North East Graphic Design Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Graphic Design 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 Graphic Design over the 3 months to 16 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category for the North East region.

Graphic Design
Location Birmingham Buckinghamshire City of London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Hertfordshire London Luton Merseyside Milton Keynes North East North West Northamptonshire Scotland Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire St Helens Staines Surrey UK Watford Wellingborough West Midlands Yorkshire	3 months to 16 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	32	42	-
Rank change year-on-year	+10 -
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1	0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East	0.327 %	0.207 %	-
As % of the General category	1.370 %	0.877 %	-
Daily rates quoted	0	0	0
Average daily rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£165	£250	£300
% change year-on-year	-34.00 % -16.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Average hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.00	£17.50	£22.50
% change year-on-year	+14.28 % -22.22 %
All General Category North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the General category	73	114	266
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East	23.86 %	23.60 %	32.96 %
Daily rates quoted	31	46	45
Average daily rate	£400	£350	£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+14.28 % -12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£185	£210	£193
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£435	£477
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£375	£400
% change year-on-year	-6.660 % -6.250 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	3	33
Average hourly rate	£20.00	£19.25	£18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	+3.890 % +2.660 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£14.50	£8.20	£9.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£27.50	£27.50	£32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.00	£27.50	£27.50
% change year-on-year	-12.72 % -
Graphic Design England

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.

Graphic Design
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Graphic Design across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Graphic Design
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Graphic Design across the North East region.

Graphic Design
Top 2 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing Graphic Design 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 Graphic Design.

1 1 (100.00 %) Flash 1 1 (100.00 %) Animation

Graphic Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing Graphic Design 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 Graphic Design. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (100.00 %) Flash	General 1 1 (100.00 %) Animation
Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) UI Designer 1 1 (100.00 %) UI Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) Designer