The first table below looks at the demand for TickIT 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 TickIT over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Quality Assurance & Compliance 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
TickIT
Rank 78 81 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs citing TickIT 5 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.391% 0.075% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.329% 0.990% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £291 £350 £400
% change year-on-year
-16.78% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £40.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year
- +17.64%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
79 101 92
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 6.172% 7.560% 6.208%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 52 52
Average daily rate £331 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £200 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £490 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
- -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 5
Average hourly rate £35.50 £20.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+77.50% +60.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.29 £12.00 £8.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.95 £40.00 £17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.25 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.15% -44.26%
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England

TickIT
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing TickIT across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

East Midlands TickIT Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

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

East Midlands TickIT Daily Rate Trend

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

East Midlands TickIT Hourly Rate Trend

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TickIT within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Leicestershire 0 5 - -
Nottinghamshire - - - - 1
Derbyshire - - - -
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England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing TickIT 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 TickIT.

1 18 (100.00%) SQL
1 18 (100.00%) ISO 9001
2 11 (61.11%) MS Excel
2 11 (61.11%) MS Office
2 11 (61.11%) MS PowerPoint
3 9 (50.00%) .NET
3 9 (50.00%) C#
4 8 (44.44%) Windows
4 8 (44.44%) Linux
5 7 (38.89%) UML
5 7 (38.89%) ASP.NET
5 7 (38.89%) Web Services
5 7 (38.89%) Visual Studio
5 7 (38.89%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 7 (38.89%) UNIX
5 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
5 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
5 7 (38.89%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (33.33%) Logistics
6 6 (33.33%) ISEB
7 5 (27.78%) Oracle
7 5 (27.78%) .NET Framework
7 5 (27.78%) Degree
8 4 (22.22%) XML
9 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
9 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
9 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
10 2 (11.11%) Migration
10 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
10 2 (11.11%) Software Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing TickIT 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 TickIT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (50.00%) .NET
2 7 (38.89%) ASP.NET
2 7 (38.89%) Web Services
3 5 (27.78%) .NET Framework
4 4 (22.22%) XML
5 2 (11.11%) XSLT
5 2 (11.11%) ASP
Applications
1 11 (61.11%) MS Excel
1 11 (61.11%) MS Office
1 11 (61.11%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (5.556%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.11%) LDAP
3 1 (5.556%) HTTP
3 1 (5.556%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Star Schema
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle BI EE
1 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (11.11%) OLAP
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle OLAP
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Visual Studio
1 7 (38.89%) VSS/SourceSafe
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Test Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Development Project Manager
3 4 (22.22%) Development Manager
3 4 (22.22%) Project Manager
4 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Software Test Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Software Development Manager
5 2 (11.11%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Software Project Manager
5 2 (11.11%) IT Development Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Software Development Project Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Web Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Software Manager
6 1 (5.556%) Architect
6 1 (5.556%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (5.556%) OBIEE Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Database Architect
6 1 (5.556%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
2 2 (11.11%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 7 (38.89%) UNIX
3 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (5.556%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) UML
1 7 (38.89%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (33.33%) Logistics
3 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (11.11%) Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Software Testing
4 2 (11.11%) Web Development
4 2 (11.11%) Data Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Data Modelling
4 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (5.556%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) ISEB
2 5 (27.78%) Degree
3 1 (5.556%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (100.00%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle
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