City of London InDesign Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Adobe InDesign skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited InDesign over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe InDesign
Location Berkshire Bracknell Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Ealing East of England England London Manchester North West Shropshire South East UK Warwickshire West Midlands	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	212	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	3	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.318 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£175	-
Average daily rate	£183	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£190	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	-	£98
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.50	£20.00
% change on same period last year	-12.50 %
Applications City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	943	734
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.257 %	0.743 %
Daily rates quoted	431	282
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£343
Average daily rate	£354	£364
% change on same period last year	-2.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£285
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	111	62
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.57	£18.60
Average hourly rate	£21.11	£19.47
% change on same period last year	+8.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.65	£20.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.01	£18.99
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
InDesign London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

InDesign
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing InDesign across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

InDesign
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing InDesign across the City of London region.

InDesign
Hourly Rate Trend

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

InDesign
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing InDesign 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 InDesign.

1 11 (100.00 %) Adobe 2 7 (63.64 %) Marketing 3 6 (54.55 %) Law 4 3 (27.27 %) Content Management 4 3 (27.27 %) CMS 5 1 (9.091 %) AJAX 5 1 (9.091 %) Adobe Illustrator 5 1 (9.091 %) Advertising 5 1 (9.091 %) Publishing 5 1 (9.091 %) Mac OS X 5 1 (9.091 %) Internet 5 1 (9.091 %) HTML 5 1 (9.091 %) Photoshop 5 1 (9.091 %) MS Office 5 1 (9.091 %) UNIX

5 1 (9.091 %) Solaris 5 1 (9.091 %) Windows XP

InDesign
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing InDesign 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 InDesign. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (9.091 %) HTML 1 1 (9.091 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 3 (27.27 %) CMS
Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) Photoshop 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Office 1 1 (9.091 %) Adobe Illustrator	Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) Internet
General 1 7 (63.64 %) Marketing 2 6 (54.55 %) Law 3 1 (9.091 %) Advertising 3 1 (9.091 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 9 (81.82 %) Trainer 2 6 (54.55 %) Technical Trainer 3 1 (9.091 %) Junior Information Architect 3 1 (9.091 %) Architect 3 1 (9.091 %) Junior 3 1 (9.091 %) Information Architect 3 1 (9.091 %) Support Engineer
Operating Systems 1 1 (9.091 %) UNIX 1 1 (9.091 %) Solaris 1 1 (9.091 %) Windows XP 1 1 (9.091 %) Mac OS X	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (27.27 %) Content Management
Vendors 1 11 (100.00 %) Adobe