Graduate IT Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Graduate role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Graduate in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Graduate
Rank 449 435 505
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +70
Contract jobs requiring a Graduate 64 124 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.154% 0.232% 0.117%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.167% 0.251% 0.127%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 38 28
Average daily rate £125 £140 £120
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £100 £100 £80
10% offered a daily rate of more than £206 £275 £178
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 £110 £138
% change year-on-year
+59.09% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 19 20
Average hourly rate £11.00 £14.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -6.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £10.75 £14.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-25.86% -3.33%
Search 307 Graduate jobs in England
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England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1983 2412 2765
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Graduate
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Graduate
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Graduate Jobs Demand Trend

Graduate
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Graduate Daily Rate Trend

Graduate
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Graduate across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Graduate Daily Rate Histogram

Graduate
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Graduate Hourly Rate Trend

Graduate
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Graduate within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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 -5 28 £125 -20.00%
South East +1 12 £196 +17.71%
East of England +16 7 £198 +71.73%
North West +13 7 £175 +59.09%
Yorkshire - 5 £100 -
East Midlands -2 3 - -
South West +27 1 - -
North East +11 1 - -
West Midlands +6 1 - -
Graduate
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Graduate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Graduate 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 Graduate in their job title.

1 55 (50.00%) Degree
2 33 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 30 (27.27%) Finance
4 20 (18.18%) Java
5 17 (15.45%) Banking
6 16 (14.55%) Microsoft
7 12 (10.91%) Telecoms
8 11 (10.00%) Mathematics
9 10 (9.091%) Investment Banking
9 10 (9.091%) Windows
9 10 (9.091%) Linux
9 10 (9.091%) C#
10 9 (8.182%) SQL
10 9 (8.182%) CSS
10 9 (8.182%) TCP/IP
11 8 (7.273%) Android
11 8 (7.273%) iPhone
11 8 (7.273%) iPad
11 8 (7.273%) Marketing
11 8 (7.273%) MS Excel
11 8 (7.273%) Web Services
11 8 (7.273%) MS Office
11 8 (7.273%) HTML
12 7 (6.364%) C++
12 7 (6.364%) Project Management
12 7 (6.364%) Incident Management
12 7 (6.364%) Web Development
13 6 (5.455%) Computer Security
13 6 (5.455%) Change Management
13 6 (5.455%) .NET

Graduate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Graduate 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 Graduate in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (8.182%) CSS
2 8 (7.273%) Web Services
2 8 (7.273%) HTML
3 6 (5.455%) .NET
4 5 (4.545%) ASP.NET
4 5 (4.545%) XML
5 4 (3.636%) XSLT
6 3 (2.727%) HTML5
7 2 (1.818%) Symfony
7 2 (1.818%) Node.js
7 2 (1.818%) CSS3
7 2 (1.818%) Middleware
7 2 (1.818%) LAMP
7 2 (1.818%) ASP
7 2 (1.818%) XSD
7 2 (1.818%) J2EE
8 1 (0.909%) Flash
8 1 (0.909%) XHTML
8 1 (0.909%) jQuery
8 1 (0.909%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 5 (4.545%) Amazon AWS
2 4 (3.636%) Apache
3 3 (2.727%) nginx
4 2 (1.818%) Drupal
4 2 (1.818%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (1.818%) Amazon S3
4 2 (1.818%) Route 53
4 2 (1.818%) CloudFront
4 2 (1.818%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (1.818%) Documentum
5 1 (0.909%) SAS
5 1 (0.909%) MS Exchange
5 1 (0.909%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.909%) IIS
5 1 (0.909%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.909%) GlassFish
5 1 (0.909%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 8 (7.273%) MS Excel
1 8 (7.273%) MS Office
2 3 (2.727%) Photoshop
2 3 (2.727%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.818%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (1.818%) InDesign
4 1 (0.909%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.909%) MS Project
4 1 (0.909%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.909%) Google Apps
4 1 (0.909%) OmniGraffle
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.182%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.636%) Internet
3 3 (2.727%) Firewall
4 2 (1.818%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.818%) HTTP
5 1 (0.909%) SSL
5 1 (0.909%) DNS
5 1 (0.909%) LAN
5 1 (0.909%) VoIP
5 1 (0.909%) WAN
5 1 (0.909%) DHCP
5 1 (0.909%) 3G
5 1 (0.909%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.545%) MySQL
2 3 (2.727%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.727%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.727%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.727%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.818%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (0.909%) Redis
4 1 (0.909%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.909%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.909%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.909%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 2 (1.818%) Git (software)
2 1 (0.909%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.909%) Ant
2 1 (0.909%) Balsamiq Mockups
2 1 (0.909%) Axure RP
General
1 30 (27.27%) Finance
2 17 (15.45%) Banking
3 12 (10.91%) Telecoms
4 10 (9.091%) Investment Banking
5 8 (7.273%) Marketing
6 5 (4.545%) Publishing
7 4 (3.636%) Multimedia
7 4 (3.636%) Legal
8 2 (1.818%) Music
8 2 (1.818%) Games
9 1 (0.909%) Back Office
9 1 (0.909%) Advertising
9 1 (0.909%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.909%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.909%) Avionics
Miscellaneous
1 33 (30.00%) Computer Science
2 11 (10.00%) Mathematics
3 8 (7.273%) iPhone
3 8 (7.273%) iPad
4 4 (3.636%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.727%) Open Source
5 3 (2.727%) Physics
6 2 (1.818%) Photography
6 2 (1.818%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.818%) NHS
6 2 (1.818%) W3C
7 1 (0.909%) New Media
7 1 (0.909%) Machine Learning
7 1 (0.909%) Data Conversion
7 1 (0.909%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.909%) STB
7 1 (0.909%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.909%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.091%) Windows
1 10 (9.091%) Linux
2 8 (7.273%) Android
3 2 (1.818%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.818%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.818%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.909%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.909%) HPUX
4 1 (0.909%) Solaris
4 1 (0.909%) Windows XP
4 1 (0.909%) UNIX
4 1 (0.909%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.909%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (6.364%) Project Management
1 7 (6.364%) Incident Management
1 7 (6.364%) Web Development
2 6 (5.455%) Computer Security
2 6 (5.455%) Change Management
3 5 (4.545%) OO
3 5 (4.545%) Information Security
3 5 (4.545%) Multithreading
3 5 (4.545%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (4.545%) Business Analysis
4 3 (2.727%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (2.727%) Time Management
4 3 (2.727%) Data Protection
4 3 (2.727%) Asset Management
4 3 (2.727%) Knowledge Management
4 3 (2.727%) Software Testing
4 3 (2.727%) Problem Management
5 2 (1.818%) Fund Management
5 2 (1.818%) TDD
5 2 (1.818%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.18%) Java
2 10 (9.091%) C#
3 9 (8.182%) SQL
4 7 (6.364%) C++
5 6 (5.455%) Python
6 5 (4.545%) PHP
7 4 (3.636%) Ruby
7 4 (3.636%) C
7 4 (3.636%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.727%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.727%) Bash shell
9 2 (1.818%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.909%) XQuery
10 1 (0.909%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.909%) VB
10 1 (0.909%) Perl
10 1 (0.909%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.909%) R
10 1 (0.909%) Erlang
10 1 (0.909%) Lua
Qualifications
1 55 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (0.909%) ISEB
2 1 (0.909%) CISSP
2 1 (0.909%) PhD
2 1 (0.909%) HND
2 1 (0.909%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.909%) CEH
2 1 (0.909%) EnCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.545%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.636%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.909%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.727%) Puppet
2 2 (1.818%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 16 (14.55%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.455%) Oracle
3 2 (1.818%) Percona
3 2 (1.818%) Adobe
3 2 (1.818%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.909%) Apple
4 1 (0.909%) HP
4 1 (0.909%) Avaya
4 1 (0.909%) Siemens
4 1 (0.909%) Cisco
4 1 (0.909%) JBoss
4 1 (0.909%) SAP
4 1 (0.909%) VMware
4 1 (0.909%) Perforce
4 1 (0.909%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (0.909%) Sophos
4 1 (0.909%) Google
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Functional software testing - carrying out exhaustive testing on reference STB platform to ensure any new functionality or STB platform behaves as described in the requirements specification... ISEB foundation.....
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Rate: £100 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
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