The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Multimedia in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Multimedia over the 3 months to 22 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 General 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multimedia
Rank 349 361 365
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +4
Contract jobs citing Multimedia 38 57 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.173% 0.208% 0.222%
As % of the General category 0.335% 0.393% 0.374%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 26 44
Average daily rate £138 £315 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-56.34% -13.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £110 £275 £130
10% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £513 £593
UK excluding London average daily rate £293 £315 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 4
Average hourly rate £27.50 - £20.75
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.74 - £16.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 - £130.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £14.63 £33.25
% change year-on-year
+16.23% -56.01%
All of the General Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
11344 14496 18192
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 51.58% 53.02% 59.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7927 9886 12381
Average daily rate £500 £475 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -9.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £300 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 230 291
Average hourly rate £22.50 £21.00 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.88 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Multimedia
England

Multimedia
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Multimedia Jobs Demand Trend

Multimedia
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Multimedia Daily Rate Trend

Multimedia
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Multimedia across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London Multimedia Daily Rate Histogram

Multimedia
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Multimedia Hourly Rate Trend

Multimedia
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Multimedia across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London Multimedia Hourly Rate Histogram

Multimedia
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Multimedia within the London region over the 3 months to 22 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 -1 1 - -
Hackney - 1 - -
Isleworth - 1 - -
Multimedia
England

Multimedia
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Multimedia 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 Multimedia.

1 22 (23.91%) JavaScript
2 21 (22.83%) Degree
3 20 (21.74%) HTML
4 19 (20.65%) QA
5 17 (18.48%) Android
5 17 (18.48%) CSS
6 15 (16.30%) Java
7 14 (15.22%) iPad
7 14 (15.22%) Marketing
8 13 (14.13%) XML
9 12 (13.04%) Computer Science
9 12 (13.04%) Agile Software Development
9 12 (13.04%) Mobile App
10 11 (11.96%) iPhone
10 11 (11.96%) MS Office
10 11 (11.96%) Project Management
11 10 (10.87%) CMS
11 10 (10.87%) HTML5
12 9 (9.783%) Ajax
12 9 (9.783%) Games
12 9 (9.783%) SQL
12 9 (9.783%) .NET
12 9 (9.783%) Web Services
12 9 (9.783%) XHTML
12 9 (9.783%) Digital Media
13 8 (8.696%) Scrum
13 8 (8.696%) MVC
13 8 (8.696%) Microsoft
13 8 (8.696%) Social Media
13 8 (8.696%) jQuery

Multimedia
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Multimedia 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 Multimedia. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (21.74%) HTML
2 17 (18.48%) CSS
3 13 (14.13%) XML
4 10 (10.87%) HTML5
5 9 (9.783%) Ajax
5 9 (9.783%) .NET
5 9 (9.783%) Web Services
5 9 (9.783%) XHTML
6 8 (8.696%) jQuery
7 7 (7.609%) SOAP
8 6 (6.522%) ASP.NET
8 6 (6.522%) Flash
9 5 (5.435%) REST
9 5 (5.435%) CSS3
9 5 (5.435%) RESTful
10 4 (4.348%) XSLT
10 4 (4.348%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (4.348%) .NET Framework
10 4 (4.348%) JSON
11 3 (3.261%) JAX-RS
Application Platforms
1 10 (10.87%) CMS
2 7 (7.609%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.261%) Apache
4 2 (2.174%) SAS
4 2 (2.174%) Moodle
4 2 (2.174%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (1.087%) Umbraco
5 1 (1.087%) WordPress
5 1 (1.087%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 11 (11.96%) MS Office
2 7 (7.609%) Photoshop
3 6 (6.522%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (5.435%) MS PowerPoint
4 5 (5.435%) MS Visio
5 2 (2.174%) MS Excel
5 2 (2.174%) Fireworks
5 2 (2.174%) Acrobat
6 1 (1.087%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (1.087%) PageMaker
6 1 (1.087%) SPSS
6 1 (1.087%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.174%) SAP BPC
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.522%) LAN
2 4 (4.348%) WAN
2 4 (4.348%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (3.261%) Internet
4 1 (1.087%) LTE
4 1 (1.087%) Network Security
4 1 (1.087%) Intranet
4 1 (1.087%) RTCP
4 1 (1.087%) RTP
4 1 (1.087%) GSM
4 1 (1.087%) HTTP
4 1 (1.087%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.435%) MySQL
2 3 (3.261%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.174%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (2.174%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.174%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.174%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.174%) CouchDB
3 2 (2.174%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.087%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 7 (7.609%) Selenium
2 5 (5.435%) QuickTest Pro
3 4 (4.348%) Visual Studio
4 3 (3.261%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.174%) Xcode
5 2 (2.174%) Git (software)
6 1 (1.087%) PhoneGap
6 1 (1.087%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.087%) Maven
6 1 (1.087%) JIRA
6 1 (1.087%) Expression Blend
6 1 (1.087%) Mercurial
6 1 (1.087%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.087%) Dreamweaver
General
1 14 (15.22%) Marketing
2 9 (9.783%) Games
3 7 (7.609%) Publishing
4 6 (6.522%) Retail
5 5 (5.435%) Finance
6 4 (4.348%) Advertising
6 4 (4.348%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.348%) Back Office
7 3 (3.261%) French Language
7 3 (3.261%) German Language
7 3 (3.261%) Military
8 2 (2.174%) Banking
8 2 (2.174%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.087%) Law
9 1 (1.087%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (26.09%) Developer
2 14 (15.22%) Tester
3 12 (13.04%) Designer
4 7 (7.609%) Junior
5 6 (6.522%) Junior Tester
6 5 (5.435%) Java Developer
6 5 (5.435%) Analyst
6 5 (5.435%) Web Developer
7 4 (4.348%) Graduate
7 4 (4.348%) Android Developer
7 4 (4.348%) User Experience Designer
7 4 (4.348%) Technical Manager
7 4 (4.348%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (4.348%) Technical Delivery Manager
7 4 (4.348%) Mobile Tester
8 3 (3.261%) Instructional Designer
8 3 (3.261%) Applications Tester
8 3 (3.261%) Front-End Developer
8 3 (3.261%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.174%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.22%) iPad
2 12 (13.04%) Computer Science
2 12 (13.04%) Mobile App
3 11 (11.96%) iPhone
4 9 (9.783%) Digital Media
5 8 (8.696%) Social Media
6 6 (6.522%) E-Learning
6 6 (6.522%) New Media
7 5 (5.435%) Blackberry
8 4 (4.348%) Streaming Video
9 3 (3.261%) Graphic Design
9 3 (3.261%) Online Games
10 2 (2.174%) VLE
10 2 (2.174%) Management Information System
10 2 (2.174%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.174%) Learning Management System
10 2 (2.174%) Social Network
10 2 (2.174%) RIA
10 2 (2.174%) Animation
10 2 (2.174%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.48%) Android
2 7 (7.609%) Apple iOS
3 6 (6.522%) Windows
4 4 (4.348%) Linux
5 2 (2.174%) UNIX
5 2 (2.174%) Solaris
6 1 (1.087%) Windows 2000
6 1 (1.087%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (13.04%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (11.96%) Project Management
3 8 (8.696%) Scrum
3 8 (8.696%) MVC
4 7 (7.609%) TDD
4 7 (7.609%) Migration
4 7 (7.609%) E-Commerce
5 6 (6.522%) Web Development
6 5 (5.435%) Content Management
7 4 (4.348%) Service Management
7 4 (4.348%) Service Delivery
7 4 (4.348%) Change Management
7 4 (4.348%) Mobile Application Development
8 3 (3.261%) Change Control
8 3 (3.261%) Time Management
8 3 (3.261%) BDD
8 3 (3.261%) PRINCE2
8 3 (3.261%) ITIL
9 2 (2.174%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (2.174%) DSDM
Programming Languages
1 22 (23.91%) JavaScript
2 15 (16.30%) Java
3 9 (9.783%) SQL
4 7 (7.609%) C
4 7 (7.609%) C#
5 5 (5.435%) C++
6 4 (4.348%) PHP
7 3 (3.261%) Ruby
8 2 (2.174%) Perl
8 2 (2.174%) ActionScript
8 2 (2.174%) Python
9 1 (1.087%) SAS Macro
9 1 (1.087%) Lua
9 1 (1.087%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (22.83%) Degree
2 3 (3.261%) A+ Certification
3 2 (2.174%) ISEB
4 1 (1.087%) MOS
4 1 (1.087%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (20.65%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.261%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.087%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (8.696%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.522%) Facebook
3 4 (4.348%) Apple
3 4 (4.348%) Google
4 3 (3.261%) Twitter
4 3 (3.261%) Avaya
5 2 (2.174%) Oracle
5 2 (2.174%) SAP
5 2 (2.174%) Business Objects
5 2 (2.174%) HP
5 2 (2.174%) Adobe
5 2 (2.174%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.087%) Perforce
6 1 (1.087%) VMware
6 1 (1.087%) Quark
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