The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Media 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 Digital Media 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 Miscellaneous category 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Digital Media
Rank - 47 -
Contract jobs citing Digital Media 0 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East - 0.604% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - 3.448% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £250 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £291 £300 £363
% change year-on-year
-2.91% -17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £25.50 -
% change year-on-year
-43.13% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
43 87 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 16.10% 17.51% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 50 28
Average daily rate £313 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £224 £249 £204
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £567 £597
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
Average hourly rate £13.11 £15.00 £17.18
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.60% -12.68%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Digital Media
England

Digital Media
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East Digital Media Jobs Demand Trend

Digital Media
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Digital Media across the North East region.

North East Digital Media Daily Rate Trend

Digital Media
Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing Digital Media 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 Digital Media.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software

Digital Media
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing Digital Media 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 Digital Media. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Flex
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) Flash Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) Flash Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) Flex Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Flex Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java