The first table below looks at the demand for the Graduate role in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Graduate 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Graduate
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Graduate 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.677% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.715% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £100 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 £110 £138
% change year-on-year
+59.09% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £10.75 £14.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-25.86% -3.33%
All Job Titles
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
699 824 608
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 94.59% 94.82% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 473 281
Average daily rate £300 £338 £326
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +3.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £212 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £460 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 48 47
Average hourly rate £12.50 £14.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% -6.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.00 £7.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.30 £40.90 £24.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Graduate
West Yorkshire

Graduate
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds Graduate Jobs Demand Trend

Graduate
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds Graduate Daily Rate Trend

Graduate
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds Graduate Hourly Rate Trend

Graduate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region that cited Graduate 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 Graduate in their job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Web Services
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) PHP
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Bash shell
3 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (40.00%) Node.js
3 2 (40.00%) MySQL
3 2 (40.00%) nginx
3 2 (40.00%) Apache
4 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (20.00%) LAMP
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Ruby
4 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (20.00%) Web Development
4 1 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Symfony
4 1 (20.00%) Drupal
4 1 (20.00%) Erlang
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
4 1 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (20.00%) DHCP

Graduate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) Web Services
2 2 (40.00%) Node.js
3 1 (20.00%) LAMP
3 1 (20.00%) Symfony
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) CSS3
3 1 (20.00%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon AWS
2 2 (40.00%) nginx
2 2 (40.00%) Apache
3 1 (20.00%) Drupal
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) Route 53
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (20.00%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) CouchDB
2 1 (20.00%) Redis
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Open Source
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Scrum
1 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (20.00%) TDD
1 1 (20.00%) Web Development
1 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (20.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PHP
2 2 (40.00%) Bash shell
3 1 (20.00%) Ruby
3 1 (20.00%) Erlang
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Percona
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Drupal 7. -Cloud Based Infrastructure - Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, ELB, CloudFormation, CloudFront, Route 53) -Linux (Ubuntu, Redhat) -Apache... -Nginx. -PHP. -MongoDB. -MySQL/Percona. -HTML4/5 + Javascript + CSS2/...
Hotfoot Resourcing.
Rate: From £100 to £150 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
Graduate Cloud Operations Engineer, Amazon Web Services, Linux Systems-£80-90 Per day - 6 MonthsMy worldwide market leading client is currently searching for enthusiastic IT Graduates to join...
OPUS
Rate: GBP80 to GBP90 per day
Posted: 30 April 2013