The first table below looks at the demand for the Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the Newport region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Designer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Newport 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
Designer
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newport 5.769% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 6.122% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £180 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £369 £386
% change year-on-year
-5.08% -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £21.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
+19.04% +2.43%
All Job Titles
Newport
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
49 71 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newport 94.23% 91.03% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 29 15
Average daily rate £380 £330 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.15% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £143 £287
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £513 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
Average hourly rate - £10.75 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -74.70%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Designer
South Wales

Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newport Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Designer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Newport Designer Daily Rate Trend

Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Newport Designer Hourly Rate Trend

Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newport region that cited Designer 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 Designer in their job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Photoshop
1 5 (50.00%) Flash
1 5 (50.00%) CSS
2 4 (40.00%) HTML
2 4 (40.00%) HTML5
3 3 (30.00%) Digital Media
3 3 (30.00%) Time Management
3 3 (30.00%) Mac OS
3 3 (30.00%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (30.00%) Animation
4 2 (20.00%) XPath
4 2 (20.00%) Degree
4 2 (20.00%) ESB
4 2 (20.00%) Graphic Design
4 2 (20.00%) Web Design
4 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (20.00%) Cordys
4 2 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) ActionScript
4 2 (20.00%) J2EE
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle
4 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
4 2 (20.00%) SAP
4 2 (20.00%) Web Services
4 2 (20.00%) XML
4 2 (20.00%) XSD

Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newport region that cited Designer 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 Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (50.00%) Flash
1 5 (50.00%) CSS
2 4 (40.00%) HTML
2 4 (40.00%) HTML5
3 2 (20.00%) J2EE
3 2 (20.00%) Web Services
3 2 (20.00%) XML
3 2 (20.00%) XSD
3 2 (20.00%) DOM
3 2 (20.00%) XSLT
3 2 (20.00%) EDI
3 2 (20.00%) JAXP
3 2 (20.00%) SAX
4 1 (10.00%) JDBC
4 1 (10.00%) Servlets
4 1 (10.00%) EJB
4 1 (10.00%) JPA
4 1 (10.00%) Spring
4 1 (10.00%) JSF
4 1 (10.00%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) ESB
1 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
1 2 (20.00%) MQSeries
2 1 (10.00%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 3 (30.00%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) TOAD
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) Big Data
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) ClearCase
1 2 (20.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (20.00%) ClearQuest
2 1 (10.00%) Ant
2 1 (10.00%) Axure RP
2 1 (10.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (10.00%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Digital Media
1 3 (30.00%) Animation
2 2 (20.00%) Graphic Design
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (20.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (10.00%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Time Management
2 2 (20.00%) Web Design
2 2 (20.00%) UML
2 2 (20.00%) EAI
2 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (20.00%) SOA
3 1 (10.00%) OOD
3 1 (10.00%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (10.00%) Information Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) XPath
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
1 2 (20.00%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Cordys
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
1 2 (20.00%) SAP
1 2 (20.00%) i2
1 2 (20.00%) JDA