The first table below looks at the demand for the Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Designer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the South West 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Designer
Rank 68 80 77
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 42 57 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 2.044% 1.818% 1.658%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.186% 1.934% 1.771%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 24
Average daily rate £420 £415 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.20% +5.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £348 £330
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £546 £514
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £388 £400
% change year-on-year
-9.67% -3.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £157.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £20.00 £23.25
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -13.97%
All Job Titles
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1921 2948 2824
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 93.48% 94.04% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1151 1751 1397
Average daily rate £350 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £230 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £486 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 179 264
Average hourly rate £17.35 £22.75 £22.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.73% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £13.04 £11.88
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.70 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Designer
England

Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Designer
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Designer Daily Rate Trend

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Designer across the South West region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South West Designer Daily Rate Histogram

Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Designer Hourly Rate Trend

Designer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Designer within the South West 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
Wiltshire -2 30 £445 +4.70% 4
Devon +4 6 £200 -55.55%
Gloucestershire +17 1 - - 3
Bristol +14 1 - - 1
Somerset -6 1 - -
Dorset - 1 £360 - 2
Designer
England

Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Designer 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 Designer in their job title.

1 28 (41.79%) Security Cleared
2 18 (26.87%) SC Cleared
3 14 (20.90%) Photoshop
4 13 (19.40%) Juniper
5 12 (17.91%) Cisco
5 12 (17.91%) Firewall
5 12 (17.91%) Telecoms
6 11 (16.42%) Finance
6 11 (16.42%) Adobe Illustrator
6 11 (16.42%) CSS
7 10 (14.93%) Adobe
8 9 (13.43%) E-Learning
8 9 (13.43%) DV Cleared
9 8 (11.94%) CCNP
9 8 (11.94%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (10.45%) MPLS
10 7 (10.45%) Fireworks
11 6 (8.955%) JNCIS
11 6 (8.955%) Technical Architecture
11 6 (8.955%) Oracle
11 6 (8.955%) HTML
11 6 (8.955%) ATM
11 6 (8.955%) LAN
11 6 (8.955%) Ethernet
11 6 (8.955%) HTML5
12 5 (7.463%) CSS3
12 5 (7.463%) User Experience Design
12 5 (7.463%) WAN
12 5 (7.463%) Web Development
12 5 (7.463%) Graphic Design

Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Designer 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 Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (16.42%) CSS
2 6 (8.955%) HTML5
2 6 (8.955%) HTML
3 5 (7.463%) CSS3
4 4 (5.970%) Flash
5 3 (4.478%) Web Services
6 2 (2.985%) Spring
7 1 (1.493%) Spring MVC
7 1 (1.493%) Spring Integration
7 1 (1.493%) XML
7 1 (1.493%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.493%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.493%) WordPress
1 1 (1.493%) LiveCycle
1 1 (1.493%) Lync
Applications
1 14 (20.90%) Photoshop
2 11 (16.42%) Adobe Illustrator
3 7 (10.45%) Fireworks
4 2 (2.985%) Adobe Captivate
5 1 (1.493%) OmniGraffle
5 1 (1.493%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (1.493%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.493%) Acrobat
5 1 (1.493%) QuarkXPress
5 1 (1.493%) FreeHand
Business Applications
1 3 (4.478%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 12 (17.91%) Firewall
2 7 (10.45%) MPLS
3 6 (8.955%) ATM
3 6 (8.955%) LAN
3 6 (8.955%) Ethernet
4 5 (7.463%) WAN
5 4 (5.970%) VPN
5 4 (5.970%) Frame Relay
6 3 (4.478%) IPsec
6 3 (4.478%) OSPF
6 3 (4.478%) BGP
6 3 (4.478%) IPv6
6 3 (4.478%) Internet
6 3 (4.478%) Network Security
7 2 (2.985%) IPv4
7 2 (2.985%) VoIP
7 2 (2.985%) X.21
8 1 (1.493%) NetScreen
8 1 (1.493%) H.323
8 1 (1.493%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.970%) SQL Server
1 4 (5.970%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.478%) RDBMS
2 3 (4.478%) Star Schema
3 2 (2.985%) QlikView
4 1 (1.493%) DataStage
4 1 (1.493%) Data Mart
4 1 (1.493%) TOAD
4 1 (1.493%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 4 (5.970%) Dreamweaver
2 2 (2.985%) Axure RP
General
1 12 (17.91%) Telecoms
2 11 (16.42%) Finance
3 4 (5.970%) Banking
4 3 (4.478%) Marketing
5 2 (2.985%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.493%) Billing
6 1 (1.493%) Automotive
6 1 (1.493%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.43%) E-Learning
2 5 (7.463%) Graphic Design
3 4 (5.970%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.478%) Mathematics
4 3 (4.478%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (4.478%) Cryptography
5 2 (2.985%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.493%) New Media
6 1 (1.493%) e-Health
6 1 (1.493%) Video Editing
6 1 (1.493%) SCORM
6 1 (1.493%) NHS
6 1 (1.493%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.478%) Solaris
2 2 (2.985%) UNIX
2 2 (2.985%) Windows
3 1 (1.493%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (8.955%) Technical Architecture
2 5 (7.463%) Web Development
2 5 (7.463%) Data Analysis
2 5 (7.463%) User Experience Design
3 4 (5.970%) Network Design
3 4 (5.970%) Usability Testing
3 4 (5.970%) Information Architecture
3 4 (5.970%) Data Modelling
3 4 (5.970%) ITIL
3 4 (5.970%) Service Management
3 4 (5.970%) Service Delivery
4 3 (4.478%) E-Commerce
4 3 (4.478%) ITSM
4 3 (4.478%) ETL
4 3 (4.478%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (4.478%) Web Design
5 2 (2.985%) Configuration Management
5 2 (2.985%) Scrum
5 2 (2.985%) Analytics
6 1 (1.493%) Brand Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.970%) SQL
2 3 (4.478%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.985%) Java
3 2 (2.985%) ActionScript
3 2 (2.985%) ActionScript 3.0
3 2 (2.985%) ActionScript 2.0
3 2 (2.985%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.493%) XPath
4 1 (1.493%) C
4 1 (1.493%) Perl
4 1 (1.493%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (41.79%) Security Cleared
2 18 (26.87%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.43%) DV Cleared
4 8 (11.94%) CCNP
4 8 (11.94%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (8.955%) JNCIS
6 2 (2.985%) Degree
7 1 (1.493%) CCNA
7 1 (1.493%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.970%) QA
2 3 (4.478%) ISO 9001
2 3 (4.478%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 1 (1.493%) Sendmail
1 1 (1.493%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (1.493%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 13 (19.40%) Juniper
2 12 (17.91%) Cisco
3 10 (14.93%) Adobe
4 6 (8.955%) Oracle
5 4 (5.970%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.985%) Siemens
6 2 (2.985%) Sourcefire
7 1 (1.493%) Blackboard
7 1 (1.493%) F5
7 1 (1.493%) BT
7 1 (1.493%) VMware
7 1 (1.493%) Informatica
7 1 (1.493%) NetApp
7 1 (1.493%) JBoss
7 1 (1.493%) Sun
7 1 (1.493%) EMC
7 1 (1.493%) Nortel
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I am currently recruiting for an experienced PCB design engineer to join a leading defence company in the South West of England (Bristol area) to start on a...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £30 - £35 per hour
Posted: 22 May 2013
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Huxley Associates
Rate: £22 - £25 per hour
Posted: 3 June 2013
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