The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Twitter products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Twitter over the 3 months to 23 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 Sheffield 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 Twitter, Inc.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Twitter
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Twitter 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 2.000% - -
As % of the Vendors category 4.762% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 - -
All Vendors
Sheffield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
63 71 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 42.00% 49.65% 42.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 34 35
Average daily rate £300 £211 £251
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.01% -15.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £171 £175 £193
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £346
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 16
Average hourly rate £11.21 £20.06 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.11% -45.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.48 £9.81 £13.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.25 £30.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Twitter
South Yorkshire

Twitter
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield region citing Twitter 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 Twitter.

1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Telerik
2 1 (33.33%) LINQ
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET

Twitter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield region citing Twitter 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 Twitter. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
2 1 (33.33%) LINQ
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Web Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Designer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
1 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Telerik
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe