The first table below looks at the demand for Market Research skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Market Research 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 of the Processes & Methodologies 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Market Research
Rank 493 524 519
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -5
Contract jobs citing Market Research 20 35 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.048% 0.066% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% 0.096% 0.136%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 26 29
Average daily rate £235 £315 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.39% -16.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £138 £275 £249
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £400 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £233 £375 £283
% change year-on-year
-38.00% +32.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
Average hourly rate £19.00 - £8.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.50 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
29704 36492 38199
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.44% 68.42% 67.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 18148 21397 22087
Average daily rate £420 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.81% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 918 1197 1399
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -12.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.55 £13.21 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Market Research
UK

Market Research
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Market Research across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

England Market Research Jobs Demand Trend

Market Research
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Market Research Daily Rate Trend

Market Research
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Market Research Daily Rate Histogram

Market Research
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Market Research Hourly Rate Trend

Market Research
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

England Market Research Hourly Rate Histogram

Market Research
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Market Research 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 +19 14 £235 -22.95%
East Midlands - 3 - -
South East +16 2 £100 -71.42%
Yorkshire - 1 £365 -
Market Research
UK

Market Research
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Market Research 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 Market Research.

1 17 (41.46%) Marketing
2 10 (24.39%) Degree
3 7 (17.07%) MS PowerPoint
4 6 (14.63%) SQL
5 5 (12.20%) CRM
5 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
5 5 (12.20%) Data Analysis
5 5 (12.20%) Analytics
6 4 (9.756%) Social Media
6 4 (9.756%) Business Analysis
6 4 (9.756%) Workflow
6 4 (9.756%) Finance
6 4 (9.756%) SAP
6 4 (9.756%) ITIL
7 3 (7.317%) CSS
7 3 (7.317%) Postgraduate
7 3 (7.317%) SAS
7 3 (7.317%) WAN
7 3 (7.317%) Internet
7 3 (7.317%) LAN
7 3 (7.317%) Cisco
7 3 (7.317%) IBM
7 3 (7.317%) IBM Certification
7 3 (7.317%) Blog
7 3 (7.317%) Digital Marketing
8 2 (4.878%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (4.878%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (4.878%) Data Protection
8 2 (4.878%) Data Cleansing
8 2 (4.878%) FastStats

Market Research
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Market Research 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 Market Research. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (7.317%) CSS
2 2 (4.878%) CSS3
2 2 (4.878%) jQuery
2 2 (4.878%) HTML5
2 2 (4.878%) HTML
2 2 (4.878%) .NET
3 1 (2.439%) XHTML
3 1 (2.439%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (2.439%) LAMP
3 1 (2.439%) Backbone.js
3 1 (2.439%) Sass
Application Platforms
1 3 (7.317%) SAS
2 1 (2.439%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (17.07%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (4.878%) FastStats
2 2 (4.878%) MS Excel
2 2 (4.878%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.878%) Google Analytics
1 2 (4.878%) WebTrends
2 1 (2.439%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.317%) WAN
1 3 (7.317%) Internet
1 3 (7.317%) LAN
2 2 (4.878%) Firewall
2 2 (4.878%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (4.878%) IPsec
2 2 (4.878%) WLAN
2 2 (4.878%) IPv6
2 2 (4.878%) DHCP
2 2 (4.878%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.878%) VPN
2 2 (4.878%) DNS
3 1 (2.439%) Intranet
3 1 (2.439%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.878%) GIS
1 2 (4.878%) Data Mining
1 2 (4.878%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.439%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.439%) Rational Rose
1 1 (2.439%) Subversion
General
1 17 (41.46%) Marketing
2 4 (9.756%) Finance
3 2 (4.878%) French Language
3 2 (4.878%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.878%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.878%) Advertising
3 2 (4.878%) Games
3 2 (4.878%) Retail
4 1 (2.439%) Multimedia
4 1 (2.439%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.439%) Banking
4 1 (2.439%) Automotive
4 1 (2.439%) Music
4 1 (2.439%) Music Industry
4 1 (2.439%) Danish Language
4 1 (2.439%) German Language
4 1 (2.439%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Analyst
2 4 (9.756%) Data Analyst
2 4 (9.756%) Developer
3 3 (7.317%) Project Manager
3 3 (7.317%) Support Analyst
3 3 (7.317%) Insight Analyst
4 2 (4.878%) Market Researcher
4 2 (4.878%) Web Engineer
4 2 (4.878%) Head of Web Analytics
4 2 (4.878%) Senior Manager
4 2 (4.878%) Server Support
4 2 (4.878%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (4.878%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 2 (4.878%) Server Support Analyst
4 2 (4.878%) Product Manager
4 2 (4.878%) Desktop Analyst
4 2 (4.878%) Server Analyst
4 2 (4.878%) Business Analyst
4 2 (4.878%) Desktop Support
5 1 (2.439%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.756%) Social Media
2 3 (7.317%) Blog
3 2 (4.878%) SaaS
3 2 (4.878%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.878%) PKI
3 2 (4.878%) Smartphone
3 2 (4.878%) Statistics
3 2 (4.878%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.878%) Economics
4 1 (2.439%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.439%) Clustering
4 1 (2.439%) Mathematics
4 1 (2.439%) Physics
4 1 (2.439%) Photography
4 1 (2.439%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.439%) Visualisation
4 1 (2.439%) Data Extraction
4 1 (2.439%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.878%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (4.878%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (4.878%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (4.878%) Windows
1 2 (4.878%) Linux
2 1 (2.439%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (12.20%) CRM
1 5 (12.20%) Data Analysis
1 5 (12.20%) Analytics
2 4 (9.756%) Business Analysis
2 4 (9.756%) Workflow
2 4 (9.756%) ITIL
3 3 (7.317%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (4.878%) Data Protection
4 2 (4.878%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (4.878%) Web Analytics
4 2 (4.878%) Business Development
4 2 (4.878%) Direct Marketing
4 2 (4.878%) Predictive Analytics
4 2 (4.878%) Email Marketing
4 2 (4.878%) Identity Management
4 2 (4.878%) Software Engineering
4 2 (4.878%) B2C
4 2 (4.878%) Benchmarking
4 2 (4.878%) Project Management
4 2 (4.878%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.63%) SQL
2 2 (4.878%) JavaScript
2 2 (4.878%) PHP
3 1 (2.439%) VB.NET
3 1 (2.439%) VBA
3 1 (2.439%) Python
3 1 (2.439%) CoffeeScript
3 1 (2.439%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 10 (24.39%) Degree
2 3 (7.317%) Postgraduate
2 3 (7.317%) IBM Certification
3 1 (2.439%) MCSE
3 1 (2.439%) CCNP
3 1 (2.439%) CISSP
3 1 (2.439%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.439%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.439%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (2.439%) RHCE
3 1 (2.439%) RHCA
3 1 (2.439%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (2.439%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.439%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (4.878%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.878%) Terminal Services
2 1 (2.439%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.756%) SAP
3 3 (7.317%) Cisco
3 3 (7.317%) IBM
4 2 (4.878%) Unica
4 2 (4.878%) Omniture
4 2 (4.878%) Google
4 2 (4.878%) Juniper
4 2 (4.878%) Citrix
4 2 (4.878%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.439%) Oracle
5 1 (2.439%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (2.439%) Adobe
5 1 (2.439%) HP
5 1 (2.439%) EMC
5 1 (2.439%) NetApp
5 1 (2.439%) VMware
5 1 (2.439%) Isilon
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