The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Contract for Difference in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Contract for Difference 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Contract for Difference (CFD)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Contract for Difference 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire - - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
131 139 88
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 24.17% 20.32% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 71 25
Average daily rate £280 £300 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £176 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £423 £400 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 23 23
Average hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £20.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.11% +104.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £21.75 £10.19
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £37.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%
Contract for Difference
East of England

Contract for Difference
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Contract for Difference Jobs Demand Trend

Contract for Difference
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Contract for Difference Daily Rate Trend

Contract for Difference
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Contract for Difference 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 Contract for Difference.

1 11 (100.00%) Java
1 11 (100.00%) .NET
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 11 (100.00%) SAP
1 11 (100.00%) SOA
1 11 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) VLDB
1 11 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 11 (100.00%) TDD
1 11 (100.00%) ESB
1 11 (100.00%) SAP PI
1 11 (100.00%) Windows Azure
2 10 (90.91%) Multithreading
3 9 (81.82%) Systems Analysis
3 9 (81.82%) Finance
3 9 (81.82%) Validation
3 9 (81.82%) WSDL
3 9 (81.82%) XML Schema
3 9 (81.82%) XML
3 9 (81.82%) N-Tier
4 5 (45.45%) E-business
5 2 (18.18%) dBASE
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
5 2 (18.18%) SAP Implementation

Contract for Difference
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (100.00%) .NET
1 11 (100.00%) SAP PI
2 9 (81.82%) XML
2 9 (81.82%) WSDL
2 9 (81.82%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 11 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 11 (100.00%) ESB
1 11 (100.00%) Windows Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 11 (100.00%) VLDB
2 2 (18.18%) dBASE
General
1 9 (81.82%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Architect
1 11 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) SOA
1 11 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) TDD
2 10 (90.91%) Multithreading
3 9 (81.82%) Validation
3 9 (81.82%) Systems Analysis
4 5 (45.45%) E-business
5 2 (18.18%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle
1 11 (100.00%) SAP
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft