The first table below looks at the demand for Risk Assessment skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Risk Assessment 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 of the Processes & Methodologies 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Risk Assessment
Rank 75 65 52
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -13
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 1 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.134% 0.337% 0.799%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.181% 0.468% 1.176%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
Average daily rate £225 £450 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% +24.13%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £365 £350
% change year-on-year
+2.73% +4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £23.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+23.40% -27.69%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
552 641 425
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 74.09% 72.02% 67.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 377 211
Average daily rate £315 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.69% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £245 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 19
Average hourly rate £34.00 £20.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+65.85% +17.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 £12.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Risk Assessment
West Yorkshire

Risk Assessment
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Risk Assessment across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Leeds Risk Assessment Jobs Demand Trend

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds Risk Assessment Daily Rate Trend

Risk Assessment
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Risk Assessment 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 Risk Assessment.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) ISEB
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy

Risk Assessment
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Risk Assessment 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 Risk Assessment. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) System Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft