The first table below looks at the demand for the Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the North Yorkshire 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 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 Job Titles advertised for the North Yorkshire 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
Designer
Rank 22 24 24
Rank change year-on-year
+2 0
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 3 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 1.987% 1.714% 3.191%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.098% 1.818% 3.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £413 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £19.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £21.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
+30.95% +2.43%
All Job Titles
North Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
143 165 180
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 94.70% 94.29% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 82 69
Average daily rate £355 £320 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.93% +16.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £218 £213 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 12
Average hourly rate £16.88 £16.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -41.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.65 £10.50 £14.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £20.00 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Designer
Yorkshire

Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

North Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

North Yorkshire Designer Hourly Rate Trend

Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle 10g
1 3 (75.00%) Informatica
1 3 (75.00%) PowerCenter
1 3 (75.00%) Data Mart
1 3 (75.00%) Data Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) WPF
3 1 (25.00%) Silverlight
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) OmniGraffle
3 1 (25.00%) Axure RP
3 1 (25.00%) CSS3

Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) WPF
1 1 (25.00%) Silverlight
1 1 (25.00%) HTML5
1 1 (25.00%) CSS3
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (25.00%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle 10g
1 3 (75.00%) PowerCenter
1 3 (75.00%) Data Mart
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Axure RP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) Informatica