The first table below looks at the demand for Internet skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Internet over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the East Midlands 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet
Rank 64 65 44
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -21
Contract jobs citing Internet 20 21 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 1.586% 1.538% 2.266%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.99% 12.57% 18.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 9
Average daily rate £263 £275 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% -21.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £240 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £438 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £311 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-4.23% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
Average hourly rate £15.00 £10.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% -47.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -25.00%
All Communications & Networking
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
154 167 164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 12.21% 12.23% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 70 43
Average daily rate £313 £250 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £175 £153
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £464 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 24 18
Average hourly rate £16.00 £31.75 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-49.60% +58.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.25 £11.21 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.00 £57.50 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
Internet
England

Internet
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Internet across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

East Midlands Internet Jobs Demand Trend

Internet
Daily Rate Trend

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

East Midlands Internet Daily Rate Trend

Internet
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Internet across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East Midlands Internet Daily Rate Histogram

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East Midlands Internet Hourly Rate Trend

Internet
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Internet within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Nottinghamshire -1 8 £290 +16.00%
Derbyshire +14 5 £245 -
Lincolnshire +4 4 £263 -4.54%
Leicestershire -5 3 - -
Internet
England

Internet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Internet 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 Internet.

1 20 (48.78%) Microsoft
2 17 (41.46%) Windows
3 12 (29.27%) Cisco
3 12 (29.27%) TCP/IP
4 11 (26.83%) Firewall
5 9 (21.95%) Juniper
5 9 (21.95%) MS Office
6 8 (19.51%) SQL Server
6 8 (19.51%) .NET
6 8 (19.51%) DNS
6 8 (19.51%) SQL Server 2008
7 7 (17.07%) Data Protection
7 7 (17.07%) MS PowerPoint
7 7 (17.07%) CheckPoint
7 7 (17.07%) MS Excel
7 7 (17.07%) JavaScript
7 7 (17.07%) ASP.NET
7 7 (17.07%) Web Services
7 7 (17.07%) OO
8 6 (14.63%) E-Commerce
8 6 (14.63%) CSS
8 6 (14.63%) HTML
8 6 (14.63%) OOD
8 6 (14.63%) VoIP
8 6 (14.63%) SMTP
8 6 (14.63%) HTTP
8 6 (14.63%) WinForms
8 6 (14.63%) BGP
8 6 (14.63%) E-business
8 6 (14.63%) CMS

Internet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Internet 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 Internet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (19.51%) .NET
2 7 (17.07%) ASP.NET
2 7 (17.07%) Web Services
3 6 (14.63%) CSS
3 6 (14.63%) HTML
3 6 (14.63%) WinForms
3 6 (14.63%) Ajax
3 6 (14.63%) jQuery
4 2 (4.878%) ASP
5 1 (2.439%) J2EE
5 1 (2.439%) XML
5 1 (2.439%) JMS
5 1 (2.439%) JPA
5 1 (2.439%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 6 (14.63%) CMS
1 6 (14.63%) Umbraco
1 6 (14.63%) Kentico
2 3 (7.317%) Lync
2 3 (7.317%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.878%) IIS
4 1 (2.439%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.439%) MS Exchange
4 1 (2.439%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (2.439%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (2.439%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 9 (21.95%) MS Office
2 7 (17.07%) MS Excel
2 7 (17.07%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (2.439%) InfoPath
3 1 (2.439%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (2.439%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 12 (29.27%) TCP/IP
2 11 (26.83%) Firewall
3 8 (19.51%) DNS
4 6 (14.63%) BGP
4 6 (14.63%) SMTP
4 6 (14.63%) VoIP
4 6 (14.63%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (14.63%) HTTP
5 5 (12.20%) BIG-IP
5 5 (12.20%) Cisco PIX
6 4 (9.756%) FWSM
6 4 (9.756%) WAN
6 4 (9.756%) Intranet
7 3 (7.317%) Wireless
7 3 (7.317%) LAN
7 3 (7.317%) PBX
8 2 (4.878%) DHCP
8 2 (4.878%) Extranet
8 2 (4.878%) OSPF
8 2 (4.878%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.51%) SQL Server
1 8 (19.51%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (14.63%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (4.878%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (4.878%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (2.439%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.439%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.439%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.439%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 5 (12.20%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.439%) Finance
2 1 (2.439%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) Network Engineer
2 8 (19.51%) Developer
3 7 (17.07%) Trainer
3 7 (17.07%) IT Trainer
4 6 (14.63%) Analyst
4 6 (14.63%) Web Developer
5 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) .NET Developer
5 5 (12.20%) Network Support
6 4 (9.756%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 4 (9.756%) Cisco Engineer
6 4 (9.756%) ASP.NET Developer
6 4 (9.756%) .NET Web Developer
7 3 (7.317%) Cisco Support
7 3 (7.317%) Support Engineer
7 3 (7.317%) Business Analyst
8 2 (4.878%) Network Support Engineer
8 2 (4.878%) ASP Developer
8 2 (4.878%) Security Engineer
9 1 (2.439%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.439%) Client/Server
1 1 (2.439%) N-Tier
1 1 (2.439%) Thin Client
1 1 (2.439%) Mainframe
1 1 (2.439%) Management Information System
1 1 (2.439%) Clustering
1 1 (2.439%) Mathematics
1 1 (2.439%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 17 (41.46%) Windows
2 5 (12.20%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (4.878%) UNIX
3 2 (4.878%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (4.878%) Linux
3 2 (4.878%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.878%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.439%) Windows XP
4 1 (2.439%) MVS
4 1 (2.439%) Solaris
4 1 (2.439%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (17.07%) Data Protection
1 7 (17.07%) OO
2 6 (14.63%) Content Management
2 6 (14.63%) E-Commerce
2 6 (14.63%) OOD
2 6 (14.63%) E-business
3 3 (7.317%) RAD
3 3 (7.317%) DSDM
4 1 (2.439%) ITIL
4 1 (2.439%) SEO
4 1 (2.439%) Migration
4 1 (2.439%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (2.439%) SOA
4 1 (2.439%) ETL
4 1 (2.439%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (2.439%) BPEL
4 1 (2.439%) Software Engineering
4 1 (2.439%) Web Development
4 1 (2.439%) Memory Management
4 1 (2.439%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.07%) JavaScript
2 4 (9.756%) SQL
3 1 (2.439%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.439%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.439%) C#
3 1 (2.439%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (7.317%) CCNP
1 3 (7.317%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.878%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (4.878%) MCSE
3 1 (2.439%) Degree
3 1 (2.439%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.878%) SLA
2 1 (2.439%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.317%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.439%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (2.439%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.439%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.878%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (48.78%) Microsoft
2 12 (29.27%) Cisco
3 9 (21.95%) Juniper
4 7 (17.07%) CheckPoint
5 5 (12.20%) Nokia
5 5 (12.20%) Blue Coat
5 5 (12.20%) F5
6 3 (7.317%) VMware
6 3 (7.317%) Oracle
7 2 (4.878%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.439%) RedDot
8 1 (2.439%) Veeam
8 1 (2.439%) SAP
8 1 (2.439%) Hitachi
8 1 (2.439%) Macromedia
8 1 (2.439%) HP
8 1 (2.439%) Citrix
8 1 (2.439%) Talend
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Experience of using application development methodologies is also desired (Agile / RAD /DSDM). *Previous experience is required of working on projects that are either Internet or software application based.
Spring Technology
Rate: £300.00 - £350.00 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013