The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Quark products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Quark 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Quark, Inc.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quark
Rank 522 554 574
Rank change year-on-year
+32 +20
Contract jobs citing Quark 8 24 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.017% 0.041% 0.023%
As % of the Vendors category 0.037% 0.089% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 17 3
Average daily rate £144 £250 £190
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-42.40% +31.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate £144 £300 -
% change year-on-year
-52.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 5
Average hourly rate £18.50 £21.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.90% +40.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-7.50% +33.33%
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
21775 27088 28510
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 46.93% 46.48% 46.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11633 13855 14263
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1193 1289 1605
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

Quark
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Quark Jobs Demand Trend

Quark
Daily Rate Trend

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

Quark Daily Rate Trend

Quark
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Quark Hourly Rate Trend

Quark
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 Quark 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 +32 8 £144 -42.40%
North West +19 6 - -
Manchester +15 6 - -
South East +22 1 - -
Berkshire +16 1 - -
East of England +12 1 £144 -52.00%
Hertfordshire +4 1 £144 -
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £144 -
Maidenhead - 1 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 - -

Quark
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 14 (82.35%) Photoshop
2 13 (76.47%) Adobe Illustrator
3 12 (70.59%) QuarkXPress
4 11 (64.71%) Adobe
5 10 (58.82%) MS Office
5 10 (58.82%) InDesign
6 7 (41.18%) Acrobat
7 6 (35.29%) Apple
7 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
8 5 (29.41%) Advertising
9 4 (23.53%) New Media
9 4 (23.53%) Workflow
9 4 (23.53%) Windows
10 3 (17.65%) DHCP
10 3 (17.65%) Photography
10 3 (17.65%) Windows 7
11 2 (11.76%) Performance Management
11 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2010
11 2 (11.76%) Marketing
11 2 (11.76%) Degree
11 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2003
11 2 (11.76%) Altiris
11 2 (11.76%) Publishing
11 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
11 2 (11.76%) VPN
11 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
11 2 (11.76%) HP
11 2 (11.76%) Juniper
11 2 (11.76%) Mac OS X

Quark
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (5.882%) HTML
1 1 (5.882%) CSS
1 1 (5.882%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) MS Exchange
1 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (5.882%) Drupal
Applications
1 14 (82.35%) Photoshop
2 13 (76.47%) Adobe Illustrator
3 12 (70.59%) QuarkXPress
4 10 (58.82%) MS Office
4 10 (58.82%) InDesign
5 7 (41.18%) Acrobat
6 2 (11.76%) MS Excel
7 1 (5.882%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (5.882%) Final Cut Pro
7 1 (5.882%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) DHCP
2 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.76%) VPN
2 2 (11.76%) DNS
3 1 (5.882%) Internet
3 1 (5.882%) FTP
Development Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Dreamweaver
General
1 5 (29.41%) Advertising
2 2 (11.76%) Publishing
2 2 (11.76%) Marketing
3 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.882%) Finance
3 1 (5.882%) Multimedia
3 1 (5.882%) Music
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Designer
2 4 (23.53%) Graphic Designer
3 2 (11.76%) Creative Director
3 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Print Designer
4 1 (5.882%) Junior Designer
4 1 (5.882%) Desktop Support
4 1 (5.882%) Junior
4 1 (5.882%) Art Worker
4 1 (5.882%) Art Director
4 1 (5.882%) Photoshop Designer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) New Media
2 3 (17.65%) Photography
3 1 (5.882%) Visualisation
3 1 (5.882%) Digital Media
3 1 (5.882%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Windows 7
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (11.76%) Windows XP
3 2 (11.76%) Mac OS X
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (5.882%) Android
4 1 (5.882%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Workflow
2 2 (11.76%) Performance Management
3 1 (5.882%) 3D Modelling
3 1 (5.882%) Asset Management
3 1 (5.882%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.882%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Adobe
2 6 (35.29%) Apple
2 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Altiris
3 2 (11.76%) Sophos
3 2 (11.76%) HP
3 2 (11.76%) Juniper
4 1 (5.882%) Sony
4 1 (5.882%) Google
4 1 (5.882%) Twitter
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