The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Media in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Social Media over the 3 months to 24 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 Miscellaneous category 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Social Media
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Social Media 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.369% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.961% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £425 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £231 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
-15.90% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £11.25 £14.50
% change year-on-year
+144.44% -22.41%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
51 147 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 18.82% 22.83% 16.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 81 35
Average daily rate £400 £500 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +61.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £300 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £575 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 1
Average hourly rate £42.00 £20.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+110.00% -42.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Social Media
South West

Social Media
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Social Media across the Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Gloucestershire Social Media Jobs Demand Trend

Social Media
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire Social Media Daily Rate Trend

Social Media
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Social Media within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Cheltenham - 1 £425 -
Social Media
South West

Social Media
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Social Media 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 Social Media.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Extranet
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) InfoPath
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010

Social Media
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Social Media 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 Social Media. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Extranet
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Delivery Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript