The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Military in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Military over the 3 months to 22 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 General 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Military
Rank - 47 -
Contract jobs citing Military 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge - 0.467% -
As % of the General category - 2.083% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £500
% change year-on-year
-12.50% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £43.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All of the General Category
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
95 96 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 28.27% 22.43% 24.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 50 33
Average daily rate £360 £315 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -5.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £256 £225 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 10
Average hourly rate £38.00 £37.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.33% +15.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.35 £11.60 £13.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £49.50 £48.50 £34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Military
Cambridgeshire

Military
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Military Jobs Demand Trend

Military
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Military Hourly Rate Trend

Military
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Military 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 Military.

1 5 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 4 (80.00%) Electronics
2 4 (80.00%) VHDL
2 4 (80.00%) Verilog
2 4 (80.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 4 (80.00%) Xilinx
3 2 (40.00%) Twitter
4 1 (20.00%) C++
4 1 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (20.00%) OOD
4 1 (20.00%) Embedded C++
4 1 (20.00%) MATLAB
4 1 (20.00%) Simulink

Military
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Military 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 Military. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Simulink
General
1 4 (80.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Designer
1 4 (80.00%) Electronics Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) FPGA Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 4 (80.00%) VHDL
2 4 (80.00%) Verilog
2 4 (80.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C++
1 1 (20.00%) Embedded C++
1 1 (20.00%) MATLAB
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Xilinx
2 2 (40.00%) Twitter