The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Symbian products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Salford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Symbian 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Symbian Ltd.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Symbian
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Symbian 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford - - -
As % of the Vendors category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £389 £300 £333
% change year-on-year
+29.58% -9.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - £27.50
All Vendors
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
3 15 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 12.00% 37.50% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 0
Average daily rate £400 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.45% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Symbian
Manchester

Symbian
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) iPhone
1 2 (100.00%) iPhone SDK
1 2 (100.00%) bada
1 2 (100.00%) Maemo
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) iOS SDK
2 1 (50.00%) Robotium
2 1 (50.00%) Automation Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Semantic Web
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Interactive TV
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Firebug
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting

Symbian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) iPhone SDK
1 2 (100.00%) iOS SDK
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) Series 60
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Robotium
2 1 (50.00%) Xcode
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Firebug
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) iPhone
2 1 (50.00%) Semantic Web
2 1 (50.00%) Interactive TV
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) bada
1 2 (100.00%) Maemo
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB