The first table below looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Degree 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 Qualifications for the Hertfordshire 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
Degree
Rank 33 25 40
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +15
Contract jobs citing Degree 31 55 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 4.867% 5.629% 2.740%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.96% 31.43% 18.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 4
Average daily rate £375 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £167 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 6
Average hourly rate £33.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £30.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year
-33.33% -11.76%
All Qualifications
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
115 175 131
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 18.05% 17.91% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 71 36
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £179 £105
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 27
Average hourly rate £25.25 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.85% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £14.50 £22.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £42.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Degree
East of England

Degree
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Degree across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Hertfordshire Degree Jobs Demand Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Degree Daily Rate Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hertfordshire Degree Daily Rate Histogram

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Degree Hourly Rate Trend

Degree
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage -2 5 - -
Royston - 4 - -
Watford -3 2 £325 -
St Albans - 2 - -
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £300 -
Degree
East of England

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Degree 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 Degree.

1 13 (20.97%) Computer Science
2 12 (19.35%) Project Management
3 11 (17.74%) MS Office
3 11 (17.74%) Microsoft
3 11 (17.74%) Software Engineering
4 10 (16.13%) Windows
4 10 (16.13%) C++
5 9 (14.52%) OO
5 9 (14.52%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (12.90%) Time Management
7 7 (11.29%) Retail
7 7 (11.29%) Marketing
7 7 (11.29%) SQL
7 7 (11.29%) ITIL
7 7 (11.29%) PRINCE2
7 7 (11.29%) Service Management
7 7 (11.29%) Telecoms
7 7 (11.29%) Validation
8 6 (9.677%) Military
8 6 (9.677%) Java
8 6 (9.677%) UML
8 6 (9.677%) Embedded C++
8 6 (9.677%) SAN
8 6 (9.677%) Business Analysis
8 6 (9.677%) Data Analysis
8 6 (9.677%) SCOM
8 6 (9.677%) Avionics
9 5 (8.065%) ITIL V3
9 5 (8.065%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (8.065%) Mathematics

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (8.065%) Web Services
2 4 (6.452%) HTML
3 3 (4.839%) HTML5
3 3 (4.839%) Qt
3 3 (4.839%) JSON
3 3 (4.839%) CSS
3 3 (4.839%) OpenGL
4 2 (3.226%) .NET
4 2 (3.226%) Ajax
5 1 (1.613%) CSS3
5 1 (1.613%) Node.js
5 1 (1.613%) REST
5 1 (1.613%) OOCSS
5 1 (1.613%) GWT
5 1 (1.613%) Apache Flex
5 1 (1.613%) Spring
5 1 (1.613%) J2EE
5 1 (1.613%) Swing
5 1 (1.613%) SOAP
5 1 (1.613%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 4 (6.452%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.226%) SAS
2 2 (3.226%) Moodle
3 1 (1.613%) SugarCRM
3 1 (1.613%) ESB
3 1 (1.613%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (17.74%) MS Office
2 4 (6.452%) MS Visio
2 4 (6.452%) MS Excel
3 2 (3.226%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (3.226%) Photoshop
3 2 (3.226%) Fireworks
4 1 (1.613%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.613%) Oracle iProcurement
1 1 (1.613%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
1 1 (1.613%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.613%) LabWindows
1 1 (1.613%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.613%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.677%) SAN
2 5 (8.065%) VoIP
2 5 (8.065%) VPN
2 5 (8.065%) Firewall
3 4 (6.452%) 2G
3 4 (6.452%) 3GPP
3 4 (6.452%) LTE
4 2 (3.226%) 3G
5 1 (1.613%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.065%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.226%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 2 (3.226%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (3.226%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (3.226%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (3.226%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.613%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (1.613%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.613%) OLTP
3 1 (1.613%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (1.613%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.613%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.613%) MS Access
3 1 (1.613%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (1.613%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 4 (6.452%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (4.839%) Axure RP
3 2 (3.226%) Eclipse
3 2 (3.226%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.613%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (1.613%) Git (software)
4 1 (1.613%) Maven
4 1 (1.613%) Subversion
4 1 (1.613%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.613%) Rational Rose
4 1 (1.613%) ClearCase
4 1 (1.613%) JUnit
4 1 (1.613%) LabVIEW
General
1 7 (11.29%) Retail
1 7 (11.29%) Marketing
1 7 (11.29%) Telecoms
2 6 (9.677%) Military
2 6 (9.677%) Avionics
3 4 (6.452%) Welsh Language
4 3 (4.839%) Finance
5 2 (3.226%) Electronics
6 1 (1.613%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.613%) Games
6 1 (1.613%) Legal
6 1 (1.613%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (16.13%) Software Engineer
2 7 (11.29%) Developer
2 7 (11.29%) Analyst
3 6 (9.677%) Validation Engineer
4 5 (8.065%) Head of IT
4 5 (8.065%) Project Manager
4 5 (8.065%) Business Analyst
5 4 (6.452%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.839%) Designer
6 3 (4.839%) Senior Designer
6 3 (4.839%) IT Manager
7 2 (3.226%) Coordinator
7 2 (3.226%) Web Developer
7 2 (3.226%) DBA
7 2 (3.226%) 2nd Line Support
7 2 (3.226%) 1st Line Support
7 2 (3.226%) SQL DBA
7 2 (3.226%) Test Engineer
7 2 (3.226%) E-Learning Developer
7 2 (3.226%) UML Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.97%) Computer Science
2 5 (8.065%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (8.065%) Mathematics
3 3 (4.839%) Augmented Reality
3 3 (4.839%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.226%) E-Learning
4 2 (3.226%) VLE
4 2 (3.226%) Physics
4 2 (3.226%) Psychology
4 2 (3.226%) FMCG
5 1 (1.613%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.613%) Semantic Web
5 1 (1.613%) Statistics
5 1 (1.613%) BBC
5 1 (1.613%) Replication
5 1 (1.613%) Clustering
5 1 (1.613%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.13%) Windows
2 3 (4.839%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.839%) bada
3 2 (3.226%) Linux
3 2 (3.226%) Android
3 2 (3.226%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.613%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.613%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.613%) UNIX
4 1 (1.613%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.35%) Project Management
2 11 (17.74%) Software Engineering
3 9 (14.52%) OO
3 9 (14.52%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (12.90%) Time Management
5 7 (11.29%) ITIL
5 7 (11.29%) PRINCE2
5 7 (11.29%) Service Management
5 7 (11.29%) Validation
6 6 (9.677%) UML
6 6 (9.677%) Business Analysis
6 6 (9.677%) Data Analysis
7 5 (8.065%) ITIL V3
8 3 (4.839%) PDCA
8 3 (4.839%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (4.839%) Requirements Management
8 3 (4.839%) BPMN
8 3 (4.839%) Data Protection
8 3 (4.839%) Systems Analysis
8 3 (4.839%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.13%) C++
2 7 (11.29%) SQL
3 6 (9.677%) Java
3 6 (9.677%) Embedded C++
4 4 (6.452%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.839%) C
5 3 (4.839%) VBA
6 2 (3.226%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.226%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.613%) F#
7 1 (1.613%) Erlang
7 1 (1.613%) VBScript
7 1 (1.613%) VB
7 1 (1.613%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.613%) C#
7 1 (1.613%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.065%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (6.452%) MCSE
2 4 (6.452%) MCSA
3 2 (3.226%) ISEB
3 2 (3.226%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.226%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.613%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.613%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.839%) QA
2 1 (1.613%) CDISC
System Software
1 4 (6.452%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (9.677%) SCOM
Vendors
1 11 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.452%) Oracle
3 3 (4.839%) Symbian
4 2 (3.226%) Serena
5 1 (1.613%) Pega
5 1 (1.613%) Capita
5 1 (1.613%) HP
5 1 (1.613%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (1.613%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.613%) JBoss
5 1 (1.613%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.613%) Remedy
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