The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Animation in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Animation over the 3 months to 19 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 Miscellaneous category for the Guildford 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Animation
Rank 31 - 19
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Animation 3 0 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 1.515% - 4.895%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.895% - 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £134
UK excluding London average daily rate £238 £275 £213
% change year-on-year
-13.63% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £16.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
+134.37% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
38 15 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 19.19% 12.10% 19.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 14
Average daily rate £373 £235 £171
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+58.51% +37.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £225 £108
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £300 £337
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
Average hourly rate £25.88 £31.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.85% +110.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £31.50 £12.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.25 £31.50 £120.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Animation
Surrey

Animation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford Animation Jobs Demand Trend

Animation
Daily Rate Trend

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

Guildford Animation Daily Rate Trend

Animation
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford region citing Animation 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 Animation.

1 2 (66.67%) Games
1 2 (66.67%) C++
1 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) PyQt
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Maya
2 1 (33.33%) Degree

Animation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford region citing Animation 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 Animation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) PyQt
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Maya
General
1 2 (66.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Programmer
1 2 (66.67%) Gameplay Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Animator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree