The first table below looks at the demand for the Designer role 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 Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Job Titles advertised 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Designer
Rank 81 66 48
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 34 76 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 1.575% 2.587% 3.524%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.686% 2.752% 3.711%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 42 40
Average daily rate £300 £431 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.43% +7.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £85 £300 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £495 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £363 £388
% change year-on-year
-3.44% -6.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Average hourly rate £28.75 - £10.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.00 £21.75 £20.50
% change year-on-year
+5.74% +6.09%
All Job Titles
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2017 2762 2452
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 93.42% 94.01% 94.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1034 1298 1072
Average daily rate £340 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £195 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £463 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 282 325
Average hourly rate £24.29 £25.75 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.66% +25.60%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.35 £42.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Designer
England

Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Designer
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Designer Daily Rate Trend

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Designer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

East of England Designer Daily Rate Histogram

Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Designer Hourly Rate Trend

Designer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Designer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

East of England Designer Hourly Rate Histogram

Designer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Designer within the East of England region over the 3 months to 20 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
Hertfordshire -4 23 £288 -36.11%
Cambridgeshire +11 8 £438 +45.83%
Norfolk -6 2 - -
Essex -1 1 - -
Designer
England

Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Designer in their job title 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 with Designer in their job title.

1 25 (32.47%) Photoshop
2 20 (25.97%) HTML
2 20 (25.97%) Adobe Illustrator
3 18 (23.38%) CSS
4 15 (19.48%) Marketing
5 13 (16.88%) .NET
6 12 (15.58%) JavaScript
6 12 (15.58%) E-Commerce
7 10 (12.99%) Adobe
7 10 (12.99%) Axure RP
8 8 (10.39%) Scrum
8 8 (10.39%) Fireworks
9 7 (9.091%) SQL
9 7 (9.091%) Retail
9 7 (9.091%) HTML5
9 7 (9.091%) CSS3
9 7 (9.091%) Graphic Design
9 7 (9.091%) jQuery
10 6 (7.792%) Information Architecture
10 6 (7.792%) Agile Software Development
10 6 (7.792%) Telecoms
10 6 (7.792%) Finance
10 6 (7.792%) Data Modelling
11 5 (6.494%) SOA
11 5 (6.494%) T-SQL
11 5 (6.494%) VB.NET
11 5 (6.494%) ASP.NET
11 5 (6.494%) Electronics
11 5 (6.494%) Rapid Prototyping
11 5 (6.494%) Human Factors

Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Designer in their job title 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 with Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (25.97%) HTML
2 18 (23.38%) CSS
3 13 (16.88%) .NET
4 7 (9.091%) jQuery
4 7 (9.091%) HTML5
4 7 (9.091%) CSS3
5 5 (6.494%) ASP.NET
6 4 (5.195%) Web Services
6 4 (5.195%) XHTML
7 3 (3.896%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (3.896%) .NET Framework
7 3 (3.896%) WCF
7 3 (3.896%) Sass
7 3 (3.896%) LESS
7 3 (3.896%) Flash
8 2 (2.597%) Ajax
8 2 (2.597%) XML
9 1 (1.299%) DHTML
9 1 (1.299%) ADO.NET
9 1 (1.299%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.597%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (1.299%) CMS
2 1 (1.299%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (1.299%) Lotus Domino
2 1 (1.299%) Apache
2 1 (1.299%) SharePoint
Applications
1 25 (32.47%) Photoshop
2 20 (25.97%) Adobe Illustrator
3 8 (10.39%) Fireworks
4 4 (5.195%) MS Office
5 3 (3.896%) MS PowerPoint
5 3 (3.896%) InDesign
6 2 (2.597%) OmniGraffle
6 2 (2.597%) MS Visio
7 1 (1.299%) MS Excel
7 1 (1.299%) InfoPath
7 1 (1.299%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (1.299%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (1.299%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 1 (1.299%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.195%) Ethernet
2 2 (2.597%) VoIP
3 1 (1.299%) ADSL
3 1 (1.299%) ATM
3 1 (1.299%) HTTP
3 1 (1.299%) RIP
3 1 (1.299%) Intranet
3 1 (1.299%) 3G
3 1 (1.299%) MPLS
3 1 (1.299%) OSPF
3 1 (1.299%) BGP
3 1 (1.299%) DSLAM
3 1 (1.299%) DSL
3 1 (1.299%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.299%) IGRP
3 1 (1.299%) Wireless
3 1 (1.299%) VDSL
3 1 (1.299%) VLAN
3 1 (1.299%) ADSL2
3 1 (1.299%) ADSL2+
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.195%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.896%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (2.597%) BusinessObjects XI
4 1 (1.299%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.299%) MySQL
4 1 (1.299%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.299%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 10 (12.99%) Axure RP
2 3 (3.896%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.299%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (1.299%) ERwin
3 1 (1.299%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 15 (19.48%) Marketing
2 7 (9.091%) Retail
3 6 (7.792%) Telecoms
3 6 (7.792%) Finance
4 5 (6.494%) Electronics
5 4 (5.195%) Military
6 3 (3.896%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (3.896%) Advertising
7 2 (2.597%) Billing
8 1 (1.299%) Publishing
8 1 (1.299%) Games
8 1 (1.299%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.091%) Graphic Design
2 5 (6.494%) Human Factors
3 4 (5.195%) VHDL
3 4 (5.195%) Verilog
3 4 (5.195%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 4 (5.195%) Visualisation
4 3 (3.896%) Psychology
5 2 (2.597%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.597%) Data Integration
5 2 (2.597%) Photography
6 1 (1.299%) BBC
6 1 (1.299%) Open Source
6 1 (1.299%) New Media
6 1 (1.299%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.597%) Windows
1 2 (2.597%) Android
2 1 (1.299%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.299%) Windows 8
2 1 (1.299%) Linux
2 1 (1.299%) Mac OS X
2 1 (1.299%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (15.58%) E-Commerce
2 8 (10.39%) Scrum
3 6 (7.792%) Data Modelling
3 6 (7.792%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (7.792%) Information Architecture
4 5 (6.494%) Rapid Prototyping
4 5 (6.494%) User Stories
4 5 (6.494%) SOA
5 4 (5.195%) UML
5 4 (5.195%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (5.195%) Migration
5 4 (5.195%) Workflow
5 4 (5.195%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (3.896%) User Experience Design
6 3 (3.896%) Project Management
6 3 (3.896%) MVC
6 3 (3.896%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (3.896%) ETL
6 3 (3.896%) Industrial Design
6 3 (3.896%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.58%) JavaScript
2 7 (9.091%) SQL
3 5 (6.494%) T-SQL
3 5 (6.494%) VB.NET
4 4 (5.195%) C#
5 3 (3.896%) PHP
5 3 (3.896%) F#
6 2 (2.597%) Erlang
6 2 (2.597%) Java
7 1 (1.299%) C
7 1 (1.299%) C++
7 1 (1.299%) VBScript
7 1 (1.299%) Perl
7 1 (1.299%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.299%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 4 (5.195%) Degree
2 3 (3.896%) SC Cleared
2 3 (3.896%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.896%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.597%) CCNA
4 1 (1.299%) CCIE
4 1 (1.299%) CCNP
4 1 (1.299%) CCIP
Systems Management
1 1 (1.299%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 10 (12.99%) Adobe
2 4 (5.195%) Xilinx
3 3 (3.896%) TIBCO
3 3 (3.896%) Ab Initio
3 3 (3.896%) Business Objects
4 2 (2.597%) Cisco
4 2 (2.597%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.597%) CheckPoint
4 2 (2.597%) Teradata
5 1 (1.299%) Huawei
5 1 (1.299%) VMware
5 1 (1.299%) Twitter
5 1 (1.299%) Talend
5 1 (1.299%) Oracle
5 1 (1.299%) Juniper
5 1 (1.299%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.299%) Informatica
5 1 (1.299%) Lotus
Watford, Hertfordshire
Our Client is looking for a UX Designer to deliver compelling designs which complement the users experience and ensures consistency adherence in line with the company's corporate...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
The role involves working closely with other teams - including the vendors and customers to produce a fit-for-purpose multi-vendor solution providing complex end-to-end services...
Experis IT
Posted: 14 May 2013