The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blog in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Blog 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 Miscellaneous category.

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
Blogs
Rank 512 534 546
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +12
Contract jobs citing Blog 28 47 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.059% 0.080% 0.057%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.225% 0.327% 0.201%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 28
Average daily rate £324 £325 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.23% -16.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £196 £130 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £440 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £325 £275
% change year-on-year
-30.76% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £19.00 £16.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.15% +13.79%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £14.50
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
12468 14366 16938
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.41% 24.57% 28.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7504 8442 10060
Average daily rate £425 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £252 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 669 716
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £23.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.33 £11.29
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.85 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%

Blog
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Blog Jobs Demand Trend

Blog
Daily Rate Trend

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

Blog Daily Rate Trend

Blog
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Blog within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Blog Daily Rate Histogram

Blog
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Blog Hourly Rate Trend

Blog
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blog within the UK 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
England +27 27 £325 -
London +8 21 £350 +40.00%
South East +18 5 £258 -20.76%
City of London +15 5 £500 +17.64%
Surrey +16 1 £225 -
Edinburgh +8 1 £150 -6.25%
Berkshire +1 1 £550 +69.23%
Windsor +1 1 £550 +69.23%
Scotland -13 1 £150 -6.25%
Farnborough - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 £225 -
Hampshire - 1 - -
West Sussex - 1 £290 -
Oxford - 1 £225 -
Gatwick - 1 £290 -

Blog
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Blog 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 Blog.

1 27 (44.26%) HTML
2 26 (42.62%) CSS
3 20 (32.79%) JavaScript
4 16 (26.23%) Open Source
5 14 (22.95%) Degree
5 14 (22.95%) Java
5 14 (22.95%) Web Services
5 14 (22.95%) Agile Software Development
6 13 (21.31%) Social Media
7 12 (19.67%) HTML5
8 11 (18.03%) Content Management
9 10 (16.39%) TDD
9 10 (16.39%) Finance
9 10 (16.39%) J2EE
9 10 (16.39%) Ruby
9 10 (16.39%) Social Network
10 9 (14.75%) XML
10 9 (14.75%) Microsoft
10 9 (14.75%) Publishing
11 8 (13.11%) Intranet
11 8 (13.11%) PHP
11 8 (13.11%) Ajax
11 8 (13.11%) WordPress
12 7 (11.48%) RESTful
12 7 (11.48%) Facebook
12 7 (11.48%) Twitter
12 7 (11.48%) Marketing
12 7 (11.48%) Web Development
12 7 (11.48%) Wiki
12 7 (11.48%) Continuous Integration

Blog
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Blog 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 Blog. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 27 (44.26%) HTML
2 26 (42.62%) CSS
3 14 (22.95%) Web Services
4 12 (19.67%) HTML5
5 10 (16.39%) J2EE
6 9 (14.75%) XML
7 8 (13.11%) Ajax
8 7 (11.48%) RESTful
9 6 (9.836%) .NET
9 6 (9.836%) jQuery
9 6 (9.836%) CSS3
10 5 (8.197%) JSON
10 5 (8.197%) LAMP
11 4 (6.557%) Spring
11 4 (6.557%) Ruby on Rails
11 4 (6.557%) REST
12 3 (4.918%) XSLT
13 2 (3.279%) Flash
13 2 (3.279%) XHTML
13 2 (3.279%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 8 (13.11%) WordPress
2 6 (9.836%) SharePoint
2 6 (9.836%) CMS
3 2 (3.279%) TeamSite
3 2 (3.279%) Documentum
3 2 (3.279%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.279%) Apache
3 2 (3.279%) FileNet
3 2 (3.279%) Alfresco
3 2 (3.279%) Liferay
3 2 (3.279%) Moodle
4 1 (1.639%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (1.639%) Adobe CQ
4 1 (1.639%) Facebook Platform
4 1 (1.639%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (1.639%) Kentico
4 1 (1.639%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.639%) Drupal
4 1 (1.639%) Joomla!
4 1 (1.639%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (11.48%) MS Excel
2 6 (9.836%) MS Office
3 4 (6.557%) Photoshop
3 4 (6.557%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (3.279%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.639%) PaintShop Pro
5 1 (1.639%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.639%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.11%) Intranet
2 6 (9.836%) Internet
3 3 (4.918%) HTTP
4 1 (1.639%) Firewall
4 1 (1.639%) SMS
4 1 (1.639%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.639%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.197%) MongoDB
1 5 (8.197%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.557%) Big Data
3 3 (4.918%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.279%) MySQL
4 2 (3.279%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.279%) Redis
5 1 (1.639%) CouchDB
5 1 (1.639%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.639%) DB2
5 1 (1.639%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (9.836%) GitHub
1 6 (9.836%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.557%) Eclipse
2 4 (6.557%) Subversion
3 2 (3.279%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.279%) Log4j
3 2 (3.279%) Maven
3 2 (3.279%) Firebug
3 2 (3.279%) Selenium
3 2 (3.279%) Git (software)
3 2 (3.279%) Jtest
3 2 (3.279%) Hudson
4 1 (1.639%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.639%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.639%) Dreamweaver
General
1 10 (16.39%) Finance
2 9 (14.75%) Publishing
3 7 (11.48%) Marketing
4 4 (6.557%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.557%) Retail
4 4 (6.557%) French Language
4 4 (6.557%) German Language
5 3 (4.918%) Spanish Language
5 3 (4.918%) Dutch Language
5 3 (4.918%) Games
5 3 (4.918%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.279%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.279%) Banking
6 2 (3.279%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.639%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 26 (42.62%) Developer
2 8 (13.11%) Software Engineer
3 6 (9.836%) Architect
3 6 (9.836%) Senior Developer
4 5 (8.197%) Front-End Developer
4 5 (8.197%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 5 (8.197%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (8.197%) Java Developer
4 5 (8.197%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (8.197%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (8.197%) Web Developer
4 5 (8.197%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.918%) UI Programmer
5 3 (4.918%) UI Developer
5 3 (4.918%) Consultant
5 3 (4.918%) Project Manager
5 3 (4.918%) Analyst
6 2 (3.279%) PHP Developer
6 2 (3.279%) Marketing Manager
6 2 (3.279%) Content Editor
Miscellaneous
1 16 (26.23%) Open Source
2 13 (21.31%) Social Media
3 10 (16.39%) Social Network
4 7 (11.48%) Wiki
4 7 (11.48%) Computer Science
5 6 (9.836%) Mathematics
6 4 (6.557%) New Media
7 3 (4.918%) iPad
8 2 (3.279%) BBC
8 2 (3.279%) Smartphone
8 2 (3.279%) Mobile App
8 2 (3.279%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.639%) Digital Media
9 1 (1.639%) Kinect
9 1 (1.639%) Visualisation
9 1 (1.639%) Learning Management System
9 1 (1.639%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (1.639%) Data Integration
9 1 (1.639%) Copywriting
9 1 (1.639%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.557%) Windows
2 3 (4.918%) Android
2 3 (4.918%) Linux
3 2 (3.279%) Mac OS X
3 2 (3.279%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.639%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.639%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.639%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.639%) UNIX
4 1 (1.639%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.95%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (18.03%) Content Management
3 10 (16.39%) TDD
4 7 (11.48%) Web Development
4 7 (11.48%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (9.836%) Time Management
6 5 (8.197%) Analytics
6 5 (8.197%) Unit Testing
6 5 (8.197%) Scrum
6 5 (8.197%) Workflow
6 5 (8.197%) SEO
6 5 (8.197%) E-Commerce
7 4 (6.557%) OO
7 4 (6.557%) Project Management
7 4 (6.557%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (6.557%) BDD
8 3 (4.918%) Market Research
8 3 (4.918%) Digital Marketing
8 3 (4.918%) Workflow Management
8 3 (4.918%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (32.79%) JavaScript
2 14 (22.95%) Java
3 10 (16.39%) Ruby
4 8 (13.11%) PHP
5 4 (6.557%) SQL
5 4 (6.557%) C#
5 4 (6.557%) Groovy
5 4 (6.557%) Scala
6 3 (4.918%) C++
7 2 (3.279%) Python
7 2 (3.279%) Perl
8 1 (1.639%) Clojure
8 1 (1.639%) Erlang
8 1 (1.639%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.639%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.639%) VBScript
8 1 (1.639%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (22.95%) Degree
2 2 (3.279%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.279%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.639%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.557%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.639%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.48%) Facebook
2 7 (11.48%) Twitter
3 3 (4.918%) Google
3 3 (4.918%) Oracle
4 2 (3.279%) IBM
4 2 (3.279%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.639%) Hitwise
5 1 (1.639%) Blackboard
5 1 (1.639%) Tandberg
5 1 (1.639%) Omniture
5 1 (1.639%) Open Text
5 1 (1.639%) Adobe
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