The first table below looks at the demand for GIMP skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GIMP 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 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
GIMP
Rank 535 560 584
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +24
Contract jobs citing GIMP 6 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.013% 0.009% 0.003%
As % of the Applications category 0.099% 0.069% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £275 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 -
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £10.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £10.19
All Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
6072 7252 7369
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 13.10% 12.42% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3156 3715 3677
Average daily rate £340 £350 £369
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -5.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £175 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £513 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 681 748 880
Average hourly rate £16.00 £16.00 £16.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.56 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -2.75%

GIMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

GIMP Jobs Demand Trend

GIMP
Daily Rate Trend

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

GIMP Daily Rate Trend

GIMP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

GIMP Hourly Rate Trend

GIMP
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIMP 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 +45 6 £275 -8.33%
London +33 4 - -
East of England - 2 £275 -
Cambridgeshire - 2 £275 -

GIMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 17 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 17 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 17 (100.00%) CSS
2 13 (76.47%) HTML
3 9 (52.94%) Ajax
3 9 (52.94%) jQuery
4 8 (47.06%) W3C
4 8 (47.06%) DOM
4 8 (47.06%) WCAG
4 8 (47.06%) XHTML
4 8 (47.06%) HTTP
4 8 (47.06%) Dreamweaver
5 7 (41.18%) XML
6 6 (35.29%) HTML5
6 6 (35.29%) CSS3
7 5 (29.41%) Java
7 5 (29.41%) PHP
7 5 (29.41%) Compatibility Testing
7 5 (29.41%) XSLT
7 5 (29.41%) Ruby
8 3 (17.65%) PhoneGap
8 3 (17.65%) Appcelerator Titanium
8 3 (17.65%) Sencha Touch
8 3 (17.65%) Sencha
8 3 (17.65%) WPF
8 3 (17.65%) .NET
8 3 (17.65%) C#
9 2 (11.76%) Web Services
9 2 (11.76%) Adobe
9 2 (11.76%) CMS

GIMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 17 (100.00%) CSS
2 13 (76.47%) HTML
3 9 (52.94%) Ajax
3 9 (52.94%) jQuery
4 8 (47.06%) DOM
4 8 (47.06%) XHTML
5 7 (41.18%) XML
6 6 (35.29%) HTML5
6 6 (35.29%) CSS3
7 5 (29.41%) XSLT
8 3 (17.65%) Sencha Touch
8 3 (17.65%) WPF
8 3 (17.65%) .NET
9 2 (11.76%) Web Services
9 2 (11.76%) JSON
9 2 (11.76%) RESTful
9 2 (11.76%) Modernizr
9 2 (11.76%) WebSockets
9 2 (11.76%) Semantic HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) CMS
1 2 (11.76%) Drupal
Applications
1 17 (100.00%) Photoshop
2 2 (11.76%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 8 (47.06%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Dreamweaver
2 3 (17.65%) PhoneGap
2 3 (17.65%) Appcelerator Titanium
3 2 (11.76%) Selenium
3 2 (11.76%) Subversion
3 2 (11.76%) Firebug
General
1 2 (11.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (100.00%) Developer
2 16 (94.12%) Web Developer
3 8 (47.06%) HTML Developer
4 4 (23.53%) UI Developer
4 4 (23.53%) UI Programmer
5 3 (17.65%) Front-End Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Applications Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Web Applications Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Front-End Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Compatibility Testing
2 2 (11.76%) Scrum
2 2 (11.76%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (11.76%) Progressive Enhancement
2 2 (11.76%) Graceful Degradation
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (29.41%) Java
2 5 (29.41%) PHP
2 5 (29.41%) Ruby
3 3 (17.65%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Sencha
2 2 (11.76%) Adobe
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This role requires an immediate start date, The roles will consist of developing HTML front-ends for projects along with developing fully validated cross-browser XHTML websites using...
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Posted: 20 May 2013