The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Graphic Design in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Graphic Design 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Graphic Design
Rank 443 496 492
Rank change year-on-year
+53 -4
Contract jobs citing Graphic Design 87 82 96
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.188% 0.141% 0.157%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.711% 0.574% 0.555%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 38 41
Average daily rate £300 £325 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £196 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £468 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £250 £200
% change year-on-year
+20.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 6
Average hourly rate £32.50 £16.50 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+96.96% -55.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.50 £16.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.50 £28.50 £190.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.75 £16.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+74.24% -52.85%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
12228 14275 17282
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.35% 24.50% 28.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7363 8396 10253
Average daily rate £430 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £251 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 541 663 728
Average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.17% -1.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.49 £12.50 £11.32
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%

Graphic Design
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Graphic Design Jobs Demand Trend

Graphic Design
Daily Rate Trend

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

Graphic Design Daily Rate Trend

Graphic Design
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Graphic Design Daily Rate Histogram

Graphic Design
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Graphic Design Hourly Rate Trend

Graphic Design
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 Graphic Design 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 +45 77 £300 -7.69%
London +19 45 £300 -11.11%
City of London +17 15 £225 -37.93%
East of England +21 8 £375 -
South East +10 8 £375 +20.00%
South West - 5 £179 -
Cambridgeshire +15 4 £363 -
Scotland -12 4 £413 -
Brighton - 4 - -
East Sussex - 4 - -
North West +14 3 - -
Birmingham +11 3 £238 +58.33%
West Midlands +9 3 £238 +58.33%
Cambridge - 3 £375 -
Suffolk - 3 - -
Wales +12 2 £228 -
Cheshire +7 2 - -
South Wales +2 2 £228 -
East Midlands +1 2 - -
Bristol - 2 £158 -
Edinburgh - 2 £413 -
Macclesfield - 2 - -
Manchester +10 1 - -
Berkshire +10 1 - -
Oxfordshire -3 1 - -
Devon - 1 £200 -
Northamptonshire - 1 - -
Middlesex - 1 £250 -
Hertfordshire - 1 £450 -
Hampshire - 1 £500 -

Graphic Design
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Graphic Design 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 Graphic Design.

1 97 (55.11%) CSS
2 89 (50.57%) HTML
3 88 (50.00%) Photoshop
4 77 (43.75%) JavaScript
5 58 (32.95%) Adobe
6 39 (22.16%) HTML5
7 38 (21.59%) jQuery
8 32 (18.18%) CSS3
9 31 (17.61%) Android
9 31 (17.61%) Flash
9 31 (17.61%) Adobe Illustrator
10 30 (17.05%) E-Commerce
11 27 (15.34%) Apple iOS
12 25 (14.20%) Marketing
12 25 (14.20%) Web Services
13 22 (12.50%) OO
14 20 (11.36%) Web Design
15 19 (10.80%) Java
15 19 (10.80%) ActionScript
15 19 (10.80%) OOD
16 18 (10.23%) C#
17 17 (9.659%) .NET
17 17 (9.659%) Objective-C
17 17 (9.659%) Subversion
17 17 (9.659%) Degree
17 17 (9.659%) JSON
18 16 (9.091%) Content Management
18 16 (9.091%) CMS
18 16 (9.091%) Dreamweaver
19 15 (8.523%) Visual Studio

Graphic Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Graphic Design 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 Graphic Design. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 97 (55.11%) CSS
2 89 (50.57%) HTML
3 39 (22.16%) HTML5
4 38 (21.59%) jQuery
5 32 (18.18%) CSS3
6 31 (17.61%) Flash
7 25 (14.20%) Web Services
8 17 (9.659%) .NET
8 17 (9.659%) JSON
9 13 (7.386%) ASP
9 13 (7.386%) Ajax
10 12 (6.818%) XHTML
11 11 (6.250%) REST
12 9 (5.114%) iOS SDK
13 7 (3.977%) JSP
14 6 (3.409%) XML
14 6 (3.409%) DOM
14 6 (3.409%) DHTML
15 5 (2.841%) Apache Flex
15 5 (2.841%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 16 (9.091%) CMS
2 6 (3.409%) Drupal
3 5 (2.841%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.841%) Moodle
4 4 (2.273%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.705%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.705%) WordPress
5 3 (1.705%) WebSphere Portal
6 2 (1.136%) Joomla!
6 2 (1.136%) DotNetNuke
7 1 (0.568%) Magento
7 1 (0.568%) TeamSite
Applications
1 88 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 31 (17.61%) Adobe Illustrator
3 7 (3.977%) MS PowerPoint
4 6 (3.409%) Fireworks
4 6 (3.409%) MS Office
4 6 (3.409%) MS Excel
5 4 (2.273%) InDesign
6 3 (1.705%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (1.136%) Adobe Captivate
7 2 (1.136%) Maya
8 1 (0.568%) ZBrush
8 1 (0.568%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.568%) PageMaker
8 1 (0.568%) PaintShop Pro
8 1 (0.568%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.568%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.409%) SSH
2 5 (2.841%) Internet
3 4 (2.273%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.136%) MySQL
1 2 (1.136%) SQL Server
1 2 (1.136%) QlikView
2 1 (0.568%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (0.568%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 17 (9.659%) Subversion
2 16 (9.091%) Dreamweaver
3 15 (8.523%) Visual Studio
4 12 (6.818%) Git (software)
5 11 (6.250%) Mercurial
5 11 (6.250%) Xcode
5 11 (6.250%) Balsamiq Mockups
5 11 (6.250%) GitHub
5 11 (6.250%) Trac
6 9 (5.114%) Flash Builder
7 6 (3.409%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 5 (2.841%) PhoneGap
9 3 (1.705%) Appcelerator Titanium
9 3 (1.705%) Axure RP
9 3 (1.705%) Rational Application Developer
9 3 (1.705%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.705%) FlexUnit
10 1 (0.568%) Expression Blend
General
1 25 (14.20%) Marketing
2 10 (5.682%) Publishing
3 9 (5.114%) Banking
3 9 (5.114%) Multimedia
4 8 (4.545%) Finance
5 6 (3.409%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.841%) Retail
7 4 (2.273%) Games
7 4 (2.273%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.705%) Advertising
8 3 (1.705%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.705%) Interactive Media
9 2 (1.136%) Legal
9 2 (1.136%) Back Office
10 1 (0.568%) Automotive
10 1 (0.568%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.568%) Music
10 1 (0.568%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.568%) French Language
10 1 (0.568%) German Language
Job Titles
1 91 (51.70%) Developer
2 75 (42.61%) Designer
3 33 (18.75%) Front-End Developer
4 16 (9.091%) Web Designer
5 14 (7.955%) User Experience Designer
6 13 (7.386%) Graphic Designer
7 12 (6.818%) iOS Developer
8 11 (6.250%) Web Developer
8 11 (6.250%) .NET Developer
9 8 (4.545%) VB.NET Developer
9 8 (4.545%) Instructional Designer
10 7 (3.977%) Flash Designer
11 6 (3.409%) E-Learning Developer
11 6 (3.409%) Flash Developer
11 6 (3.409%) Digital Designer
12 4 (2.273%) Front-End Web Developer
12 4 (2.273%) Senior Designer
12 4 (2.273%) Flash Programmer
12 4 (2.273%) Photoshop Designer
12 4 (2.273%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.955%) Open Source
1 14 (7.955%) Mobile App
2 12 (6.818%) E-Learning
3 10 (5.682%) Visualisation
4 7 (3.977%) Digital Media
5 6 (3.409%) Animation
6 5 (2.841%) Learning Management System
7 4 (2.273%) iPhone
7 4 (2.273%) Social Media
7 4 (2.273%) Photography
8 3 (1.705%) Web 2.0
9 2 (1.136%) W3C
9 2 (1.136%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.136%) SCORM
9 2 (1.136%) Interactive TV
9 2 (1.136%) Video Editing
10 1 (0.568%) Computer Science
10 1 (0.568%) Copywriting
10 1 (0.568%) Podcast
10 1 (0.568%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.61%) Android
2 27 (15.34%) Apple iOS
3 6 (3.409%) UNIX
3 6 (3.409%) Windows
3 6 (3.409%) Linux
4 2 (1.136%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (17.05%) E-Commerce
2 22 (12.50%) OO
3 20 (11.36%) Web Design
4 19 (10.80%) OOD
5 16 (9.091%) Content Management
6 13 (7.386%) Time Management
7 12 (6.818%) Information Architecture
7 12 (6.818%) Agile Software Development
8 11 (6.250%) Web Development
8 11 (6.250%) Multithreading
9 9 (5.114%) OOP
10 7 (3.977%) Unit Testing
11 5 (2.841%) User Experience Design
12 4 (2.273%) Scrum
12 4 (2.273%) Project Management
12 4 (2.273%) SEO
13 3 (1.705%) Validation
13 3 (1.705%) TDD
13 3 (1.705%) Web Application Development
14 2 (1.136%) Graceful Degradation
Programming Languages
1 77 (43.75%) JavaScript
2 19 (10.80%) Java
2 19 (10.80%) ActionScript
3 18 (10.23%) C#
4 17 (9.659%) Objective-C
5 13 (7.386%) C++
6 11 (6.250%) Python
7 10 (5.682%) ActionScript 3.0
8 8 (4.545%) VB.NET
9 3 (1.705%) PHP
10 2 (1.136%) SQL
10 2 (1.136%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.568%) XAML
11 1 (0.568%) Ruby
11 1 (0.568%) Lua
11 1 (0.568%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.568%) C
Qualifications
1 17 (9.659%) Degree
2 3 (1.705%) IBM Certification
3 1 (0.568%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.568%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.409%) WCAG
2 1 (0.568%) WAI
2 1 (0.568%) QA
Vendors
1 58 (32.95%) Adobe
2 10 (5.682%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.705%) IBM
4 2 (1.136%) Orchard
4 2 (1.136%) Twitter
5 1 (0.568%) Google
5 1 (0.568%) Zend
5 1 (0.568%) Facebook
5 1 (0.568%) Autodesk
London
UX and CX experience, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Photoshop, W3C Compliance knowledge and a Strong portfolio of Online design work that adheres to best practice in order to inspire...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Rate: £300 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
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This will preferably be in a retail environment You must have a working knowledge of the below on a Mac: Illustrator In Design Photoshop Microsoft Office The projects...
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Rate: £150 - £250 per day + Depending on Experience
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JSF 1.2... JSP... Experience of JavaScript frameworks such as DOJO and jQuery. Knowledge of WebSphere Portal Administration (preferably candidates will be IBM certified). Experience of IBM Web...
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Rate: £300 - £400 per day
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