The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Publishing over the 3 months to 21 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 Surrey 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Publishing
Rank 65 85 90
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +5
Contract jobs citing Publishing 15 12 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 1.291% 0.739% 0.713%
As % of the General category 3.348% 2.490% 1.854%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 10
Average daily rate £388 £388 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +15.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £214 £303 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £578 £354
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £365 £338
% change year-on-year
-10.95% +8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £16.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year
+3.03% -15.38%
All of the General Category
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
448 482 701
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 38.55% 29.70% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 286 360
Average daily rate £400 £375 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £514
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 37 26
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +66.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.60 £13.80 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.70 £42.90 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
Publishing
South East

Publishing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey Publishing Jobs Demand Trend

Publishing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Surrey Publishing Daily Rate Trend

Publishing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Publishing across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Surrey Publishing Daily Rate Histogram

Publishing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey Publishing Hourly Rate Trend

Publishing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Publishing within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 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
Woking +2 2 £383 -10.00%
Guildford - 1 - -
Publishing
South East

Publishing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Publishing 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 Publishing.

1 13 (34.21%) XML
1 13 (34.21%) ISEB
2 10 (26.32%) Internet
3 9 (23.68%) Legal
3 9 (23.68%) Content Management
3 9 (23.68%) Python
3 9 (23.68%) XSLT
4 8 (21.05%) XQuery
5 7 (18.42%) Scrum
6 6 (15.79%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (15.79%) Service Delivery
6 6 (15.79%) ITIL
6 6 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (15.79%) Business Transformation
7 5 (13.16%) QA
8 4 (10.53%) Business Analysis
8 4 (10.53%) PRINCE2
8 4 (10.53%) Windows
8 4 (10.53%) PHP
8 4 (10.53%) DNS
8 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
9 3 (7.895%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (7.895%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (7.895%) Exchange Server 2003
9 3 (7.895%) Windows Vista
9 3 (7.895%) Mac OS
9 3 (7.895%) Windows 7
9 3 (7.895%) Sysprep
9 3 (7.895%) HTML5
9 3 (7.895%) Social Media

Publishing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Publishing 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 Publishing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (34.21%) XML
2 9 (23.68%) XSLT
3 3 (7.895%) HTML5
3 3 (7.895%) HTML
3 3 (7.895%) CSS
4 2 (5.263%) .NET
4 2 (5.263%) jQuery
5 1 (2.632%) CSS3
5 1 (2.632%) WPF
5 1 (2.632%) Web Services
5 1 (2.632%) X-Windows
Application Platforms
1 3 (7.895%) Exchange Server 2010
1 3 (7.895%) Exchange Server 2007
1 3 (7.895%) Exchange Server 2003
1 3 (7.895%) MS Exchange
2 1 (2.632%) Drupal
2 1 (2.632%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (2.632%) Amazon S3
2 1 (2.632%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (2.632%) IIS
2 1 (2.632%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (7.895%) MS Office
2 1 (2.632%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.632%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (26.32%) Internet
2 4 (10.53%) DNS
3 3 (7.895%) DHCP
3 3 (7.895%) FTP
3 3 (7.895%) VPN
4 1 (2.632%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 2 (5.263%) Visual Studio
1 2 (5.263%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (23.68%) Legal
2 3 (7.895%) Advertising
3 1 (2.632%) Finance
3 1 (2.632%) Law
3 1 (2.632%) Games
3 1 (2.632%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Analyst
2 12 (31.58%) Business Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Developer
4 4 (10.53%) ScrumMaster
5 3 (7.895%) Content Editor
5 3 (7.895%) Web Engineer
5 3 (7.895%) Web Developer
6 2 (5.263%) Lead Developer
6 2 (5.263%) Agile Business Analyst
6 2 (5.263%) Lead Web Developer
6 2 (5.263%) XML Developer
7 1 (2.632%) Front-End Developer
7 1 (2.632%) Agile Test Analyst
7 1 (2.632%) Development Manager
7 1 (2.632%) Programmer
7 1 (2.632%) Test Analyst
7 1 (2.632%) Test Engineer
7 1 (2.632%) Team Leader
7 1 (2.632%) Development Team Leader
7 1 (2.632%) Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.895%) Social Media
2 2 (5.263%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.263%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Windows
2 3 (7.895%) Windows Vista
2 3 (7.895%) Mac OS
2 3 (7.895%) Windows 7
2 3 (7.895%) Windows XP
2 3 (7.895%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (7.895%) Mac OS X
3 1 (2.632%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.68%) Content Management
2 7 (18.42%) Scrum
3 6 (15.79%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (15.79%) Service Delivery
3 6 (15.79%) ITIL
3 6 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (15.79%) Business Transformation
4 4 (10.53%) Business Analysis
4 4 (10.53%) PRINCE2
5 3 (7.895%) BDD
6 2 (5.263%) SEO
6 2 (5.263%) UML
6 2 (5.263%) Web Analytics
6 2 (5.263%) Analytics
7 1 (2.632%) User Stories
7 1 (2.632%) Portfolio Management
7 1 (2.632%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (2.632%) Process Improvement
7 1 (2.632%) Change Control
7 1 (2.632%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) Python
2 8 (21.05%) XQuery
3 4 (10.53%) PHP
4 2 (5.263%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.263%) SQL
5 1 (2.632%) VB.NET
5 1 (2.632%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (34.21%) ISEB
2 2 (5.263%) Degree
3 1 (2.632%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) QA
2 2 (5.263%) WAI
System Software
1 3 (7.895%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (7.895%) Sysprep
2 1 (2.632%) Cacti
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.895%) Adobe
2 3 (7.895%) Apple
2 3 (7.895%) Symantec
3 1 (2.632%) Facebook
3 1 (2.632%) Twitter