The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in IT contracts advertised for the Salford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Publishing over the 3 months to 17 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 terms in our General category for the Salford 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Publishing
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Publishing 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 16.00% - -
As % of the General category 66.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £323 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £365 £338
% change year-on-year
-10.95% +8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+12.12% -5.71%
All of the General Category
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
6 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 24.00% 17.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 0
Average daily rate £324 £333 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Publishing
Manchester

Publishing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Publishing across the Salford region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Salford Publishing Jobs Demand Trend

Publishing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Salford Publishing Daily Rate Trend

Publishing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford region citing Publishing 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 Publishing.

1 7 (87.50%) Content Management
2 5 (62.50%) Streaming Video
2 5 (62.50%) Interactive TV
3 4 (50.00%) TDD
3 4 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (50.00%) XML
3 4 (50.00%) XSLT
3 4 (50.00%) XQuery
3 4 (50.00%) BDD
3 4 (50.00%) MarkLogic
4 3 (37.50%) User Stories
4 3 (37.50%) New Media
4 3 (37.50%) Social Network
4 3 (37.50%) Use Case
4 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
4 3 (37.50%) Internet
4 3 (37.50%) UML
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) Business Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Competitor Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Web 2.0
5 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (25.00%) XPath
5 2 (25.00%) JSON
5 2 (25.00%) Ruby
5 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (25.00%) Pair Programming
5 2 (25.00%) Spring
5 2 (25.00%) OO
5 2 (25.00%) XHTML

Publishing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford region citing Publishing 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 Publishing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (50.00%) XML
1 4 (50.00%) XSLT
2 2 (25.00%) XHTML
2 2 (25.00%) XML Schema
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) JAX-RS
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) J2EE
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) Web Services
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MarkLogic
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Streaming Video
1 5 (62.50%) Interactive TV
2 3 (37.50%) Web 2.0
2 3 (37.50%) Social Network
2 3 (37.50%) New Media
3 2 (25.00%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Content Management
2 4 (50.00%) TDD
2 4 (50.00%) BDD
3 3 (37.50%) User Stories
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) UML
3 3 (37.50%) Business Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Competitor Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Use Case
3 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) OO
4 2 (25.00%) RDF
4 2 (25.00%) Benchmarking
4 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (25.00%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) XQuery
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Ruby
2 2 (25.00%) XPath
2 2 (25.00%) SPARQL