The first table below looks at the demand for GIMP skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GIMP 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 of the Applications category for the London 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
GIMP
Rank 373 411 -
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -
Contract jobs citing GIMP 4 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.018% 0.015% -
As % of the Applications category 0.149% 0.119% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £313 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 -
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £10.19
All Applications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
2676 3375 3585
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.36% 12.53% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1691 2057 2177
Average daily rate £388 £396 £430
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.14% -7.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £208 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 169 244
Average hourly rate £17.00 £16.25 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -4.41%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £33.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.12%
GIMP
England

GIMP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing GIMP across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

London GIMP Jobs Demand Trend

GIMP
Daily Rate Trend

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

London GIMP Daily Rate Trend

GIMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing GIMP 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 GIMP.

1 10 (100.00%) HTML
1 10 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 10 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 10 (100.00%) CSS
2 8 (80.00%) DOM
2 8 (80.00%) XHTML
2 8 (80.00%) HTTP
2 8 (80.00%) Dreamweaver
2 8 (80.00%) WCAG
2 8 (80.00%) W3C
3 2 (20.00%) RESTful
3 2 (20.00%) HTML5
3 2 (20.00%) Progressive Enhancement
3 2 (20.00%) CSS3
3 2 (20.00%) Graceful Degradation
3 2 (20.00%) Semantic HTML
3 2 (20.00%) JSON
3 2 (20.00%) Selenium
3 2 (20.00%) Drupal
3 2 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (20.00%) jQuery
3 2 (20.00%) Firebug
3 2 (20.00%) Adobe
3 2 (20.00%) Web Services
3 2 (20.00%) XML
3 2 (20.00%) Subversion
3 2 (20.00%) Ajax
3 2 (20.00%) Marketing
3 2 (20.00%) CMS
3 2 (20.00%) Adobe Illustrator

GIMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 10 (100.00%) HTML
1 10 (100.00%) CSS
2 8 (80.00%) DOM
2 8 (80.00%) XHTML
3 2 (20.00%) RESTful
3 2 (20.00%) HTML5
3 2 (20.00%) CSS3
3 2 (20.00%) Semantic HTML
3 2 (20.00%) JSON
3 2 (20.00%) jQuery
3 2 (20.00%) Web Services
3 2 (20.00%) XML
3 2 (20.00%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Drupal
1 2 (20.00%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Photoshop
2 2 (20.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Dreamweaver
2 2 (20.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) Firebug
2 2 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (90.00%) Web Developer
3 8 (80.00%) HTML Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Front-End Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Progressive Enhancement
1 2 (20.00%) Graceful Degradation
1 2 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Adobe
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