The first table below looks at the demand for Internet skills in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Internet 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 Communications & Networking category for the Belfast 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
Internet
Rank 31 21 24
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +3
Contract jobs citing Internet 2 8 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 1.031% 4.938% 6.116%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.33% 34.78% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
Average daily rate £444 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £15.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year
-3.33% -16.66%
All Communications & Networking
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
15 23 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 7.732% 14.20% 15.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 19
Average daily rate £438 £260 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+68.26% -25.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £260 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
Average hourly rate - - £15.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Internet
County Antrim

Internet
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Internet across the Belfast region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Belfast Internet Jobs Demand Trend

Internet
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Internet across the Belfast region.

Belfast Internet Daily Rate Trend

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Internet across the Belfast region.

Belfast Internet Hourly Rate Trend

Internet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing Internet 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 Internet.

1 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
1 4 (66.67%) Middleware
1 4 (66.67%) GAP Analysis
1 4 (66.67%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
1 4 (66.67%) Requirements Analysis
1 4 (66.67%) Web Development
1 4 (66.67%) .NET Framework
1 4 (66.67%) Product Management
2 2 (33.33%) Bash shell
2 2 (33.33%) ArcSight
2 2 (33.33%) LogLogic
2 2 (33.33%) SIEM
2 2 (33.33%) Q1 Labs
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Apache
2 2 (33.33%) SMTP
2 2 (33.33%) HTTP
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) HTTPS
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (33.33%) Perl
2 2 (33.33%) Use Case

Internet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing Internet 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 Internet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) Middleware
1 4 (66.67%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (33.33%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SMTP
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) HTTPS
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Security Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Information Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) GAP Analysis
1 4 (66.67%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
1 4 (66.67%) Requirements Analysis
1 4 (66.67%) Web Development
1 4 (66.67%) Product Management
2 2 (33.33%) SIEM
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Use Case
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Security
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) Bash shell
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (33.33%) Perl
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) ArcSight
1 2 (33.33%) LogLogic
1 2 (33.33%) Q1 Labs