The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Twitter products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Twitter over the 3 months to 22 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 South East 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Twitter
Rank 199 234 234
Rank change year-on-year
+35 0
Contract jobs citing Twitter 30 12 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.379% 0.116% 0.078%
As % of the Vendors category 0.754% 0.235% 0.159%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 4
Average daily rate £320 £320 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +16.36%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £13.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 - -
All Vendors
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
3980 5105 5023
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 50.24% 49.35% 48.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1941 2222 1977
Average daily rate £350 £360 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% +2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £220 £244
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 390 415
Average hourly rate £19.63 £17.50 £21.65
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.14% -19.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.31 £11.07
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Twitter
England

Twitter
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Twitter across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

South East Twitter Jobs Demand Trend

Twitter
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Twitter Daily Rate Trend

Twitter
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Twitter across the South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South East Twitter Daily Rate Histogram

Twitter
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Twitter across the South East region.

South East Twitter Hourly Rate Trend

Twitter
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Twitter within the South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hampshire +8 10 £320 -
Surrey +23 7 £400 -
West Sussex - 5 - -
Buckinghamshire +7 4 £200 -
Berkshire +10 2 £340 +20.35%
Oxfordshire - 2 £300 -
Twitter
England

Twitter
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 22 (42.31%) HTML
1 22 (42.31%) JavaScript
1 22 (42.31%) Facebook
2 20 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 20 (38.46%) CSS
3 19 (36.54%) Web Services
3 19 (36.54%) MVC
3 19 (36.54%) jQuery
4 18 (34.62%) SQL
5 17 (32.69%) JSON
5 17 (32.69%) Git (software)
6 16 (30.77%) Java
7 15 (28.85%) JBoss
8 14 (26.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 14 (26.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (26.92%) BDD
8 14 (26.92%) Web Development
8 14 (26.92%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 13 (25.00%) REST
9 13 (25.00%) Java EE
9 13 (25.00%) Spring MVC
9 13 (25.00%) Spring Security
9 13 (25.00%) Spring Web Flow
9 13 (25.00%) Mockito
9 13 (25.00%) JBehave
9 13 (25.00%) Software Architecture
9 13 (25.00%) JPA
9 13 (25.00%) Spring
9 13 (25.00%) JTA
9 13 (25.00%) Maven

Twitter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 22 (42.31%) HTML
2 20 (38.46%) CSS
3 19 (36.54%) Web Services
3 19 (36.54%) jQuery
4 17 (32.69%) JSON
5 14 (26.92%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 13 (25.00%) REST
6 13 (25.00%) Java EE
6 13 (25.00%) Spring MVC
6 13 (25.00%) Spring Security
6 13 (25.00%) Spring Web Flow
6 13 (25.00%) JPA
6 13 (25.00%) Spring
6 13 (25.00%) JTA
6 13 (25.00%) Hibernate
6 13 (25.00%) JMS
6 13 (25.00%) JAXB
6 13 (25.00%) SOAP
6 13 (25.00%) EJB
7 9 (17.31%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 12 (23.08%) CMS
2 9 (17.31%) BizTalk Server
3 6 (11.54%) Drupal
4 4 (7.692%) Apache
4 4 (7.692%) Facebook Platform
5 3 (5.769%) ExpressionEngine
6 2 (3.846%) WebLogic
6 2 (3.846%) IIS
6 2 (3.846%) SAS
6 2 (3.846%) Tomcat
6 2 (3.846%) WordPress
6 2 (3.846%) Joomla!
7 1 (1.923%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (1.923%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.923%) TeamSite
Applications
1 9 (17.31%) MS Excel
2 7 (13.46%) Photoshop
3 5 (9.615%) Adobe Premiere
4 3 (5.769%) MS Office
5 1 (1.923%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 1 (1.923%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.769%) Intranet
2 2 (3.846%) MPLS
2 2 (3.846%) HTTPS
2 2 (3.846%) HTTP
2 2 (3.846%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.923%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 14 (26.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 14 (26.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (17.31%) NoSQL
4 6 (11.54%) MySQL
5 2 (3.846%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.846%) DB2
5 2 (3.846%) Redis
5 2 (3.846%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 17 (32.69%) Git (software)
2 13 (25.00%) Mockito
2 13 (25.00%) JBehave
2 13 (25.00%) Maven
2 13 (25.00%) JUnit
3 9 (17.31%) Selenium
4 2 (3.846%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.846%) ClearCase
4 2 (3.846%) Mercurial
5 1 (1.923%) Rhino Mocks
5 1 (1.923%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (11.54%) Finance
2 2 (3.846%) Marketing
3 1 (1.923%) Law
3 1 (1.923%) Advertising
3 1 (1.923%) Publishing
3 1 (1.923%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 30 (57.69%) Developer
2 13 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 11 (21.15%) Technical Leader
4 5 (9.615%) PHP Developer
5 4 (7.692%) Lead Developer
6 3 (5.769%) Technical Developer
6 3 (5.769%) PHP MySQL Developer
6 3 (5.769%) iOS Developer
6 3 (5.769%) Programmer
6 3 (5.769%) PHP Programmer
7 2 (3.846%) Cisco Engineer
7 2 (3.846%) .NET Developer
7 2 (3.846%) Architect
7 2 (3.846%) Integration Architect
7 2 (3.846%) Analyst
7 2 (3.846%) 2nd Line Support
7 2 (3.846%) Facebook Developer
7 2 (3.846%) Ruby Developer
7 2 (3.846%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (3.846%) Lead Architect
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Social Media
2 7 (13.46%) iPhone
3 5 (9.615%) Social Network
3 5 (9.615%) New Media
4 4 (7.692%) Mobile App
4 4 (7.692%) iPad
5 3 (5.769%) Computer Science
5 3 (5.769%) Digital Media
6 2 (3.846%) Open Source
6 2 (3.846%) Blog
6 2 (3.846%) Mathematics
7 1 (1.923%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.923%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.46%) Apple iOS
2 5 (9.615%) Android
3 4 (7.692%) Windows
4 3 (5.769%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.923%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (36.54%) MVC
2 14 (26.92%) BDD
2 14 (26.92%) Web Development
3 13 (25.00%) Software Architecture
3 13 (25.00%) UML
3 13 (25.00%) OOD
4 11 (21.15%) Agile Software Development
4 11 (21.15%) Pair Programming
5 9 (17.31%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (17.31%) Dependency Injection
6 8 (15.38%) Analytics
7 7 (13.46%) OO
8 4 (7.692%) Content Management
9 3 (5.769%) Memory Management
10 2 (3.846%) Configuration Management
10 2 (3.846%) ITIL
10 2 (3.846%) E-Commerce
10 2 (3.846%) Load Balancing
10 2 (3.846%) Operations Research
11 1 (1.923%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (42.31%) JavaScript
2 18 (34.62%) SQL
3 16 (30.77%) Java
4 8 (15.38%) PHP
5 3 (5.769%) PHP5
5 3 (5.769%) C
5 3 (5.769%) C#
5 3 (5.769%) Objective-C
6 2 (3.846%) Ruby
6 2 (3.846%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.846%) R
7 1 (1.923%) VB
7 1 (1.923%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.923%) VB6
Qualifications
1 10 (19.23%) Degree
2 4 (7.692%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.769%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.846%) CCIE
4 2 (3.846%) CCSP
4 2 (3.846%) CCNP
4 2 (3.846%) CCIP
4 2 (3.846%) CCNA
4 2 (3.846%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.923%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.923%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.923%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.846%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.846%) CA SiteMinder
Vendors
1 22 (42.31%) Facebook
2 15 (28.85%) JBoss
3 10 (19.23%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.692%) Google
5 3 (5.769%) Apple
6 2 (3.846%) VMware
6 2 (3.846%) Perforce
6 2 (3.846%) Oracle
6 2 (3.846%) Cisco
6 2 (3.846%) Citrix
6 2 (3.846%) Zend
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