The first table below looks at the demand for FrontPage skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited FrontPage over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Development Applications 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft FrontPage
Rank 536 555 573
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +18
Contract jobs citing FrontPage 5 10 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.017% 0.021%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.098% 0.188% 0.199%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 5
Average daily rate £190 £388 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.96% +72.22%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £15.00 - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 - -
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5098 5328 6545
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 11.00% 9.128% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3210 3142 3691
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £269 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 221 320
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £23.88 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -

FrontPage
Jobs Demand Trend

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

FrontPage Jobs Demand Trend

FrontPage
Daily Rate Trend

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

FrontPage Daily Rate Trend

FrontPage
Hourly Rate Trend

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

FrontPage Hourly Rate Trend

FrontPage
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 FrontPage within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 +37 3 £190 -50.96%
London +24 1 £190 -50.96%
City of London +20 1 £190 -49.33%
South West - 1 - -
South East - 1 - -
Wiltshire - 1 - -
Hampshire - 1 - -
Devizes - 1 - -

FrontPage
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing FrontPage 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 FrontPage.

1 5 (83.33%) ASP
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Dreamweaver
2 4 (66.67%) PHP
2 4 (66.67%) Flash
2 4 (66.67%) Intranet
2 4 (66.67%) Internet
3 3 (50.00%) IIS
3 3 (50.00%) Photoshop
3 3 (50.00%) Apache
4 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (33.33%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (33.33%) MS Office
4 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
4 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
4 2 (33.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
5 1 (16.67%) ETL
5 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (16.67%) MS Access
5 1 (16.67%) OpenView Configuration Management
5 1 (16.67%) Remedy
5 1 (16.67%) Blackberry
5 1 (16.67%) Service Management
5 1 (16.67%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (16.67%) DHTML
5 1 (16.67%) HTML
5 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (16.67%) CSS
5 1 (16.67%) ITIL

FrontPage
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing FrontPage 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 FrontPage. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (83.33%) ASP
2 4 (66.67%) Flash
3 1 (16.67%) DHTML
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) IIS
1 3 (50.00%) Apache
2 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (16.67%) Joomla!
3 1 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (16.67%) Commerce Server
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 2 (33.33%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (33.33%) MS Office
2 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 2 (33.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (16.67%) PowerPivot
3 1 (16.67%) Acrobat
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Intranet
1 4 (66.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) MS Access
1 1 (16.67%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (16.67%) PerformancePoint
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Dreamweaver
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Communications Officer
1 1 (16.67%) Website Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Incident Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Blackberry
1 1 (16.67%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) ETL
1 1 (16.67%) Service Management
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL
1 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
1 1 (16.67%) Content Management
1 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
1 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Management
1 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
2 1 (16.67%) VBScript
2 1 (16.67%) VB
2 1 (16.67%) ActionScript
2 1 (16.67%) VBA
2 1 (16.67%) Scala
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Remedy
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix