The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Design Specialist 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 Technical Design Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Design Specialist
Rank 534 548 -
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Design Specialist 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.002% 0.002% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.002% 0.002% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40481 49067 52965
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.47% 92.55% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23980 27814 29579
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £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 1993 2429 2822
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.35 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.30 £40.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Design Specialist
UK

Technical Design Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Technical Design Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Design Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Technical Design Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Technical Design Specialist
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Design Specialist within the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 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.

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Technical Design Specialist
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Technical Design Specialist 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 Technical Design Specialist in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) Korn
2 2 (66.67%) HACMP
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) AIX
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas File System
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (66.67%) Bash shell
2 2 (66.67%) PowerHA
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared

Technical Design Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Technical Design Specialist 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 Technical Design Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) AIX
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
1 2 (66.67%) Korn
1 2 (66.67%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Veritas File System
1 2 (66.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 2 (66.67%) PowerHA
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft