The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Media in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Digital Media 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Southampton 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
Digital Media
Rank 29 27 -
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -
Contract jobs citing Digital Media 11 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 3.303% 2.390% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 15.71% 8.108% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 0
Average daily rate £308 £433 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.90% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £300 £350
% change year-on-year
-0.83% -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 -
% change year-on-year
+47.05% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
70 74 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 21.02% 29.48% 19.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 33 11
Average daily rate £300 £310 £238
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.22% +30.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £192 £130
10% offered a daily rate of more than £502 £498 £474
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £330
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 20 10
Average hourly rate £40.00 £23.00 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+73.91% -1.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.84 £15.75 £13.39
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £37.50 £33.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -10.00%
Digital Media
Hampshire

Digital Media
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton Digital Media Jobs Demand Trend

Digital Media
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Digital Media across the Southampton region.

Southampton Digital Media Daily Rate Trend

Digital Media
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Southampton Digital Media Daily Rate Histogram

Digital Media
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton region citing Digital Media 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 Digital Media.

1 26 (92.86%) Telecoms
2 16 (57.14%) Oracle
3 14 (50.00%) ITIL
4 12 (42.86%) Linux
5 11 (39.29%) WebLogic
5 11 (39.29%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (28.57%) Oracle Fusion
6 8 (28.57%) Apache CXF
6 8 (28.57%) JMS
6 8 (28.57%) SOA
6 8 (28.57%) Red Hat
6 8 (28.57%) Middleware
6 8 (28.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (17.86%) Shell Script
7 5 (17.86%) Windows
7 5 (17.86%) MySQL
8 3 (10.71%) Hyperion
8 3 (10.71%) Windows 2000
8 3 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (10.71%) General Ledger
8 3 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (10.71%) Windows XP
8 3 (10.71%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (10.71%) Retail
8 3 (10.71%) Bash shell
8 3 (10.71%) Waterfall
9 2 (7.143%) UML
9 2 (7.143%) XML
9 2 (7.143%) MS Project
9 2 (7.143%) MS Office

Digital Media
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton region citing Digital Media 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 Digital Media. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (28.57%) JMS
1 8 (28.57%) Middleware
1 8 (28.57%) Oracle Fusion
1 8 (28.57%) Apache CXF
2 2 (7.143%) XML
3 1 (3.571%) HTML
3 1 (3.571%) CSS
3 1 (3.571%) HTML5
3 1 (3.571%) iOS SDK
3 1 (3.571%) Hibernate
3 1 (3.571%) Spring
3 1 (3.571%) Ajax
3 1 (3.571%) JSON
3 1 (3.571%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 11 (39.29%) WebLogic
2 8 (28.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (3.571%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (7.143%) MS Project
1 2 (7.143%) MS Office
1 2 (7.143%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Xcode
General
1 26 (92.86%) Telecoms
2 3 (10.71%) Retail
2 3 (10.71%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Middleware Specialist
2 4 (14.29%) Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Support Specialist
3 3 (10.71%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Configuration Engineer
4 2 (7.143%) Programme Planner
4 2 (7.143%) Project Planner
5 1 (3.571%) Web Developer
5 1 (3.571%) DBA
5 1 (3.571%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.571%) Administrator
5 1 (3.571%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.571%) Delphi Developer
5 1 (3.571%) PHP Developer
5 1 (3.571%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (3.571%) PHP Web Developer
5 1 (3.571%) MySQL DBA
5 1 (3.571%) Drupal Developer
5 1 (3.571%) PHP Drupal Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.571%) iPhone
1 1 (3.571%) Open Source
1 1 (3.571%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 12 (42.86%) Linux
2 5 (17.86%) Windows
3 3 (10.71%) Windows 2000
3 3 (10.71%) Windows XP
3 3 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.571%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.571%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) ITIL
2 8 (28.57%) SOA
3 3 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (10.71%) Waterfall
4 2 (7.143%) ERP
4 2 (7.143%) PRINCE2
4 2 (7.143%) UML
5 1 (3.571%) OOA/OOD
5 1 (3.571%) Project Management
5 1 (3.571%) Service Delivery
5 1 (3.571%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) Shell Script
2 3 (10.71%) Bash shell
3 2 (7.143%) Java
3 2 (7.143%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.143%) Perl
4 1 (3.571%) PHP
4 1 (3.571%) SQL
4 1 (3.571%) Delphi
4 1 (3.571%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (3.571%) ITIL Certification
Vendors
1 16 (57.14%) Oracle
2 8 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 3 (10.71%) Hyperion
4 1 (3.571%) Borland
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