The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing 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 Publishing over the 3 months to 24 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 General 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Publishing
Rank - - 43
Contract jobs citing Publishing 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East - - 0.458%
As % of the General category - - 1.770%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £365 £338
% change year-on-year
-8.21% +8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-6.06% -15.38%
All of the General Category
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
68 121 113
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 24.29% 24.49% 25.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 68 51
Average daily rate £425 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £263 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 4
Average hourly rate £11.00 £22.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-51.11% +28.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Publishing
England

Publishing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East Publishing Jobs Demand Trend

Publishing
Daily Rate Trend

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

North East Publishing Daily Rate Trend

Publishing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North East Publishing Hourly Rate Trend

Publishing
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing Publishing 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 Publishing.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint Server

Publishing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing Publishing 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 Publishing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft