The first table below looks at the demand for the Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham 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 Nottingham 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 29 15 26
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 9 16 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 3.158% 7.207% 1.271%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.309% 7.656% 1.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 1
Average daily rate £685 £500 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.00% +42.85%
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
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
272 209 225
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 95.44% 94.14% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 103 67
Average daily rate £350 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £94
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 13 23
Average hourly rate £13.75 £17.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £8.50 £10.08
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Designer
Nottinghamshire

Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham Designer Daily Rate Trend

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Designer across the Nottingham region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Nottingham Designer Daily Rate Histogram

Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Nottingham Designer Hourly Rate Trend

Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 7 (58.33%) Technical Architecture
2 6 (50.00%) SAP HANA
2 6 (50.00%) SAP
3 5 (41.67%) ASP.NET
3 5 (41.67%) .NET
4 4 (33.33%) C#
4 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 4 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (25.00%) jQuery
5 3 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (25.00%) T-SQL
5 3 (25.00%) Visual Studio
5 3 (25.00%) Java
5 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (16.67%) Oracle
6 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 2 (16.67%) IIS
6 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (16.67%) Ajax
6 2 (16.67%) MVC
6 2 (16.67%) Migration
6 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
6 2 (16.67%) Windows
6 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 2 (16.67%) Razor View Engine
6 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
6 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (16.67%) Web Development

Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 5 (41.67%) ASP.NET
1 5 (41.67%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) jQuery
3 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 2 (16.67%) Razor View Engine
3 2 (16.67%) WCF
3 2 (16.67%) Ajax
4 1 (8.333%) WebSphere
4 1 (8.333%) ASP
4 1 (8.333%) CSS
4 1 (8.333%) XSLT
4 1 (8.333%) XHTML
4 1 (8.333%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) IIS
2 1 (8.333%) CMS
2 1 (8.333%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (8.333%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (8.333%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) SAP HANA
2 4 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (8.333%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (8.333%) Dreamweaver
General
1 1 (8.333%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (16.67%) Web Development
2 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (16.67%) MVC
2 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (8.333%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) C#
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (8.333%) Sitecore