The first table below looks at the demand for User Experience Design skills 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 User Experience Design over the 3 months to 20 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Experience Design
Rank 108 138 118
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -20
Contract jobs citing User Experience Design 9 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.438% 0.061% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.662% 0.089% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
UK excluding London average daily rate £306 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1360 2239 1773
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 66.18% 68.10% 64.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 850 1384 912
Average daily rate £375 £390 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +0.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £499 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 111 125
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.25 £16.85 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.75 £37.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
User Experience Design
England

User Experience Design
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing User Experience Design across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South West User Experience Design Jobs Demand Trend

User Experience Design
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West User Experience Design Daily Rate Trend

User Experience Design
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Experience Design within the South West region over the 3 months to 20 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
Devon - 6 - -
Somerset - 3 - -
User Experience Design
England

User Experience Design
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing User Experience Design 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 User Experience Design.

1 11 (100.00%) CSS
2 6 (54.55%) Photoshop
2 6 (54.55%) Fireworks
2 6 (54.55%) Adobe Illustrator
2 6 (54.55%) Web Development
2 6 (54.55%) HTML5
2 6 (54.55%) CSS3
3 5 (45.45%) MCTS
3 5 (45.45%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (45.45%) Information Architecture
3 5 (45.45%) Animation
3 5 (45.45%) Usability Testing
3 5 (45.45%) Data Management
3 5 (45.45%) Regression Testing
3 5 (45.45%) Publishing
3 5 (45.45%) Project Management
3 5 (45.45%) Visual Studio
3 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET
3 5 (45.45%) SharePoint
3 5 (45.45%) C#
3 5 (45.45%) HTML
3 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
3 5 (45.45%) PHP
3 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 5 (45.45%) .NET
4 3 (27.27%) ISO 9001
4 3 (27.27%) ISO 14001
4 3 (27.27%) Summit
4 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
4 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared

User Experience Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (100.00%) CSS
2 6 (54.55%) HTML5
2 6 (54.55%) CSS3
3 5 (45.45%) HTML
3 5 (45.45%) .NET
3 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (45.45%) SharePoint
1 5 (45.45%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Photoshop
1 6 (54.55%) Fireworks
1 6 (54.55%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Summit
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (45.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
1 5 (45.45%) Web Designer
1 5 (45.45%) SharePoint Developer
1 5 (45.45%) Designer
2 2 (18.18%) Photoshop Designer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Animation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Web Development
2 5 (45.45%) Usability Testing
2 5 (45.45%) Information Architecture
2 5 (45.45%) Project Management
2 5 (45.45%) Regression Testing
2 5 (45.45%) Data Management
3 1 (9.091%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) C#
1 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
1 5 (45.45%) PHP
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) MCTS
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) ISO 9001
1 3 (27.27%) ISO 14001