The first table below looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Degree 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 Qualifications 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
Degree
Rank 14 21 29
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +8
Contract jobs citing Degree 43 47 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 7.861% 6.851% 4.159%
As % of the Qualifications category 40.57% 39.17% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 29 5
Average daily rate £288 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.53% +30.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £202 £173
10% offered a daily rate of more than £376 £575 £352
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 6
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +105.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.90 £21.80 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.30 £45.50 £28.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £30.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year
-33.33% -11.76%
All Qualifications
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
106 120 88
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 19.38% 17.49% 16.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 66 33
Average daily rate £310 £290 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.89% +16.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £160 £152
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 19 22
Average hourly rate £35.25 £16.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+120.31% +23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.15 £12.23 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.20 £47.50 £18.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Degree
East of England

Degree
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Degree Jobs Demand Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Degree Daily Rate Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire Degree Daily Rate Histogram

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Degree Hourly Rate Trend

Degree
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree 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 +8 29 £263 -12.50%
Peterborough +5 3 £300 -42.85%
Degree
East of England

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 26 (29.55%) SQL
2 23 (26.14%) Computer Science
3 17 (19.32%) C#
4 15 (17.05%) PRINCE2
4 15 (17.05%) Linux
4 15 (17.05%) Microsoft
5 14 (15.91%) Games
6 13 (14.77%) Python
6 13 (14.77%) Java
7 12 (13.64%) SQL Server
7 12 (13.64%) Project Management
8 11 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
9 10 (11.36%) QA
9 10 (11.36%) Publishing
9 10 (11.36%) C++
9 10 (11.36%) Perl
9 10 (11.36%) PhD
10 9 (10.23%) ITIL
10 9 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (10.23%) Ruby
10 9 (10.23%) Software Testing
10 9 (10.23%) Machine Learning
11 8 (9.091%) Windows
11 8 (9.091%) .NET
11 8 (9.091%) MySQL
12 7 (7.955%) T-SQL
12 7 (7.955%) HTML
12 7 (7.955%) UNIX
12 7 (7.955%) VMware
12 7 (7.955%) Biology

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (9.091%) .NET
2 7 (7.955%) HTML
3 4 (4.545%) RESTful
3 4 (4.545%) iOS SDK
3 4 (4.545%) JSON
3 4 (4.545%) jQuery
3 4 (4.545%) Ruby on Rails
3 4 (4.545%) Spring
3 4 (4.545%) Hibernate
3 4 (4.545%) Swing
3 4 (4.545%) Web Services
3 4 (4.545%) CSS
3 4 (4.545%) J2EE
4 2 (2.273%) OpenGL
5 1 (1.136%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.136%) STL
5 1 (1.136%) XML
5 1 (1.136%) XSLT
5 1 (1.136%) Cocoa
5 1 (1.136%) OpenGL ES
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.545%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (4.545%) Drupal
1 4 (4.545%) Apache
1 4 (4.545%) Tomcat
2 3 (3.409%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.273%) Lync
3 2 (2.273%) MS Exchange
4 1 (1.136%) CMS
4 1 (1.136%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.136%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 6 (6.818%) MS Office
2 5 (5.682%) MS Excel
3 3 (3.409%) FrameMaker
3 3 (3.409%) Simulink
3 3 (3.409%) Acrobat
3 3 (3.409%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (3.409%) InDesign
4 2 (2.273%) MS Project
5 1 (1.136%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.136%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.136%) Adaptiv
1 1 (1.136%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.818%) Intranet
2 3 (3.409%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (2.273%) VPN
3 2 (2.273%) VoIP
3 2 (2.273%) Wireless
4 1 (1.136%) Firewall
4 1 (1.136%) LDAP
4 1 (1.136%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.136%) VLAN
4 1 (1.136%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.091%) MySQL
3 4 (4.545%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (2.273%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.136%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.136%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.682%) Subversion
2 4 (4.545%) Git (software)
2 4 (4.545%) Maven
3 3 (3.409%) LabVIEW
4 1 (1.136%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.136%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.136%) Xcode
General
1 14 (15.91%) Games
2 10 (11.36%) Publishing
3 7 (7.955%) Marketing
4 6 (6.818%) Telecoms
4 6 (6.818%) Finance
5 5 (5.682%) Electronics
6 2 (2.273%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.273%) Legal
6 2 (2.273%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.136%) Automotive
7 1 (1.136%) Banking
7 1 (1.136%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 13 (14.77%) Software Engineer
2 12 (13.64%) Developer
3 11 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 11 (12.50%) Author
4 10 (11.36%) Technical Author
5 9 (10.23%) Analyst
6 8 (9.091%) Support Engineer
7 7 (7.955%) Test Engineer
7 7 (7.955%) Software Manager
8 6 (6.818%) Development Engineer
8 6 (6.818%) Software Development Engineer
9 5 (5.682%) Administrator
9 5 (5.682%) Graduate
10 4 (4.545%) Technical Support Engineer
10 4 (4.545%) PHP Web Developer
10 4 (4.545%) Design Engineer
10 4 (4.545%) Java Developer
10 4 (4.545%) Software Project Manager
10 4 (4.545%) PHP Developer
10 4 (4.545%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 23 (26.14%) Computer Science
2 9 (10.23%) Machine Learning
3 7 (7.955%) Biology
4 4 (4.545%) Informatics
5 3 (3.409%) iPhone
6 2 (2.273%) iPad
6 2 (2.273%) Physics
6 2 (2.273%) LIMS
7 1 (1.136%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (1.136%) ASIC
7 1 (1.136%) Firmware
7 1 (1.136%) NHS
7 1 (1.136%) E-Learning
7 1 (1.136%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (1.136%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.136%) Graphic Design
7 1 (1.136%) Animation
7 1 (1.136%) Mathematics
7 1 (1.136%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.136%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.05%) Linux
2 8 (9.091%) Windows
3 7 (7.955%) UNIX
4 5 (5.682%) Mac OS X
4 5 (5.682%) Android
5 4 (4.545%) Apple iOS
6 3 (3.409%) Windows XP
6 3 (3.409%) Windows Mobile
6 3 (3.409%) Windows 7
7 2 (2.273%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.136%) Solaris
8 1 (1.136%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (17.05%) PRINCE2
2 12 (13.64%) Project Management
3 11 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
4 9 (10.23%) ITIL
4 9 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (10.23%) Software Testing
5 7 (7.955%) Resource Management
5 7 (7.955%) Test Automation
6 6 (6.818%) Migration
7 5 (5.682%) Change Management
7 5 (5.682%) TDD
7 5 (5.682%) Bioinformatics
8 4 (4.545%) Unit Testing
8 4 (4.545%) Multithreading
8 4 (4.545%) Web Development
8 4 (4.545%) Automated Testing
8 4 (4.545%) Information Management
8 4 (4.545%) MVC
9 3 (3.409%) Regression Testing
9 3 (3.409%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (29.55%) SQL
2 17 (19.32%) C#
3 13 (14.77%) Python
3 13 (14.77%) Java
4 10 (11.36%) C++
4 10 (11.36%) Perl
5 9 (10.23%) Ruby
6 7 (7.955%) T-SQL
7 6 (6.818%) C
8 5 (5.682%) MATLAB
8 5 (5.682%) Objective-C
9 4 (4.545%) Lisp
9 4 (4.545%) JavaScript
9 4 (4.545%) PHP
10 1 (1.136%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.136%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.136%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 10 (11.36%) PhD
2 5 (5.682%) ISEB
3 4 (4.545%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.273%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 2 (2.273%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.136%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.136%) PMP
5 1 (1.136%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.136%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.36%) QA
2 2 (2.273%) COBIT
3 1 (1.136%) JTAG
System Software
1 7 (7.955%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.682%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.409%) NFS
4 1 (1.136%) Samba
4 1 (1.136%) Terminal Services
4 1 (1.136%) VMware ESX
4 1 (1.136%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (1.136%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (1.136%) AppManager
Vendors
1 15 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.955%) VMware
2 7 (7.955%) Facebook
3 4 (4.545%) Oracle
4 3 (3.409%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.409%) Cisco
4 3 (3.409%) Adobe
4 3 (3.409%) Citrix
5 2 (2.273%) NetApp
5 2 (2.273%) Unisys
5 2 (2.273%) SAP
6 1 (1.136%) Remedy
6 1 (1.136%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.136%) Salesforce.com
6 1 (1.136%) Sun
6 1 (1.136%) SunGard
6 1 (1.136%) BMC
6 1 (1.136%) CommVault
6 1 (1.136%) Cadence
6 1 (1.136%) Twitter
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