The first table below looks at the demand for the Communications Officer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Communications Officer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Communications Officer
Rank 525 569 586
Rank change year-on-year
+44 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Communications Officer 5 9 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.015% 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.017% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
Average daily rate £191 £213 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -22.72%
UK excluding London average daily rate £220 £231 -
% change year-on-year
-4.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Average hourly rate - £16.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +10.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
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 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
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 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

Communications Officer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Communications Officer Jobs Demand Trend

Communications Officer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Communications Officer Daily Rate Trend

Communications Officer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Communications Officer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Communications Officer Daily Rate Histogram

Communications Officer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Communications Officer Hourly Rate Trend

Communications Officer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Communications Officer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +43 4 £163 -23.52%
London +20 3 £163 +1.56%
City of London +12 2 £208 +29.68%
Scotland - 1 £220 -
South West - 1 - -
Wiltshire - 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 £220 -
Devizes - 1 - -

Communications Officer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Communications Officer 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 Communications Officer in their job title.

1 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 3 (33.33%) Intranet
1 3 (33.33%) Content Management
1 3 (33.33%) Marketing
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Social Media
2 2 (22.22%) Facebook
2 2 (22.22%) Twitter
2 2 (22.22%) Copywriting
2 2 (22.22%) MS Office
2 2 (22.22%) SEO
2 2 (22.22%) Project Management
2 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 2 (22.22%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) Flash
3 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
3 1 (11.11%) CRM
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) PHP
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) VBScript
3 1 (11.11%) ActionScript
3 1 (11.11%) MySQL
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) SMS
3 1 (11.11%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft

Communications Officer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Communications Officer 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 Communications Officer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (22.22%) HTML
1 2 (22.22%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) Flash
2 1 (11.11%) ASP
2 1 (11.11%) DHTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) Commerce Server
2 1 (11.11%) CMS
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (11.11%) Joomla!
2 1 (11.11%) WordPress
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Office
2 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Intranet
2 1 (11.11%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dreamweaver
1 1 (11.11%) FrontPage
General
1 3 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Social Media
2 2 (22.22%) Copywriting
3 1 (11.11%) Blog
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Content Management
2 2 (22.22%) Project Management
2 2 (22.22%) SEO
3 1 (11.11%) Web Design
3 1 (11.11%) CRM
3 1 (11.11%) Logistics
3 1 (11.11%) Web Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Business Development
3 1 (11.11%) Time Management
3 1 (11.11%) Web Usability
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) PHP
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
1 1 (11.11%) VBScript
1 1 (11.11%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) BC Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Facebook
1 2 (22.22%) Twitter
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Google
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Job summary * To act as a deputy to the PR and/or Involvement Manager * To lead on specialist areas of involvement and public relations * To directly work on...
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Rate: £150 - 200 Per Day
Posted: 13 May 2013