Technical Writer Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Writer role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Writer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
Technical Writer
Rank 369 409 423
Rank change year-on-year
+40 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Writer 8 6 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.037% 0.022% 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.024% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 8
Average daily rate £310 £300 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% +0.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £217 £300 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £310 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £356 £281 £300
% change year-on-year
+26.66% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £19.75 £28.20
% change year-on-year
- -29.96%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 19942 24907 28750
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.08% 92.46% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13399 16045 18461
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 624 677
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Writer
England

Technical Writer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Technical Writer Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Writer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Technical Writer Daily Rate Trend

Technical Writer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Writer across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Technical Writer Daily Rate Histogram

Technical Writer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Technical Writer Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Writer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Writer within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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 +16 2 £329 -
Paddington - 1 £370 -
Technical Writer
England

Technical Writer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Technical Writer in their job title 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 with Technical Writer in their job title.

1 5 (27.78%) MS Visio
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Adobe
2 4 (22.22%) .NET
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) VB.NET
3 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (11.11%) Photoshop
3 2 (11.11%) Acrobat
3 2 (11.11%) SLA
3 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.11%) Change Control
4 1 (5.556%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.556%) Legal
4 1 (5.556%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (5.556%) InDesign
4 1 (5.556%) Web Design
4 1 (5.556%) Banking
4 1 (5.556%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (5.556%) Online Banking
4 1 (5.556%) Marketing
4 1 (5.556%) Web Development
4 1 (5.556%) Degree
4 1 (5.556%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.556%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.556%) Smart Meter
4 1 (5.556%) Reuters

Technical Writer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Technical Writer in their job title 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 with Technical Writer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.556%) HTML
3 1 (5.556%) CSS
3 1 (5.556%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) MS Visio
2 2 (11.11%) Photoshop
2 2 (11.11%) Acrobat
3 1 (5.556%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (5.556%) InDesign
3 1 (5.556%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (5.556%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) HTTP
1 1 (5.556%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.556%) Data Warehouse
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 1 (5.556%) Legal
2 1 (5.556%) Banking
2 1 (5.556%) Marketing
2 1 (5.556%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.556%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.556%) Online Banking
2 1 (5.556%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.556%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.11%) Change Control
2 1 (5.556%) Web Design
2 1 (5.556%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) VB.NET
3 1 (5.556%) C++
3 1 (5.556%) Java
3 1 (5.556%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) Degree
1 1 (5.556%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.556%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 4 (22.22%) Adobe
2 1 (5.556%) Reuters
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