3 2 (50.00%) Linked Data
3 2 (50.00%) Progressive Enhancement
3 2 (50.00%) CouchDB
3 2 (50.00%) PHPUnit
3 2 (50.00%) Smartphone

QUnit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing QUnit 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 QUnit. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

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