The first table below looks at the demand for the Junior role in IT contracts advertised for the Oldham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Junior in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles advertised for the Oldham 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Junior
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Junior 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oldham 28.57% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 30.77% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £168 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £229 £260 £200
% change year-on-year
-12.01% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.96 £16.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-9.33% -13.15%
All Job Titles
Oldham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
13 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oldham 92.86% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 0
Average daily rate £165 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-52.85% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £87.75 - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Junior
Manchester

Junior
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Junior across the Oldham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Oldham Junior Jobs Demand Trend

Junior
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oldham Junior Daily Rate Trend

Junior
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oldham region that cited Junior in their job title 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 with Junior in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) OO
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) PHP
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Derivative
3 2 (50.00%) CentOS
3 2 (50.00%) Subversion
3 2 (50.00%) MySQL
3 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) XSD
3 2 (50.00%) XSLT
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (25.00%) ASP
4 1 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) HTML
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (25.00%) Ajax
4 1 (25.00%) jQuery

Junior
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oldham region that cited Junior in their job title 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 with Junior in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) XSD
2 2 (50.00%) XSLT
3 1 (25.00%) ASP
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Subversion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PHP
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat