The first table below looks at the demand for the Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 18 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 City of London 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Designer
Rank 99 140 138
Rank change year-on-year
+41 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 129 83 114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.871% 1.076% 1.137%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.025% 1.176% 1.239%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 67 79
Average daily rate £350 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £231 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £388 £400
% change year-on-year
-9.67% -3.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
Average hourly rate £43.50 - £17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £20.00 £23.25
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -13.97%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6370 7058 9203
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.39% 91.51% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4711 5127 6701
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £275 £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 174 214
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.50 £43.95 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Designer
London

Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Designer Daily Rate Trend

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Designer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London Designer Daily Rate Histogram

Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Designer Hourly Rate Trend

Designer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Designer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London Designer Hourly Rate Histogram

Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 50 (23.36%) Finance
2 49 (22.90%) Banking
3 48 (22.43%) Photoshop
4 42 (19.63%) HTML
5 37 (17.29%) CSS
6 29 (13.55%) Adobe
7 26 (12.15%) Oracle
8 24 (11.21%) E-Commerce
9 20 (9.346%) Axure RP
10 18 (8.411%) JavaScript
10 18 (8.411%) ITIL
10 18 (8.411%) Retail
10 18 (8.411%) Investment Banking
10 18 (8.411%) Adobe Illustrator
11 17 (7.944%) Java
12 16 (7.477%) Telecoms
13 15 (7.009%) Project Management
13 15 (7.009%) Marketing
13 15 (7.009%) Degree
14 14 (6.542%) Spring
14 14 (6.542%) jQuery
14 14 (6.542%) Security Cleared
14 14 (6.542%) HTML5
15 13 (6.075%) Mobile App
15 13 (6.075%) Product Management
15 13 (6.075%) QA
15 13 (6.075%) Business Analysis
15 13 (6.075%) .NET
16 12 (5.607%) Games
16 12 (5.607%) Graphic Design

Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 42 (19.63%) HTML
2 37 (17.29%) CSS
3 14 (6.542%) Spring
3 14 (6.542%) jQuery
3 14 (6.542%) HTML5
4 13 (6.075%) .NET
5 12 (5.607%) CSS3
6 9 (4.206%) JMS
7 8 (3.738%) EJB
7 8 (3.738%) Flash
7 8 (3.738%) J2EE
7 8 (3.738%) JDBC
7 8 (3.738%) Servlets
7 8 (3.738%) Struts
7 8 (3.738%) Ajax
8 5 (2.336%) Spring MVC
8 5 (2.336%) KnockoutJS
9 4 (1.869%) WebSphere
9 4 (1.869%) XHTML
10 3 (1.402%) WebSphere MQ
Application Platforms
1 9 (4.206%) WebLogic
2 8 (3.738%) Tomcat
3 5 (2.336%) Liferay
4 4 (1.869%) CMS
5 3 (1.402%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.402%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.402%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (0.935%) WebSphere Message Broker
6 2 (0.935%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
6 2 (0.935%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.467%) Apache
7 1 (0.467%) Drupal
7 1 (0.467%) WordPress
7 1 (0.467%) Lync
7 1 (0.467%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 48 (22.43%) Photoshop
2 18 (8.411%) Adobe Illustrator
3 8 (3.738%) MS Visio
3 8 (3.738%) OmniGraffle
4 5 (2.336%) Fireworks
4 5 (2.336%) MS PowerPoint
5 3 (1.402%) MS Office
6 2 (0.935%) MS Excel
6 2 (0.935%) InDesign
7 1 (0.467%) Vectorworks
7 1 (0.467%) SketchUp
7 1 (0.467%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.467%) FreeHand
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.140%) Intranet
2 10 (4.673%) Internet
3 7 (3.271%) VoIP
4 6 (2.804%) WAN
5 4 (1.869%) MPLS
5 4 (1.869%) NGN
5 4 (1.869%) Network Security
6 3 (1.402%) HTTP
7 2 (0.935%) VPN
7 2 (0.935%) SAN
7 2 (0.935%) LAN
8 1 (0.467%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.467%) Firewall
8 1 (0.467%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.206%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.869%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.869%) Oracle ODI
3 3 (1.402%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (0.935%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (0.935%) TOAD
4 2 (0.935%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (0.935%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (0.935%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.467%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (0.467%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.467%) QlikView
5 1 (0.467%) MySQL
5 1 (0.467%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.467%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.467%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 20 (9.346%) Axure RP
2 8 (3.738%) JUnit
3 4 (1.869%) Balsamiq Mockups
3 4 (1.869%) Dreamweaver
4 2 (0.935%) Microsoft Blend
4 2 (0.935%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.467%) Subversion
5 1 (0.467%) JIRA
5 1 (0.467%) Firebug
General
1 50 (23.36%) Finance
2 49 (22.90%) Banking
3 18 (8.411%) Retail
3 18 (8.411%) Investment Banking
4 16 (7.477%) Telecoms
5 15 (7.009%) Marketing
6 12 (5.607%) Games
7 9 (4.206%) Legal
8 7 (3.271%) Law
9 4 (1.869%) Billing
10 3 (1.402%) Front Office
11 2 (0.935%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.935%) Publishing
11 2 (0.935%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.467%) Cantonese Language
12 1 (0.467%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.467%) Back Office
12 1 (0.467%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.075%) Mobile App
2 12 (5.607%) Graphic Design
3 6 (2.804%) Digital Media
4 4 (1.869%) Social Media
4 4 (1.869%) Credit Risk
5 3 (1.402%) Visualisation
5 3 (1.402%) Fixed Income
6 2 (0.935%) E-Learning
6 2 (0.935%) Mainframe
6 2 (0.935%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.935%) Open Source
6 2 (0.935%) RIA
7 1 (0.467%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.467%) iPad
7 1 (0.467%) Social Gaming
7 1 (0.467%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.467%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (0.467%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (0.467%) iDTV
7 1 (0.467%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.673%) Windows
2 6 (2.804%) Linux
3 5 (2.336%) Android
3 5 (2.336%) Windows 7
4 4 (1.869%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.402%) Windows XP
6 2 (0.935%) UNIX
6 2 (0.935%) Solaris
7 1 (0.467%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (11.21%) E-Commerce
2 18 (8.411%) ITIL
3 15 (7.009%) Project Management
4 13 (6.075%) Business Analysis
4 13 (6.075%) Product Management
5 12 (5.607%) Agile Software Development
6 11 (5.140%) User Experience Design
7 10 (4.673%) Usability Testing
7 10 (4.673%) Risk Management
7 10 (4.673%) Change Control
8 9 (4.206%) Web Design
9 8 (3.738%) Information Architecture
9 8 (3.738%) Market Research
10 7 (3.271%) Financial Modelling
10 7 (3.271%) Refactoring
10 7 (3.271%) Service Management
10 7 (3.271%) PRINCE
10 7 (3.271%) PRINCE2
11 6 (2.804%) Data Modelling
12 5 (2.336%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.411%) JavaScript
2 17 (7.944%) Java
3 8 (3.738%) XAML
3 8 (3.738%) SQL
4 4 (1.869%) C#
5 3 (1.402%) C
6 2 (0.935%) PHP
7 1 (0.467%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.467%) VB
7 1 (0.467%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.467%) JCL
7 1 (0.467%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 15 (7.009%) Degree
2 14 (6.542%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.206%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.271%) MBA
5 5 (2.336%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.869%) CCNA
6 4 (1.869%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.075%) QA
2 2 (0.935%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (0.935%) Terminal Server
2 1 (0.467%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.869%) Control-M
Vendors
1 29 (13.55%) Adobe
2 26 (12.15%) Oracle
3 11 (5.140%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.738%) JBoss
5 7 (3.271%) Cadence
5 7 (3.271%) Sun
5 7 (3.271%) Cisco
6 4 (1.869%) IBM
7 2 (0.935%) Twitter
7 2 (0.935%) EMC
7 2 (0.935%) Citrix
7 2 (0.935%) Cognos
8 1 (0.467%) Sybase
8 1 (0.467%) SAP
8 1 (0.467%) Google
8 1 (0.467%) hybris
8 1 (0.467%) F5
8 1 (0.467%) Fiserv
8 1 (0.467%) Cadis
8 1 (0.467%) CA
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