The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Electronics in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Electronics over the 3 months to 23 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 General category for the Hampshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronics
Rank 91 82 89
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +7
Contract jobs citing Electronics 9 17 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.591% 1.072% 0.745%
As % of the General category 1.907% 3.301% 2.191%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 2
Average daily rate £350 £250 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.00% -10.71%
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+9.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 8
Average hourly rate £33.75 £25.00 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+35.00% -31.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.75 £22.20 £30.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.75 £43.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All of the General Category
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
472 515 639
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 30.99% 32.47% 34.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 264 296
Average daily rate £388 £388 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £523 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 56 87
Average hourly rate £22.50 £31.25 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.00% -8.08%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.35 £10.08 £11.56
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Electronics
South East

Electronics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire Electronics Jobs Demand Trend

Electronics
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Electronics Daily Rate Trend

Electronics
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Electronics across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Hampshire Electronics Daily Rate Histogram

Electronics
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Electronics Hourly Rate Trend

Electronics
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Electronics within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Basingstoke -14 3 £350 -
Bordon - 2 - -
Fareham +7 1 - -
Southampton -6 1 - -
Electronics
South East

Electronics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Electronics 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 Electronics.

1 9 (45.00%) Manufacturing
2 7 (35.00%) SAP
3 6 (30.00%) HNC
3 6 (30.00%) HND
4 5 (25.00%) MS Office
4 5 (25.00%) Military
5 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (20.00%) Telecoms
5 4 (20.00%) Finance
5 4 (20.00%) Programme Management
5 4 (20.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 4 (20.00%) ATM
5 4 (20.00%) DTV
5 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (20.00%) C
5 4 (20.00%) C++
5 4 (20.00%) Marketing
5 4 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
5 4 (20.00%) System Testing
6 3 (15.00%) SaaS
6 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (10.00%) Scrum
7 2 (10.00%) LabVIEW
7 2 (10.00%) TDD
7 2 (10.00%) Firmware
7 2 (10.00%) C#
7 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (10.00%) SpecFlow

Electronics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Electronics 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 Electronics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (10.00%) jQuery
2 1 (5.000%) RESTful
2 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (5.000%) CSS3
2 1 (5.000%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 1 (5.000%) HTML5
2 1 (5.000%) .NET
2 1 (5.000%) HTML
2 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.000%) CSS
2 1 (5.000%) Web Services
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (5.000%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.000%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (20.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) ATM
2 1 (5.000%) Ethernet
2 1 (5.000%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.000%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) LabVIEW
1 2 (10.00%) SpecFlow
1 2 (10.00%) Selenium
2 1 (5.000%) Git (software)
2 1 (5.000%) WebDriver
2 1 (5.000%) Hudson
2 1 (5.000%) ReSharper
2 1 (5.000%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.000%) Maven
2 1 (5.000%) NUnit
2 1 (5.000%) Subversion
General
1 9 (45.00%) Manufacturing
2 5 (25.00%) Military
3 4 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.000%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Design Engineer
1 4 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Programme Test Manager
2 3 (15.00%) SAP Manager
2 3 (15.00%) SAP Test Manager
2 3 (15.00%) SAP Programme Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Electronics Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Programme Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Test Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) UI Developer
4 1 (5.000%) Designer
4 1 (5.000%) Agile C# Developer
4 1 (5.000%) Firmware Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Digital Hardware Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) UI Programmer
4 1 (5.000%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Embedded C++ Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) DTV
2 3 (15.00%) SaaS
3 2 (10.00%) Firmware
4 1 (5.000%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.000%) Derivative
4 1 (5.000%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.000%) Android
1 1 (5.000%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (20.00%) Programme Management
1 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
1 4 (20.00%) System Testing
2 3 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (10.00%) Scrum
3 2 (10.00%) TDD
3 2 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (10.00%) BDD
3 2 (10.00%) Kanban
4 1 (5.000%) Integration Testing
4 1 (5.000%) Web Testing
4 1 (5.000%) Test Scripting
4 1 (5.000%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (5.000%) Agile Testing
4 1 (5.000%) OOP
4 1 (5.000%) OO
4 1 (5.000%) E-Commerce
4 1 (5.000%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) C
1 4 (20.00%) C++
2 2 (10.00%) C#
2 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.000%) SQL
3 1 (5.000%) Python
3 1 (5.000%) MATLAB
3 1 (5.000%) Embedded C
3 1 (5.000%) Embedded C++
3 1 (5.000%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) HNC
1 6 (30.00%) HND
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.000%) EMC Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) SAP
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.000%) Adobe
3 1 (5.000%) EMC
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