The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Media in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Social Media 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Social Media
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Social Media 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 0.917% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.405% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £233 £269 £325
% change year-on-year
-13.48% -17.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £12.83 £14.50
% change year-on-year
+114.42% -11.55%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
37 10 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 16.97% 8.696% 11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 6
Average daily rate £425 £300 £230
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.66% +30.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £232 £144
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £435 £404
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
Average hourly rate £23.38 £31.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.79% +186.36%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Social Media
Surrey

Social Media
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford Social Media Jobs Demand Trend

Social Media
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 2 (100.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) W3C
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) SEO
2 1 (50.00%) Publishing
2 1 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (50.00%) Games
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) Web Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) WAI
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5

Social Media
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
1 1 (50.00%) Games
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) W3C
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) SEO
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) Web Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) WAI