Multimedia Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Multimedia in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Multimedia 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 terms in our General 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
Multimedia
Rank 464 444 439
Rank change year-on-year
-20 -5
Contract jobs citing Multimedia 77 121 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.166% 0.207% 0.238%
As % of the General category 0.386% 0.458% 0.479%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 56 73
Average daily rate £220 £315 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.15% -3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £113 £250 £141
10% offered a daily rate of more than £339 £423 £510
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £315 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.93% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 20
Average hourly rate £27.50 £14.63 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.03% -55.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £12.75 £15.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £16.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £14.63 £33.25
% change year-on-year
+21.36% -56.01%
All of the General Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category		 19923 26439 30920
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 43.00% 45.29% 49.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11988 15751 18512
Average daily rate £450 £428 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.05% -14.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 646 735 931
Average hourly rate £25.00 £22.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.00 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%

Multimedia
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Multimedia Jobs Demand Trend

Multimedia
Daily Rate Trend

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

Multimedia Daily Rate Trend

Multimedia
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Multimedia within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Multimedia Daily Rate Histogram

Multimedia
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Multimedia Hourly Rate Trend

Multimedia
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Multimedia within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Multimedia Hourly Rate Histogram

Multimedia
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 Multimedia 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 -1 64 £193 -38.88%
London +13 38 £138 -56.34%
South East +3 12 £298 -8.46%
East of England +28 11 £225 -10.00%
Cambridgeshire +16 5 £225 -10.00%
Berkshire +15 5 £300 -6.25%
Hertfordshire - 5 - -
County Londonderry - 5 - -
Coleraine - 5 - -
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
Cambridge +13 4 - -
Hampshire -7 4 £210 -35.38%
Southampton -2 3 £295 -26.25%
Cardiff - 3 £289 -
South Wales - 3 £289 -
Wales - 3 £289 -
South West +26 2 £220 -33.33%
Edinburgh +9 2 - -
Scotland -16 2 - -
Wokingham - 2 - -
Oxford - 2 - -
Oxfordshire - 2 - -
City of London +9 1 - -
North West +8 1 - -
Wiltshire - 1 £220 -
Middlesex - 1 £300 -
Lancashire - 1 - -
Portsmouth - 1 £125 -
Peterborough - 1 £225 -
Gloucestershire - 1 - -

Multimedia
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 36 (21.18%) HTML
1 36 (21.18%) Degree
2 35 (20.59%) JavaScript
3 33 (19.41%) CSS
4 25 (14.71%) XML
5 23 (13.53%) Project Management
5 23 (13.53%) Android
6 22 (12.94%) CMS
7 21 (12.35%) E-Learning
7 21 (12.35%) QA
8 20 (11.76%) Marketing
8 20 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
8 20 (11.76%) MS Office
8 20 (11.76%) Java
9 17 (10.00%) Flash
9 17 (10.00%) Content Management
9 17 (10.00%) Computer Science
10 16 (9.412%) HTML5
10 16 (9.412%) iPad
11 14 (8.235%) XHTML
11 14 (8.235%) Publishing
12 13 (7.647%) Games
12 13 (7.647%) C
12 13 (7.647%) Photoshop
12 13 (7.647%) jQuery
12 13 (7.647%) Mobile App
13 12 (7.059%) SQL
13 12 (7.059%) .NET
13 12 (7.059%) Microsoft
13 12 (7.059%) Scrum

Multimedia
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 36 (21.18%) HTML
2 33 (19.41%) CSS
3 25 (14.71%) XML
4 17 (10.00%) Flash
5 16 (9.412%) HTML5
6 14 (8.235%) XHTML
7 13 (7.647%) jQuery
8 12 (7.059%) .NET
8 12 (7.059%) Ajax
9 11 (6.471%) Web Services
10 8 (4.706%) ASP.NET
11 7 (4.118%) SOAP
11 7 (4.118%) XSLT
11 7 (4.118%) CSS3
12 6 (3.529%) JSON
12 6 (3.529%) DHTML
13 5 (2.941%) OpenGL
13 5 (2.941%) RESTful
13 5 (2.941%) REST
14 4 (2.353%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 22 (12.94%) CMS
2 10 (5.882%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.353%) Moodle
4 3 (1.765%) Apache
5 2 (1.176%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (1.176%) WordPress
6 1 (0.588%) Content Management Server
6 1 (0.588%) SAS
6 1 (0.588%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.588%) Windows Azure
6 1 (0.588%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (0.588%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (11.76%) MS Office
2 13 (7.647%) Photoshop
3 10 (5.882%) MS Excel
3 10 (5.882%) Adobe Illustrator
4 8 (4.706%) MS PowerPoint
5 5 (2.941%) MS Visio
6 4 (2.353%) SPSS
6 4 (2.353%) RoboHelp
6 4 (2.353%) FrameMaker
7 3 (1.765%) MS Project
7 3 (1.765%) Adobe Captivate
8 2 (1.176%) Fireworks
8 2 (1.176%) Acrobat
8 2 (1.176%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.588%) Maya
9 1 (0.588%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.588%) PageMaker
Business Applications
1 2 (1.176%) SAP BPC
1 2 (1.176%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.706%) LAN
2 6 (3.529%) LTE
2 6 (3.529%) WAN
2 6 (3.529%) Internet
2 6 (3.529%) 3G
3 4 (2.353%) DVB
3 4 (2.353%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.765%) Intranet
5 2 (1.176%) IPv4
5 2 (1.176%) BSS
5 2 (1.176%) Wireless
6 1 (0.588%) Firewall
6 1 (0.588%) CTI
6 1 (0.588%) SAN
6 1 (0.588%) SMS
6 1 (0.588%) RTCP
6 1 (0.588%) RTP
6 1 (0.588%) GSM
6 1 (0.588%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.588%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.529%) MySQL
2 5 (2.941%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.765%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (1.176%) CouchDB
4 2 (1.176%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.176%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.176%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.176%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.588%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 7 (4.118%) Selenium
2 6 (3.529%) Dreamweaver
3 5 (2.941%) QuickTest Pro
3 5 (2.941%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.353%) Subversion
5 3 (1.765%) Xcode
5 3 (1.765%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.176%) Git (software)
7 1 (0.588%) Maven
7 1 (0.588%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.588%) JIRA
7 1 (0.588%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.588%) Expression Blend
7 1 (0.588%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.588%) PhoneGap
General
1 20 (11.76%) Marketing
2 14 (8.235%) Publishing
3 13 (7.647%) Games
4 8 (4.706%) Finance
4 8 (4.706%) Advertising
5 6 (3.529%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.941%) Retail
7 4 (2.353%) French Language
7 4 (2.353%) German Language
7 4 (2.353%) Back Office
8 3 (1.765%) Military
8 3 (1.765%) Electronics
9 2 (1.176%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.176%) Korean Language
9 2 (1.176%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.176%) Banking
9 2 (1.176%) Billing
10 1 (0.588%) Automotive
10 1 (0.588%) Law
10 1 (0.588%) Legal
Job Titles
1 41 (24.12%) Developer
2 23 (13.53%) Designer
3 15 (8.824%) Tester
4 14 (8.235%) Project Manager
5 10 (5.882%) Analyst
6 8 (4.706%) Junior
7 7 (4.118%) Web Developer
7 7 (4.118%) Coordinator
7 7 (4.118%) Android Developer
8 6 (3.529%) Technical Manager
8 6 (3.529%) Junior Tester
8 6 (3.529%) Administrator
8 6 (3.529%) Business Analyst
8 6 (3.529%) Java Developer
9 5 (2.941%) Verification Engineer
10 4 (2.353%) Technical Delivery Manager
10 4 (2.353%) Mobile Tester
10 4 (2.353%) User Experience Designer
10 4 (2.353%) Front-End Developer
10 4 (2.353%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.35%) E-Learning
2 17 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 16 (9.412%) iPad
4 13 (7.647%) Mobile App
5 11 (6.471%) iPhone
6 9 (5.294%) Management Information System
6 9 (5.294%) Social Media
6 9 (5.294%) Digital Media
7 8 (4.706%) Graphic Design
8 7 (4.118%) New Media
9 5 (2.941%) Streaming Video
9 5 (2.941%) ASIC Verification
9 5 (2.941%) IPTV
9 5 (2.941%) ASIC
9 5 (2.941%) Blackberry
10 4 (2.353%) 3D Graphics
11 3 (1.765%) VLE
11 3 (1.765%) MPEG
11 3 (1.765%) Video Editing
11 3 (1.765%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.53%) Android
2 11 (6.471%) Windows
3 10 (5.882%) Apple iOS
4 8 (4.706%) Linux
5 5 (2.941%) UNIX
6 3 (1.765%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.176%) Solaris
8 1 (0.588%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.588%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.588%) Windows 2000
8 1 (0.588%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (13.53%) Project Management
2 20 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
3 17 (10.00%) Content Management
4 12 (7.059%) Scrum
5 10 (5.882%) SEO
6 9 (5.294%) Migration
6 9 (5.294%) MVC
6 9 (5.294%) TDD
6 9 (5.294%) E-Commerce
6 9 (5.294%) PRINCE2
7 8 (4.706%) Web Development
8 7 (4.118%) Workflow
8 7 (4.118%) Business Analysis
9 6 (3.529%) Time Management
9 6 (3.529%) Service Delivery
10 5 (2.941%) Service Management
10 5 (2.941%) E-business
10 5 (2.941%) Use Case
11 4 (2.353%) Mobile Application Development
11 4 (2.353%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 35 (20.59%) JavaScript
2 20 (11.76%) Java
3 13 (7.647%) C
4 12 (7.059%) SQL
5 10 (5.882%) C#
6 8 (4.706%) C++
6 8 (4.706%) ActionScript
7 6 (3.529%) PHP
8 5 (2.941%) Perl
9 4 (2.353%) Python
10 3 (1.765%) Ruby
10 3 (1.765%) ActionScript 2.0
11 2 (1.176%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.176%) Bash shell
11 2 (1.176%) ActionScript 3.0
11 2 (1.176%) Korn
11 2 (1.176%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.588%) Tcl
12 1 (0.588%) SAS Macro
12 1 (0.588%) Lua
Qualifications
1 36 (21.18%) Degree
2 9 (5.294%) ISEB
3 3 (1.765%) A+ Certification
3 3 (1.765%) ISEB Practitioner
4 2 (1.176%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.588%) MOS
5 1 (0.588%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (0.588%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.588%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.588%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.588%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.35%) QA
2 2 (1.176%) WAI
3 1 (0.588%) SLA
3 1 (0.588%) ISO 9000
3 1 (0.588%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 5 (2.941%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.765%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.176%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.588%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.588%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (1.176%) Cisco UCCE
2 1 (0.588%) SCOM
2 1 (0.588%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (7.059%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.471%) Adobe
3 7 (4.118%) Facebook
4 6 (3.529%) Google
4 6 (3.529%) VMware
5 5 (2.941%) Oracle
6 4 (2.353%) JBoss
6 4 (2.353%) Symantec
6 4 (2.353%) Apple
6 4 (2.353%) Avaya
7 3 (1.765%) Cisco
7 3 (1.765%) Verint
7 3 (1.765%) Twitter
8 2 (1.176%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.176%) Business Objects
8 2 (1.176%) SAP
8 2 (1.176%) HP
9 1 (0.588%) Perforce
9 1 (0.588%) Quark
9 1 (0.588%) Citrix
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