The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Advertising in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Advertising over the 3 months to 20 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 Kent 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Advertising
Rank 37 34 40
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +6
Contract jobs citing Advertising 3 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 1.000% 1.111% 1.587%
As % of the General category 2.857% 2.970% 6.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 4
Average daily rate - £203 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -32.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £300
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £16.00 £27.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.81% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.39 £30.00 £15.06
% change year-on-year
-48.71% +99.17%
All of the General Category
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
105 101 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 35.00% 37.41% 26.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 64 41
Average daily rate £325 £259 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.72% -17.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £138 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £473 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 13
Average hourly rate £35.79 £17.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+104.48% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.10 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £79.50 £29.50 £34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -5.66%
Advertising
South East

Advertising
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent Advertising Jobs Demand Trend

Advertising
Daily Rate Trend

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

Kent Advertising Daily Rate Trend

Advertising
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Kent Advertising Hourly Rate Trend

Advertising
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Advertising 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 Advertising.

1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (57.14%) Citrix
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) MS Excel
2 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (42.86%) vSphere
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
4 2 (28.57%) Project Management
4 2 (28.57%) Terminal Services
4 2 (28.57%) Internet
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco
4 2 (28.57%) MS Office
4 2 (28.57%) Windows XP
4 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
4 2 (28.57%) LAN
4 2 (28.57%) WAN
4 2 (28.57%) HTTP
4 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
4 2 (28.57%) DNS
4 2 (28.57%) Network Management
4 2 (28.57%) XenApp
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Vista
4 2 (28.57%) Network Security
4 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (28.57%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (14.29%) Dynamics AX

Advertising
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) COM
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) MS Excel
2 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
2 2 (28.57%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (28.57%) MS Office
3 1 (14.29%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) LAN
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Internet
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Support Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Desktop Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Desktop Support
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Team Leader
3 1 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Support Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Support Team Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Team Leader
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Vista
2 2 (28.57%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Network Management
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Web Design
3 1 (14.29%) Time Management
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) MCP
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) vSphere
3 2 (28.57%) Terminal Services
3 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (28.57%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) Citrix
2 4 (57.14%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
4 1 (14.29%) Symantec
4 1 (14.29%) HP