The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Media in IT contracts advertised for the East Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Digital 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 Sussex 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
Digital Media
Rank 29 37 30
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -7
Contract jobs citing Digital Media 3 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 1.293% 0.912% 1.053%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.000% 7.317% 6.897%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
Average daily rate £175 £190 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% -41.53%
UK excluding London average daily rate £291 £300 £363
% change year-on-year
-2.91% -17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £25.50 -
% change year-on-year
-43.13% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
East Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
50 41 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 21.55% 12.46% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 21 14
Average daily rate £425 £373 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.09% +24.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £193 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £444 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Average hourly rate £17.00 £16.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% +45.45%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Digital Media
South East

Digital Media
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Sussex Digital Media Jobs Demand Trend

Digital Media
Daily Rate Trend

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

East Sussex Digital Media Daily Rate Trend

Digital Media
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Media within the East Sussex 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
Brighton +8 3 £175 -7.89%
Digital Media
South East

Digital Media
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex region citing Digital 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 Digital Media.

1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) OO
2 3 (75.00%) XHR
2 3 (75.00%) JSON
2 3 (75.00%) PHP
2 3 (75.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) Android
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS

Digital Media
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) XHR
2 3 (75.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) PHP