The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sony products and/or services 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 Sony over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the Sony Corporation.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sony
Rank 224 - 251
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Sony 1 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.012% - 0.028%
As % of the Vendors category 0.025% - 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £175
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £450 £175
% change year-on-year
-50.00% +157.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
4059 4891 5183
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 50.22% 48.69% 49.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1976 2116 2085
Average daily rate £360 £360 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 374 444
Average hourly rate £19.63 £19.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.28% -9.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £11.13 £11.02
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
Sony
England

Sony
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Sony Jobs Demand Trend

Sony
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Sony Daily Rate Trend

Sony
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Sony Hourly Rate Trend

Sony
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sony within the South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Middlesex - - - -
Surrey - - - -
Sony
England

Sony
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Sony 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 Sony.

1 5 (83.33%) SOAP
1 5 (83.33%) ISEB
1 5 (83.33%) Software AG
1 5 (83.33%) Java
1 5 (83.33%) ISTQB
1 5 (83.33%) QA
1 5 (83.33%) Final Cut Pro
1 5 (83.33%) soapUI
2 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Yahoo!
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Publishing
3 1 (16.67%) BBC
3 1 (16.67%) Games
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) HTML

Sony
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Sony 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 Sony. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (83.33%) SOAP
1 5 (83.33%) soapUI
2 1 (16.67%) jQuery
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Final Cut Pro
General
1 1 (16.67%) Publishing
1 1 (16.67%) Games
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) QA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Web Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Web Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) BBC
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) ISEB
1 5 (83.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Software AG
2 1 (16.67%) Yahoo!
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