The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Author role in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Author in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Job Titles advertised 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Author
Rank 30 48 -
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Author 9 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 2.679% 0.241% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.980% 0.256% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £268 £225 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.88% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-13.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £35.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £22.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+57.77% -
All Job Titles
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
302 390 238
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 89.88% 93.98% 97.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 194 123
Average daily rate £350 £310 £306
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.90% +1.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 52 46
Average hourly rate £37.25 £35.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.42% +159.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £10.40 £11.63
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £52.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Author
Cambridgeshire

Technical Author
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Technical Author Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Author
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Technical Author Daily Rate Trend

Technical Author
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Technical Author Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Author
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Technical Author in their job title 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 with Technical Author in their job title.

1 8 (42.11%) FrameMaker
2 6 (31.58%) Adobe
2 6 (31.58%) Publishing
2 6 (31.58%) Degree
3 5 (26.32%) RoboHelp
4 4 (21.05%) Electronics
4 4 (21.05%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (21.05%) Multimedia
5 3 (15.79%) Marketing
5 3 (15.79%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (15.79%) InDesign
5 3 (15.79%) Acrobat
5 3 (15.79%) HTML
5 3 (15.79%) MS Office
5 3 (15.79%) Adobe Captivate
5 3 (15.79%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (10.53%) Windows
6 2 (10.53%) Intranet
6 2 (10.53%) CMS
7 1 (5.263%) XMetaL
7 1 (5.263%) E-Learning
7 1 (5.263%) Technical Architecture
7 1 (5.263%) Graphic Design
7 1 (5.263%) Animation
7 1 (5.263%) Content Management
7 1 (5.263%) Software Engineering
7 1 (5.263%) Software Testing
7 1 (5.263%) MS PowerPoint
7 1 (5.263%) Project Management
7 1 (5.263%) C++

Technical Author
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Technical Author in their job title 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 with Technical Author in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (15.79%) HTML
2 1 (5.263%) XML
2 1 (5.263%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (42.11%) FrameMaker
2 5 (26.32%) RoboHelp
3 3 (15.79%) Acrobat
3 3 (15.79%) MS Office
3 3 (15.79%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (15.79%) InDesign
3 3 (15.79%) Adobe Captivate
4 1 (5.263%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (5.263%) XMetaL
4 1 (5.263%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Eclipse
General
1 6 (31.58%) Publishing
2 4 (21.05%) Multimedia
2 4 (21.05%) Electronics
3 3 (15.79%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (5.263%) E-Learning
2 1 (5.263%) Graphic Design
2 1 (5.263%) Animation
2 1 (5.263%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (5.263%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (5.263%) Content Management
2 1 (5.263%) Software Engineering
2 1 (5.263%) Software Testing
2 1 (5.263%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (5.263%) Matrix Management
2 1 (5.263%) OO
2 1 (5.263%) Data Modelling
2 1 (5.263%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.263%) C++
1 1 (5.263%) Perl
1 1 (5.263%) VB
1 1 (5.263%) Python
1 1 (5.263%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Adobe
2 1 (5.263%) Microsoft
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Our award-winning, high-technology client is looking for a technical author to write topic-based, technical content for their customers’ designers, developers and engineers. This is a...
Edissero Ltd
Rate: £On application
Posted: 15 May 2013