The first table below looks at the demand for concrete5 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited concrete5 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 of the Application Platforms category for the Milton Keynes 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
concrete5
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing concrete5 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.952% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.000% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £210 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 £160 -
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £10.00 -
All Application Platforms
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
125 122 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 23.81% 17.06% 15.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 51 39
Average daily rate £363 £300 £219
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.83% +36.98%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £120 £148 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £325 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 8
Average hourly rate £13.00 £13.50 £21.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% -38.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 £13.00 £12.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £13.50 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
concrete5
Buckinghamshire

concrete5
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing concrete5 across the Milton Keynes region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Milton Keynes concrete5 Jobs Demand Trend

concrete5
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing concrete5 across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes concrete5 Daily Rate Trend

concrete5
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing concrete5 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 concrete5.

1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
1 5 (100.00%) WordPress
2 1 (20.00%) CMS
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL

concrete5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing concrete5 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 concrete5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) WordPress
2 1 (20.00%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 5 (100.00%) PHP Developer
1 5 (100.00%) PHP Web Developer
2 2 (40.00%) PHP Programmer
2 2 (40.00%) Programmer
3 1 (20.00%) HTML Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Web Programmer
3 1 (20.00%) CSS Developer
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PHP