The first table below looks at the demand for TickIT 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 TickIT 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 of the Quality Assurance & Compliance 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
TickIT
Rank 515 531 558
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +27
Contract jobs citing TickIT 20 18 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.046% 0.034% 0.037%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.645% 0.452% 0.508%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 9
Average daily rate £291 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.78% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £276 £206 £351
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £350 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £291 £350 £400
% change year-on-year
-16.78% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 8
Average hourly rate - £35.75 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £40.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year
- +17.64%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
3099 3984 4135
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 7.079% 7.515% 7.232%
Number of daily rates quoted 1879 2070 2343
Average daily rate £420 £419 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.29% -6.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £563 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 214 262
Average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -36.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.80 £11.00 £11.38
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £37.35 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+10.64% -44.26%
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Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing TickIT across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

England TickIT Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

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

England TickIT Daily Rate Trend

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Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TickIT across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England TickIT Daily Rate Histogram

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

England TickIT Hourly Rate Trend

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TickIT 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.

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
Find
Job
Vacancies
South West - 6 £458 -
East Midlands -2 5 - - 2
West Midlands +10 4 £263 +36.01%
South East +8 4 - - 1
East of England - 3 £290 - 1
Yorkshire - - - -
Midlands - - - -
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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing TickIT 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 TickIT.

1 31 (81.58%) ISO 9001
2 22 (57.89%) SQL
3 21 (55.26%) Microsoft
4 18 (47.37%) MS Excel
5 17 (44.74%) C#
5 17 (44.74%) MS Office
6 16 (42.11%) .NET
7 14 (36.84%) UML
8 13 (34.21%) Visual Studio
9 12 (31.58%) Windows
9 12 (31.58%) .NET Framework
10 11 (28.95%) ITIL
10 11 (28.95%) MS PowerPoint
11 10 (26.32%) Oracle
11 10 (26.32%) Linux
11 10 (26.32%) ISEB
12 8 (21.05%) VSS/SourceSafe
12 8 (21.05%) XML
12 8 (21.05%) Configuration Management
12 8 (21.05%) Change Management
12 8 (21.05%) VMware
12 8 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 8 (21.05%) User Acceptance Testing
13 7 (18.42%) Degree
13 7 (18.42%) Computer Science
13 7 (18.42%) VMware Infrastructure
13 7 (18.42%) ASP.NET
13 7 (18.42%) Web Services
13 7 (18.42%) PRINCE2
13 7 (18.42%) UNIX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing TickIT 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 TickIT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (42.11%) .NET
2 12 (31.58%) .NET Framework
3 8 (21.05%) XML
4 7 (18.42%) ASP.NET
4 7 (18.42%) Web Services
5 6 (15.79%) ASP
6 4 (10.53%) CSS
6 4 (10.53%) XSL
6 4 (10.53%) HTML
7 3 (7.895%) WCF
7 3 (7.895%) WPF
7 3 (7.895%) WF
8 2 (5.263%) XSLT
9 1 (2.632%) Spring
9 1 (2.632%) WebSphere
9 1 (2.632%) STL
9 1 (2.632%) Silverlight
9 1 (2.632%) Spring Security
Application Platforms
1 4 (10.53%) SharePoint
1 4 (10.53%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (2.632%) MS Exchange
2 1 (2.632%) Apache
2 1 (2.632%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (47.37%) MS Excel
2 17 (44.74%) MS Office
3 11 (28.95%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (2.632%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) TCP/IP
2 4 (10.53%) IP Telephony
3 2 (5.263%) LDAP
4 1 (2.632%) LAN
4 1 (2.632%) WAN
4 1 (2.632%) HTTP
4 1 (2.632%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.895%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (7.895%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.263%) Oracle OLAP
3 2 (5.263%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (5.263%) Oracle ODI
3 2 (5.263%) OLAP
3 2 (5.263%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.263%) Star Schema
4 1 (2.632%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 13 (34.21%) Visual Studio
2 8 (21.05%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 5 (13.16%) Subversion
4 4 (10.53%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (5.263%) Eclipse
5 2 (5.263%) NUnit
5 2 (5.263%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.632%) NetBeans
6 1 (2.632%) ClearCase
6 1 (2.632%) MSTest
6 1 (2.632%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (2.632%) Maven
6 1 (2.632%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (7.895%) Automotive
2 2 (5.263%) Local Government
3 1 (2.632%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Developer
2 7 (18.42%) Test Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Development Manager
4 4 (10.53%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Project Manager
4 4 (10.53%) Network Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Development Project Manager
5 3 (7.895%) Software Test Engineer
5 3 (7.895%) Tester
5 3 (7.895%) Software Tester
6 2 (5.263%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.263%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.263%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.263%) Web Developer
6 2 (5.263%) Software Development Manager
6 2 (5.263%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (5.263%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.263%) Software Project Manager
6 2 (5.263%) QA Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Computer Science
2 4 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.895%) Thin Client
3 3 (7.895%) Fat Client
4 2 (5.263%) Data Integration
5 1 (2.632%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.632%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (31.58%) Windows
2 10 (26.32%) Linux
3 7 (18.42%) UNIX
4 3 (7.895%) Windows 7
4 3 (7.895%) Windows XP
5 1 (2.632%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.632%) Windows Mobile
5 1 (2.632%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.632%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) UML
2 11 (28.95%) ITIL
3 8 (21.05%) Configuration Management
3 8 (21.05%) Change Management
3 8 (21.05%) User Acceptance Testing
4 7 (18.42%) PRINCE2
5 6 (15.79%) Logistics
6 5 (13.16%) Software Testing
6 5 (13.16%) RAD
7 4 (10.53%) Data Modelling
7 4 (10.53%) ITSM
7 4 (10.53%) Service Management
7 4 (10.53%) Unit Testing
7 4 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (10.53%) Performance Management
7 4 (10.53%) Waterfall
8 3 (7.895%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (7.895%) System Testing
8 3 (7.895%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (7.895%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (57.89%) SQL
2 17 (44.74%) C#
3 7 (18.42%) C
4 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 5 (13.16%) C++
5 5 (13.16%) VB
6 4 (10.53%) VB6
6 4 (10.53%) VBScript
6 4 (10.53%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) ISEB
2 7 (18.42%) Degree
3 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
4 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
4 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (10.53%) ISEB Practitioner
5 4 (10.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 4 (10.53%) MCSD
6 1 (2.632%) BC Cleared
6 1 (2.632%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (81.58%) ISO 9001
2 8 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (15.79%) QA
4 4 (10.53%) ISO 9000
5 3 (7.895%) COBIT
6 1 (2.632%) SLA
6 1 (2.632%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.895%) VMware ESX
3 1 (2.632%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.632%) XenServer
3 1 (2.632%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.632%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 21 (55.26%) Microsoft
2 10 (26.32%) Oracle
3 8 (21.05%) VMware
4 5 (13.16%) Citrix
5 4 (10.53%) Cisco
6 1 (2.632%) IBM
6 1 (2.632%) Twitter
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