Graduate IT Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Graduate role in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Graduate 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 South East 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
Graduate
Rank 210 224 219
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Graduate 13 23 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.166% 0.226% 0.316%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.179% 0.245% 0.341%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 12
Average daily rate £196 £167 £138
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.71% +21.09%
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 £110 £115
% change year-on-year
+59.09% -4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 15
Average hourly rate £11.75 £14.25 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.54% -5.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.00 £14.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-21.42% -6.66%
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 7243 9396 9678
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.69% 92.50% 92.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3591 4212 4167
Average daily rate £350 £350 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 582 721 805
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% -9.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.03 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Graduate
England

Graduate
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Graduate Jobs Demand Trend

Graduate
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Graduate Daily Rate Trend

Graduate
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Graduate Hourly Rate Trend

Graduate
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Graduate within the South East 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
Surrey +20 3 £196 +13.95%
Hampshire - 3 £110 -
Berkshire +12 2 - -
Oxfordshire - 2 - -
West Sussex - 2 - -
Middlesex - 1 £196 -
Graduate
England

Graduate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Graduate 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 Graduate in their job title.

1 12 (52.17%) Degree
2 6 (26.09%) Windows
3 5 (21.74%) MS Excel
3 5 (21.74%) Telecoms
4 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
4 4 (17.39%) MS Office
4 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
5 3 (13.04%) Incident Management
5 3 (13.04%) Web Development
5 3 (13.04%) Business Analysis
5 3 (13.04%) Java
5 3 (13.04%) Project Management
5 3 (13.04%) Change Management
5 3 (13.04%) Finance
6 2 (8.696%) Management Information System
6 2 (8.696%) Middleware
6 2 (8.696%) HTML
6 2 (8.696%) CSS
6 2 (8.696%) C#
6 2 (8.696%) Oracle
6 2 (8.696%) WAN
6 2 (8.696%) TCP/IP
6 2 (8.696%) Documentum
6 2 (8.696%) LAN
6 2 (8.696%) Software Testing
6 2 (8.696%) Mathematics
6 2 (8.696%) Music
6 2 (8.696%) Computer Security
6 2 (8.696%) Windows 7
7 1 (4.348%) Bash shell

Graduate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Graduate 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 Graduate in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (8.696%) HTML
1 2 (8.696%) CSS
1 2 (8.696%) Middleware
2 1 (4.348%) jQuery
2 1 (4.348%) HTML5
2 1 (4.348%) Flash
2 1 (4.348%) XHTML
2 1 (4.348%) .NET
2 1 (4.348%) J2EE
2 1 (4.348%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.696%) Documentum
2 1 (4.348%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) MS Excel
2 4 (17.39%) MS Office
3 1 (4.348%) Photoshop
3 1 (4.348%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (4.348%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.696%) LAN
1 2 (8.696%) WAN
1 2 (8.696%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.348%) 3G
2 1 (4.348%) IP Telephony
2 1 (4.348%) HTTP
2 1 (4.348%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (21.74%) Telecoms
2 3 (13.04%) Finance
3 2 (8.696%) Music
4 1 (4.348%) Avionics
4 1 (4.348%) Back Office
4 1 (4.348%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.348%) Legal
4 1 (4.348%) Advertising
4 1 (4.348%) Publishing
4 1 (4.348%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
2 2 (8.696%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.696%) Mathematics
3 1 (4.348%) Graphic Design
3 1 (4.348%) Animation
3 1 (4.348%) Digital Media
3 1 (4.348%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Windows
2 2 (8.696%) Windows 7
3 1 (4.348%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (13.04%) Project Management
1 3 (13.04%) Change Management
1 3 (13.04%) Business Analysis
1 3 (13.04%) Incident Management
1 3 (13.04%) Web Development
2 2 (8.696%) Computer Security
2 2 (8.696%) Software Testing
3 1 (4.348%) PRINCE2
3 1 (4.348%) CRM
3 1 (4.348%) Workflow
3 1 (4.348%) Asset Management
3 1 (4.348%) Logistics
3 1 (4.348%) Interactive Advertising
3 1 (4.348%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Java
2 2 (8.696%) C#
3 1 (4.348%) C++
3 1 (4.348%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.348%) SQL
3 1 (4.348%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.348%) VB.NET
3 1 (4.348%) ActionScript
3 1 (4.348%) Python
3 1 (4.348%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.348%) Lua
3 1 (4.348%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 12 (52.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.348%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.696%) Oracle
3 1 (4.348%) Cisco
3 1 (4.348%) Avaya
3 1 (4.348%) Siemens
3 1 (4.348%) Salesforce.com
IT Graduate Trainee
Lewes, East Sussex
Experience in any kind of customer assistance role is desirable, as is Microsoft AD network administration capability. This opportunity would suit a recent graduate with an IT related...
Glyndebourne
Rate: From £15,000 to £18,000 per annum
Posted: 25 April 2013
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