The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Graphic Design in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Graphic Design over the 3 months to 21 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Graphic Design
Rank 343 357 393
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +36
Contract jobs citing Graphic Design 46 48 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.209% 0.178% 0.121%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.631% 0.554% 0.319%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 29 19
Average daily rate £300 £338 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +22.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £212 £244
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £478 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £250 £195
% change year-on-year
+20.00% +28.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £37.50 £31.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.04% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.75 £17.01 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+69.06% -51.41%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
7287 8670 11603
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 33.08% 32.13% 37.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5064 5888 7838
Average daily rate £475 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £283 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 211 195
Average hourly rate £23.50 £22.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.44% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £52.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
Graphic Design
England

Graphic Design
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Graphic Design Jobs Demand Trend

Graphic Design
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Graphic Design Daily Rate Trend

Graphic Design
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Graphic Design across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London Graphic Design Daily Rate Histogram

Graphic Design
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Graphic Design Hourly Rate Trend

Graphic Design
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Graphic Design within the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +19 15 £225 -37.93%
Graphic Design
England

Graphic Design
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Graphic Design 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 Graphic Design.

1 46 (58.23%) Photoshop
2 34 (43.04%) CSS
3 29 (36.71%) JavaScript
4 28 (35.44%) HTML
5 17 (21.52%) Java
6 16 (20.25%) Adobe
6 16 (20.25%) Android
7 15 (18.99%) Apple iOS
7 15 (18.99%) Objective-C
7 15 (18.99%) Adobe Illustrator
7 15 (18.99%) Marketing
8 13 (16.46%) Degree
8 13 (16.46%) C++
9 12 (15.19%) OO
9 12 (15.19%) Web Services
9 12 (15.19%) JSON
9 12 (15.19%) Web Design
9 12 (15.19%) Subversion
9 12 (15.19%) Git (software)
9 12 (15.19%) Open Source
10 11 (13.92%) Mercurial
10 11 (13.92%) Multithreading
10 11 (13.92%) HTML5
10 11 (13.92%) Balsamiq Mockups
10 11 (13.92%) GitHub
10 11 (13.92%) REST
10 11 (13.92%) Trac
10 11 (13.92%) Xcode
10 11 (13.92%) Flash
10 11 (13.92%) Python

Graphic Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Graphic Design 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 Graphic Design. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 34 (43.04%) CSS
2 28 (35.44%) HTML
3 12 (15.19%) Web Services
3 12 (15.19%) JSON
4 11 (13.92%) HTML5
4 11 (13.92%) REST
4 11 (13.92%) Flash
5 9 (11.39%) iOS SDK
6 8 (10.13%) jQuery
6 8 (10.13%) CSS3
7 5 (6.329%) Apache Flex
7 5 (6.329%) JSP
8 4 (5.063%) XHTML
8 4 (5.063%) Ajax
8 4 (5.063%) JSTL
9 3 (3.797%) Parsley
9 3 (3.797%) BlazeDS
9 3 (3.797%) Ember.js
9 3 (3.797%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.797%) XML
Application Platforms
1 10 (12.66%) CMS
2 6 (7.595%) Drupal
3 5 (6.329%) Moodle
4 4 (5.063%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.532%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.532%) WordPress
6 1 (1.266%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (1.266%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 46 (58.23%) Photoshop
2 15 (18.99%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (5.063%) MS Office
4 3 (3.797%) MS Excel
5 2 (2.532%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (1.266%) OmniGraffle
6 1 (1.266%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (1.266%) MS PowerPoint
6 1 (1.266%) InDesign
6 1 (1.266%) PageMaker
6 1 (1.266%) Acrobat
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.797%) Intranet
2 1 (1.266%) SSH
2 1 (1.266%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.532%) QlikView
2 1 (1.266%) MySQL
2 1 (1.266%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (15.19%) Subversion
1 12 (15.19%) Git (software)
2 11 (13.92%) Mercurial
2 11 (13.92%) Balsamiq Mockups
2 11 (13.92%) GitHub
2 11 (13.92%) Trac
2 11 (13.92%) Xcode
3 10 (12.66%) Dreamweaver
4 3 (3.797%) FlexUnit
4 3 (3.797%) PhoneGap
4 3 (3.797%) Appcelerator Titanium
4 3 (3.797%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.532%) Flash Builder
6 1 (1.266%) Rational Application Developer
6 1 (1.266%) Axure RP
6 1 (1.266%) Expression Blend
6 1 (1.266%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (1.266%) Eclipse
General
1 15 (18.99%) Marketing
2 7 (8.861%) Banking
2 7 (8.861%) Finance
3 5 (6.329%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.063%) Publishing
5 3 (3.797%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.797%) Interactive Media
5 3 (3.797%) Retail
5 3 (3.797%) Multimedia
6 2 (2.532%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.532%) Legal
6 2 (2.532%) Advertising
6 2 (2.532%) Games
7 1 (1.266%) Japanese Language
7 1 (1.266%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.266%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 40 (50.63%) Designer
2 36 (45.57%) Developer
3 12 (15.19%) iOS Developer
4 10 (12.66%) User Experience Designer
5 9 (11.39%) Web Designer
6 8 (10.13%) Front-End Developer
7 6 (7.595%) E-Learning Developer
7 6 (7.595%) Digital Designer
8 5 (6.329%) Graphic Designer
8 5 (6.329%) Instructional Designer
8 5 (6.329%) Web Developer
9 3 (3.797%) Senior Designer
9 3 (3.797%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 3 (3.797%) Mobile Developer
9 3 (3.797%) Front-End Web Developer
9 3 (3.797%) Junior
9 3 (3.797%) Applications Developer
10 2 (2.532%) Graphic Artist
10 2 (2.532%) UI Designer
10 2 (2.532%) Photoshop Designer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.19%) Open Source
2 10 (12.66%) Mobile App
2 10 (12.66%) Visualisation
3 6 (7.595%) E-Learning
4 5 (6.329%) Learning Management System
5 4 (5.063%) Digital Media
6 2 (2.532%) Interactive TV
6 2 (2.532%) Animation
6 2 (2.532%) Photography
6 2 (2.532%) Social Media
7 1 (1.266%) Social Gaming
7 1 (1.266%) iPad
7 1 (1.266%) Video on Demand
7 1 (1.266%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.266%) iPhone
7 1 (1.266%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.266%) Computer Science
7 1 (1.266%) Copywriting
7 1 (1.266%) Podcast
7 1 (1.266%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.25%) Android
2 15 (18.99%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.266%) UNIX
3 1 (1.266%) Windows
3 1 (1.266%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (15.19%) OO
1 12 (15.19%) Web Design
2 11 (13.92%) Multithreading
2 11 (13.92%) OOD
3 10 (12.66%) Time Management
4 9 (11.39%) OOP
4 9 (11.39%) E-Commerce
4 9 (11.39%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (10.13%) Content Management
6 6 (7.595%) Web Development
7 5 (6.329%) Information Architecture
7 5 (6.329%) User Experience Design
8 3 (3.797%) Validation
8 3 (3.797%) TDD
9 2 (2.532%) Project Management
9 2 (2.532%) SEO
9 2 (2.532%) Workflow
10 1 (1.266%) Progressive Enhancement
10 1 (1.266%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 1 (1.266%) Graceful Degradation
Programming Languages
1 29 (36.71%) JavaScript
2 17 (21.52%) Java
3 15 (18.99%) Objective-C
4 13 (16.46%) C++
5 11 (13.92%) Python
6 5 (6.329%) ActionScript
7 3 (3.797%) C#
8 2 (2.532%) PHP
9 1 (1.266%) ActionScript 3.0
9 1 (1.266%) Ruby
9 1 (1.266%) SQL
9 1 (1.266%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.266%) C
9 1 (1.266%) XAML
Qualifications
1 13 (16.46%) Degree
2 1 (1.266%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.266%) WCAG
1 1 (1.266%) WAI
1 1 (1.266%) QA
Vendors
1 16 (20.25%) Adobe
2 7 (8.861%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.532%) Twitter
4 1 (1.266%) Facebook
4 1 (1.266%) Zend
4 1 (1.266%) IBM