The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term BBC in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BBC over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Rank 510 549 558
Rank change year-on-year
+39 +9
Contract jobs citing BBC 8 13 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.019% 0.024% 0.026%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.072% 0.096% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 4
Average daily rate £238 £350 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.14% +19.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £173 £322 £256
10% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £430 £532
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £400 £260
% change year-on-year
-43.75% +53.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
11177 13497 16706
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 26.92% 25.28% 29.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6881 8100 10073
Average daily rate £440 £435 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.14% -17.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £605 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 489 618 698
Average hourly rate £23.75 £22.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.55% -2.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.05 £41.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
BBC
UK

BBC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England BBC Jobs Demand Trend

BBC
Daily Rate Trend

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

England BBC Daily Rate Trend

BBC
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BBC across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England BBC Daily Rate Histogram

BBC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England BBC Hourly Rate Trend

BBC
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BBC within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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
London +29 5 £250 -25.92%
South East +17 1 - -
North West +11 1 £215 -
Yorkshire - 1 £225 -
BBC
UK

BBC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing BBC 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 BBC.

1 9 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (33.33%) Git (software)
2 8 (33.33%) Java
3 7 (29.17%) CSS
3 7 (29.17%) Linux
3 7 (29.17%) TDD
3 7 (29.17%) BDD
4 6 (25.00%) HTML5
4 6 (25.00%) Subversion
4 6 (25.00%) RESTful
4 6 (25.00%) JSON
4 6 (25.00%) Web Services
4 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (25.00%) PHP
5 5 (20.83%) Ruby
6 4 (16.67%) Content Management
6 4 (16.67%) Spring
6 4 (16.67%) Scrum
6 4 (16.67%) Android
6 4 (16.67%) Open Source
6 4 (16.67%) Project Management
6 4 (16.67%) Internet
6 4 (16.67%) HTML
6 4 (16.67%) XML
6 4 (16.67%) RDF
6 4 (16.67%) Apple iOS
6 4 (16.67%) Digital Media
6 4 (16.67%) Mobile App
7 3 (12.50%) Cucumber
7 3 (12.50%) OO

BBC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing BBC 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 BBC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (29.17%) CSS
2 6 (25.00%) HTML5
2 6 (25.00%) RESTful
2 6 (25.00%) JSON
2 6 (25.00%) Web Services
3 4 (16.67%) Spring
3 4 (16.67%) HTML
3 4 (16.67%) XML
4 3 (12.50%) jQuery
4 3 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (8.333%) Ajax
5 2 (8.333%) JMS
5 2 (8.333%) REST
5 2 (8.333%) WebSockets
6 1 (4.167%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.333%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (8.333%) Confluence
1 2 (8.333%) SharePoint
1 2 (8.333%) Apache
1 2 (8.333%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.167%) CMS
2 1 (4.167%) Magento
2 1 (4.167%) Drupal
2 1 (4.167%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS PowerPoint
1 2 (8.333%) MS Office
1 2 (8.333%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.167%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.167%) SAP SD
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Internet
2 2 (8.333%) SDH
2 2 (8.333%) HTTP
3 1 (4.167%) FTP
3 1 (4.167%) Wireless
3 1 (4.167%) Firewall
3 1 (4.167%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.333%) CouchDB
2 1 (4.167%) Redis
2 1 (4.167%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.167%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.167%) MySQL
2 1 (4.167%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Git (software)
2 6 (25.00%) Subversion
3 3 (12.50%) Cucumber
4 2 (8.333%) Maven
4 2 (8.333%) Bugzilla
4 2 (8.333%) JIRA
4 2 (8.333%) PHPUnit
4 2 (8.333%) Ant
4 2 (8.333%) JUnit
4 2 (8.333%) QUnit
4 2 (8.333%) Hudson
4 2 (8.333%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.167%) RSpec
General
1 3 (12.50%) Music
2 2 (8.333%) Games
2 2 (8.333%) Marketing
3 1 (4.167%) Finance
3 1 (4.167%) Publishing
3 1 (4.167%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Software Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.333%) Project Coordinator
4 2 (8.333%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (8.333%) Broadcast Engineer
4 2 (8.333%) Coordinator
4 2 (8.333%) Web Developer
4 2 (8.333%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (8.333%) Android Developer
5 1 (4.167%) Senior Digital Designer
5 1 (4.167%) Mobile Software Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Customer Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Project Planner
5 1 (4.167%) Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Designer
5 1 (4.167%) Senior Designer
5 1 (4.167%) Digital Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Open Source
1 4 (16.67%) Digital Media
1 4 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.333%) Smartphone
2 2 (8.333%) Wiki
2 2 (8.333%) Blog
2 2 (8.333%) Semantic Web
2 2 (8.333%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.333%) Linked Data
3 1 (4.167%) W3C
3 1 (4.167%) Podcast
3 1 (4.167%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Linux
2 4 (16.67%) Android
2 4 (16.67%) Apple iOS
3 2 (8.333%) UNIX
4 1 (4.167%) Windows
4 1 (4.167%) Windows 7
4 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (29.17%) TDD
2 7 (29.17%) BDD
3 4 (16.67%) Content Management
3 4 (16.67%) Scrum
3 4 (16.67%) Project Management
3 4 (16.67%) RDF
4 3 (12.50%) OO
4 3 (12.50%) Web Development
5 2 (8.333%) Software Engineering
5 2 (8.333%) Test-First Development
5 2 (8.333%) Pair Programming
5 2 (8.333%) Unit Testing
5 2 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (8.333%) Kanban
5 2 (8.333%) Refactoring
5 2 (8.333%) Service Management
5 2 (8.333%) MVC
5 2 (8.333%) OOP
5 2 (8.333%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) Java
2 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (25.00%) PHP
3 5 (20.83%) Ruby
4 3 (12.50%) Python
4 3 (12.50%) Objective-C
5 2 (8.333%) Groovy
5 2 (8.333%) SPARQL
5 2 (8.333%) Perl
5 2 (8.333%) SQL
5 2 (8.333%) Clojure
6 1 (4.167%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (8.333%) Sun Certification
2 1 (4.167%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.167%) A+ Certification
2 1 (4.167%) Degree
2 1 (4.167%) MOS
2 1 (4.167%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.167%) WAI
System Software
1 1 (4.167%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.167%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) SAP
1 3 (12.50%) Zend
2 2 (8.333%) Yahoo!
2 2 (8.333%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.333%) Apple
2 2 (8.333%) Sony
3 1 (4.167%) HP
3 1 (4.167%) Adobe
3 1 (4.167%) Google
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