The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smartphone 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 Smartphone 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
Smartphone
Rank 81 83 72
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -11
Contract jobs citing Smartphone 3 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.238% 0.220% 0.219%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.282% 1.370% 1.339%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £306 £363
% change year-on-year
+20.81% -15.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £39.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-10.25% +41.81%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
234 219 224
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 18.56% 16.04% 16.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 95 80
Average daily rate £320 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £506 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 25
Average hourly rate £16.11 £27.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.41% +57.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.38 £10.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.00 £57.50 £35.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Smartphone
England

Smartphone
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands Smartphone Jobs Demand Trend

Smartphone
Daily Rate Trend

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

East Midlands Smartphone Daily Rate Trend

Smartphone
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Smartphone 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 -6 2 - -
Northamptonshire - 1 - -
Smartphone
England

Smartphone
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Market Research
1 2 (50.00%) Social Media
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
2 1 (25.00%) CoffeeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Backbone.js
2 1 (25.00%) Google Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Sass
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) OO

Smartphone
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Smartphone 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 Smartphone. 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
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
1 1 (25.00%) Google Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Web Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Market Research
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PHP
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) CoffeeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Google