The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Media 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 Social Media 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 Miscellaneous 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
Social Media
Rank 108 129 129
Rank change year-on-year
+21 0
Contract jobs citing Social Media 8 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.367% 0.067% 0.038%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.649% 0.321% 0.209%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £800 - £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £230 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
-16.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £12.83 £14.50
% change year-on-year
+114.42% -11.55%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
485 623 478
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 22.28% 20.90% 18.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 276 191
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £450 £491
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 68 67
Average hourly rate £33.00 £25.00 £25.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+32.00% -1.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £13.30 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £48.40 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Social Media
England

Social Media
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Social Media Jobs Demand Trend

Social Media
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Social Media Daily Rate Trend

Social Media
Daily Rate Histogram

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

East of England Social Media Daily Rate Histogram

Social Media
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Social Media Hourly Rate Trend

Social Media
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Social Media 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
Essex +4 6 £213 -
Hertfordshire - 2 £813 -
Social Media
England

Social Media
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 8 (66.67%) HTML
1 8 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 8 (66.67%) CSS
1 8 (66.67%) Ajax
1 8 (66.67%) Facebook
2 7 (58.33%) Java
2 7 (58.33%) J2EE
2 7 (58.33%) XHTML
2 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 7 (58.33%) XML
2 7 (58.33%) OO
3 6 (50.00%) RUP
3 6 (50.00%) JSP
3 6 (50.00%) FQL
3 6 (50.00%) Scrum
3 6 (50.00%) Marketing
3 6 (50.00%) Twitter
4 3 (25.00%) Apple iOS
4 3 (25.00%) Android
4 3 (25.00%) Linux
5 2 (16.67%) RAD
5 2 (16.67%) UNIX
5 2 (16.67%) IBM
5 2 (16.67%) Ant
5 2 (16.67%) MySQL
5 2 (16.67%) Oracle
5 2 (16.67%) PHP
5 2 (16.67%) Content Management
5 2 (16.67%) WebCenter
5 2 (16.67%) WebSphere

Social Media
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (66.67%) HTML
1 8 (66.67%) CSS
1 8 (66.67%) Ajax
2 7 (58.33%) J2EE
2 7 (58.33%) XHTML
2 7 (58.33%) XML
3 6 (50.00%) JSP
4 2 (16.67%) WebCenter
4 2 (16.67%) WebSphere
5 1 (8.333%) JSON
5 1 (8.333%) WCF
5 1 (8.333%) LINQ
5 1 (8.333%) jQuery
5 1 (8.333%) HTML5
5 1 (8.333%) iOS SDK
5 1 (8.333%) REST
5 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET
5 1 (8.333%) SOAP
5 1 (8.333%) Web Services
5 1 (8.333%) J2ME
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) WordPress
1 1 (8.333%) IIS
1 1 (8.333%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (8.333%) SQLite
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Ant
2 1 (8.333%) Xcode
2 1 (8.333%) Subversion
2 1 (8.333%) PhoneGap
2 1 (8.333%) Appcelerator Titanium
2 1 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (8.333%) Visual Studio
2 1 (8.333%) Eclipse
General
1 6 (50.00%) Marketing
2 2 (16.67%) Automotive
2 2 (16.67%) Law
2 2 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Data Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Applications Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Web Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (25.00%) Android
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) OO
2 6 (50.00%) RUP
2 6 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (16.67%) RAD
3 2 (16.67%) Content Management
4 1 (8.333%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 7 (58.33%) Java
2 7 (58.33%) SQL
3 6 (50.00%) FQL
4 2 (16.67%) PHP
5 1 (8.333%) C#
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Facebook
2 6 (50.00%) Twitter
3 2 (16.67%) IBM
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 2 (16.67%) FatWire
4 1 (8.333%) Telerik
4 1 (8.333%) Google
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