The first table below looks at the demand for the Digital Design Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Digital Design Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised for the Gloucestershire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Digital Design Engineer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Design Engineer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
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 £36.00 £45.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year
-20.00% +32.35%
All Job Titles
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
261 638 401
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 95.26% 91.93% 93.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 362 158
Average daily rate £380 £400 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +29.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £270 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 39 67
Average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £23.34 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £37.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Digital Design Engineer
South West

Digital Design Engineer
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region that cited Digital Design Engineer 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 Digital Design Engineer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) PhD
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
1 1 (100.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 1 (100.00%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Xilinx
1 1 (100.00%) Degree

Digital Design Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region that cited Digital Design Engineer 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 Digital Design Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (100.00%) MS PowerPoint
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
1 1 (100.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) PhD
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Xilinx