Digital Media Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Media in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Digital Media over the 3 months to 23 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 West 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Digital Media
Rank 114 116 123
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +7
Contract jobs citing Digital Media 4 13 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.171% 0.416% 0.129%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.739% 2.077% 0.632%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 2
Average daily rate - £260 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -16.80%
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 £300 £350
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £9.00 £20.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-55.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £25.50 -
% change year-on-year
-43.13% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 541 626 633
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 23.08% 20.05% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 302 316
Average daily rate £300 £325 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +1.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £207 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £470 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 57 72
Average hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £13.35 £10.48
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.66 £25.00 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

North West 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 West region.

North West Digital Media Daily Rate Trend

Digital Media
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Digital Media Hourly Rate Trend

Digital Media
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Media within the North West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Manchester +11 2 - -
Cheshire +3 1 - -
Digital Media
England

Digital Media
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 7 (28.00%) HTML
1 7 (28.00%) CSS
2 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (24.00%) MVC
2 6 (24.00%) Intranet
2 6 (24.00%) CMS
3 5 (20.00%) Scrum
3 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.00%) .NET
3 5 (20.00%) C#
3 5 (20.00%) MS Office
3 5 (20.00%) Windows
3 5 (20.00%) MS Excel
3 5 (20.00%) SharePoint
4 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (16.00%) Umbraco
4 4 (16.00%) Sitecore
5 3 (12.00%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (12.00%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (12.00%) Banking
5 3 (12.00%) Photoshop
5 3 (12.00%) Adobe
6 2 (8.000%) Apple
6 2 (8.000%) NHS
6 2 (8.000%) J2ME
6 2 (8.000%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (8.000%) Telecoms
6 2 (8.000%) Java
6 2 (8.000%) OOP
6 2 (8.000%) XML

Digital Media
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 7 (28.00%) HTML
1 7 (28.00%) CSS
2 5 (20.00%) .NET
3 2 (8.000%) J2ME
3 2 (8.000%) XML
3 2 (8.000%) JSON
4 1 (4.000%) WinForms
4 1 (4.000%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 6 (24.00%) CMS
2 5 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (16.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) MS Office
1 5 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (12.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (12.00%) Photoshop
3 2 (8.000%) InDesign
4 1 (4.000%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.000%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.000%) Dreamweaver
General
1 3 (12.00%) Banking
2 2 (8.000%) Telecoms
2 2 (8.000%) Retail
2 2 (8.000%) Marketing
2 2 (8.000%) Finance
3 1 (4.000%) Automotive
3 1 (4.000%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Project Manager
1 8 (32.00%) Developer
2 6 (24.00%) Senior Developer
3 5 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Content Editor
4 4 (16.00%) Senior .NET Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Web Content Editor
5 3 (12.00%) Web Editor
6 2 (8.000%) Agile Project Manager
6 2 (8.000%) Android Developer
7 1 (4.000%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Junior Graphic Designer
7 1 (4.000%) Designer
7 1 (4.000%) Junior Designer
7 1 (4.000%) Senior Business Analyst
7 1 (4.000%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (4.000%) Graphic Designer
7 1 (4.000%) C# Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Flash Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Contracts Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.000%) NHS
1 2 (8.000%) IPTV
1 2 (8.000%) Photography
1 2 (8.000%) FMCG
1 2 (8.000%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.000%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) MVC
2 5 (20.00%) Scrum
3 3 (12.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (8.000%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (8.000%) OOP
5 1 (4.000%) Mobile Application Development
5 1 (4.000%) Analytics
5 1 (4.000%) User Stories
5 1 (4.000%) Kanban
5 1 (4.000%) Web Development
5 1 (4.000%) TDD
5 1 (4.000%) Business Analysis
5 1 (4.000%) Web Analytics
5 1 (4.000%) E-Commerce
5 1 (4.000%) SEO
5 1 (4.000%) Workflow
5 1 (4.000%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (8.000%) Java
4 1 (4.000%) ActionScript 3.0
4 1 (4.000%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (4.000%) ActionScript
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Sitecore
3 3 (12.00%) Adobe
4 2 (8.000%) Apple
5 1 (4.000%) Google
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