The first table below looks at the demand for Postgraduate in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Postgraduate 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Postgraduate
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Postgraduate 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge - - -
As % of the Qualifications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £250 £350
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Qualifications
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
72 88 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 21.43% 20.56% 15.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 46 13
Average daily rate £303 £288 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.21% +15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £160 £246
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £420 £383
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 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 £24.31 £11.65 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.85 £47.50 £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Postgraduate
Cambridgeshire

Postgraduate
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Postgraduate Jobs Demand Trend