The first table below looks at the demand for RDF 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 RDF 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Rank 110 - 124
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing RDF 9 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.381% - 0.199%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.539% - 0.305%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 5
Average daily rate £323 - £358
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £450 £338
% change year-on-year
-28.33% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1669 1945 1965
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 70.69% 61.67% 65.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 819 1005 1027
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 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 84 96
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £21.12
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -5.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £13.35 £12.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.00 £37.50 £36.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
RDF
England

RDF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West RDF Jobs Demand Trend

RDF
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West RDF Daily Rate Trend

RDF
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDF 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 - 7 £323 -
Cheshire - 1 £275 -
RDF
England

RDF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing RDF 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 RDF.

1 14 (93.33%) Java
1 14 (93.33%) XML
1 14 (93.33%) TDD
1 14 (93.33%) RESTful
1 14 (93.33%) BDD
2 13 (86.67%) JSON
2 13 (86.67%) Web Services
3 12 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (80.00%) Spring
3 12 (80.00%) REST
4 11 (73.33%) JAX-RS
4 11 (73.33%) XPath
4 11 (73.33%) Pair Programming
4 11 (73.33%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (73.33%) J2EE
4 11 (73.33%) XSLT
4 11 (73.33%) XQuery
5 10 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
6 9 (60.00%) Benchmarking
6 9 (60.00%) OO
6 9 (60.00%) Test Automation
7 5 (33.33%) Statistics
7 5 (33.33%) Ruby
8 4 (26.67%) Semantic Web
8 4 (26.67%) SPARQL
8 4 (26.67%) Content Management
8 4 (26.67%) Cucumber
9 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
9 3 (20.00%) HTTP
9 3 (20.00%) JavaScript

RDF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing RDF 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 RDF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (93.33%) XML
1 14 (93.33%) RESTful
2 13 (86.67%) JSON
2 13 (86.67%) Web Services
3 12 (80.00%) Spring
3 12 (80.00%) REST
4 11 (73.33%) JAX-RS
4 11 (73.33%) J2EE
4 11 (73.33%) XSLT
5 2 (13.33%) CSS
5 2 (13.33%) jQuery
5 2 (13.33%) HTML5
6 1 (6.667%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (13.33%) CouchDB
2 2 (13.33%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (13.33%) Ant
2 2 (13.33%) Subversion
2 2 (13.33%) Git (software)
2 2 (13.33%) PHPUnit
2 2 (13.33%) QUnit
General
1 2 (13.33%) Publishing
2 1 (6.667%) Banking
2 1 (6.667%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Java Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Software Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Web Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Android Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Analyst
6 1 (6.667%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Statistics
2 4 (26.67%) Semantic Web
3 2 (13.33%) BBC
3 2 (13.33%) Streaming Video
3 2 (13.33%) Interactive TV
3 2 (13.33%) Smartphone
3 2 (13.33%) Linked Data
3 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Android
1 2 (13.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (6.667%) Mac OS X
2 1 (6.667%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) TDD
1 14 (93.33%) BDD
2 12 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
3 11 (73.33%) Pair Programming
3 11 (73.33%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 9 (60.00%) Benchmarking
5 9 (60.00%) OO
5 9 (60.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (26.67%) Content Management
7 2 (13.33%) OOP
7 2 (13.33%) MVC
7 2 (13.33%) Scrum
7 2 (13.33%) Test-First Development
7 2 (13.33%) Kanban
7 2 (13.33%) Web Development
7 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Progressive Enhancement
8 1 (6.667%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Java
2 11 (73.33%) XPath
2 11 (73.33%) XQuery
3 5 (33.33%) Ruby
4 4 (26.67%) SPARQL
5 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (20.00%) PHP
6 2 (13.33%) Objective-C
7 1 (6.667%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Sun Certification
2 1 (6.667%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 1 (6.667%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Apple
1 2 (13.33%) Zend
2 1 (6.667%) HP