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This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Multimedia' in contract IT jobs within the City of London region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Multimedia over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkMultimedia
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank211184
Rank change on same period last yearDown-27
Matching contract IT job ads411
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.005 %0.011 %
As % of the category below0.067 %0.206 %
Daily rates quoted17
Average minimum daily rate£150£471
Average daily rate£175£482
% change on same period last year-63.70 %
Average maximum daily rate£200£493
UK excluding London average daily rate£275£317
% change on same period last year-13.41 %
Hourly rates quoted10
Average minimum hourly rate£175.00-
Average hourly rate£175.00-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate£175.00-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£31.80£29.87
% change on same period last year+6.45 %
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
City of London
Matching contract IT job ads59625352
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled7.947 %5.415 %
Daily rates quoted33002296
Average minimum daily rate£439£453
Average daily rate£479£487
% change on same period last year-1.75 %
Average maximum daily rate£519£522
UK excluding London average daily rate£383£374
% change on same period last year+2.49 %
Hourly rates quoted184152
Average minimum hourly rate£25.80£21.79
Average hourly rate£27.69£23.13
% change on same period last year+19.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate£29.58£24.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate£26.78£27.25
% change on same period last year-1.70 %
Multimedia LondonMultimedia
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.

Multimedia
Demand Trend

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

City of London Multimedia Demand Trend

Multimedia
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Multimedia Daily Rate Trend

Multimedia
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Multimedia Hourly Rate Trend

Multimedia
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

17 (30.43 %)Java
26 (26.09 %)JavaScript
26 (26.09 %)HTML
35 (21.74 %)XML
44 (17.39 %)XSLT
44 (17.39 %)CSS
44 (17.39 %)Firewall
44 (17.39 %)LAN
44 (17.39 %)VoIP
44 (17.39 %)WAN
44 (17.39 %)VPN
44 (17.39 %)Cisco
44 (17.39 %)Nokia
44 (17.39 %)CheckPoint
44 (17.39 %)Agile Software Development
44 (17.39 %)BIG-IP
53 (13.04 %)Ruby
53 (13.04 %)XHTML
53 (13.04 %)PRINCE2
53 (13.04 %)Perl
53 (13.04 %)J2EE
62 (8.696 %)Photoshop
62 (8.696 %)SQL
62 (8.696 %)ActionScript
62 (8.696 %)C
62 (8.696 %)C#
62 (8.696 %)C++
62 (8.696 %)Apache
62 (8.696 %)Flash
62 (8.696 %)MVC

Multimedia
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
16 (26.09 %)HTML
25 (21.74 %)XML
34 (17.39 %)XSLT
34 (17.39 %)CSS
43 (13.04 %)XHTML
43 (13.04 %)J2EE
52 (8.696 %)MVC
52 (8.696 %)Hibernate
52 (8.696 %)Spring
61 (4.348 %)AJAX
61 (4.348 %)Java ME
61 (4.348 %)Adobe Flex
61 (4.348 %)WinForms
61 (4.348 %)WebServices
61 (4.348 %)XML-RPC
61 (4.348 %)ADO.NET
61 (4.348 %)WML
61 (4.348 %).NET
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
12 (8.696 %)Apache
21 (4.348 %)CMS
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
12 (8.696 %)Photoshop
12 (8.696 %)Adobe Illustrator
21 (4.348 %)MS Project
21 (4.348 %)MS Excel
21 (4.348 %)Fireworks
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
14 (17.39 %)LAN
14 (17.39 %)VoIP
14 (17.39 %)WAN
14 (17.39 %)VPN
14 (17.39 %)Firewall
14 (17.39 %)BIG-IP
22 (8.696 %)Internet
31 (4.348 %)Intranet
31 (4.348 %)HTTP
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
12 (8.696 %)Flash
12 (8.696 %)Subversion
12 (8.696 %)Selenium
21 (4.348 %)WATIR
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
12 (8.696 %)Banking
12 (8.696 %)Investment Banking
21 (4.348 %)Music
21 (4.348 %)Marketing
21 (4.348 %)Graphic Design
21 (4.348 %)Finance
21 (4.348 %)Construction
21 (4.348 %)Legal
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
18 (34.78 %)Developer
23 (13.04 %)Tester
23 (13.04 %)Firewall Engineer
32 (8.696 %)ActionScript Developer
32 (8.696 %)Java Developer
32 (8.696 %)Network Engineer
32 (8.696 %)Flash Developer
41 (4.348 %)Graphic Designer
41 (4.348 %)Lead Developer
41 (4.348 %)Manual Tester
41 (4.348 %)Systems Tester
41 (4.348 %)Technical Analyst
41 (4.348 %)Web Designer
41 (4.348 %)Senior Network Engineer
41 (4.348 %)Software Engineer
41 (4.348 %)Coordinator
41 (4.348 %)Project Manager
41 (4.348 %)Project Planner
41 (4.348 %)Analyst
41 (4.348 %)Web Developer
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
12 (8.696 %)W3C
12 (8.696 %)Interactive TV
21 (4.348 %)IPTV
21 (4.348 %)RIA
21 (4.348 %)Streaming Video
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11 (4.348 %)UNIX
11 (4.348 %)Windows
11 (4.348 %)Solaris
11 (4.348 %)Linux
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
14 (17.39 %)Agile Software Development
23 (13.04 %)PRINCE2
32 (8.696 %)Project Management
32 (8.696 %)TDD
32 (8.696 %)Content Management
32 (8.696 %)Scrum
32 (8.696 %)Web Design
32 (8.696 %)Web Development
41 (4.348 %)Business Development
41 (4.348 %)Load Testing
41 (4.348 %)Programme Management
41 (4.348 %)Software Engineering
41 (4.348 %)Software Testing
41 (4.348 %)Project Planning
41 (4.348 %)Change Management
41 (4.348 %)SEO
41 (4.348 %)Stakeholder Management
41 (4.348 %)UML
41 (4.348 %)OOP
41 (4.348 %)OO
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
17 (30.43 %)Java
26 (26.09 %)JavaScript
33 (13.04 %)Perl
33 (13.04 %)Ruby
42 (8.696 %)Shell Script
42 (8.696 %)SQL
42 (8.696 %)ActionScript
42 (8.696 %)C
42 (8.696 %)C#
42 (8.696 %)C++
51 (4.348 %)DHTML
51 (4.348 %)PHP
51 (4.348 %)Python
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
12 (8.696 %)Degree
21 (4.348 %)ISEB
21 (4.348 %)PRINCE2 Certification
21 (4.348 %)ITIL Certification
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (4.348 %)QA
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
14 (17.39 %)Cisco
14 (17.39 %)Nokia
14 (17.39 %)CheckPoint
22 (8.696 %)Adobe
31 (4.348 %)Macromedia
31 (4.348 %)OpenTV
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