The first table below looks at the demand for Refactoring skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Refactoring 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 South West 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
Refactoring
Rank 102 128 119
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -9
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 6 8 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.297% 0.247% 0.106%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.446% 0.363% 0.163%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 0
Average daily rate £255 £330 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.72% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £343 £309
% change year-on-year
-5.10% +10.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £31.00
All Processes & Methodologies
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1344 2204 1843
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 66.63% 68.13% 65.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 1360 953
Average daily rate £375 £390 £384
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +1.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £265 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 110 129
Average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £16.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.75 £39.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Refactoring
England

Refactoring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West Refactoring Jobs Demand Trend

Refactoring
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Refactoring Daily Rate Trend

Refactoring
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Refactoring Hourly Rate Trend

Refactoring
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the South West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Somerset +7 4 £260 +13.04%
Dorset +1 1 £250 -
Refactoring
England

Refactoring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Refactoring 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 Refactoring.

1 5 (50.00%) .NET
1 5 (50.00%) MySQL
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
1 5 (50.00%) VB
1 5 (50.00%) OO
1 5 (50.00%) VB6
2 4 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (40.00%) C#
2 4 (40.00%) Delphi
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle 10g
2 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
3 3 (30.00%) MVC
3 3 (30.00%) HTML
3 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) PHP
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (30.00%) CSS
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (30.00%) Web Services
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (30.00%) Subversion
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Reference Data
4 2 (20.00%) Symfony
4 2 (20.00%) Zend
4 2 (20.00%) CodeIgniter

Refactoring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Refactoring 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 Refactoring. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (50.00%) .NET
2 4 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (30.00%) HTML
3 3 (30.00%) CSS
3 3 (30.00%) Web Services
4 2 (20.00%) Symfony
4 2 (20.00%) CodeIgniter
5 1 (10.00%) LAMP
5 1 (10.00%) XML
5 1 (10.00%) XHTML
5 1 (10.00%) SOAP
5 1 (10.00%) Ajax
5 1 (10.00%) jQuery
5 1 (10.00%) Google Maps API
5 1 (10.00%) REST
5 1 (10.00%) CSS3
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) POP3
1 1 (10.00%) SMTP
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (10.00%) Intranet
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
1 1 (10.00%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) MySQL
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (20.00%) Pentaho
4 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Subversion
2 2 (20.00%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Web Developer
3 3 (30.00%) PHP Developer
3 3 (30.00%) PHP Web Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 2 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (20.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Web Applications Developer
4 2 (20.00%) C# Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Applications Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) VB.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (10.00%) Streaming Media
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) OO
2 3 (30.00%) MVC
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) VB
1 5 (50.00%) VB6
2 4 (40.00%) C#
2 4 (40.00%) Delphi
3 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) PHP
4 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (10.00%) PHP5
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Zend
3 2 (20.00%) Talend
4 1 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (10.00%) Facebook
4 1 (10.00%) Twitter
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