The first table below looks at the demand for Internet skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Internet 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 of the Communications & Networking 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet
Rank 46 54 45
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -9
Contract jobs citing Internet 12 25 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.878% 2.510% 3.043%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.91% 11.42% 15.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
Average daily rate £388 £400 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.12% +10.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £368 £400 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £414 £400 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.15% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 11
Average hourly rate £10.50 £16.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.37% -41.81%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £14.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -15.15%
All Communications & Networking
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
110 219 178
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 17.21% 21.99% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 46 39
Average daily rate £313 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £197 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £374 £500 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 27
Average hourly rate £32.50 £17.43 £33.47
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+86.46% -47.91%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £10.50 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £32.50 £42.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
Internet
East of England

Internet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Internet Jobs Demand Trend

Internet
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Internet Daily Rate Trend

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Internet Hourly Rate Trend

Internet
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Internet within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 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
Watford +4 3 - -
Welwyn Garden City - - - - 1
Borehamwood - - - -
Hemel Hempstead - - - - 1
Hertford - - - -
St Albans - - - - 2
Stevenage - - - -
Internet
East of England

Internet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 11 (52.38%) XML
2 10 (47.62%) Retail
3 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
4 8 (38.10%) XHTML
4 8 (38.10%) E-Commerce
4 8 (38.10%) Linux
4 8 (38.10%) HTML
4 8 (38.10%) Java
4 8 (38.10%) Finance
4 8 (38.10%) Subversion
5 7 (33.33%) Games
5 7 (33.33%) MS Excel
5 7 (33.33%) Bash shell
6 6 (28.57%) Elastic Path
6 6 (28.57%) MQSeries
6 6 (28.57%) JMS
6 6 (28.57%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
6 6 (28.57%) Eclipse
6 6 (28.57%) RDBMS
6 6 (28.57%) IBM
6 6 (28.57%) Interwoven
6 6 (28.57%) Tridion
6 6 (28.57%) JavaScript
6 6 (28.57%) Perl
6 6 (28.57%) SQL
6 6 (28.57%) .NET
6 6 (28.57%) J2EE
6 6 (28.57%) DB2
6 6 (28.57%) Ant
6 6 (28.57%) JUnit

Internet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (52.38%) XML
2 8 (38.10%) XHTML
2 8 (38.10%) HTML
3 6 (28.57%) JMS
3 6 (28.57%) .NET
3 6 (28.57%) J2EE
3 6 (28.57%) EJB
3 6 (28.57%) XSLT
3 6 (28.57%) JDBC
3 6 (28.57%) JSP
3 6 (28.57%) Servlets
3 6 (28.57%) Struts
3 6 (28.57%) XMLBeans
3 6 (28.57%) Ajax
3 6 (28.57%) WebSphere
3 6 (28.57%) JSTL
4 3 (14.29%) Web Services
5 2 (9.524%) CSS
5 2 (9.524%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 6 (28.57%) MQSeries
1 6 (28.57%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 2 (9.524%) IIS
4 1 (4.762%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 2 (9.524%) MS Office
3 1 (4.762%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (4.762%) MS Project
3 1 (4.762%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (9.524%) VPN
2 2 (9.524%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (4.762%) Frame Relay
3 1 (4.762%) ATM
3 1 (4.762%) LAN
3 1 (4.762%) Ethernet
3 1 (4.762%) SNMP
3 1 (4.762%) IPv6
3 1 (4.762%) MPLS
3 1 (4.762%) OSPF
3 1 (4.762%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) RDBMS
1 6 (28.57%) DB2
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Subversion
2 6 (28.57%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Eclipse
2 6 (28.57%) Ant
2 6 (28.57%) JUnit
2 6 (28.57%) Log4j
3 5 (23.81%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (9.524%) WiX
4 2 (9.524%) MSBuild
4 2 (9.524%) Jenkins
4 2 (9.524%) TeamCity
4 2 (9.524%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (4.762%) Hudson
General
1 10 (47.62%) Retail
2 8 (38.10%) Finance
3 7 (33.33%) Games
4 2 (9.524%) Legal
5 1 (4.762%) Billing
5 1 (4.762%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.762%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.762%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Java Developer
2 6 (28.57%) J2EE Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.524%) Environment Manager
4 2 (9.524%) Web Development Manager
4 2 (9.524%) Web Manager
4 2 (9.524%) Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) Development Manager
4 2 (9.524%) Release Manager
4 2 (9.524%) Deployment Manager
4 2 (9.524%) Build Manager
5 1 (4.762%) E-Commerce Project Manager
5 1 (4.762%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) E-Commerce Manager
5 1 (4.762%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Support Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Web 2.0
2 3 (14.29%) N-Tier
2 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.762%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Linux
2 6 (28.57%) HPUX
2 6 (28.57%) Solaris
2 6 (28.57%) UNIX
3 3 (14.29%) Windows
4 2 (9.524%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (4.762%) CentOS
5 1 (4.762%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) E-Commerce
2 6 (28.57%) UML
2 6 (28.57%) OO
2 6 (28.57%) RAD
2 6 (28.57%) Content Management
3 5 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (19.05%) Project Management
5 3 (14.29%) Change Management
5 3 (14.29%) Refactoring
5 3 (14.29%) AOP
5 3 (14.29%) TDD
5 3 (14.29%) PRINCE2
5 3 (14.29%) SOA
5 3 (14.29%) Unit Testing
6 2 (9.524%) Game Development
6 2 (9.524%) Integration Testing
6 2 (9.524%) Web Development
7 1 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (4.762%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) Java
2 7 (33.33%) Bash shell
3 6 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 6 (28.57%) Perl
3 6 (28.57%) SQL
3 6 (28.57%) XPath
4 3 (14.29%) C#
5 2 (9.524%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.762%) Python
6 1 (4.762%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.762%) QA
1 1 (4.762%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.524%) Hyper-V
2 2 (9.524%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.524%) Xen
3 1 (4.762%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (4.762%) OVSD
1 1 (4.762%) OpenView
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (28.57%) Elastic Path
2 6 (28.57%) IBM
2 6 (28.57%) Interwoven
2 6 (28.57%) ATG
2 6 (28.57%) Blue Martini
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle
3 3 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 3 (14.29%) Cisco
4 2 (9.524%) Citrix
4 2 (9.524%) VMware
5 1 (4.762%) Huawei
5 1 (4.762%) Crossbeam
5 1 (4.762%) HP
5 1 (4.762%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.762%) Juniper