The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Reference Data 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category 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
Reference Data
Rank 71 66 -
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.406% 0.115% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.840% 0.775% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £325 £150 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+116.66% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £463 £396 £330
% change year-on-year
+16.79% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.00 -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
163 129 156
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 22.06% 14.84% 24.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 65 76
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £250 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 9
Average hourly rate £11.75 £11.00 £20.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.81% -45.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.97 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.40 £13.10 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Reference Data
West Yorkshire

Reference Data
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds Reference Data Jobs Demand Trend

Reference Data
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds Reference Data Daily Rate Trend

Reference Data
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Reference Data 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 Reference Data.

1 4 (66.67%) MS Office
1 4 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 3 (50.00%) SAS
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) SPSS
2 3 (50.00%) NHS
2 3 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) VBA
3 2 (33.33%) Business Objects
4 1 (16.67%) Windows
4 1 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (16.67%) CRM
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Perforce
4 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) Test Management
4 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 1 (16.67%) C
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) BIG-IP
4 1 (16.67%) Supplier Management
4 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (16.67%) Statistics

Reference Data
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Reference Data 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 Reference Data. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) MS Office
1 4 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 3 (50.00%) SPSS
2 3 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) BIG-IP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (50.00%) Information Analyst
4 2 (33.33%) Senior Information Analyst
4 2 (33.33%) Report Analyst
4 2 (33.33%) Senior Reporting Analyst
5 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
5 1 (16.67%) Software Manager
5 1 (16.67%) NHS Information Analyst
5 1 (16.67%) Configuration Manager
5 1 (16.67%) Software Configuration Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) NHS
2 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (16.67%) CentOS
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (16.67%) CRM
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Test Management
2 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
2 1 (16.67%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) VBA
3 1 (16.67%) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Business Objects
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Perforce
2 1 (16.67%) F5