The first table below looks at the demand for Internet skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Internet 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the Somerset 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
Internet
Rank 28 35 29
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -6
Contract jobs citing Internet 4 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 2.186% 1.170% 2.532%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.29% 28.57% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
Average daily rate £200 £475 £205
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-57.89% +131.70%
UK excluding London average daily rate £311 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-4.23% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £19.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -25.00%
All Communications & Networking
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
28 7 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 15.30% 4.094% 15.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 15
Average daily rate £200 £240 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -26.71%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
Average hourly rate £13.95 - £14.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
Internet
South West

Internet
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Internet across the Somerset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Somerset Internet Jobs Demand Trend

Internet
Daily Rate Trend

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

Somerset Internet Daily Rate Trend

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Somerset Internet Hourly Rate Trend

Internet
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Internet within the Somerset 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
Bath +7 3 - -
Internet
South West

Internet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing Internet 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 Internet.

1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) DHCP
2 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (40.00%) Subversion
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) Mac OS X Server
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) nginx
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Apache
3 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) Solaris
3 2 (40.00%) MySQL
3 2 (40.00%) FreeBSD
3 2 (40.00%) C
3 2 (40.00%) Perl
3 2 (40.00%) MS Office
3 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
3 2 (40.00%) Puppet
3 2 (40.00%) Change Control
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Media
4 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL V2
4 1 (20.00%) XenApp
4 1 (20.00%) XML
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (20.00%) VB

Internet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing Internet 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 Internet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) XML
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) nginx
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
1 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Support
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Server Support
3 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Server Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Open Source
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Social Network
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) FreeBSD
3 2 (40.00%) Solaris
3 2 (40.00%) Mac OS X Server
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
4 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
4 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) SOA
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) Feature Driven Development
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL V2
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C
1 2 (40.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) VB
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (20.00%) MCITP
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Terminal Services
2 1 (20.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) XenApp
2 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
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