Windows Mobile Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Mobile 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 Windows Mobile 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 Operating Systems 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
Microsoft Windows Mobile
Rank 116 124 121
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows Mobile 3 11 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.127% 0.349% 0.299%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.547% 1.578% 1.295%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 3
Average daily rate £275 £400 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-31.25% +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £375 £292
10% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £438 £304
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £250
% change year-on-year
- +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.75 £31.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year
-13.70% +13.76%
All Operating Systems
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 548 697 695
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 23.21% 22.10% 23.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 274 371
Average daily rate £288 £318 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.44% +5.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £166 £175 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £460 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 69 72
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +34.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £10.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.75 £30.00 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows Mobile
England

Windows Mobile
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Mobile across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

North West Windows Mobile Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Mobile
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Windows Mobile Daily Rate Trend

Windows Mobile
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows Mobile across the North West region.

North West Windows Mobile Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Mobile
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Mobile 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 - 2 £325 -
Cheshire - 1 £225 -
Windows Mobile
England

Windows Mobile
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (86.67%) Android
3 10 (66.67%) Apple iOS
4 8 (53.33%) Blackberry
5 6 (40.00%) Scrum
5 6 (40.00%) iPhone
5 6 (40.00%) Java
5 6 (40.00%) Mobile App
6 5 (33.33%) C#
6 5 (33.33%) XML
7 4 (26.67%) XSLT
7 4 (26.67%) Symbian
7 4 (26.67%) ISEB
7 4 (26.67%) Mac OS X
7 4 (26.67%) HTML
7 4 (26.67%) Linux
7 4 (26.67%) .NET
7 4 (26.67%) iPhone SDK
7 4 (26.67%) bada
7 4 (26.67%) Maemo
7 4 (26.67%) TDD
7 4 (26.67%) ISTQB
7 4 (26.67%) iOS SDK
8 3 (20.00%) JSON
8 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
8 3 (20.00%) Xcode
8 3 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
8 3 (20.00%) Web Services
9 2 (13.33%) UML

Windows Mobile
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (33.33%) XML
2 4 (26.67%) XSLT
2 4 (26.67%) HTML
2 4 (26.67%) .NET
2 4 (26.67%) iPhone SDK
2 4 (26.67%) iOS SDK
3 3 (20.00%) JSON
3 3 (20.00%) Web Services
4 2 (13.33%) J2EE
4 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (13.33%) CSS
4 2 (13.33%) J2SE
4 2 (13.33%) WCF
4 2 (13.33%) LINQ
4 2 (13.33%) jQuery
4 2 (13.33%) Series 60
4 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC 2
5 1 (6.667%) RESTful
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) HTTP
2 1 (6.667%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Xcode
1 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio
2 2 (13.33%) Eclipse
3 1 (6.667%) Robotium
3 1 (6.667%) JIRA
3 1 (6.667%) Selenium
3 1 (6.667%) Firebug
General
1 1 (6.667%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Test Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Mobile Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Android Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Web Tester
5 1 (6.667%) Web Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Mobile Software Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Tester
5 1 (6.667%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Blackberry
2 6 (40.00%) iPhone
2 6 (40.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.667%) Interactive TV
3 1 (6.667%) Semantic Web
3 1 (6.667%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (86.67%) Android
3 10 (66.67%) Apple iOS
4 4 (26.67%) Mac OS X
4 4 (26.67%) Linux
4 4 (26.67%) bada
4 4 (26.67%) Maemo
5 1 (6.667%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Scrum
2 4 (26.67%) TDD
3 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (13.33%) UML
4 2 (13.33%) Automated Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
4 2 (13.33%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (13.33%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (6.667%) Automation Testing
5 1 (6.667%) Master Data Management
5 1 (6.667%) Data Management
5 1 (6.667%) Web Testing
5 1 (6.667%) Test Automation
5 1 (6.667%) BDD
5 1 (6.667%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Java
2 5 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) PHP
3 2 (13.33%) Objective-C
4 1 (6.667%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.667%) SQL
4 1 (6.667%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) ISEB
1 4 (26.67%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Symbian
2 1 (6.667%) Xamarin
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