The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Media in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Social Media 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Social Media
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Social Media 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire - - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £233 £269 £325
% change year-on-year
-13.48% -17.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £12.83 £14.50
% change year-on-year
+114.42% -11.55%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
41 51 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 22.16% 18.09% 14.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 27 13
Average daily rate £350 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £242 £179
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £466 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
Average hourly rate £12.42 £42.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-70.77% +286.36%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Social Media
East of England

Social Media
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire Social Media Jobs Demand Trend

Social Media
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Social Media 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 Social Media.

1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) J2ME
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (50.00%) Xcode
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) Ajax
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) SQLite
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (50.00%) iOS SDK
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) PhoneGap
1 1 (50.00%) Appcelerator Titanium

Social Media
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Social Media 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 Social Media. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) J2ME
1 1 (50.00%) Ajax
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) iOS SDK
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (50.00%) Xcode
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) PhoneGap
1 1 (50.00%) Appcelerator Titanium
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google