Author Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Author role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Author in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 currently tracked.

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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Author
Rank 398 437 468
Rank change year-on-year
+39 +31
Contract jobs requiring an Author 133 147 116
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.287% 0.252% 0.190%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.311% 0.272% 0.205%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 55 63
Average daily rate £300 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £178 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £408 £640
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
-13.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 22 14
Average hourly rate £32.50 £22.50 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+44.44% +4.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £19.50 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £33.60 £34.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £22.25 £21.50
% change year-on-year
+46.06% +3.48%
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All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Author
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Author within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Author Jobs Demand Trend

Author
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Author within the UK.

Author Daily Rate Trend

Author
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Author within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Author Daily Rate Histogram

Author
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Author within the UK.

Author Hourly Rate Trend

Author
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Author within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Author Hourly Rate Histogram

Author
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Author within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England +24 119 £310 +12.72%
London +52 51 £370 +34.54%
South East +5 31 £250 -9.09%
City of London +26 19 £363 +45.00%
East of England +7 15 £288 -11.53%
Cambridgeshire +20 13 £288 -11.53%
Hampshire -18 9 £300 +50.00%
Berkshire +21 8 £345 -1.42%
Cambridge +19 8 £268 +18.88%
North West +14 7 - -
East Midlands +2 6 - -
Wales - 6 £220 -
South West +20 5 £221 -44.68%
Kent -3 4 - -
Reading - 4 £345 -
Middlesex - 4 £388 -
West Sussex +16 3 £213 -31.45%
Midlands +3 3 - -
Basingstoke -10 3 £240 -12.72%
Scotland -11 3 - -
Warrington - 3 - -
Cheshire - 3 - -
Carmarthenshire - 3 £220 -
East Grinstead - 3 £213 -
Lancashire - 3 - -
West Wales - 3 £223 -
Birmingham +10 2 £325 -9.72%
West Midlands -3 2 £325 -9.72%
Buckinghamshire - 2 £238 -
Essex - 2 - -

Author
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Author 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 Author in their job title.

1 52 (20.00%) MS Office
2 40 (15.38%) MS Visio
3 38 (14.62%) MS Excel
4 36 (13.85%) Microsoft
4 36 (13.85%) Finance
5 32 (12.31%) Security Cleared
6 29 (11.15%) Publishing
7 28 (10.77%) Marketing
8 27 (10.38%) XML
9 26 (10.00%) SC Cleared
10 20 (7.692%) UML
11 19 (7.308%) HTML
11 19 (7.308%) Degree
12 18 (6.923%) Adobe
13 16 (6.154%) Banking
14 15 (5.769%) Acrobat
14 15 (5.769%) .NET
14 15 (5.769%) Telecoms
14 15 (5.769%) FrameMaker
15 14 (5.385%) QMS
16 13 (5.000%) Agile Software Development
16 13 (5.000%) Windows
17 12 (4.615%) MS PowerPoint
18 11 (4.231%) Time Management
18 11 (4.231%) Oracle
18 11 (4.231%) SQL
18 11 (4.231%) SharePoint
19 10 (3.846%) Management Information System
19 10 (3.846%) Mobile App
20 9 (3.462%) RoboHelp

Author
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Author 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 Author in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 27 (10.38%) XML
2 19 (7.308%) HTML
3 15 (5.769%) .NET
4 5 (1.923%) Java EE
5 4 (1.538%) Spring
6 3 (1.154%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.154%) SGML
7 2 (0.769%) JSP
7 2 (0.769%) XSLT
7 2 (0.769%) WCF
7 2 (0.769%) WPF
8 1 (0.385%) Backbone.js
8 1 (0.385%) jQuery
8 1 (0.385%) Web Services
8 1 (0.385%) COM
Application Platforms
1 11 (4.231%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.154%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (1.154%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (0.769%) CMS
4 1 (0.385%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.385%) Confluence
4 1 (0.385%) SAS
4 1 (0.385%) IIS
4 1 (0.385%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 52 (20.00%) MS Office
2 40 (15.38%) MS Visio
3 38 (14.62%) MS Excel
4 15 (5.769%) Acrobat
4 15 (5.769%) FrameMaker
5 12 (4.615%) MS PowerPoint
6 9 (3.462%) RoboHelp
7 7 (2.692%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (1.923%) Adobe Captivate
8 5 (1.923%) InDesign
9 4 (1.538%) XMetaL
10 2 (0.769%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.769%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.385%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.769%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.769%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.385%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.692%) Intranet
2 5 (1.923%) Internet
3 4 (1.538%) Wireless
3 4 (1.538%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.154%) Broadband
4 3 (1.154%) Firewall
5 2 (0.769%) 3G
5 2 (0.769%) SAN
5 2 (0.769%) GPRS
5 2 (0.769%) LAN
5 2 (0.769%) PSTN
5 2 (0.769%) VoIP
5 2 (0.769%) WAN
5 2 (0.769%) VLAN
6 1 (0.385%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.077%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.923%) Firebird
2 5 (1.923%) InterBase
3 4 (1.538%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.154%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (0.769%) SAP BI
6 1 (0.385%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (0.385%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.385%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.385%) OLAP
6 1 (0.385%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (0.385%) Balsamiq Mockups
1 1 (0.385%) StarTeam
1 1 (0.385%) JIRA
1 1 (0.385%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (0.385%) Git (software)
1 1 (0.385%) Eclipse
1 1 (0.385%) InstallShield
General
1 36 (13.85%) Finance
2 29 (11.15%) Publishing
3 28 (10.77%) Marketing
4 16 (6.154%) Banking
5 15 (5.769%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.077%) Electronics
7 6 (2.308%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.923%) Avionics
8 5 (1.923%) Legal
8 5 (1.923%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.923%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.538%) Automotive
9 4 (1.538%) Multimedia
10 3 (1.154%) Retail
11 2 (0.769%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.769%) Military
12 1 (0.385%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.385%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.846%) Management Information System
1 10 (3.846%) Mobile App
2 7 (2.692%) Wiki
2 7 (2.692%) NHS
3 4 (1.538%) Mobile Payment
4 3 (1.154%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (1.154%) Graphic Design
5 2 (0.769%) FMCG
5 2 (0.769%) SCADA
5 2 (0.769%) E-Learning
5 2 (0.769%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.385%) IaaS
6 1 (0.385%) Animation
6 1 (0.385%) Computer Science
6 1 (0.385%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.385%) Smart Meter
6 1 (0.385%) EMV
6 1 (0.385%) Chip and PIN
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.000%) Windows
2 7 (2.692%) Android
2 7 (2.692%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.154%) Windows 7
3 3 (1.154%) Linux
3 3 (1.154%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (0.769%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (0.769%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (7.692%) UML
2 14 (5.385%) QMS
3 13 (5.000%) Agile Software Development
4 11 (4.231%) Time Management
5 8 (3.077%) Service Management
6 7 (2.692%) ERP
7 5 (1.923%) TDD
7 5 (1.923%) ITIL
8 4 (1.538%) Service Delivery
8 4 (1.538%) Risk Management
8 4 (1.538%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (1.538%) Document Management
9 3 (1.154%) Product Marketing
9 3 (1.154%) E-Commerce
10 2 (0.769%) Project Management
10 2 (0.769%) Change Management
10 2 (0.769%) Disaster Recovery
10 2 (0.769%) Scrum
10 2 (0.769%) Migration
10 2 (0.769%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.231%) SQL
2 9 (3.462%) C++
3 8 (3.077%) Java
4 7 (2.692%) C
5 6 (2.308%) C#
6 5 (1.923%) VB.NET
7 2 (0.769%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.769%) VB
8 1 (0.385%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.385%) Assembly Language
8 1 (0.385%) Perl
8 1 (0.385%) Delphi
8 1 (0.385%) VBA
8 1 (0.385%) VBScript
8 1 (0.385%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (12.31%) Security Cleared
2 26 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.308%) Degree
4 1 (0.385%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.385%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.538%) Basel III
2 2 (0.769%) QA
3 1 (0.385%) GxP
3 1 (0.385%) Basel II
System Software
1 1 (0.385%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.385%) SCOM
1 1 (0.385%) MOM
Vendors
1 36 (13.85%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.923%) Adobe
3 11 (4.231%) Oracle
4 7 (2.692%) Vignette
5 4 (1.538%) Baan
6 3 (1.154%) LogiXML
7 2 (0.769%) Kofax
7 2 (0.769%) SAP
7 2 (0.769%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.769%) Cisco
7 2 (0.769%) Dell
8 1 (0.385%) BMC
8 1 (0.385%) Borland
8 1 (0.385%) Compuware
8 1 (0.385%) VMware
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