The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCORM 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 SCORM 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 Miscellaneous 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
Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM)
Rank 110 134 126
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -8
Contract jobs citing SCORM 1 7 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.050% 0.216% 0.035%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.248% 1.097% 0.195%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 1
Average daily rate £350 £370 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.40% +34.54%
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £370 £275
% change year-on-year
-16.21% +34.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- +50.00%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
403 638 513
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 20.05% 19.66% 17.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 341 218
Average daily rate £350 £390 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.25% +11.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £268 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £503 £525 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 42 57
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.70 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £44.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
SCORM
England

SCORM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West SCORM Jobs Demand Trend

SCORM
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West SCORM Daily Rate Trend

SCORM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West SCORM Hourly Rate Trend

SCORM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCORM 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
Wiltshire -1 1 £350 -9.09%
SCORM
England

SCORM
Top 23 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) E-Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Multimedia
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (25.00%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (25.00%) Graphic Design
3 1 (25.00%) Adobe Captivate
3 1 (25.00%) Android
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Maya
3 1 (25.00%) Objective-C
3 1 (25.00%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Flash
3 1 (25.00%) XHTML
3 1 (25.00%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (25.00%) Adobe
3 1 (25.00%) ActionScript
3 1 (25.00%) Photoshop

SCORM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) Flash
3 1 (25.00%) XHTML
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe Captivate
1 1 (25.00%) Maya
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (25.00%) Photoshop
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dreamweaver
General
1 2 (50.00%) Multimedia
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Multimedia Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Graphic Designer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) E-Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (25.00%) Android
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Objective-C
2 1 (25.00%) ActionScript
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe