The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Biology in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Biology 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Cambridge 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
Biology
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Biology 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge - - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £8.05
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
86 113 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 26.14% 26.65% 19.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 59 13
Average daily rate £263 £300 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £168 £225 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £377 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 12
Average hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +240.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £15.00 £10.19
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £36.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Biology
Cambridgeshire

Biology
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Biology Jobs Demand Trend

Biology
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Swing
1 2 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) PhD
1 2 (100.00%) Lisp
1 2 (100.00%) LIMS
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) Information Management
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) JSON

Biology
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) Swing
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) LIMS
1 2 (100.00%) Informatics
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Information Management
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Lisp
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) PhD
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) VMware