The first table below looks at the demand for the Graduate role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Graduate 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
Graduate
Rank 465 454 511
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +57
Contract jobs requiring a Graduate 65 124 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.140% 0.213% 0.126%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.152% 0.230% 0.135%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 40 28
Average daily rate £175 £113 £113
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+55.55% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £103 £100 £80
10% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £275 £183
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 £110 £115
% change year-on-year
+59.09% -4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 18 26
Average hourly rate £11.00 £14.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.70 £9.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.95 £19.50 £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.00 £14.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-21.42% -6.66%
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%

Graduate
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Graduate Jobs Demand Trend

Graduate
Daily Rate Trend

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

Graduate Daily Rate Trend

Graduate
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Graduate Daily Rate Histogram

Graduate
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Graduate Hourly Rate Trend

Graduate
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 Graduate 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 -14 59 £150 +30.43%
London -24 24 £125 -16.66%
South East +14 13 £196 +17.71%
City of London +12 9 £185 +105.55%
North West +13 8 £175 +59.09%
East of England +10 5 £198 +71.73%
Cheshire - 5 £175 -
Leeds - 4 £95 -
West Yorkshire - 4 £95 -
Yorkshire - 4 £95 -
Surrey +20 3 £196 +13.95%
Cambridgeshire +13 3 £290 +5.45%
Cambridge +9 3 £290 +5.45%
East Midlands +3 3 - -
Northamptonshire - 3 - -
Hampshire - 3 £110 -
Chester - 3 £175 -
Berkshire +12 2 - -
Manchester +3 2 £175 +59.09%
Scotland -16 2 - -
Glasgow -19 2 - -
Worthing - 2 - -
West Sussex - 2 - -
Oxfordshire - 2 - -
Northampton - 2 - -
South West +23 1 - -
North East +12 1 - -
Reading +10 1 - -
Tyne and Wear +9 1 - -
Suffolk +7 1 - -

Graduate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 59 (50.86%) Degree
2 32 (27.59%) Computer Science
2 32 (27.59%) Finance
3 21 (18.10%) Java
4 20 (17.24%) Microsoft
5 16 (13.79%) Banking
6 14 (12.07%) Windows
7 12 (10.34%) HTML
7 12 (10.34%) Telecoms
8 11 (9.483%) C#
8 11 (9.483%) SQL
8 11 (9.483%) MS Office
8 11 (9.483%) CSS
9 10 (8.621%) .NET
9 10 (8.621%) MS Excel
9 10 (8.621%) Mathematics
10 9 (7.759%) Investment Banking
10 9 (7.759%) Web Development
10 9 (7.759%) C++
11 8 (6.897%) XML
11 8 (6.897%) Linux
11 8 (6.897%) TCP/IP
11 8 (6.897%) Marketing
11 8 (6.897%) Android
11 8 (6.897%) iPhone
11 8 (6.897%) iPad
12 6 (5.172%) Computer Security
12 6 (5.172%) Incident Management
12 6 (5.172%) Python
12 6 (5.172%) Web Services

Graduate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 12 (10.34%) HTML
2 11 (9.483%) CSS
3 10 (8.621%) .NET
4 8 (6.897%) XML
5 6 (5.172%) Web Services
5 6 (5.172%) XSLT
5 6 (5.172%) ASP.NET
6 3 (2.586%) HTML5
7 2 (1.724%) Node.js
7 2 (1.724%) Middleware
7 2 (1.724%) XSD
7 2 (1.724%) J2EE
7 2 (1.724%) ASP
8 1 (0.862%) XSL
8 1 (0.862%) Ajax
8 1 (0.862%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.862%) Silverlight
8 1 (0.862%) jQuery
8 1 (0.862%) Flash
8 1 (0.862%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (2.586%) Amazon AWS
2 2 (1.724%) Documentum
2 2 (1.724%) Apache
2 2 (1.724%) CMS
3 1 (0.862%) MS Project Server
3 1 (0.862%) GlassFish
3 1 (0.862%) nginx
3 1 (0.862%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.862%) MS Exchange
3 1 (0.862%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.862%) IIS
3 1 (0.862%) SAS
3 1 (0.862%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 11 (9.483%) MS Office
2 10 (8.621%) MS Excel
3 5 (4.310%) Photoshop
3 5 (4.310%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.724%) InDesign
4 2 (1.724%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (1.724%) Fireworks
5 1 (0.862%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.862%) Google Apps
5 1 (0.862%) MS Project
5 1 (0.862%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.897%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.448%) Internet
3 3 (2.586%) Firewall
4 2 (1.724%) HTTP
4 2 (1.724%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.724%) LAN
4 2 (1.724%) WAN
5 1 (0.862%) DHCP
5 1 (0.862%) VoIP
5 1 (0.862%) 3G
5 1 (0.862%) DNS
5 1 (0.862%) SSL
5 1 (0.862%) Wireless
5 1 (0.862%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.172%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.310%) MySQL
3 3 (2.586%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.586%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.724%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (0.862%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.862%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.862%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.862%) Redis
5 1 (0.862%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.862%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (0.862%) QlikView
5 1 (0.862%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (0.862%) Ant
1 1 (0.862%) Visual Studio
1 1 (0.862%) Eclipse
General
1 32 (27.59%) Finance
2 16 (13.79%) Banking
3 12 (10.34%) Telecoms
4 9 (7.759%) Investment Banking
5 8 (6.897%) Marketing
6 5 (4.310%) Publishing
7 4 (3.448%) Games
7 4 (3.448%) Legal
7 4 (3.448%) Multimedia
8 2 (1.724%) Music
8 2 (1.724%) Retail
9 1 (0.862%) French Language
9 1 (0.862%) Avionics
9 1 (0.862%) Advertising
9 1 (0.862%) Back Office
9 1 (0.862%) Aerospace
Miscellaneous
1 32 (27.59%) Computer Science
2 10 (8.621%) Mathematics
3 8 (6.897%) iPhone
3 8 (6.897%) iPad
4 4 (3.448%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.586%) Physics
5 3 (2.586%) Open Source
5 3 (2.586%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.724%) Photography
6 2 (1.724%) Social Media
6 2 (1.724%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.724%) NHS
6 2 (1.724%) W3C
6 2 (1.724%) Copywriting
7 1 (0.862%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.862%) Data Conversion
7 1 (0.862%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.862%) Animation
7 1 (0.862%) New Media
7 1 (0.862%) Machine Learning
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.07%) Windows
2 8 (6.897%) Linux
2 8 (6.897%) Android
3 3 (2.586%) Windows 7
4 2 (1.724%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.724%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (1.724%) UNIX
5 1 (0.862%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.862%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.862%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.862%) HPUX
5 1 (0.862%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (7.759%) Web Development
2 6 (5.172%) Incident Management
2 6 (5.172%) Computer Security
3 5 (4.310%) Business Analysis
3 5 (4.310%) Project Management
3 5 (4.310%) Change Management
3 5 (4.310%) Information Security
3 5 (4.310%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (3.448%) OO
4 4 (3.448%) Multithreading
5 3 (2.586%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (2.586%) Asset Management
5 3 (2.586%) Data Protection
6 2 (1.724%) Data Entry
6 2 (1.724%) Test Scripting
6 2 (1.724%) B2B
6 2 (1.724%) Investment Management
6 2 (1.724%) Time Management
6 2 (1.724%) Fund Management
6 2 (1.724%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.10%) Java
2 11 (9.483%) C#
2 11 (9.483%) SQL
3 9 (7.759%) C++
4 6 (5.172%) Python
5 5 (4.310%) PHP
6 4 (3.448%) C
6 4 (3.448%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.448%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.448%) Ruby
7 3 (2.586%) VB.NET
7 3 (2.586%) Bash shell
8 2 (1.724%) XQuery
9 1 (0.862%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.862%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.862%) VBA
9 1 (0.862%) XPath
9 1 (0.862%) Lua
9 1 (0.862%) Erlang
9 1 (0.862%) Perl
Qualifications
1 59 (50.86%) Degree
2 3 (2.586%) HND
3 1 (0.862%) PhD
3 1 (0.862%) CISSP
3 1 (0.862%) CEH
3 1 (0.862%) EnCE
3 1 (0.862%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.310%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.586%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.862%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.586%) Puppet
2 1 (0.862%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 20 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.172%) Oracle
3 2 (1.724%) Capita
3 2 (1.724%) Adobe
4 1 (0.862%) HP
4 1 (0.862%) Avaya
4 1 (0.862%) Siemens
4 1 (0.862%) Apple
4 1 (0.862%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (0.862%) Sophos
4 1 (0.862%) Perforce
4 1 (0.862%) VMware
4 1 (0.862%) Google
4 1 (0.862%) SAP
4 1 (0.862%) JBoss
4 1 (0.862%) Cisco
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