The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Media in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Digital Media over the 3 months to 18 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Digital Media
Rank 48 - 62
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Digital Media 9 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.380% - 0.449%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.767% - 2.454%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 4
Average daily rate £325 - £175
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 - £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £510 - £270
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £300 £350
% change year-on-year
-0.83% -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 -
% change year-on-year
+47.05% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
133 216 163
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 20.40% 21.93% 18.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 95 81
Average daily rate £350 £325 £339
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -4.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £217 £143
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £441 £523
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £330
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 12
Average hourly rate £35.00 £29.00 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.68% -21.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.03 £9.53 £13.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £49.00 £38.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -10.00%
Digital Media
East of England

Digital Media
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Digital Media Jobs Demand Trend

Digital Media
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Digital Media Daily Rate Trend

Digital Media
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Digital Media across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Hertfordshire Digital Media Daily Rate Histogram

Digital Media
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Media within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
St Albans - 4 £349 -
Hemel Hempstead - - - -
Rickmansworth - - - - 1
Digital Media
East of England

Digital Media
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Digital 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 Digital Media.

1 5 (38.46%) HTML
1 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
1 5 (38.46%) CSS
2 4 (30.77%) Retail
3 3 (23.08%) Information Management
3 3 (23.08%) Knowledge Management
3 3 (23.08%) Marketing
3 3 (23.08%) JSON
3 3 (23.08%) Time Management
3 3 (23.08%) iPad
3 3 (23.08%) Apple iOS
3 3 (23.08%) iOS SDK
3 3 (23.08%) REST
3 3 (23.08%) iPhone
3 3 (23.08%) Analytics
3 3 (23.08%) Metadata Management
3 3 (23.08%) SOAP
3 3 (23.08%) XML
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) SharePoint
3 3 (23.08%) SEO
3 3 (23.08%) Workflow
3 3 (23.08%) Publishing
3 3 (23.08%) Intranet
3 3 (23.08%) Project Management
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
3 3 (23.08%) Xcode
3 3 (23.08%) Objective-C
4 2 (15.38%) CMS
4 2 (15.38%) Adobe

Digital Media
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Digital 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 Digital Media. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (38.46%) HTML
1 5 (38.46%) CSS
2 3 (23.08%) SOAP
2 3 (23.08%) XML
2 3 (23.08%) JSON
2 3 (23.08%) iOS SDK
2 3 (23.08%) REST
3 2 (15.38%) CSS3
3 2 (15.38%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) SharePoint
2 2 (15.38%) CMS
3 1 (7.692%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
1 1 (7.692%) SPSS
1 1 (7.692%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Xcode
General
1 4 (30.77%) Retail
2 3 (23.08%) Marketing
2 3 (23.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Developer
1 3 (23.08%) Information Manager
1 3 (23.08%) iOS Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Production Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Web Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Web Production Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Consultant
3 1 (7.692%) Data Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Research Consultant
3 1 (7.692%) Insight Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Defect Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) iPhone
1 3 (23.08%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Project Management
1 3 (23.08%) SEO
1 3 (23.08%) Workflow
1 3 (23.08%) Migration
1 3 (23.08%) Information Management
1 3 (23.08%) Knowledge Management
1 3 (23.08%) Time Management
1 3 (23.08%) Analytics
1 3 (23.08%) Metadata Management
2 2 (15.38%) Web Development
2 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
2 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
3 1 (7.692%) ETL
3 1 (7.692%) Quality Management
3 1 (7.692%) Data Management
3 1 (7.692%) Validation
3 1 (7.692%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (7.692%) Customer Insight
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Objective-C
3 1 (7.692%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Adobe
1 2 (15.38%) Omniture
1 2 (15.38%) Google
2 1 (7.692%) Netezza
2 1 (7.692%) Brio
2 1 (7.692%) Business Objects