The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Twitter products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire 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 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.

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 104 109 100
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -9
Contract jobs citing Twitter 9 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.474% 0.131% 0.055%
As % of the Vendors category 1.032% 0.287% 0.137%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 1
Average daily rate £275 £350 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £18.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 - -
All Vendors
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
872 1044 732
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 45.94% 45.55% 40.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 517 303
Average daily rate £325 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £185 £193
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 68 74
Average hourly rate £13.71 £15.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.60% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.48 £10.30 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £35.00 £31.50
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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Twitter Daily Rate Trend

Twitter
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Twitter across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Yorkshire Twitter Hourly 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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire +3 3 £285 -18.57%
South Yorkshire - 3 £250 -
North Yorkshire - 2 - -
Twitter
England

Twitter
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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%) CSS
2 4 (44.44%) HTML
3 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) .NET
3 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 2 (22.22%) HTML5
4 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (22.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (22.22%) C#
4 2 (22.22%) Windows
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
5 1 (11.11%) MS Office
5 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
5 1 (11.11%) J2EE
5 1 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) VB.NET
5 1 (11.11%) Java
5 1 (11.11%) Apache
5 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
5 1 (11.11%) JSP
5 1 (11.11%) Struts
5 1 (11.11%) Web Services
5 1 (11.11%) XML
5 1 (11.11%) MVC
5 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (11.11%) Telerik
5 1 (11.11%) Ruby
5 1 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails

Twitter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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%) CSS
2 4 (44.44%) HTML
3 3 (33.33%) .NET
3 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (22.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (22.22%) HTML5
5 1 (11.11%) CSS3
5 1 (11.11%) J2EE
5 1 (11.11%) JSP
5 1 (11.11%) Struts
5 1 (11.11%) Web Services
5 1 (11.11%) XML
5 1 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (11.11%) LINQ
5 1 (11.11%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
1 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
2 1 (11.11%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Front-End Web Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows XP
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) MVC
1 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) VB.NET
3 1 (11.11%) Ruby
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe
2 1 (11.11%) Telerik