The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Electronics in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Electronics 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 Yorkshire 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
Electronics
Rank 31 33 -
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -
Contract jobs citing Electronics 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 0.379% 0.385% -
As % of the General category 1.887% 1.515% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £243 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+9.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All of the General Category
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
53 66 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 20.08% 25.38% 27.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 35 58
Average daily rate £350 £425 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £231 £200 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Average hourly rate £26.00 £22.86 £11.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.73% +103.20%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Electronics
Yorkshire

Electronics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire Electronics Jobs Demand Trend

Electronics
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South Yorkshire Electronics Hourly Rate Trend

Electronics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (75.00%) Aerospace
2 3 (75.00%) Service Management
2 3 (75.00%) Unicenter
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) SLA
2 3 (75.00%) CA
2 3 (75.00%) Military
2 3 (75.00%) Information Management
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (75.00%) Communications Security
3 2 (50.00%) QA
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Chip and PIN
3 2 (50.00%) ITSM
3 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) NHS
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
4 1 (25.00%) DTV
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Lotus
4 1 (25.00%) C
4 1 (25.00%) MS Office
4 1 (25.00%) SAP
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) Citrix

Electronics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 5.5
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (75.00%) Aerospace
2 3 (75.00%) Military
3 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) NHS Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Chip and PIN
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) NHS
2 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (25.00%) DTV
2 1 (25.00%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows NT
1 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Service Management
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) Information Management
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (75.00%) Communications Security
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) SLA
2 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Unicenter
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) CA
2 1 (25.00%) Lotus
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix