The first table below looks at the demand for Smarty skills 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 Smarty 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 Application Development category 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
Smarty
Rank 221 243 247
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +4
Contract jobs citing Smarty 2 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.026% 0.039% 0.048%
As % of the Application Development category 0.103% 0.172% 0.181%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
Average daily rate £220 £340 £125
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.29% +172.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £220 £300 £150
% change year-on-year
-26.66% +100.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 - £21.50
All Application Development
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1945 2328 2759
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 24.89% 22.92% 26.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1021 1162 1249
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £239 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 106 194
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £39.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -10.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £17.65 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £41.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Smarty
England

Smarty
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Smarty Jobs Demand Trend

Smarty
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Smarty Daily Rate Trend

Smarty
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Smarty 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
Buckinghamshire - 2 £220 -
Smarty
England

Smarty
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Smarty 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 Smarty.

1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) CakePHP
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
2 2 (66.67%) Git (software)
2 2 (66.67%) PHP
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Subversion
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) TYPO3
3 1 (33.33%) Arabic Language
3 1 (33.33%) Symfony
3 1 (33.33%) Zend
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) Social Media
3 1 (33.33%) CSS3
3 1 (33.33%) Twitter
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) W3C
3 1 (33.33%) LAMP
3 1 (33.33%) MooTools

Smarty
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) CakePHP
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
3 1 (33.33%) LAMP
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) Symfony
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) MooTools
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) TYPO3
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git (software)
2 1 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Arabic Language
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) PHP Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) W3C
1 1 (33.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) PHP
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Zend
1 1 (33.33%) Twitter