The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Publishing 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 terms in our General category for the Essex 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
Publishing
Rank 42 44 45
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +1
Contract jobs citing Publishing 9 6 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 2.128% 1.342% 0.775%
As % of the General category 6.667% 4.255% 1.948%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Average daily rate £438 £263 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+66.66% -12.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £365 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.10% +8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.75 £30.00 £17.51
% change year-on-year
-37.50% +71.33%
All of the General Category
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
135 141 154
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 31.91% 31.54% 39.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 68 54
Average daily rate £400 £380 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% +16.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £170 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £485 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 18 28
Average hourly rate £27.50 £17.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+61.76% -5.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.00 £8.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £21.90 £38.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Publishing
East of England

Publishing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex Publishing Jobs Demand Trend

Publishing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Essex Publishing Daily Rate Trend

Publishing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex Publishing Hourly Rate Trend

Publishing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Publishing within the Essex 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
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Job
Vacancies
Harlow +3 3 £438 -
Southend-on-Sea - - - -
Publishing
East of England

Publishing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 9 (56.25%) Java
2 8 (50.00%) Change Management
3 7 (43.75%) Finance
3 7 (43.75%) Content Management
4 6 (37.50%) VMware
4 6 (37.50%) VMware ESX
4 6 (37.50%) Microsoft App-V
4 6 (37.50%) AppSense
4 6 (37.50%) ITIL
4 6 (37.50%) Windows
4 6 (37.50%) LDAP
4 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
4 6 (37.50%) Citrix
4 6 (37.50%) DHCP
4 6 (37.50%) DNS
4 6 (37.50%) XenApp
4 6 (37.50%) XenServer
4 6 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (31.25%) NoSQL
5 5 (31.25%) REST
5 5 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (25.00%) QA
6 4 (25.00%) Documentum
6 4 (25.00%) .NET
7 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
7 3 (18.75%) Adobe
7 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
7 3 (18.75%) Elastic Path
7 3 (18.75%) Adobe CQ
8 2 (12.50%) Problem Management

Publishing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (31.25%) REST
2 4 (25.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) Documentum
2 3 (18.75%) Adobe CQ
3 2 (12.50%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) LDAP
1 6 (37.50%) DHCP
1 6 (37.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) NoSQL
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Technical Architect
1 6 (37.50%) Architect
1 6 (37.50%) Citrix Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Product Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Applications Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Applications Support
3 2 (12.50%) Lead Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Support Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Applications Support Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Technical Product Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
1 2 (12.50%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Change Management
2 7 (43.75%) Content Management
3 6 (37.50%) ITIL
3 6 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
5 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
6 2 (12.50%) Information Management
6 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Project Planning
6 2 (12.50%) Problem Management
7 1 (6.250%) RAD
7 1 (6.250%) CRM
7 1 (6.250%) Change Control
7 1 (6.250%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
1 6 (37.50%) VMware ESX
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft App-V
1 6 (37.50%) XenApp
1 6 (37.50%) XenServer
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Citrix
1 6 (37.50%) VMware
1 6 (37.50%) AppSense
2 3 (18.75%) Elastic Path
2 3 (18.75%) Adobe
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