The first table below looks at the demand for the Trainee role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Trainee in their job title 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 Job Titles 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Trainee
Rank 520 544 567
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Trainee 9 40 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.019% 0.069% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.074% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 0
Average daily rate £110 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-68.57% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £110 £85 -
% change year-on-year
+29.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 12
Average hourly rate £11.00 £14.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.13% -3.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £14.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Trainee
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Trainee Jobs Demand Trend

Trainee
Daily Rate Trend

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

Trainee Daily Rate Trend

Trainee
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Trainee Hourly Rate Trend

Trainee
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Trainee 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 +16 9 £110 -68.57%
London +15 5 - -
City of London - 2 - -
South East +6 1 £110 +29.41%
East of England - 1 £100 -
Crewe - 1 £110 -
Basingstoke - 1 £110 -
North West - 1 £110 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
South Yorkshire - 1 - -
Northamptonshire - 1 - -
Norfolk - 1 £100 -
Hampshire - 1 £110 -
Cheshire - 1 £110 -
Sheffield - 1 - -
Norwich - 1 £100 -
Northampton - 1 - -

Trainee
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Trainee in their job title 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 with Trainee in their job title.

1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Remedy
3 4 (19.05%) MS Office
3 4 (19.05%) Windows
4 3 (14.29%) Linux
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 3 (14.29%) Change Management
4 3 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 2 (9.524%) JSON
5 2 (9.524%) Symfony
5 2 (9.524%) Twitter
5 2 (9.524%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 2 (9.524%) MVC
5 2 (9.524%) LAMP
5 2 (9.524%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (9.524%) Subversion
5 2 (9.524%) Ajax
5 2 (9.524%) PHP5
5 2 (9.524%) jQuery
5 2 (9.524%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (9.524%) Time Management
5 2 (9.524%) Active Directory
5 2 (9.524%) Tivoli
5 2 (9.524%) OO
5 2 (9.524%) Apache
5 2 (9.524%) MS Excel
5 2 (9.524%) Windows XP
5 2 (9.524%) CSS
5 2 (9.524%) HTML
5 2 (9.524%) JavaScript

Trainee
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Trainee in their job title 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 with Trainee in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (9.524%) JSON
1 2 (9.524%) Symfony
1 2 (9.524%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 2 (9.524%) LAMP
1 2 (9.524%) Ajax
1 2 (9.524%) jQuery
1 2 (9.524%) CSS
1 2 (9.524%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (9.524%) Apache
2 1 (4.762%) MS Exchange
2 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) MS Office
2 2 (9.524%) MS Excel
3 1 (4.762%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.762%) ATM
1 1 (4.762%) VoIP
1 1 (4.762%) Internet
1 1 (4.762%) IP Telephony
1 1 (4.762%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.524%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.524%) Subversion
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (4.762%) Telecoms
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Linux
3 2 (9.524%) Windows XP
4 1 (4.762%) UNIX
4 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.762%) Windows 7
4 1 (4.762%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.762%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (14.29%) Change Management
1 3 (14.29%) Incident Management
2 2 (9.524%) MVC
2 2 (9.524%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (9.524%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (9.524%) Time Management
2 2 (9.524%) OO
3 1 (4.762%) ITIL
3 1 (4.762%) BPR
3 1 (4.762%) Project Management
3 1 (4.762%) Business Analysis
3 1 (4.762%) Data Management
3 1 (4.762%) Migration
3 1 (4.762%) Workflow
3 1 (4.762%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.524%) PHP5
1 2 (9.524%) JavaScript
1 2 (9.524%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (4.762%) A+ Certification
1 1 (4.762%) Security Cleared
1 1 (4.762%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (4.762%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (9.524%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.762%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 2 (9.524%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Remedy
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.524%) Twitter
3 2 (9.524%) Oracle
4 1 (4.762%) SAP
4 1 (4.762%) Cisco
4 1 (4.762%) Avaya
4 1 (4.762%) Siemens
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