The first table below looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Degree over the 3 months to 26 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 Qualifications 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
26 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Degree
Rank 31 23 39
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +16
Contract jobs citing Degree 19 46 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 3.682% 5.502% 1.703%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.10% 28.40% 9.735%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 20 2
Average daily rate £350 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.15% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £271 £410
10% offered a daily rate of more than £447 £650 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 5
Average hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -7.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.50 £15.00 £23.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.50 £37.95 £42.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £30.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year
-33.33% -11.76%
All Qualifications
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
118 162 113
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 22.87% 19.38% 17.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 93 61
Average daily rate £350 £413 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.15% +10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £508 £575 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 10
Average hourly rate £13.50 £16.00 £13.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.62% +16.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.70 £11.00 £7.66
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £38.40 £44.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Degree
South West

Degree
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol Degree Jobs Demand Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bristol Degree Daily Rate Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 26 May 2013.

Bristol Degree Daily Rate Histogram

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bristol Degree Hourly Rate Trend

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 26 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Degree 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 Degree.

1 23 (44.23%) SQL
2 16 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 15 (28.85%) .NET
4 14 (26.92%) C#
5 12 (23.08%) MVC
6 11 (21.15%) ASP.NET
6 11 (21.15%) UML
6 11 (21.15%) SharePoint
7 10 (19.23%) Legal
7 10 (19.23%) .NET Framework
8 9 (17.31%) Data Security
9 8 (15.38%) Marketing
9 8 (15.38%) Visualfiles
9 8 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
10 7 (13.46%) Computer Science
10 7 (13.46%) Mathematics
10 7 (13.46%) Finance
10 7 (13.46%) MS Excel
10 7 (13.46%) SAS
11 6 (11.54%) C++
12 5 (9.615%) Oracle
12 5 (9.615%) OO
12 5 (9.615%) XML
12 5 (9.615%) Change Management
12 5 (9.615%) Scrum
12 5 (9.615%) Agile Software Development
12 5 (9.615%) Banking
12 5 (9.615%) Retail
12 5 (9.615%) Security Cleared
13 4 (7.692%) Operations Research

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 26 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Degree 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 Degree. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (28.85%) .NET
2 11 (21.15%) ASP.NET
3 10 (19.23%) .NET Framework
4 8 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (9.615%) XML
6 4 (7.692%) RESTful
6 4 (7.692%) Web Services
7 3 (5.769%) JSON
7 3 (5.769%) jQuery
7 3 (5.769%) iOS SDK
8 2 (3.846%) Ajax
8 2 (3.846%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 1 (1.923%) HTML
9 1 (1.923%) DOM
9 1 (1.923%) OLE
9 1 (1.923%) Spring
9 1 (1.923%) COM
9 1 (1.923%) CSS
9 1 (1.923%) J2EE
9 1 (1.923%) MFC
Application Platforms
1 11 (21.15%) SharePoint
2 7 (13.46%) SAS
3 1 (1.923%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (1.923%) Magento
3 1 (1.923%) LiveCycle
3 1 (1.923%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (1.923%) Shopify
3 1 (1.923%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 7 (13.46%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.846%) MS Office
2 2 (3.846%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (1.923%) SPSS
3 1 (1.923%) Simulink
3 1 (1.923%) Pro/ENGINEER
Business Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Visualfiles
2 1 (1.923%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (1.923%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.923%) HTTP
1 1 (1.923%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.923%) Firewall
1 1 (1.923%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.769%) MySQL
1 3 (5.769%) SQL Server
1 3 (5.769%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.846%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (3.846%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (3.846%) Data Mining
2 2 (3.846%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.923%) QlikView
3 1 (1.923%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.923%) Base SAS
3 1 (1.923%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 1 (1.923%) SAS Enterprise Miner
3 1 (1.923%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.923%) Hazelcast
3 1 (1.923%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.923%) Star Schema
3 1 (1.923%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (1.923%) MS Access
3 1 (1.923%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (1.923%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 3 (5.769%) ProC
2 2 (3.846%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.923%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.923%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.923%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (1.923%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.923%) Selenium
3 1 (1.923%) GitHub
General
1 10 (19.23%) Legal
2 8 (15.38%) Marketing
3 7 (13.46%) Finance
4 5 (9.615%) Banking
4 5 (9.615%) Retail
5 4 (7.692%) Retail Banking
5 4 (7.692%) Electronics
6 2 (3.846%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.923%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.923%) French Language
7 1 (1.923%) German Language
7 1 (1.923%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.923%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 20 (38.46%) Developer
2 12 (23.08%) Analyst
3 7 (13.46%) Software Engineer
4 4 (7.692%) Business Analyst
4 4 (7.692%) .NET Developer
4 4 (7.692%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (5.769%) Software Developer
5 3 (5.769%) SAS Analyst
5 3 (5.769%) Technical Developer
5 3 (5.769%) iOS Developer
6 2 (3.846%) Commercial Manager
6 2 (3.846%) Banking Business Analyst
6 2 (3.846%) Marketing Analyst
6 2 (3.846%) SAS Insight Analyst
6 2 (3.846%) Insight Analyst
6 2 (3.846%) SAS Marketing Analyst
6 2 (3.846%) MI Analyst
6 2 (3.846%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (3.846%) Graduate
6 2 (3.846%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Mathematics
1 7 (13.46%) Computer Science
2 4 (7.692%) Statistics
2 4 (7.692%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.769%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.846%) Physics
5 1 (1.923%) MPEG
5 1 (1.923%) DTV
5 1 (1.923%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.923%) 3D Graphics
5 1 (1.923%) Streaming Video
5 1 (1.923%) Replication
5 1 (1.923%) Clustering
5 1 (1.923%) Economics
5 1 (1.923%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.923%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.923%) Data Extraction
5 1 (1.923%) Visualisation
5 1 (1.923%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.923%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.769%) UNIX
1 3 (5.769%) Windows
1 3 (5.769%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.846%) Linux
3 1 (1.923%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (23.08%) MVC
2 11 (21.15%) UML
3 9 (17.31%) Data Security
4 5 (9.615%) Change Management
4 5 (9.615%) OO
4 5 (9.615%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (9.615%) Scrum
5 4 (7.692%) TDD
5 4 (7.692%) Operations Research
5 4 (7.692%) ETL
6 3 (5.769%) Project Management
6 3 (5.769%) CRM
6 3 (5.769%) Data Modelling
6 3 (5.769%) Software Engineering
6 3 (5.769%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (5.769%) Unit Testing
6 3 (5.769%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (5.769%) Memory Management
7 2 (3.846%) Analytics
7 2 (3.846%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (44.23%) SQL
2 14 (26.92%) C#
3 6 (11.54%) C++
4 4 (7.692%) C
4 4 (7.692%) SAS Macro
5 3 (5.769%) Objective-C
5 3 (5.769%) PL/SQL
5 3 (5.769%) Java
5 3 (5.769%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.846%) PHP
6 2 (3.846%) VBA
6 2 (3.846%) Python
6 2 (3.846%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.923%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.923%) XPath
7 1 (1.923%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.615%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.769%) ISEB
2 3 (5.769%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.846%) PhD
4 1 (1.923%) MCP
4 1 (1.923%) HND
4 1 (1.923%) MCSE
4 1 (1.923%) CISSP
4 1 (1.923%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.923%) Sun Certification
4 1 (1.923%) CISA
4 1 (1.923%) CISM
4 1 (1.923%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.923%) ISO 9001
1 1 (1.923%) SLA
1 1 (1.923%) Basel II
1 1 (1.923%) TickIT
System Software
1 2 (3.846%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.923%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.615%) Oracle
3 1 (1.923%) Business Objects
3 1 (1.923%) SAP
3 1 (1.923%) JBoss
3 1 (1.923%) Cognos
3 1 (1.923%) Adobe
3 1 (1.923%) HP
3 1 (1.923%) VMware
3 1 (1.923%) Zend
3 1 (1.923%) Tableau
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