The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blog in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Blog 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 Bristol 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
Blogs
Rank - - 48
Contract jobs citing Blog 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol - - 0.155%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - 0.877%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £325 £275
% change year-on-year
-30.76% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £14.50
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
90 137 114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 16.85% 16.12% 17.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 91 45
Average daily rate £338 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £237 £211
10% offered a daily rate of more than £512 £451 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 8
Average hourly rate £42.50 £32.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+32.81% +60.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Blog
South West

Blog
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol Blog Jobs Demand Trend

Blog
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bristol Blog Daily Rate Trend

Blog
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Blog 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 Blog.

1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) Social Network
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) REST

Blog
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Photoshop
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Android Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript