The first table below looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Degree over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Degree
Rank 13 16 24
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +8
Contract jobs citing Degree 27 39 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 8.232% 9.242% 4.981%
As % of the Qualifications category 40.30% 45.88% 31.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 23 3
Average daily rate £263 £300 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £338
% change year-on-year
- -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £21.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +83.90%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.90 £20.35 £13.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.30 £46.00 £29.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year
-30.00% -11.76%
All Qualifications
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
67 85 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 20.43% 20.14% 15.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 44 13
Average daily rate £308 £288 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.95% +15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £262 £160 £246
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £428 £383
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 9
Average hourly rate £37.00 £14.80 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+150.00% +23.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.80 £11.65 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.20 £47.50 £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Degree
Cambridgeshire

Degree
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Degree Hourly Rate Trend

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 21 (32.81%) SQL
2 18 (28.13%) Computer Science
3 14 (21.88%) C#
4 13 (20.31%) PRINCE2
5 11 (17.19%) Games
5 11 (17.19%) Microsoft
6 10 (15.63%) Agile Software Development
7 9 (14.06%) ITIL
7 9 (14.06%) SQL Server
7 9 (14.06%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (12.50%) Project Management
8 8 (12.50%) MySQL
8 8 (12.50%) Machine Learning
9 7 (10.94%) Resource Management
9 7 (10.94%) QA
9 7 (10.94%) .NET
9 7 (10.94%) C++
9 7 (10.94%) HTML
9 7 (10.94%) Linux
10 6 (9.375%) Java
10 6 (9.375%) Python
10 6 (9.375%) Migration
10 6 (9.375%) VMware
10 6 (9.375%) VMware Infrastructure
10 6 (9.375%) Software Testing
10 6 (9.375%) Facebook
11 5 (7.813%) Test Automation
11 5 (7.813%) Publishing
11 5 (7.813%) Electronics
11 5 (7.813%) Perl

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 7 (10.94%) .NET
1 7 (10.94%) HTML
2 4 (6.250%) J2EE
2 4 (6.250%) Swing
2 4 (6.250%) CSS
2 4 (6.250%) Web Services
2 4 (6.250%) Hibernate
2 4 (6.250%) RESTful
2 4 (6.250%) JSON
2 4 (6.250%) jQuery
2 4 (6.250%) Ruby on Rails
2 4 (6.250%) Spring
3 2 (3.125%) OpenGL
3 2 (3.125%) iOS SDK
4 1 (1.563%) Direct3D
4 1 (1.563%) OpenGL ES
4 1 (1.563%) Cocoa
4 1 (1.563%) XML
4 1 (1.563%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 4 (6.250%) Apache
1 4 (6.250%) Tomcat
1 4 (6.250%) Drupal
1 4 (6.250%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.563%) Lync
2 1 (1.563%) CMS
2 1 (1.563%) MS Exchange
2 1 (1.563%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (7.813%) MS Office
2 3 (4.688%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (4.688%) InDesign
2 3 (4.688%) FrameMaker
2 3 (4.688%) Simulink
2 3 (4.688%) Acrobat
3 2 (3.125%) MS Project
4 1 (1.563%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.563%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.563%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.125%) VoIP
1 2 (3.125%) VPN
1 2 (3.125%) Intranet
1 2 (3.125%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (3.125%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.06%) SQL Server
2 8 (12.50%) MySQL
3 4 (6.250%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (6.250%) Subversion
1 4 (6.250%) Maven
1 4 (6.250%) Git (software)
2 3 (4.688%) LabVIEW
3 1 (1.563%) Xcode
3 1 (1.563%) Eclipse
General
1 11 (17.19%) Games
2 5 (7.813%) Publishing
2 5 (7.813%) Electronics
3 3 (4.688%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.125%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (3.125%) Legal
4 2 (3.125%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.125%) Marketing
5 1 (1.563%) Multimedia
5 1 (1.563%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 12 (18.75%) Software Engineer
1 12 (18.75%) Developer
2 9 (14.06%) Project Manager
3 8 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 7 (10.94%) Software Manager
5 6 (9.375%) Author
5 6 (9.375%) Technical Author
5 6 (9.375%) Software Development Engineer
5 6 (9.375%) Development Engineer
6 4 (6.250%) Graduate
6 4 (6.250%) Technical Support
6 4 (6.250%) Analyst
6 4 (6.250%) Web Developer
6 4 (6.250%) Technical Support Engineer
6 4 (6.250%) Test Engineer
6 4 (6.250%) Technical Engineer
6 4 (6.250%) PHP Developer
6 4 (6.250%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.250%) Software Project Manager
6 4 (6.250%) PHP Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (28.13%) Computer Science
2 8 (12.50%) Machine Learning
3 4 (6.250%) Informatics
4 3 (4.688%) iPhone
5 2 (3.125%) LIMS
5 2 (3.125%) Biology
5 2 (3.125%) iPad
6 1 (1.563%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.563%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (1.563%) Animation
6 1 (1.563%) Physics
6 1 (1.563%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.563%) Data Extraction
6 1 (1.563%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (1.563%) E-Learning
6 1 (1.563%) ASIC
6 1 (1.563%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Linux
2 4 (6.250%) Windows
3 3 (4.688%) Android
3 3 (4.688%) Mac OS X
4 2 (3.125%) UNIX
4 2 (3.125%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.125%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.563%) Windows Phone
5 1 (1.563%) Windows Mobile
5 1 (1.563%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.563%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (20.31%) PRINCE2
2 10 (15.63%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (14.06%) ITIL
3 9 (14.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (12.50%) Project Management
5 7 (10.94%) Resource Management
6 6 (9.375%) Migration
6 6 (9.375%) Software Testing
7 5 (7.813%) Test Automation
8 4 (6.250%) Change Management
8 4 (6.250%) MVC
8 4 (6.250%) Unit Testing
8 4 (6.250%) Web Development
8 4 (6.250%) TDD
8 4 (6.250%) Information Management
9 3 (4.688%) Test Strategy
9 3 (4.688%) Automated Testing
9 3 (4.688%) Multithreading
9 3 (4.688%) Security Testing
9 3 (4.688%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (32.81%) SQL
2 14 (21.88%) C#
3 7 (10.94%) C++
4 6 (9.375%) Java
4 6 (9.375%) Python
5 5 (7.813%) Perl
6 4 (6.250%) PHP
6 4 (6.250%) T-SQL
6 4 (6.250%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.250%) C
6 4 (6.250%) Lisp
6 4 (6.250%) MATLAB
6 4 (6.250%) Ruby
7 3 (4.688%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.563%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 4 (6.250%) PhD
1 4 (6.250%) ISEB
2 3 (4.688%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.563%) ISEB Practitioner
3 1 (1.563%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (1.563%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (1.563%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) QA
2 2 (3.125%) COBIT
3 1 (1.563%) JTAG
System Software
1 6 (9.375%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.688%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.125%) NFS
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.375%) VMware
2 6 (9.375%) Facebook
3 4 (6.250%) Oracle
4 3 (4.688%) Adobe
5 2 (3.125%) Citrix
5 2 (3.125%) Cisco
5 2 (3.125%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.125%) NetApp
5 2 (3.125%) SAP
6 1 (1.563%) Remedy
6 1 (1.563%) Salesforce.com
6 1 (1.563%) BMC
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