The first table below looks at the demand for Refactoring 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 Refactoring 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Refactoring
Rank 117 127 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 1 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.043% 0.064% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.104% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £363 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £343 £309
% change year-on-year
-5.10% +10.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £31.00
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1664 1925 2014
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 70.99% 61.66% 64.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 821 991 1044
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 £475 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 84 96
Average hourly rate £21.00 £18.25 £20.30
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.06% -10.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 £13.35 £12.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.47 £37.50 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Refactoring
England

Refactoring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Refactoring Jobs Demand Trend

Refactoring
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Refactoring Daily Rate Trend

Refactoring
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring 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 +11 1 - -
Refactoring
England

Refactoring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) MySQL
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) jQuery
3 2 (50.00%) XHTML
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Ajax
3 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
4 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (25.00%) Stripes Framework
4 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (25.00%) HTML5
4 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (25.00%) LINQ to SQL
4 1 (25.00%) Ninject
4 1 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (25.00%) Unity DI Container
4 1 (25.00%) NHibernate
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (25.00%) XPath
4 1 (25.00%) JSON
4 1 (25.00%) LINQ
4 1 (25.00%) Drupal
4 1 (25.00%) SQLite

Refactoring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) XHTML
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) Stripes Framework
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (25.00%) LINQ to SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Ninject
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Unity DI Container
3 1 (25.00%) NHibernate
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) LINQ
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Drupal
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) SQLite
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (25.00%) Subversion
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Android Developer
3 1 (25.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Web Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) MySQL Developer
3 1 (25.00%) PHP Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (25.00%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (25.00%) MVC
1 1 (25.00%) Workflow
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (25.00%) TDD
1 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (25.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) XPath
4 1 (25.00%) PHP5
4 1 (25.00%) PHP
4 1 (25.00%) C#
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) JBoss
2 1 (25.00%) Sybase