The first table below looks at the demand for the Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the North East 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 20 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 North East 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Designer
Rank 32 42 42
Rank change year-on-year
+10 0
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 3 7 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 1.128% 1.440% 0.452%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.205% 1.566% 0.495%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
Average daily rate £410 £475 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.68% +26.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £363 £388
% change year-on-year
-3.44% -6.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.00 £21.75 £20.50
% change year-on-year
+5.74% +6.09%
All Job Titles
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
249 447 404
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 93.61% 91.98% 91.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 225 182
Average daily rate £300 £350 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £230 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 39 26
Average hourly rate £11.00 £20.00 £16.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.00% +20.30%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.18 £9.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.25 £35.00 £25.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Designer
England

Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region.

North East Designer Hourly Rate Trend

Designer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Designer within the North East region over the 3 months to 20 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
Tyne and Wear +6 1 £410 -13.68%
Durham - 1 - -
Designer
England

Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (20.00%) OOD
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (20.00%) Flash
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (20.00%) ActionScript
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (20.00%) Informatica
2 1 (20.00%) PowerCenter
2 1 (20.00%) AutoCAD
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services

Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) Flash
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (20.00%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (20.00%) PowerCenter
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (20.00%) Data Mart
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Flash Builder
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) PDA
1 1 (20.00%) Graphic Design
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) OOD
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (20.00%) ActionScript
2 1 (20.00%) ActionScript 3.0
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) Informatica
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
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