The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Media in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Digital Media over the 3 months to 22 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 Reading 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Digital Media
Rank 61 77 75
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -2
Contract jobs citing Digital Media 10 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.161% 0.351% 0.194%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.902% 2.083% 0.939%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 2
Average daily rate £275 £250 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -31.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £230 £353
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £330 £373
UK excluding London average daily rate £291 £300 £363
% change year-on-year
-2.91% -17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £25.50 -
% change year-on-year
-43.13% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
204 192 213
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.69% 16.87% 20.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 76 96
Average daily rate £375 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £214 £235 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £484 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 8
Average hourly rate £17.50 £15.79 £15.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.84% +3.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.53 £12.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.50 £50.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Digital Media
Berkshire

Digital Media
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Digital Media across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Digital Media Daily Rate Trend

Digital Media
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Digital Media across the Reading region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Reading Digital Media Daily Rate Histogram

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 Reading region.

Reading Digital Media Hourly Rate Trend

Digital Media
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 16 (84.21%) HTML5
2 15 (78.95%) HTML
2 15 (78.95%) CSS
3 13 (68.42%) JavaScript
4 11 (57.89%) jQuery
5 10 (52.63%) CSS3
6 9 (47.37%) .NET
7 8 (42.11%) Photoshop
7 8 (42.11%) ASP.NET
7 8 (42.11%) XHTML
7 8 (42.11%) iPad
7 8 (42.11%) Android
8 7 (36.84%) MVC
8 7 (36.84%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (31.58%) Adobe
10 5 (26.32%) CMS
11 4 (21.05%) Apple iOS
11 4 (21.05%) PHP
12 3 (15.79%) Open Source
13 2 (10.53%) iOS SDK
13 2 (10.53%) iPhone
13 2 (10.53%) Drupal
13 2 (10.53%) Joomla!
13 2 (10.53%) Xcode
13 2 (10.53%) Objective-C
13 2 (10.53%) Web Development
13 2 (10.53%) MySQL
13 2 (10.53%) OO
13 2 (10.53%) Advertising
13 2 (10.53%) Test Strategy

Digital Media
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 16 (84.21%) HTML5
2 15 (78.95%) HTML
2 15 (78.95%) CSS
3 11 (57.89%) jQuery
4 10 (52.63%) CSS3
5 9 (47.37%) .NET
6 8 (42.11%) ASP.NET
6 8 (42.11%) XHTML
7 7 (36.84%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (10.53%) iOS SDK
9 1 (5.263%) Razor View Engine
9 1 (5.263%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 1 (5.263%) Ajax
9 1 (5.263%) NHibernate
9 1 (5.263%) Flash
9 1 (5.263%) XML
9 1 (5.263%) WCF
9 1 (5.263%) LINQ
9 1 (5.263%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 5 (26.32%) CMS
2 2 (10.53%) Drupal
2 2 (10.53%) Joomla!
3 1 (5.263%) Orchard CMS
3 1 (5.263%) Windows Azure
3 1 (5.263%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Photoshop
2 1 (5.263%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) MySQL
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Xcode
2 1 (5.263%) Subversion
General
1 2 (10.53%) Advertising
2 1 (5.263%) Music
2 1 (5.263%) Publishing
2 1 (5.263%) Automotive
2 1 (5.263%) Games
Job Titles
1 18 (94.74%) Developer
2 10 (52.63%) Front-End Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Designer
4 2 (10.53%) iOS Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Programmer
4 2 (10.53%) PHP Developer
5 1 (5.263%) UI Programmer
5 1 (5.263%) Web Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Graduate
5 1 (5.263%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Web Designer
5 1 (5.263%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (5.263%) UI Designer
5 1 (5.263%) CMS Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Drupal Developer
5 1 (5.263%) PHP Drupal Developer
5 1 (5.263%) UI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) iPad
2 3 (15.79%) Open Source
3 2 (10.53%) iPhone
4 1 (5.263%) New Media
4 1 (5.263%) Graphic Design
4 1 (5.263%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Android
2 4 (21.05%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.263%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) MVC
2 2 (10.53%) Web Development
2 2 (10.53%) OO
2 2 (10.53%) Test Strategy
3 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (5.263%) TDD
3 1 (5.263%) Asset Management
3 1 (5.263%) Interactive Advertising
3 1 (5.263%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (5.263%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) JavaScript
2 4 (21.05%) PHP
3 2 (10.53%) Objective-C
4 1 (5.263%) C#
4 1 (5.263%) ActionScript
4 1 (5.263%) Lua
Qualifications
1 1 (5.263%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Adobe
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