The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Psychology 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 Psychology 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Psychology
Rank 202 215 243
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +28
Contract jobs citing Psychology 1 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% 0.038% 0.020%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.050% 0.117% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £235 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £400 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
2018 2574 3936
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 31.64% 32.73% 40.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1496 1987 3043
Average daily rate £500 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £298 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 67 54
Average hourly rate £24.00 £21.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.62% +2.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £13.38 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £44.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Psychology
London

Psychology
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Psychology Jobs Demand Trend

Psychology
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Psychology Daily Rate Trend

Psychology
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Psychology 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 Psychology.

1 4 (80.00%) Axure RP
2 2 (40.00%) iPad
2 2 (40.00%) OmniGraffle
2 2 (40.00%) Cash Management
2 2 (40.00%) SWIFT
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (40.00%) Fireworks
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Marketing
2 2 (40.00%) Smartphone
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience Design
3 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
3 1 (20.00%) IMAP
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) iPhone
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) Internet
3 1 (20.00%) 3G

Psychology
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Psychology 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 Psychology. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) OmniGraffle
1 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
1 2 (40.00%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) IMAP
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
1 1 (20.00%) 3G
1 1 (20.00%) VoIP
1 1 (20.00%) POP3
1 1 (20.00%) SMTP
1 1 (20.00%) FTP
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (20.00%) 4G
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Axure RP
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) User Experience Designer
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Trainer
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Trainer
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Designer
1 1 (20.00%) User Experience Architect
1 1 (20.00%) User Experience Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) iPad
1 2 (40.00%) SWIFT
1 2 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (40.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) iPhone
2 1 (20.00%) Open Source
2 1 (20.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Cash Management
1 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) User Experience Design
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Facebook
1 1 (20.00%) Twitter