The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Advertising in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Advertising 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 General category for the Cambridgeshire 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
Advertising
Rank 45 59 47
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -12
Contract jobs citing Advertising 5 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.914% 0.437% 0.756%
As % of the General category 3.067% 1.734% 2.963%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 1
Average daily rate £400 £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +23.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £300
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.77 £30.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-47.43% +100.00%
All of the General Category
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
163 173 135
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 29.80% 25.22% 25.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 87 69
Average daily rate £375 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £288 £218
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 24 15 19
Average hourly rate £37.00 £37.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.33% +15.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 £11.60 £13.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £48.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Advertising
East of England

Advertising
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Advertising Jobs Demand Trend

Advertising
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Advertising Daily Rate Trend

Advertising
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Advertising Hourly Rate Trend

Advertising
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Advertising within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge +16 5 £400 +8.10%
Advertising
East of England

Advertising
Top 21 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 3 (50.00%) OOD
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) C
2 3 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) C++
2 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
2 3 (50.00%) OO
2 3 (50.00%) VC++
2 3 (50.00%) CAD
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (16.67%) Intranet
4 1 (16.67%) COM
4 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (16.67%) Document Management
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management

Advertising
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) COM
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) C++/C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior C++ Developer
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) C++ Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) OOD
1 3 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
1 3 (50.00%) OO
1 3 (50.00%) CAD
1 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Document Management
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C
1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) C++
1 3 (50.00%) VC++
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
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