The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Yahoo! 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 Yahoo! 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 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 Yahoo!.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Yahoo!
Rank 519 579 579
Rank change year-on-year
+60 0
Contract jobs citing Yahoo! 10 5 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.022% 0.009% 0.008%
As % of the Vendors category 0.046% 0.018% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 3
Average daily rate £176 £175 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.57% -35.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £137 £194
10% offered a daily rate of more than £178 £279 £374
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £400
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
21803 27081 28409
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 47.00% 46.44% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11623 13840 14202
Average daily rate £400 £400 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £237 £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 1174 1312 1605
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.56% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.22 £11.50 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

Yahoo!
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yahoo! Jobs Demand Trend

Yahoo!
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yahoo! Daily Rate Trend

Yahoo!
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yahoo! Hourly Rate Trend

Yahoo!
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Yahoo! 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 +51 10 £176 +0.57%
London +42 9 £176 +0.57%
Canary Wharf - 4 £176 -
South East - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Reading - 1 - -

Yahoo!
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 7 (46.67%) Marketing
2 6 (40.00%) Windows 7
2 6 (40.00%) VBA
2 6 (40.00%) MS Office
2 6 (40.00%) Windows XP
2 6 (40.00%) LAN
2 6 (40.00%) VPN
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (40.00%) ITIL
2 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
3 4 (26.67%) HTML
3 4 (26.67%) Google
3 4 (26.67%) Email Marketing
4 3 (20.00%) Social Media
4 3 (20.00%) Facebook
4 3 (20.00%) Pay per click
4 3 (20.00%) Photoshop
5 2 (13.33%) Project Management
5 2 (13.33%) Advertising
5 2 (13.33%) BBC
5 2 (13.33%) Display Advertising
6 1 (6.667%) Computer Science
6 1 (6.667%) QA
6 1 (6.667%) Selenium
6 1 (6.667%) Google Analytics
6 1 (6.667%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (6.667%) jQuery

Yahoo!
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (26.67%) HTML
2 1 (6.667%) jQuery
2 1 (6.667%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (40.00%) MS Office
2 3 (20.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) LAN
1 6 (40.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Selenium
1 1 (6.667%) PHPUnit
1 1 (6.667%) JMeter
1 1 (6.667%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (6.667%) Dreamweaver
General
1 7 (46.67%) Marketing
2 2 (13.33%) Advertising
3 1 (6.667%) Games
3 1 (6.667%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Analyst
1 4 (26.67%) Service Analyst
1 4 (26.67%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (13.33%) PPC Executive
2 2 (13.33%) PPC Manager
2 2 (13.33%) PPC Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) PPC Specialist
3 1 (6.667%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Web Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Tester
3 1 (6.667%) QA Tester
3 1 (6.667%) Web Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Social Media
2 2 (13.33%) BBC
3 1 (6.667%) Computer Science
3 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows 7
1 6 (40.00%) Windows XP
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) ITIL
2 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
2 4 (26.67%) Email Marketing
3 3 (20.00%) Pay per click
4 2 (13.33%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Display Advertising
5 1 (6.667%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (6.667%) Marketing Strategy
5 1 (6.667%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (6.667%) Analytics
5 1 (6.667%) SEO
5 1 (6.667%) Content Management
5 1 (6.667%) Automated Testing
5 1 (6.667%) CRM
5 1 (6.667%) B2B
5 1 (6.667%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (6.667%) QA
2 1 (6.667%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) Google
3 3 (20.00%) Facebook
4 1 (6.667%) Twitter
4 1 (6.667%) Sony
4 1 (6.667%) Remedy