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 West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Twitter 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 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.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Twitter
Rank 109 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Twitter 6 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.293% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.671% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 - -
All Vendors
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
894 1413 1218
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 43.65% 42.64% 43.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 817 555
Average daily rate £375 £400 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +8.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £263 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 98 118
Average hourly rate £13.95 £25.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.20% +25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.90 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £50.00 £31.00
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South West Twitter Daily Rate Histogram

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 West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Bristol - 3 £325 -
Dorset - 2 £213 -
Wiltshire - 1 - -
Twitter
England

Twitter
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 5 (55.56%) HTML
1 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
1 5 (55.56%) CSS
1 5 (55.56%) MVC
1 5 (55.56%) jQuery
2 3 (33.33%) Facebook
2 3 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (33.33%) MySQL
2 3 (33.33%) PHP
2 3 (33.33%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) XML
2 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) OO
3 2 (22.22%) ERP
3 2 (22.22%) Linux
3 2 (22.22%) HTTP
3 2 (22.22%) HTTPS
3 2 (22.22%) .NET
3 2 (22.22%) VB
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 2 (22.22%) ASP
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
3 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
3 2 (22.22%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
3 2 (22.22%) JSON
3 2 (22.22%) ReSharper
3 2 (22.22%) VB6
3 2 (22.22%) LINQ
3 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing

Twitter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 5 (55.56%) HTML
1 5 (55.56%) CSS
1 5 (55.56%) jQuery
2 3 (33.33%) XML
3 2 (22.22%) .NET
3 2 (22.22%) ASP
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
3 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
3 2 (22.22%) JSON
3 2 (22.22%) OAuth
3 2 (22.22%) RESTful
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (22.22%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 2 (22.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 2 (22.22%) LINQ
4 1 (11.11%) Google Maps API
4 1 (11.11%) REST
4 1 (11.11%) CSS3
4 1 (11.11%) Silverlight
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) HTTP
1 2 (22.22%) HTTPS
2 1 (11.11%) Intranet
2 1 (11.11%) Internet
2 1 (11.11%) IMAP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) POP3
2 1 (11.11%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MySQL
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) ReSharper
1 2 (22.22%) Git (software)
1 2 (22.22%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (11.11%) Back Office
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) PHP Developer
3 2 (22.22%) .NET Developer
3 2 (22.22%) MySQL Developer
3 2 (22.22%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) PHP Web Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) IT Support
4 1 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Vignette Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Support Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Inversion of Control
1 2 (22.22%) Social Media
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Streaming Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) MVC
2 3 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (33.33%) OO
3 2 (22.22%) ERP
3 2 (22.22%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Investment Management
4 1 (11.11%) UML
4 1 (11.11%) Refactoring
4 1 (11.11%) Fund Management
4 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
4 1 (11.11%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) PHP
2 3 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) VB
3 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
3 2 (22.22%) VB6
4 1 (11.11%) PHP5
4 1 (11.11%) VBA
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Facebook
2 1 (11.11%) Vignette
2 1 (11.11%) Google
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