The first table below looks at the demand for Backbone.js skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Backbone.js 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 Application Development category for the West Yorkshire 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
Backbone.js
Rank 87 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Backbone.js 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.080% - -
As % of the Application Development category 0.286% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £290 -
% change year-on-year
+1.72% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 - -
All Application Development
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
350 337 248
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 27.89% 21.53% 22.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 207 134
Average daily rate £290 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £212 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 5
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+94.11% -60.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Backbone.js
Yorkshire

Backbone.js
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire Backbone.js Jobs Demand Trend

Backbone.js
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Flash
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (50.00%) ActionScript 3.0
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (50.00%) ActionScript
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Games
2 1 (50.00%) Games
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Dojo
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Flex

Backbone.js
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Flash
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Dojo
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Flex
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (50.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) ActionScript 3.0
2 1 (50.00%) ActionScript