The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Author role in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Author in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Bradford 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
Technical Author
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Author 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £22.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year
+46.06% +1.13%
All Job Titles
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
146 146 113
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 95.42% 97.33% 96.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 44 31
Average daily rate £323 £263 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.85% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £150 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £465 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 8
Average hourly rate £15.25 £32.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.07% +58.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £28.10 £7.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £175.00 £32.50 £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Author
West Yorkshire

Technical Author
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Author across the Bradford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Bradford Technical Author Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Author
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bradford Technical Author Daily Rate Trend

Technical Author
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bradford Technical Author Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Author
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region that cited Technical Author in their job title 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 with Technical Author in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle APEX

Technical Author
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region that cited Technical Author in their job title 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 with Technical Author in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle APEX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle