Acoustics Contracts

Acoustics
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Acoustics in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Acoustics over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 694 834
Rank change year-on-year +114 +140 -146
Contract jobs citing Acoustics 3 11 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.019% 0.012%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.023% 0.056% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 7
10th Percentile - £484 -
25th Percentile - £490 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +0.10% +37.93%
75th Percentile - £525 £613
90th Percentile - £540 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate - £501 £500
% change year-on-year - +0.10% +45.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Acoustics is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,182 19,760 29,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.36% 33.28% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,463 13,583 20,472
10th Percentile £263 £306 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £659 £680 £656
90th Percentile £792 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 908 639 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.04% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +28.41% +10.00% -16.67%

Acoustics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Acoustics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Acoustics in the UK

Acoustics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Acoustics.

Daily rate trend for Acoustics in the UK

Acoustics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Acoustics.

Hourly rate trend for Acoustics in the UK

Acoustics
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Acoustics within the UK over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +110 3 - - 63
UK excluding London +50 2 - - 60
London +106 1 - - 15
East of England +14 1 - - 5
South West - 1 - - 10

Acoustics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Contentful
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) MATLAB Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) B2C
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Information Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Lean Six Sigma
2 1 (33.33%) Personalization
2 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Signal Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Six Sigma
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) QinetiQ
1 1 (33.33%) SAP