The first table below looks at the demand for Market Research 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 Market Research 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
Market Research
Rank 81 - 72
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Market Research 3 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.238% - 0.219%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.355% - 0.337%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £100 £400 £283
% change year-on-year
-75.00% +41.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.50 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
844 884 889
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 66.93% 64.76% 64.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 452 377
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 50 64
Average hourly rate £27.50 £34.00 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.11% +30.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £10.90 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £57.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Market Research
England

Market Research
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Market Research across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

East Midlands Market Research Jobs Demand Trend

Market Research
Daily Rate Trend

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

East Midlands Market Research Daily Rate Trend

Market Research
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East Midlands Market Research Hourly Rate Trend

Market Research
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Market Research 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
Leicestershire - 2 - -
Market Research
England

Market Research
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Smartphone
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Social Media
2 1 (25.00%) Isilon
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
2 1 (25.00%) CoffeeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Backbone.js
2 1 (25.00%) Sass
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (25.00%) Statistics
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Danish Language
2 1 (25.00%) French Language
2 1 (25.00%) Swedish Language
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Data Security
2 1 (25.00%) E-Procurement
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Automotive
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) RHCA
2 1 (25.00%) HTML

Market Research
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (25.00%) jQuery
1 1 (25.00%) HTML5
1 1 (25.00%) CSS3
1 1 (25.00%) Backbone.js
1 1 (25.00%) Sass
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Automotive
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Danish Language
1 1 (25.00%) French Language
1 1 (25.00%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Web Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Buyer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Smartphone
1 2 (50.00%) Social Media
2 1 (25.00%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) Data Security
2 1 (25.00%) E-Procurement
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PHP
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) CoffeeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) RHCE
1 1 (25.00%) RHCA
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) SAP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) HP
1 1 (25.00%) EMC
1 1 (25.00%) NetApp
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) VMware
1 1 (25.00%) Isilon