The first table below looks at the demand for concrete5 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited concrete5 over the 3 months to 21 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 Platforms category for the Bedfordshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
concrete5
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing concrete5 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.587% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.143% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £175 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 £160 -
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £10.00 -
All Application Platforms
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
42 54 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 22.22% 19.35% 25.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 38
Average daily rate £325 £375 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +76.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £173 £323 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £301
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
Average hourly rate £17.50 £12.00 £10.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+45.83% +11.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
concrete5
East of England

concrete5
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing concrete5 across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Bedfordshire concrete5 Jobs Demand Trend

concrete5
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing concrete5 within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Bedford - 3 £175 -
Luton - 3 £175 -
concrete5
East of England

concrete5
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing concrete5 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 concrete5.

1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) WordPress
2 1 (33.33%) CMS
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL

concrete5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing concrete5 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 concrete5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) WordPress
2 1 (33.33%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 3 (100.00%) PHP Developer
1 3 (100.00%) PHP Web Developer
2 2 (66.67%) PHP Programmer
2 2 (66.67%) Programmer
3 1 (33.33%) HTML Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Web Programmer
3 1 (33.33%) CSS Developer
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PHP