The first table below looks at the demand for TickIT 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 TickIT 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 Quality Assurance & Compliance 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
TickIT
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing TickIT 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 2.299% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £458 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £291 £350 £400
% change year-on-year
-16.78% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £32.50
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
22 3 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 12.64% 1.775% 7.471%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 7
Average daily rate £458 - £393
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £12.42 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -4.46%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
TickIT
South West

TickIT
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing TickIT across the Somerset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Somerset TickIT Jobs Demand Trend

TickIT
Daily Rate Trend

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

Somerset TickIT Daily Rate Trend

TickIT
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TickIT within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 23 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
Taunton - 4 £458 -
TickIT
South West

TickIT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) C
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) VBScript
1 4 (100.00%) VB
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) ASP
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) XSL
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) MCSD
1 4 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 4 (100.00%) UML
1 4 (100.00%) RAD
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 4 (100.00%) ISO 9000
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) ISEB
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Service Management
1 4 (100.00%) ITSM
1 4 (100.00%) VB6
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
1 4 (100.00%) ISEB Practitioner
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework

TickIT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) XSL
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (75.00%) WCF
2 3 (75.00%) WPF
2 3 (75.00%) WF
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
2 1 (25.00%) NUnit
2 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (25.00%) MSTest
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 4 (100.00%) UML
1 4 (100.00%) RAD
1 4 (100.00%) Service Management
1 4 (100.00%) ITSM
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 4 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (75.00%) Pair Programming
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) VBScript
1 4 (100.00%) VB
1 4 (100.00%) VB6
2 3 (75.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) MCSD
1 4 (100.00%) ISEB
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (100.00%) ISEB Practitioner
1 4 (100.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO 9000
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (75.00%) COBIT
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle