The first table below looks at the demand for the Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Designer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Swindon 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
Designer
Rank 30 16 26
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 12 25 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 4.196% 6.925% 3.185%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.478% 7.463% 3.356%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 4
Average daily rate £340 £425 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -8.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £370 £405
10% offered a daily rate of more than £426 £456 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £369 £386
% change year-on-year
-5.08% -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £32.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £21.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
+19.04% +2.43%
All Job Titles
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
268 335 298
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 93.71% 92.80% 94.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 238 174
Average daily rate £413 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £238 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £472 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 21
Average hourly rate £13.50 £15.25 £23.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.47% -35.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.42 £12.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £22.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Designer
Wiltshire

Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Designer across the Swindon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Swindon Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Designer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Swindon Designer Daily Rate Trend

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Swindon Designer Daily Rate Histogram

Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Swindon Designer Hourly Rate Trend

Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region that cited Designer in their job title 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 with Designer in their job title.

1 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) Firewall
2 6 (37.50%) Juniper
3 5 (31.25%) Cisco
3 5 (31.25%) Finance
4 3 (18.75%) CCNP
4 3 (18.75%) Adobe
4 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (12.50%) IPv6
5 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 2 (12.50%) VPN
5 2 (12.50%) Dreamweaver
5 2 (12.50%) Photoshop
5 2 (12.50%) Flash
5 2 (12.50%) ATM
5 2 (12.50%) WAN
5 2 (12.50%) IPsec
5 2 (12.50%) MPLS
5 2 (12.50%) OSPF
5 2 (12.50%) BGP
5 2 (12.50%) E-Learning
5 2 (12.50%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (12.50%) Banking
5 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 2 (12.50%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) JNCIS
5 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (6.250%) MS PowerPoint

Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region that cited Designer in their job title 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 with Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (12.50%) Flash
2 1 (6.250%) XHTML
2 1 (6.250%) CSS
2 1 (6.250%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.250%) Lync
1 1 (6.250%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Photoshop
1 2 (12.50%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (12.50%) Adobe Captivate
2 1 (6.250%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (6.250%) MS Visio
2 1 (6.250%) Acrobat
2 1 (6.250%) QuarkXPress
2 1 (6.250%) FreeHand
2 1 (6.250%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) IPv6
2 2 (12.50%) VPN
2 2 (12.50%) ATM
2 2 (12.50%) WAN
2 2 (12.50%) IPsec
2 2 (12.50%) MPLS
2 2 (12.50%) OSPF
2 2 (12.50%) BGP
3 1 (6.250%) Ethernet
3 1 (6.250%) SNMP
3 1 (6.250%) LAN
3 1 (6.250%) IPv4
3 1 (6.250%) Internet
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (6.250%) Axure RP
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (6.250%) Marketing
3 1 (6.250%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) E-Learning
1 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.250%) New Media
2 1 (6.250%) e-Health
2 1 (6.250%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.250%) Windows
1 1 (6.250%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
2 1 (6.250%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (6.250%) Time Management
2 1 (6.250%) Network Management
2 1 (6.250%) Network Design
2 1 (6.250%) Web Design
2 1 (6.250%) Service Delivery
2 1 (6.250%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
1 1 (6.250%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) CCNP
3 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) JNCIS
5 1 (6.250%) CCNA
5 1 (6.250%) CCDP
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Juniper
2 5 (31.25%) Cisco
3 3 (18.75%) Adobe
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (6.250%) F5
5 1 (6.250%) Sourcefire
5 1 (6.250%) VMware
5 1 (6.250%) Oracle
5 1 (6.250%) Nortel
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