The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automotive 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 General category for the East of England 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
Automotive
Rank 96 111 88
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -23
Contract jobs citing Automotive 18 21 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.842% 0.711% 1.475%
As % of the General category 2.413% 1.941% 3.797%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
Average daily rate £213 £350 £238
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-39.28% +47.36%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 13
Average hourly rate £32.25 £32.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-0.76% +30.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £29.60 £8.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £44.90 £34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.65 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+15.84% +8.33%
All of the General Category
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
746 1082 1027
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 34.88% 36.62% 38.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 462 451
Average daily rate £400 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £238 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 79 80
Average hourly rate £31.00 £30.00 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% +15.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £12.46 £8.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.60 £47.50 £37.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Automotive
England

Automotive
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Automotive Jobs Demand Trend

Automotive
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Automotive Daily Rate Trend

Automotive
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Automotive Hourly Rate Trend

Automotive
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Automotive across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England Automotive Hourly Rate Histogram

Automotive
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automotive within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 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
Essex +10 18 £213 +70.00%
Automotive
England

Automotive
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Automotive 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 Automotive.

1 11 (29.73%) SQL
1 11 (29.73%) Project Management
2 7 (18.92%) Oracle
2 7 (18.92%) Linux
3 6 (16.22%) Windows
3 6 (16.22%) MS Project
3 6 (16.22%) J2EE
3 6 (16.22%) C++
4 5 (13.51%) Finance
4 5 (13.51%) PMI Certification
4 5 (13.51%) Java
4 5 (13.51%) XML
4 5 (13.51%) PL/SQL
4 5 (13.51%) IBM
5 4 (10.81%) PRINCE2
5 4 (10.81%) UNIX
5 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.81%) HTML
5 4 (10.81%) Salesforce.com
5 4 (10.81%) Change Management
5 4 (10.81%) Front Office
5 4 (10.81%) Scrum
5 4 (10.81%) Eloqua
6 3 (8.108%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (8.108%) NAS
6 3 (8.108%) VMware
6 3 (8.108%) Risk Management
6 3 (8.108%) Electronics
6 3 (8.108%) SUSE
6 3 (8.108%) Agile Software Development

Automotive
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (16.22%) J2EE
2 5 (13.51%) XML
3 4 (10.81%) HTML
4 2 (5.405%) XHTML
4 2 (5.405%) CSS
4 2 (5.405%) JSP
4 2 (5.405%) Ajax
4 2 (5.405%) WebSphere
4 2 (5.405%) WebCenter
5 1 (2.703%) Qt
5 1 (2.703%) SGML
5 1 (2.703%) COM
Applications
1 6 (16.22%) MS Project
2 3 (8.108%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.703%) Simulink
3 1 (2.703%) MS Office
3 1 (2.703%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.108%) NAS
1 3 (8.108%) SAN
2 1 (2.703%) CTI
2 1 (2.703%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.405%) MS Access
1 2 (5.405%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.703%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (2.703%) WebFOCUS
2 1 (2.703%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (5.405%) Ant
General
1 5 (13.51%) Finance
2 4 (10.81%) Front Office
3 3 (8.108%) Electronics
3 3 (8.108%) Legal
3 3 (8.108%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.703%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Project Manager
2 6 (16.22%) Developer
3 3 (8.108%) Analyst
3 3 (8.108%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (5.405%) Business Analyst
4 2 (5.405%) Applications Developer
4 2 (5.405%) Coordinator
4 2 (5.405%) Project Coordinator
4 2 (5.405%) SQL Developer
4 2 (5.405%) Change Manager
4 2 (5.405%) Business Change Manager
4 2 (5.405%) Business Manager
4 2 (5.405%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
4 2 (5.405%) Agile Project Manager
5 1 (2.703%) SCCM Engineer
5 1 (2.703%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (2.703%) Backup Engineer
5 1 (2.703%) Change Project Manager
5 1 (2.703%) Lead Project Manager
5 1 (2.703%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.108%) PMI
2 2 (5.405%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.405%) Telematics
2 2 (5.405%) Social Media
3 1 (2.703%) Physics
3 1 (2.703%) STB
3 1 (2.703%) Device Driver
3 1 (2.703%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Linux
2 6 (16.22%) Windows
3 4 (10.81%) UNIX
4 3 (8.108%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (8.108%) SUSE
5 2 (5.405%) Apple iOS
5 2 (5.405%) Android
6 1 (2.703%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.703%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (2.703%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) Project Management
2 4 (10.81%) PRINCE2
2 4 (10.81%) Change Management
2 4 (10.81%) Scrum
3 3 (8.108%) Risk Management
3 3 (8.108%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (8.108%) OO
4 2 (5.405%) RAD
4 2 (5.405%) RUP
4 2 (5.405%) Six Sigma
4 2 (5.405%) Configuration Management
4 2 (5.405%) DMAIC
4 2 (5.405%) Content Management
4 2 (5.405%) Web Development
4 2 (5.405%) Release Management
4 2 (5.405%) Waterfall
4 2 (5.405%) Software Deployment
5 1 (2.703%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (2.703%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (2.703%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 11 (29.73%) SQL
2 6 (16.22%) C++
3 5 (13.51%) Java
3 5 (13.51%) PL/SQL
4 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.108%) C
5 3 (8.108%) Perl
6 2 (5.405%) FQL
7 1 (2.703%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.703%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) PMI Certification
2 3 (8.108%) PMP
3 2 (5.405%) Sun Certification
3 2 (5.405%) Degree
3 2 (5.405%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.703%) JTAG
Systems Management
1 3 (8.108%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (5.405%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Oracle
2 5 (13.51%) IBM
3 4 (10.81%) Salesforce.com
3 4 (10.81%) Eloqua
4 3 (8.108%) VMware
5 2 (5.405%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.405%) Sun
5 2 (5.405%) CA
5 2 (5.405%) FatWire
5 2 (5.405%) AccuRev
5 2 (5.405%) Facebook
5 2 (5.405%) Twitter
6 1 (2.703%) Hyperion
6 1 (2.703%) Siemens
6 1 (2.703%) Genesys
6 1 (2.703%) MathWorks
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