The first table below looks at the demand for InDesign skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited InDesign 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe InDesign
Rank 495 523 549
Rank change year-on-year
+28 +26
Contract jobs citing InDesign 34 61 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.073% 0.105% 0.057%
As % of the Applications category 0.558% 0.841% 0.482%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 9
Average daily rate £188 £218 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.79% -1.13%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £179 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £328 £280
UK excluding London average daily rate £188 £200 £250
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 2
Average hourly rate £26.25 £21.00 £95.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -77.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £14.50 £31.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.00 £29.80 £159.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £16.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
+51.51% +10.00%
All Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
6088 7253 7257
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 13.12% 12.44% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3169 3712 3616
Average daily rate £340 £350 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -4.10%
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 677 742 877
Average hourly rate £16.00 £15.56 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.82% -2.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.16 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.12%

InDesign
Jobs Demand Trend

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

InDesign Jobs Demand Trend

InDesign
Daily Rate Trend

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

InDesign Daily Rate Trend

InDesign
Daily Rate Histogram

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

InDesign Daily Rate Histogram

InDesign
Hourly Rate Trend

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

InDesign Hourly Rate Trend

InDesign
Top 23 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing InDesign 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 +21 34 £188 -18.47%
South East -3 12 £188 -42.30%
London +26 11 £318 +38.04%
Berkshire +2 10 £188 -
North West +20 7 - -
Manchester +14 7 - -
East of England +19 4 £144 -
Cambridgeshire +14 3 - -
Buckinghamshire - 3 £176 -
Cambridge - 3 - -
City of London +13 2 - -
South West - 2 £105 -
Gerrards Cross - 2 £188 -
Uxbridge - 2 £188 -
Slough - 2 £188 -
Reading - 2 £188 -
Maidenhead - 2 £188 -
Dorset - 2 £105 -
Hampshire -10 1 £260 -
Hertfordshire - 1 £144 -
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £144 -
Marlow - 1 £165 -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 - -

InDesign
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 62 (100.00%) Adobe
2 57 (91.94%) Adobe Illustrator
3 55 (88.71%) Photoshop
4 27 (43.55%) HTML
5 19 (30.65%) Microsoft
6 16 (25.81%) Acrobat
7 15 (24.19%) MS Office
7 15 (24.19%) Flash
8 14 (22.58%) Dreamweaver
9 12 (19.35%) CSS
9 12 (19.35%) Information Architecture
10 11 (17.74%) E-Commerce
11 9 (14.52%) Photography
12 8 (12.90%) Telecoms
12 8 (12.90%) MS Excel
12 8 (12.90%) JavaScript
13 7 (11.29%) Quark
13 7 (11.29%) Digital Media
13 7 (11.29%) OmniGraffle
13 7 (11.29%) Banking
13 7 (11.29%) Investment Banking
14 6 (9.677%) Degree
14 6 (9.677%) Axure RP
14 6 (9.677%) Web Design
14 6 (9.677%) MS Visio
14 6 (9.677%) Apple
14 6 (9.677%) XML
15 5 (8.065%) QuarkXPress
15 5 (8.065%) Publishing
15 5 (8.065%) CMS

InDesign
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 27 (43.55%) HTML
2 15 (24.19%) Flash
3 12 (19.35%) CSS
4 6 (9.677%) XML
5 5 (8.065%) jQuery
6 3 (4.839%) HTML5
7 2 (3.226%) Apache Flex
7 2 (3.226%) Backbone.js
7 2 (3.226%) CSS3
7 2 (3.226%) .NET
7 2 (3.226%) XSLT
8 1 (1.613%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (8.065%) CMS
Applications
1 57 (91.94%) Adobe Illustrator
2 55 (88.71%) Photoshop
3 16 (25.81%) Acrobat
4 15 (24.19%) MS Office
5 8 (12.90%) MS Excel
6 7 (11.29%) OmniGraffle
7 6 (9.677%) MS Visio
8 5 (8.065%) QuarkXPress
8 5 (8.065%) FrameMaker
9 4 (6.452%) MS PowerPoint
10 3 (4.839%) Fireworks
11 1 (1.613%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (1.613%) FreeHand
11 1 (1.613%) Final Cut Pro
11 1 (1.613%) Vectorworks
11 1 (1.613%) SketchUp
11 1 (1.613%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 1 (1.613%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.839%) FTP
2 1 (1.613%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.226%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (22.58%) Dreamweaver
2 6 (9.677%) Axure RP
3 5 (8.065%) Expression Blend
4 1 (1.613%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.613%) Balsamiq Mockups
General
1 8 (12.90%) Telecoms
2 7 (11.29%) Banking
2 7 (11.29%) Investment Banking
3 5 (8.065%) Publishing
3 5 (8.065%) Marketing
3 5 (8.065%) Retail
3 5 (8.065%) Interactive Media
4 4 (6.452%) Advertising
4 4 (6.452%) Front Office
5 3 (4.839%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.226%) Finance
7 1 (1.613%) Games
7 1 (1.613%) Back Office
7 1 (1.613%) Legal
7 1 (1.613%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.613%) Music
7 1 (1.613%) Cantonese Language
7 1 (1.613%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 28 (45.16%) Designer
2 11 (17.74%) Graphic Designer
2 11 (17.74%) Architect
3 9 (14.52%) User Experience Architect
4 8 (12.90%) User Experience Designer
5 7 (11.29%) Developer
6 5 (8.065%) Author
6 5 (8.065%) Technical Author
6 5 (8.065%) Front-End Developer
7 4 (6.452%) Instructional Designer
7 4 (6.452%) Photoshop Designer
7 4 (6.452%) Web Designer
8 3 (4.839%) Technical Writer
8 3 (4.839%) Web Developer
9 2 (3.226%) UI Designer
9 2 (3.226%) Creative Director
9 2 (3.226%) Front-End Web Developer
9 2 (3.226%) Digital Designer
9 2 (3.226%) Graduate
9 2 (3.226%) Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.52%) Photography
2 7 (11.29%) Digital Media
3 4 (6.452%) Graphic Design
3 4 (6.452%) Social Media
3 4 (6.452%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.839%) New Media
5 2 (3.226%) Open Source
5 2 (3.226%) Visualisation
6 1 (1.613%) SaaS
6 1 (1.613%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.226%) Android
1 2 (3.226%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.613%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.35%) Information Architecture
2 11 (17.74%) E-Commerce
3 6 (9.677%) Web Design
4 4 (6.452%) SEO
5 3 (4.839%) CAD
5 3 (4.839%) Web Development
5 3 (4.839%) Performance Management
6 2 (3.226%) Business Development
6 2 (3.226%) Content Management
6 2 (3.226%) B2B
6 2 (3.226%) Project Management
6 2 (3.226%) MVC
7 1 (1.613%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (1.613%) Scrum
7 1 (1.613%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (1.613%) Risk Management
7 1 (1.613%) Workflow
7 1 (1.613%) Change Management
7 1 (1.613%) HOOD
7 1 (1.613%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.90%) JavaScript
2 3 (4.839%) ActionScript
3 2 (3.226%) ActionScript 2.0
3 2 (3.226%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (9.677%) Degree
2 2 (3.226%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.839%) QA
Vendors
1 62 (100.00%) Adobe
2 19 (30.65%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.29%) Quark
4 6 (9.677%) Apple
5 1 (1.613%) Sony
5 1 (1.613%) SAP
5 1 (1.613%) Twitter
5 1 (1.613%) Google
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