The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior Designer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
Senior Designer
Rank 60 61 61
Rank change year-on-year
+1 0
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Designer 3 9 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.471% 0.921% 0.342%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.493% 0.990% 0.359%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 0
Average daily rate £375 £465 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.35% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £368 £418 £380
% change year-on-year
-11.97% +9.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
608 909 836
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 95.45% 93.04% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 394 355
Average daily rate £400 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £235 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 85 104
Average hourly rate £17.49 £31.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.59% +82.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.19 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £37.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Designer
East of England

Senior Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Senior Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Designer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Senior Designer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Designer
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Senior Designer in their job title 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 with Senior Designer in their job title.

1 5 (55.56%) Rapid Prototyping
1 5 (55.56%) User Stories
2 4 (44.44%) Axure RP
2 4 (44.44%) Photoshop
2 4 (44.44%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) HTML
3 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 3 (33.33%) VB.NET
3 3 (33.33%) .NET
3 3 (33.33%) Ethernet
3 3 (33.33%) Fireworks
3 3 (33.33%) Degree
3 3 (33.33%) Psychology
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Marketing
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (11.11%) BBC
5 1 (11.11%) Scrum
5 1 (11.11%) Retail
5 1 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
5 1 (11.11%) Information Architecture

Senior Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Senior Designer in their job title 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 with Senior Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (33.33%) HTML
1 3 (33.33%) .NET
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Photoshop
1 4 (44.44%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (33.33%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Axure RP
General
1 2 (22.22%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Psychology
2 1 (11.11%) BBC
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Rapid Prototyping
1 5 (55.56%) User Stories
2 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Scrum
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
4 1 (11.11%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
1 3 (33.33%) T-SQL
1 3 (33.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree