The first table below looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Degree over the 3 months to 17 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 Leeds 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Degree
Rank 50 39 36
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -3
Contract jobs citing Degree 26 29 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 3.490% 3.258% 3.355%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.80% 18.24% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 20 11
Average daily rate £290 £365 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.43% +16.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £274 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £515 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
Average hourly rate - £75.00 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +240.90%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £33.75
% change year-on-year
-30.00% -11.11%
All Qualifications
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
125 159 104
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 16.78% 17.87% 16.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 97 44
Average daily rate £300 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £218 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £501 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 11
Average hourly rate £13.58 £12.00 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.12% -45.45%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.65 £12.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.75 £50.00 £26.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
Degree
West Yorkshire

Degree
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Degree Hourly Rate Trend

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 27 (45.00%) .NET
2 20 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 17 (28.33%) C#
4 16 (26.67%) Web Services
5 15 (25.00%) Oracle
6 14 (23.33%) SQL
6 14 (23.33%) Project Management
7 13 (21.67%) Microsoft
8 11 (18.33%) MS Office
8 11 (18.33%) XML
8 11 (18.33%) ITIL
8 11 (18.33%) Computer Science
9 10 (16.67%) SQL Server
9 10 (16.67%) SharePoint
10 9 (15.00%) Visual Studio
10 9 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
10 9 (15.00%) Scrum
10 9 (15.00%) Service Management
10 9 (15.00%) .NET Framework
11 8 (13.33%) Change Management
11 8 (13.33%) JavaScript
12 7 (11.67%) PRINCE2
12 7 (11.67%) Games
12 7 (11.67%) Telecoms
12 7 (11.67%) Kanban
12 7 (11.67%) ASP.NET MVC
12 7 (11.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
13 6 (10.00%) Web Development
13 6 (10.00%) TDD
13 6 (10.00%) T-SQL

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 27 (45.00%) .NET
2 20 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 16 (26.67%) Web Services
4 11 (18.33%) XML
5 9 (15.00%) .NET Framework
6 7 (11.67%) ASP.NET MVC
6 7 (11.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 5 (8.333%) Ajax
8 4 (6.667%) RESTful
8 4 (6.667%) CSS
9 3 (5.000%) SOAP
9 3 (5.000%) LAMP
9 3 (5.000%) XSL
9 3 (5.000%) HTML
9 3 (5.000%) Node.js
9 3 (5.000%) REST
10 2 (3.333%) Lucene
10 2 (3.333%) Sinatra
10 2 (3.333%) Ruby on Rails
10 2 (3.333%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 10 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.667%) CMS
2 4 (6.667%) Apache
3 2 (3.333%) Route 53
3 2 (3.333%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (3.333%) ESB
3 2 (3.333%) nginx
3 2 (3.333%) Liferay
3 2 (3.333%) Apache Solr
3 2 (3.333%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (3.333%) Amazon S3
3 2 (3.333%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (1.667%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.667%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.667%) DotNetNuke
4 1 (1.667%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.667%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.667%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (18.33%) MS Office
2 6 (10.00%) MS Excel
3 3 (5.000%) MS Project
4 1 (1.667%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.667%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.333%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (3.333%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.333%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.667%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.667%) JDE OneWorld
3 1 (1.667%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.667%) HTTP
2 3 (5.000%) GSM
2 3 (5.000%) UMTS
2 3 (5.000%) 3G
2 3 (5.000%) 2G
3 2 (3.333%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.667%) SSH
4 1 (1.667%) DHCP
4 1 (1.667%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.667%) DNS
4 1 (1.667%) SSL
4 1 (1.667%) SAN
4 1 (1.667%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.00%) RDBMS
3 5 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.667%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (6.667%) SQL Server 2012
5 3 (5.000%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.000%) Redis
5 3 (5.000%) MySQL
6 2 (3.333%) SQL Server 2000
6 2 (3.333%) SimpleDB
6 2 (3.333%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.333%) RavenDB
6 2 (3.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (3.333%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (3.333%) Couchbase
6 2 (3.333%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.667%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.667%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (3.333%) Visual Studio Team System
2 2 (3.333%) Git (software)
3 1 (1.667%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.667%) JDeveloper
3 1 (1.667%) JIRA
General
1 7 (11.67%) Telecoms
1 7 (11.67%) Games
2 4 (6.667%) Finance
3 2 (3.333%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (38.33%) Developer
2 12 (20.00%) Analyst
3 11 (18.33%) .NET Developer
4 8 (13.33%) ASP.NET Developer
5 7 (11.67%) C# Developer
5 7 (11.67%) Release Analyst
5 7 (11.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 7 (11.67%) C# .NET Developer
6 6 (10.00%) Architect
7 5 (8.333%) Project Manager
8 4 (6.667%) Web Developer
8 4 (6.667%) .NET Web Developer
8 4 (6.667%) C# Web Developer
9 3 (5.000%) Technical Manager
9 3 (5.000%) Software Engineer
9 3 (5.000%) Programme Office Manager
9 3 (5.000%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (5.000%) Support Analyst
9 3 (5.000%) Technical Architect
9 3 (5.000%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) Computer Science
2 4 (6.667%) Open Source
2 4 (6.667%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.667%) NHS
2 4 (6.667%) Mathematics
3 3 (5.000%) Data Integration
4 2 (3.333%) Informatics
4 2 (3.333%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.333%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.667%) MPEG
5 1 (1.667%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.667%) STB
5 1 (1.667%) Beowulf
5 1 (1.667%) IPTV
5 1 (1.667%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.333%) Linux
1 5 (8.333%) Windows
2 3 (5.000%) UNIX
3 1 (1.667%) Solaris
3 1 (1.667%) Windows XP
3 1 (1.667%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (1.667%) Windows Vista
3 1 (1.667%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (23.33%) Project Management
2 11 (18.33%) ITIL
3 9 (15.00%) Service Management
3 9 (15.00%) Scrum
3 9 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (13.33%) Change Management
5 7 (11.67%) PRINCE2
5 7 (11.67%) Kanban
6 6 (10.00%) TDD
6 6 (10.00%) Web Development
7 5 (8.333%) Software Engineering
7 5 (8.333%) OO
7 5 (8.333%) SOA
7 5 (8.333%) MVC
8 4 (6.667%) Validation
8 4 (6.667%) CRM
8 4 (6.667%) Automated Testing
8 4 (6.667%) Dependency Injection
8 4 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (5.000%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 17 (28.33%) C#
2 14 (23.33%) SQL
3 8 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 6 (10.00%) T-SQL
5 5 (8.333%) Java
6 4 (6.667%) Ruby
6 4 (6.667%) PHP
6 4 (6.667%) C++
7 3 (5.000%) VB.NET
8 2 (3.333%) Python
8 2 (3.333%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.333%) Bash shell
9 1 (1.667%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 5 (8.333%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 2 (3.333%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.333%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.333%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.667%) A+ Certification
3 1 (1.667%) HND
3 1 (1.667%) MCSA
3 1 (1.667%) BC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (5.000%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.333%) VMware Server
3 1 (1.667%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.667%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (3.333%) OpenView
1 2 (3.333%) CA Wily
1 2 (3.333%) Puppet
2 1 (1.667%) ZENworks
2 1 (1.667%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 15 (25.00%) Oracle
2 13 (21.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.000%) VMware
4 2 (3.333%) HP
5 1 (1.667%) Apple
5 1 (1.667%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.667%) Sun
5 1 (1.667%) Amdocs
5 1 (1.667%) EPiServer
5 1 (1.667%) Sitecore
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