The first table below looks at the demand for InDesign skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited InDesign over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Applications 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe InDesign
Rank 63 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing InDesign 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.238% - -
As % of the Applications category 1.299% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £188 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £188 £200 £250
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £16.75 £15.00
% change year-on-year
+49.25% +11.66%
All Applications
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
154 158 184
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 18.36% 14.17% 17.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 62 56
Average daily rate £325 £357 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.96% +19.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £131 £210 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 24 21
Average hourly rate £15.50 £12.38 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.25% -1.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.10 £10.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £16.00 £20.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.56 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -2.75%
InDesign
Berkshire

InDesign
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading InDesign Jobs Demand Trend

InDesign
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing InDesign across the Reading region.

Reading InDesign Daily Rate Trend

InDesign
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing InDesign 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 InDesign.

1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 2 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) Flash
1 2 (100.00%) FTP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 2 (100.00%) ActionScript 2.0

InDesign
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing InDesign 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 InDesign. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) Flash
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Flex
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) FTP
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Coordinator
1 2 (100.00%) Project Coordinator
2 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Flash Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Developer
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 2 (100.00%) ActionScript 2.0
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe