The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Multimedia in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Multimedia 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 General 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
Multimedia
Rank 454 453 428
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -25
Contract jobs citing Multimedia 64 109 146
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.154% 0.204% 0.256%
As % of the General category 0.356% 0.452% 0.510%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 53 73
Average daily rate £193 £315 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-38.88% -3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £113 £250 £141
10% offered a daily rate of more than £316 £418 £510
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £315 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.93% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 20
Average hourly rate £27.50 £14.63 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.03% -55.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £12.75 £15.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £16.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £14.63 £33.25
% change year-on-year
+21.36% -56.01%
All of the General Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
17981 24121 28620
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 43.31% 45.17% 50.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11126 14708 17416
Average daily rate £450 £440 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 606 693 900
Average hourly rate £25.00 £22.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.00 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £41.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Multimedia
UK

Multimedia
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Multimedia Jobs Demand Trend

Multimedia
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Multimedia Daily Rate Trend

Multimedia
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Multimedia Daily Rate Histogram

Multimedia
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Multimedia Hourly Rate Trend

Multimedia
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

England Multimedia Hourly Rate Histogram

Multimedia
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Multimedia 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 +13 38 £138 -56.34%
South East +3 12 £298 -8.46%
East of England +28 11 £225 -10.00%
South West +26 2 £220 -33.33%
North West +8 1 - -
Multimedia
UK

Multimedia
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 33 (21.85%) JavaScript
2 32 (21.19%) HTML
3 30 (19.87%) Degree
4 29 (19.21%) CSS
5 23 (15.23%) XML
5 23 (15.23%) Android
6 21 (13.91%) E-Learning
7 20 (13.25%) Marketing
7 20 (13.25%) Java
7 20 (13.25%) QA
8 19 (12.58%) MS Office
9 18 (11.92%) Project Management
9 18 (11.92%) Agile Software Development
10 16 (10.60%) Flash
10 16 (10.60%) Computer Science
10 16 (10.60%) iPad
11 15 (9.934%) CMS
12 13 (8.609%) Games
12 13 (8.609%) C
12 13 (8.609%) Photoshop
12 13 (8.609%) Mobile App
13 12 (7.947%) HTML5
13 12 (7.947%) jQuery
13 12 (7.947%) Publishing
13 12 (7.947%) Scrum
14 11 (7.285%) Content Management
14 11 (7.285%) Microsoft
14 11 (7.285%) SQL
14 11 (7.285%) Windows
14 11 (7.285%) iPhone

Multimedia
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 32 (21.19%) HTML
2 29 (19.21%) CSS
3 23 (15.23%) XML
4 16 (10.60%) Flash
5 12 (7.947%) HTML5
5 12 (7.947%) jQuery
6 10 (6.623%) XHTML
6 10 (6.623%) .NET
6 10 (6.623%) Ajax
7 9 (5.960%) Web Services
8 7 (4.636%) SOAP
9 6 (3.974%) CSS3
9 6 (3.974%) ASP.NET
9 6 (3.974%) XSLT
10 5 (3.311%) OpenGL
10 5 (3.311%) REST
10 5 (3.311%) RESTful
10 5 (3.311%) JSON
11 4 (2.649%) .NET Framework
11 4 (2.649%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 15 (9.934%) CMS
2 10 (6.623%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.649%) Moodle
4 3 (1.987%) Apache
5 2 (1.325%) WordPress
5 2 (1.325%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.662%) Content Management Server
6 1 (0.662%) SAS
6 1 (0.662%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.662%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (0.662%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (12.58%) MS Office
2 13 (8.609%) Photoshop
3 10 (6.623%) Adobe Illustrator
4 9 (5.960%) MS Excel
5 7 (4.636%) MS PowerPoint
6 5 (3.311%) MS Visio
7 4 (2.649%) RoboHelp
7 4 (2.649%) SPSS
7 4 (2.649%) FrameMaker
8 3 (1.987%) MS Project
8 3 (1.987%) Adobe Captivate
9 2 (1.325%) Acrobat
9 2 (1.325%) Fireworks
9 2 (1.325%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.662%) Maya
10 1 (0.662%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.662%) PageMaker
Business Applications
1 2 (1.325%) Google Analytics
1 2 (1.325%) SAP BPC
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.298%) LAN
2 6 (3.974%) WAN
2 6 (3.974%) Internet
3 5 (3.311%) LTE
4 4 (2.649%) DVB
4 4 (2.649%) 3G
4 4 (2.649%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.987%) Intranet
6 2 (1.325%) IPv4
6 2 (1.325%) Wireless
7 1 (0.662%) SMS
7 1 (0.662%) CTI
7 1 (0.662%) SAN
7 1 (0.662%) RTCP
7 1 (0.662%) RTP
7 1 (0.662%) GSM
7 1 (0.662%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.662%) HTTP
7 1 (0.662%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.662%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.974%) MySQL
2 4 (2.649%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.325%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (1.325%) CouchDB
3 2 (1.325%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.325%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.325%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (1.325%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.662%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 7 (4.636%) Selenium
2 6 (3.974%) Dreamweaver
3 5 (3.311%) QuickTest Pro
4 4 (2.649%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.649%) Subversion
5 3 (1.987%) Xcode
5 3 (1.987%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.325%) Git (software)
7 1 (0.662%) Maven
7 1 (0.662%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.662%) PhoneGap
7 1 (0.662%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.662%) JIRA
7 1 (0.662%) Expression Blend
7 1 (0.662%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (13.25%) Marketing
2 13 (8.609%) Games
3 12 (7.947%) Publishing
4 8 (5.298%) Advertising
5 6 (3.974%) Finance
6 5 (3.311%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.311%) Retail
7 4 (2.649%) Back Office
8 3 (1.987%) Military
8 3 (1.987%) French Language
8 3 (1.987%) German Language
9 2 (1.325%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.325%) Korean Language
9 2 (1.325%) Banking
9 2 (1.325%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.325%) Electronics
10 1 (0.662%) Automotive
10 1 (0.662%) Law
10 1 (0.662%) Legal
10 1 (0.662%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (25.83%) Developer
2 21 (13.91%) Designer
3 15 (9.934%) Tester
4 12 (7.947%) Project Manager
5 8 (5.298%) Junior
6 7 (4.636%) Android Developer
7 6 (3.974%) Web Developer
7 6 (3.974%) Administrator
7 6 (3.974%) Junior Tester
7 6 (3.974%) Technical Manager
7 6 (3.974%) Java Developer
8 5 (3.311%) Verification Engineer
9 4 (2.649%) Front-End Developer
9 4 (2.649%) User Experience Designer
9 4 (2.649%) Technical Delivery Manager
9 4 (2.649%) Mobile Tester
9 4 (2.649%) Graduate
9 4 (2.649%) Technical Author
9 4 (2.649%) Author
9 4 (2.649%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.91%) E-Learning
2 16 (10.60%) Computer Science
2 16 (10.60%) iPad
3 13 (8.609%) Mobile App
4 11 (7.285%) iPhone
5 8 (5.298%) Social Media
5 8 (5.298%) Digital Media
5 8 (5.298%) Graphic Design
6 6 (3.974%) New Media
7 5 (3.311%) Streaming Video
7 5 (3.311%) IPTV
7 5 (3.311%) ASIC Verification
7 5 (3.311%) ASIC
7 5 (3.311%) Blackberry
8 4 (2.649%) 3D Graphics
9 3 (1.987%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.987%) VLE
9 3 (1.987%) MPEG
9 3 (1.987%) Learning Management System
9 3 (1.987%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 23 (15.23%) Android
2 11 (7.285%) Windows
3 9 (5.960%) Apple iOS
4 8 (5.298%) Linux
5 5 (3.311%) UNIX
6 3 (1.987%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.325%) Solaris
8 1 (0.662%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.662%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.662%) Windows 2000
8 1 (0.662%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (11.92%) Project Management
1 18 (11.92%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (7.947%) Scrum
3 11 (7.285%) Content Management
4 8 (5.298%) E-Commerce
4 8 (5.298%) Migration
4 8 (5.298%) MVC
5 7 (4.636%) Web Development
5 7 (4.636%) TDD
6 6 (3.974%) Service Delivery
6 6 (3.974%) Workflow
7 5 (3.311%) Service Management
8 4 (2.649%) Time Management
8 4 (2.649%) Mobile Application Development
8 4 (2.649%) Software Testing
8 4 (2.649%) SEO
8 4 (2.649%) Change Management
9 3 (1.987%) PRINCE2
9 3 (1.987%) ITIL
9 3 (1.987%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 33 (21.85%) JavaScript
2 20 (13.25%) Java
3 13 (8.609%) C
4 11 (7.285%) SQL
5 8 (5.298%) ActionScript
5 8 (5.298%) C#
5 8 (5.298%) C++
6 6 (3.974%) PHP
7 5 (3.311%) Perl
8 4 (2.649%) Python
9 3 (1.987%) Ruby
9 3 (1.987%) ActionScript 2.0
10 2 (1.325%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.325%) Bash shell
10 2 (1.325%) ActionScript 3.0
10 2 (1.325%) Korn
10 2 (1.325%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.662%) Tcl
11 1 (0.662%) GLSL
11 1 (0.662%) Lua
Qualifications
1 30 (19.87%) Degree
2 3 (1.987%) ISEB
2 3 (1.987%) A+ Certification
3 2 (1.325%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.662%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.662%) MOS
4 1 (0.662%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 1 (0.662%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.25%) QA
2 1 (0.662%) SLA
2 1 (0.662%) ISO 9000
2 1 (0.662%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.662%) WAI
System Software
1 5 (3.311%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.987%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.325%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.662%) XenApp
4 1 (0.662%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (1.325%) Cisco UCCE
2 1 (0.662%) Puppet
2 1 (0.662%) SCOM
Vendors
1 11 (7.285%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.960%) Adobe
3 6 (3.974%) Facebook
3 6 (3.974%) Google
3 6 (3.974%) VMware
4 5 (3.311%) Oracle
5 4 (2.649%) JBoss
5 4 (2.649%) Symantec
5 4 (2.649%) Avaya
5 4 (2.649%) Apple
6 3 (1.987%) Cisco
6 3 (1.987%) Verint
6 3 (1.987%) Twitter
7 2 (1.325%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.325%) Business Objects
7 2 (1.325%) SAP
7 2 (1.325%) HP
8 1 (0.662%) Perforce
8 1 (0.662%) Citrix
8 1 (0.662%) Nortel
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