The first table below looks at the demand for Backbone.js skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Backbone.js 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 of the Application Development category.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Backbone.js
Rank 415 548 586
Rank change year-on-year
+133 +38
Contract jobs citing Backbone.js 115 30 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.248% 0.051% 0.003%
As % of the Application Development category 0.905% 0.201% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 27 1
Average daily rate £388 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.71% +16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £290 -
% change year-on-year
+3.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £42.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12713 14910 16863
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.40% 25.58% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7958 8755 9793
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 375 374 576
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

Backbone.js
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Backbone.js within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Backbone.js Jobs Demand Trend

Backbone.js
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Backbone.js within the UK.

Backbone.js Daily Rate Trend

Backbone.js
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Backbone.js within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Backbone.js Daily Rate Histogram

Backbone.js
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Backbone.js within the UK.

Backbone.js Hourly Rate Trend

Backbone.js
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backbone.js within the UK 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
England +131 113 £394 +12.50%
London +85 85 £400 +14.28%
City of London +28 18 £400 -17.94%
South East +33 15 £290 +2.65%
Surrey - 6 £345 -
Kent - 4 - -
North West +15 3 £250 -23.07%
Hounslow - 3 £450 -
Bristol - 3 £300 -
East of England - 3 £375 -
South West - 3 £300 -
Manchester +10 2 £250 -23.07%
Gatwick - 2 - -
Epsom - 2 £345 -
Cambridgeshire - 2 £375 -
Woking - 2 - -
West Sussex - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £338 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
Warwickshire - 1 £325 -
Leicestershire - 1 - -
Lancashire - 1 - -
Hertfordshire - 1 - -
Hampshire - 1 £260 -
Peterborough - 1 £350 -
Leicester - 1 - -
Guildford - 1 - -
Cambridge - 1 £400 -

Backbone.js
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Backbone.js 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 Backbone.js.

1 206 (91.56%) JavaScript
2 181 (80.44%) CSS
3 180 (80.00%) HTML5
4 155 (68.89%) jQuery
5 144 (64.00%) CSS3
6 116 (51.56%) HTML
7 105 (46.67%) OO
8 75 (33.33%) Node.js
9 73 (32.44%) TDD
10 56 (24.89%) Agile Software Development
11 51 (22.67%) MVC
12 49 (21.78%) KnockoutJS
13 45 (20.00%) BDD
13 45 (20.00%) .NET
14 42 (18.67%) ASP.NET
15 41 (18.22%) Ajax
16 37 (16.44%) C#
17 36 (16.00%) Scrum
18 29 (12.89%) AngularJS
19 28 (12.44%) Apple iOS
19 28 (12.44%) Git (software)
19 28 (12.44%) Android
20 27 (12.00%) Jasmine
21 26 (11.56%) Underscore.js
22 25 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
22 25 (11.11%) JSON
23 23 (10.22%) XML
23 23 (10.22%) Social Media
24 22 (9.778%) XHTML
24 22 (9.778%) Google

Backbone.js
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Backbone.js 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 Backbone.js. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 181 (80.44%) CSS
2 180 (80.00%) HTML5
3 155 (68.89%) jQuery
4 144 (64.00%) CSS3
5 116 (51.56%) HTML
6 75 (33.33%) Node.js
7 49 (21.78%) KnockoutJS
8 45 (20.00%) .NET
9 42 (18.67%) ASP.NET
10 41 (18.22%) Ajax
11 29 (12.89%) AngularJS
12 26 (11.56%) Underscore.js
13 25 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
13 25 (11.11%) JSON
14 23 (10.22%) XML
15 22 (9.778%) XHTML
16 21 (9.333%) .NET Framework
17 16 (7.111%) HTML5 Canvas
18 15 (6.667%) WebGL
18 15 (6.667%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 12 (5.333%) CMS
2 6 (2.667%) Umbraco
3 5 (2.222%) Kentico
3 5 (2.222%) Sitefinity
4 3 (1.333%) Drupal
5 2 (0.889%) ESB
5 2 (0.889%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.444%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.444%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.444%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (0.444%) Confluence
6 1 (0.444%) IIS
6 1 (0.444%) Apache
6 1 (0.444%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (6.667%) Photoshop
2 6 (2.667%) MS Excel
3 3 (1.333%) Google Apps
4 2 (0.889%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.889%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 2 (0.889%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.000%) Intranet
2 3 (1.333%) HTTP
3 1 (0.444%) SAN
3 1 (0.444%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.889%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.000%) MongoDB
2 9 (4.000%) SQL Server 2005
3 8 (3.556%) SQL Server 2008
4 7 (3.111%) MySQL
5 2 (0.889%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (0.444%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.444%) CouchDB
6 1 (0.444%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.444%) Big Data
6 1 (0.444%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (12.44%) Git (software)
2 27 (12.00%) Jasmine
3 10 (4.444%) Subversion
4 8 (3.556%) Visual Studio
4 8 (3.556%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.111%) JSUnit
5 7 (3.111%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (2.667%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.222%) Rhino Mocks
7 5 (2.222%) JUnit
7 5 (2.222%) QUnit
8 4 (1.778%) PHPUnit
8 4 (1.778%) Moq
8 4 (1.778%) PhoneGap
8 4 (1.778%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.778%) ReSharper
8 4 (1.778%) MSI
9 3 (1.333%) Behat
10 2 (0.889%) Capistrano
10 2 (0.889%) Mercurial
General
1 21 (9.333%) Banking
2 19 (8.444%) Publishing
3 17 (7.556%) Finance
4 14 (6.222%) Investment Banking
5 13 (5.778%) Front Office
6 11 (4.889%) Retail
7 8 (3.556%) Legal
8 7 (3.111%) Games
9 3 (1.333%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.333%) Automotive
9 3 (1.333%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 212 (94.22%) Developer
2 75 (33.33%) Front-End Developer
3 61 (27.11%) Web Developer
4 54 (24.00%) JavaScript Developer
5 21 (9.333%) Senior Developer
6 15 (6.667%) .NET Developer
7 12 (5.333%) UI Developer
7 12 (5.333%) UI Programmer
8 9 (4.000%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 8 (3.556%) Mobile Developer
10 7 (3.111%) Front-End Web Developer
10 7 (3.111%) C# Developer
10 7 (3.111%) Senior Web Developer
10 7 (3.111%) Software Developer
11 6 (2.667%) HTML Developer
12 5 (2.222%) C# .NET Developer
13 4 (1.778%) PHP Developer
13 4 (1.778%) Lead Developer
14 3 (1.333%) Java Developer
14 3 (1.333%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.22%) Social Media
2 14 (6.222%) Social Network
3 12 (5.333%) Open Source
4 8 (3.556%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.667%) Inversion of Control
6 4 (1.778%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.778%) Digital Media
7 2 (0.889%) New Media
7 2 (0.889%) iPad
7 2 (0.889%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.889%) iPhone
8 1 (0.444%) Semantic Web
8 1 (0.444%) Online Games
8 1 (0.444%) W3C
8 1 (0.444%) Blackberry
8 1 (0.444%) Mobile Games
8 1 (0.444%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.444%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.444%) Animation
8 1 (0.444%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 28 (12.44%) Android
1 28 (12.44%) Apple iOS
2 6 (2.667%) Windows
3 2 (0.889%) Windows Phone
4 1 (0.444%) UNIX
4 1 (0.444%) Linux
4 1 (0.444%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (46.67%) OO
2 73 (32.44%) TDD
3 56 (24.89%) Agile Software Development
4 51 (22.67%) MVC
5 45 (20.00%) BDD
6 36 (16.00%) Scrum
7 18 (8.000%) Web Development
8 13 (5.778%) Unit Testing
9 11 (4.889%) OOP
9 11 (4.889%) CQRS
10 10 (4.444%) E-Commerce
10 10 (4.444%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (3.111%) Kanban
12 6 (2.667%) Software Engineering
13 5 (2.222%) Test Automation
13 5 (2.222%) Pair Programming
14 4 (1.778%) Content Management
14 4 (1.778%) Web Design
14 4 (1.778%) OOD
14 4 (1.778%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 206 (91.56%) JavaScript
2 37 (16.44%) C#
3 19 (8.444%) PHP
4 13 (5.778%) Python
5 11 (4.889%) SQL
6 8 (3.556%) Java
6 8 (3.556%) Ruby
7 7 (3.111%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.778%) PHP5
9 3 (1.333%) CoffeeScript
10 2 (0.889%) C
11 1 (0.444%) XPath
11 1 (0.444%) Groovy
11 1 (0.444%) ActionScript 3.0
11 1 (0.444%) Bash shell
11 1 (0.444%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.444%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.444%) XQuery
11 1 (0.444%) PowerHouse
Qualifications
1 18 (8.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.333%) QA
Vendors
1 22 (9.778%) Google
2 17 (7.556%) Facebook
3 10 (4.444%) Zend
4 7 (3.111%) Adobe
4 7 (3.111%) Twitter
5 6 (2.667%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.333%) Sencha
7 2 (0.889%) Appcelerator
7 2 (0.889%) Infragistics
7 2 (0.889%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.889%) JBoss
7 2 (0.889%) Oracle
8 1 (0.444%) Sybase
8 1 (0.444%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.444%) Atlassian
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