The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Multimedia 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 Multimedia 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 terms in our General category 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multimedia
Rank 109 135 115
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -20
Contract jobs citing Multimedia 2 6 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.100% 0.185% 0.418%
As % of the General category 0.280% 0.439% 0.942%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 6
Average daily rate £220 £330 £283
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% +16.81%
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £315 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.93% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Average hourly rate £15.50 - £33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £14.63 £33.25
% change year-on-year
+21.36% -56.01%
All of the General Category
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
714 1368 1274
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 35.52% 42.16% 44.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 933 705
Average daily rate £370 £378 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.98% -3.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £252 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £490 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 60 94
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -28.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.35 £16.20 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £38.80 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Multimedia
England

Multimedia
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West Multimedia Jobs Demand Trend

Multimedia
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Multimedia Daily Rate Trend

Multimedia
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Multimedia Hourly Rate Trend

Multimedia
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Multimedia within the South West 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
Gloucestershire - 1 - -
Wiltshire - 1 £220 -
Multimedia
England

Multimedia
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Multimedia 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 Multimedia.

1 6 (85.71%) HTML
1 6 (85.71%) CSS
2 5 (71.43%) E-Learning
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
3 3 (42.86%) ActionScript
3 3 (42.86%) Flash
3 3 (42.86%) Dreamweaver
3 3 (42.86%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (42.86%) Adobe
3 3 (42.86%) Graphic Design
3 3 (42.86%) Photoshop
4 2 (28.57%) Marketing
4 2 (28.57%) ActionScript 3.0
4 2 (28.57%) ActionScript 2.0
4 2 (28.57%) HTML5
4 2 (28.57%) SCORM
5 1 (14.29%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (14.29%) Content Management
5 1 (14.29%) W3C
5 1 (14.29%) Content Management Server
5 1 (14.29%) Intranet
5 1 (14.29%) Finance
5 1 (14.29%) Device Driver
5 1 (14.29%) Maya
5 1 (14.29%) Objective-C
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (14.29%) C#
5 1 (14.29%) C++
5 1 (14.29%) XHTML
5 1 (14.29%) MS Excel

Multimedia
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (85.71%) HTML
1 6 (85.71%) CSS
2 3 (42.86%) Flash
3 2 (28.57%) HTML5
4 1 (14.29%) XHTML
4 1 (14.29%) .NET
4 1 (14.29%) XML
4 1 (14.29%) XSLT
4 1 (14.29%) jQuery
4 1 (14.29%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Content Management Server
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (42.86%) Photoshop
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (14.29%) Maya
2 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe Captivate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Dreamweaver
General
1 2 (28.57%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Designer
3 2 (28.57%) Multimedia Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Flash Designer
3 2 (28.57%) Flash Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Graphic Designer
4 1 (14.29%) C++ Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Front-End Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) E-Learning
2 3 (42.86%) Graphic Design
3 2 (28.57%) SCORM
4 1 (14.29%) W3C
4 1 (14.29%) Device Driver
4 1 (14.29%) Blog
4 1 (14.29%) Social Network
4 1 (14.29%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Content Management
1 1 (14.29%) Time Management
1 1 (14.29%) Web Usability
1 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) ActionScript
3 2 (28.57%) ActionScript 3.0
3 2 (28.57%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (14.29%) Objective-C
4 1 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) C++
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Adobe
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft