The first table below looks at the demand for RDF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Salford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RDF 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 of the Processes & Methodologies 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing RDF 6 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 24.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
Average daily rate £323 - -
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
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
18 27 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 72.00% 72.97% 71.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 2
Average daily rate £323 £313 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.20% -26.47%
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £17.00 £17.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
RDF
Manchester

RDF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salford 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 Salford region.

Salford RDF Daily Rate Trend

RDF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) J2EE
1 8 (100.00%) Web Services
1 8 (100.00%) XML
1 8 (100.00%) XSLT
1 8 (100.00%) XQuery
1 8 (100.00%) TDD
1 8 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 8 (100.00%) Spring
1 8 (100.00%) XPath
1 8 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 8 (100.00%) RESTful
1 8 (100.00%) BDD
1 8 (100.00%) REST
2 7 (87.50%) JAX-RS
2 7 (87.50%) JSON
2 7 (87.50%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (87.50%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (87.50%) Benchmarking
2 7 (87.50%) OO
2 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
3 4 (50.00%) Statistics
4 3 (37.50%) SPARQL
4 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
4 3 (37.50%) Ruby
5 2 (25.00%) Interactive TV
5 2 (25.00%) Semantic Web
5 2 (25.00%) MarkLogic
5 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (25.00%) Content Management

RDF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 8 (100.00%) J2EE
1 8 (100.00%) Web Services
1 8 (100.00%) XML
1 8 (100.00%) XSLT
1 8 (100.00%) Spring
1 8 (100.00%) RESTful
1 8 (100.00%) REST
2 7 (87.50%) JAX-RS
2 7 (87.50%) JSON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MarkLogic
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
1 6 (75.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Statistics
2 2 (25.00%) Interactive TV
2 2 (25.00%) Semantic Web
2 2 (25.00%) Streaming Video
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) TDD
1 8 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 8 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 8 (100.00%) BDD
2 7 (87.50%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (87.50%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (87.50%) Benchmarking
2 7 (87.50%) OO
2 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) XQuery
1 8 (100.00%) XPath
2 3 (37.50%) SPARQL
2 3 (37.50%) Ruby