The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Multimedia 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 Multimedia over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multimedia
Rank 105 130 124
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -6
Contract jobs citing Multimedia 11 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.505% 0.034% 0.230%
As % of the General category 1.451% 0.092% 0.587%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £225 £250 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £293 £315 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
Average hourly rate £31.75 - £22.50
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.15 - £12.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.35 - £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £14.63 £33.25
% change year-on-year
+16.23% -56.01%
All of the General Category
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
758 1086 1023
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 34.82% 36.43% 39.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 460 451
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 £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 82 81
Average hourly rate £31.50 £31.50 £25.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +23.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £12.36 £8.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £47.50 £37.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Multimedia
England

Multimedia
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Multimedia Jobs Demand Trend

Multimedia
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Multimedia Daily Rate Trend

Multimedia
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Multimedia Hourly Rate Trend

Multimedia
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Multimedia across the East of England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

East of England Multimedia Hourly Rate Histogram

Multimedia
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Multimedia within the East of England region over the 3 months to 22 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
Cambridgeshire +18 5 £225 -10.00%
Hertfordshire - 5 - -
Essex - 1 - -
Multimedia
England

Multimedia
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Multimedia 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 Multimedia.

1 5 (29.41%) ASIC
1 5 (29.41%) C
1 5 (29.41%) XML
1 5 (29.41%) ASIC Verification
1 5 (29.41%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (29.41%) Android
2 4 (23.53%) LTE
2 4 (23.53%) Subversion
2 4 (23.53%) IPTV
2 4 (23.53%) FrameMaker
2 4 (23.53%) JBoss
2 4 (23.53%) Flash
2 4 (23.53%) RoboHelp
2 4 (23.53%) Java
2 4 (23.53%) 3G
2 4 (23.53%) Symantec
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
3 2 (11.76%) Wireless
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 2 (11.76%) Adobe Captivate
3 2 (11.76%) 3D Graphics
3 2 (11.76%) Games
3 2 (11.76%) Adobe
4 1 (5.882%) ISEB
4 1 (5.882%) Tcl
4 1 (5.882%) OpenGL
4 1 (5.882%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.882%) UNIX
4 1 (5.882%) Windows
4 1 (5.882%) JavaScript

Multimedia
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Multimedia 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 Multimedia. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (29.41%) XML
2 4 (23.53%) Flash
3 1 (5.882%) OpenGL
3 1 (5.882%) CSS
3 1 (5.882%) DHTML
3 1 (5.882%) HTML
3 1 (5.882%) Cocoa
3 1 (5.882%) JSON
3 1 (5.882%) Ajax
3 1 (5.882%) jQuery
3 1 (5.882%) WAMP
3 1 (5.882%) iOS SDK
3 1 (5.882%) Direct3D
3 1 (5.882%) OpenGL ES
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) FrameMaker
1 4 (23.53%) RoboHelp
2 2 (11.76%) Adobe Captivate
3 1 (5.882%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) LTE
1 4 (23.53%) 3G
2 2 (11.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.882%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Subversion
2 1 (5.882%) Xcode
General
1 2 (11.76%) Games
2 1 (5.882%) Marketing
2 1 (5.882%) Electronics
2 1 (5.882%) Automotive
2 1 (5.882%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Verification Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Author
3 4 (23.53%) Technical Author
4 3 (17.65%) Android Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.882%) PHP Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Tester
5 1 (5.882%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) ASIC
1 5 (29.41%) ASIC Verification
2 4 (23.53%) IPTV
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
3 2 (11.76%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (5.882%) Verilog
4 1 (5.882%) Mathematics
4 1 (5.882%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 1 (5.882%) FMCG
4 1 (5.882%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Android
2 1 (5.882%) UNIX
2 1 (5.882%) Windows
2 1 (5.882%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.882%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (5.882%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (5.882%) Workflow
2 1 (5.882%) Software Testing
2 1 (5.882%) Test Scripting
2 1 (5.882%) Computer Architecture
2 1 (5.882%) Game Development
2 1 (5.882%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) C
2 4 (23.53%) Java
3 1 (5.882%) Tcl
3 1 (5.882%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.882%) Perl
3 1 (5.882%) PHP
3 1 (5.882%) C++
3 1 (5.882%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.882%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) JBoss
1 4 (23.53%) Symantec
2 2 (11.76%) Adobe
3 1 (5.882%) Microsoft