The first table below looks at the demand for the Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the Northamptonshire 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 17 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 Northamptonshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Designer
Rank 28 37 31
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 3 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 1.220% 2.239% 0.365%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.293% 2.362% 0.395%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 1
Average daily rate £413 £250 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+65.00% -47.36%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £360 £386
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -6.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.00 £21.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
+9.52% +2.43%
All Job Titles
Northamptonshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
232 381 253
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 94.31% 94.78% 92.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 254 142
Average daily rate £371 £330 £341
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.27% -3.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £150 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 26
Average hourly rate £13.50 £13.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -20.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £9.50 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £18.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Designer
East Midlands

Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire Designer Hourly Rate Trend

Designer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Designer within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Northampton +6 2 - -
Designer
East Midlands

Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) Project Management
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
1 3 (75.00%) Open Source
1 3 (75.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (25.00%) SAP CO
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (25.00%) hybris
3 1 (25.00%) Google Apps
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (25.00%) Xen

Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP SD
1 1 (25.00%) SAP FI
1 1 (25.00%) SAP PP
1 1 (25.00%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (25.00%) SAP CO
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Open Source
1 3 (75.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Implementation
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Xen
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) JDA
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) hybris
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
Northamptonshire
Graphic/Email Designer - Contract (Intially only 2 weeks, may extend) Over the two weeks you will be responsible for maintaining and modifying product images on the eCommerce Website...
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Rate: £150 - 200 per day
Posted: 13 May 2013