The first table below looks at the demand for Image Processing skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Image Processing over the 3 months to 24 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Image Processing
Rank 522 575 577
Rank change year-on-year
+53 +2
Contract jobs citing Image Processing 7 9 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.015% 0.015% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.021% 0.023% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
Average daily rate £351 £175 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+100.71% -50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £282 £175 £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £175 £370
UK excluding London average daily rate £265 £175 £350
% change year-on-year
+51.42% -50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £35.00 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.89%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year
- -7.89%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
32941 39581 41270
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.01% 67.87% 67.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19678 22705 23413
Average daily rate £413 £403 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.48% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 1282 1475
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%

Image Processing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Image Processing within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Image Processing Jobs Demand Trend

Image Processing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Image Processing Daily Rate Trend

Image Processing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Image Processing within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Image Processing Daily Rate Histogram

Image Processing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Image Processing Hourly Rate Trend

Image Processing
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Image Processing within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 6 £351 +100.71%
East of England +17 3 £265 +51.42%
South East +12 2 - -
Letchworth - 2 - -
Hertfordshire - 2 - -
Hampshire -11 1 - -
Suffolk - 1 £265 -
Bury St Edmunds - 1 £265 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
London - 1 £438 -

Image Processing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Image Processing 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 Image Processing.

1 9 (50.00%) Android
2 6 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 6 (33.33%) OpenGL
2 6 (33.33%) Degree
2 6 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 5 (27.78%) CoreMedia CMS
3 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 5 (27.78%) iPad
3 5 (27.78%) Memory Management
3 5 (27.78%) iPhone
3 5 (27.78%) OpenCV
3 5 (27.78%) OpenGL ES
4 4 (22.22%) C++
4 4 (22.22%) Scrum
4 4 (22.22%) Banking
5 3 (16.67%) Java
5 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (16.67%) OO
5 3 (16.67%) C#
6 2 (11.11%) Video Processing
6 2 (11.11%) Sass
6 2 (11.11%) LESS
6 2 (11.11%) CSS3
6 2 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
6 2 (11.11%) HTML5
6 2 (11.11%) Analytics
6 2 (11.11%) MVC
6 2 (11.11%) SEO
6 2 (11.11%) Adobe
6 2 (11.11%) XHTML

Image Processing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Image Processing 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 Image Processing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (33.33%) OpenGL
2 5 (27.78%) OpenCV
2 5 (27.78%) OpenGL ES
3 2 (11.11%) Sass
3 2 (11.11%) LESS
3 2 (11.11%) CSS3
3 2 (11.11%) HTML5
3 2 (11.11%) XHTML
3 2 (11.11%) ASP
3 2 (11.11%) CSS
3 2 (11.11%) JSP
3 2 (11.11%) XML
3 2 (11.11%) XSLT
3 2 (11.11%) J2EE
3 2 (11.11%) Ajax
3 2 (11.11%) Dojo
3 2 (11.11%) WPF
3 2 (11.11%) jQuery
3 2 (11.11%) MooTools
4 1 (5.556%) MFC
Application Platforms
1 5 (27.78%) CoreMedia CMS
2 2 (11.11%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Photoshop
2 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Google Analytics
Development Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (5.556%) Maven
1 1 (5.556%) Subversion
1 1 (5.556%) Visual Studio
1 1 (5.556%) Hudson
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Banking
3 1 (5.556%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) iOS Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Android Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Front-End Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) UI Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.556%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.556%) C++ Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Test Leader
5 1 (5.556%) Senior iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 5 (27.78%) iPad
2 5 (27.78%) iPhone
3 1 (5.556%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 1 (5.556%) 3D Graphics
3 1 (5.556%) Verilog
3 1 (5.556%) Digital Media
3 1 (5.556%) Visualisation
3 1 (5.556%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Android
2 6 (33.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.556%) Windows
3 1 (5.556%) Linux
3 1 (5.556%) Windows XP
3 1 (5.556%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Memory Management
2 4 (22.22%) Scrum
3 3 (16.67%) OO
4 2 (11.11%) Video Processing
4 2 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (11.11%) Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) MVC
4 2 (11.11%) SEO
4 2 (11.11%) E-Commerce
4 2 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (11.11%) Web Design
4 2 (11.11%) Content Management
4 2 (11.11%) Unit Testing
5 1 (5.556%) Multithreading
5 1 (5.556%) System Testing
5 1 (5.556%) Data Architecture
5 1 (5.556%) Validation
5 1 (5.556%) Software Deployment
5 1 (5.556%) Progressive Enhancement
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) C++
2 3 (16.67%) Java
2 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (11.11%) PHP
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.556%) Objective-C
4 1 (5.556%) VC++
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (5.556%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.556%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) DICOM
1 1 (5.556%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Adobe
1 2 (11.11%) FatWire
1 2 (11.11%) Omniture
1 2 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (5.556%) Xilinx
2 1 (5.556%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.556%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.556%) Altera