The first table below looks at the demand for the Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire 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 32 24 28
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 9 16 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 2.727% 5.634% 2.349%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.885% 6.015% 2.509%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 5
Average daily rate £685 £500 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.00% +19.04%
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
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
312 266 279
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 94.55% 93.66% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 138 89
Average daily rate £350 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.90% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 14 26
Average hourly rate £14.00 £17.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £8.50 £10.27
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
East Midlands

Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire 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
Nottingham -14 9 £685 +37.00%
Designer
East Midlands

Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire 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