The first table below looks at the demand for the Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Cheshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Designer
Rank 49 38 38
Rank change year-on-year
-11 0
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 18 29 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 2.483% 3.558% 3.755%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.699% 3.872% 4.157%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 16 22
Average daily rate £435 £395 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.12% -4.24%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £388 £400
% change year-on-year
-9.67% -3.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £20.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -16.66%
All Job Titles
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
667 749 842
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 92.00% 91.90% 90.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 404 467
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £455 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 24 34
Average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+75.00% -13.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Designer
North West

Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Designer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Designer Daily Rate Trend

Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Designer Hourly Rate Trend

Designer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Designer within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Knutsford -7 4 - - 1
Macclesfield -2 1 - - 1
Warrington - - - - 1
Wilmslow - - - - 1
Chester - - - -
Designer
North West

Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Designer 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 Designer in their job title.

1 17 (62.96%) Windows
2 15 (55.56%) UNIX
3 14 (51.85%) IBM
4 13 (48.15%) Middleware
4 13 (48.15%) Mainframe
4 13 (48.15%) Migration
5 12 (44.44%) Finance
6 11 (40.74%) Risk Management
6 11 (40.74%) Banking
7 10 (37.04%) IBM Mainframe
8 9 (33.33%) Tandem
9 7 (25.93%) Information Security
10 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (22.22%) Firewall
11 5 (18.52%) Dell
11 5 (18.52%) Linux
12 4 (14.81%) Retail Banking
12 4 (14.81%) Fortinet
12 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (14.81%) F5
12 4 (14.81%) E-Commerce
12 4 (14.81%) ITIL
12 4 (14.81%) Internet
12 4 (14.81%) Extranet
12 4 (14.81%) Cisco
12 4 (14.81%) Active Directory
12 4 (14.81%) McAfee
12 4 (14.81%) FatWire
12 4 (14.81%) VMware
12 4 (14.81%) Intrusion Detection

Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Designer 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 Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (48.15%) Middleware
2 1 (3.704%) HTML5
2 1 (3.704%) CSS3
2 1 (3.704%) XHTML
2 1 (3.704%) HTML
2 1 (3.704%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.407%) IIS
1 2 (7.407%) MS Exchange
1 2 (7.407%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (7.407%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (7.407%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.704%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (3.704%) Photoshop
2 1 (3.704%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) Firewall
2 4 (14.81%) Internet
2 4 (14.81%) Extranet
2 4 (14.81%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (11.11%) DMZ
4 1 (3.704%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (3.704%) Wireless
4 1 (3.704%) Kerberos
4 1 (3.704%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.407%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (3.704%) DB2
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 1 (3.704%) Dreamweaver
General
1 12 (44.44%) Finance
2 11 (40.74%) Banking
3 4 (14.81%) Retail Banking
3 4 (14.81%) Retail
4 1 (3.704%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 13 (48.15%) Mainframe
2 10 (37.04%) IBM Mainframe
3 9 (33.33%) Tandem
4 1 (3.704%) Replication
4 1 (3.704%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (62.96%) Windows
2 15 (55.56%) UNIX
3 5 (18.52%) Linux
4 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (3.704%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Migration
2 11 (40.74%) Risk Management
3 7 (25.93%) Information Security
4 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (14.81%) E-Commerce
5 4 (14.81%) ITIL
6 2 (7.407%) Zachman Framework
6 2 (7.407%) TOGAF
6 2 (7.407%) Test Strategy
7 1 (3.704%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (3.704%) Web Accessibility
7 1 (3.704%) Web Design
7 1 (3.704%) SEO
7 1 (3.704%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.704%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.407%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (7.407%) MCTS
1 2 (7.407%) MCITP
2 1 (3.704%) CCNP
2 1 (3.704%) CCNA
2 1 (3.704%) CCDP
2 1 (3.704%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.407%) vSphere
3 1 (3.704%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) IBM
2 5 (18.52%) Dell
3 4 (14.81%) Fortinet
3 4 (14.81%) F5
3 4 (14.81%) Cisco
3 4 (14.81%) McAfee
3 4 (14.81%) FatWire
3 4 (14.81%) VMware
4 3 (11.11%) Sourcefire
4 3 (11.11%) Juniper
5 2 (7.407%) Citrix
5 2 (7.407%) HP
5 2 (7.407%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.704%) Adobe
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