Computer Science Contracts in Wales
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Computer Science in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Computer Science 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 Miscellaneous category for the Wales region.

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
Computer Science (Computing Science)
Rank 38 54 54
Rank change year-on-year
+16 0
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 5 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 1.171% 0.350% 0.753%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.747% 1.786% 3.546%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £305 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +10.90%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Average hourly rate £15.00 - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £31.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year
+4.03% -13.88%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 87 112 141
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 20.37% 19.58% 21.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 43 74
Average daily rate £318 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.28% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £186 £200 £266
10% offered a daily rate of more than £402 £518 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.00 £18.21
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -23.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £13.10 £7.96
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £16.10 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Computer Science across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Wales Computer Science Jobs Demand Trend

Computer Science
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Computer Science across the Wales region.

Wales Computer Science Daily Rate Trend

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Computer Science across the Wales region.

Wales Computer Science Hourly Rate Trend

Computer Science
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the Wales region 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
South Wales +3 4 - -
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing Computer Science 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 Computer Science.

1 8 (100.00%) Degree
2 4 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (50.00%) Network Design
2 4 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (50.00%) SCCM
2 4 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (50.00%) Riverbed
2 4 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 4 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (50.00%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 4 (50.00%) CSS
2 4 (50.00%) MCP
2 4 (50.00%) LAN
2 4 (50.00%) WAN
2 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (50.00%) DNS
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Asset Management
3 3 (37.50%) Data Management
3 3 (37.50%) UML
3 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling

Computer Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing Computer Science 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 Computer Science. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
2 3 (37.50%) XML
2 3 (37.50%) XSLT
2 3 (37.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) YUI
3 1 (12.50%) jQuery
3 1 (12.50%) HTML5
3 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (12.50%) CSS3
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 4 (50.00%) LAN
1 4 (50.00%) WAN
1 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2012
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) LAN Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Administrator
2 3 (37.50%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (50.00%) Windows 7
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (50.00%) Network Design
1 4 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 4 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (50.00%) Migration
1 4 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 3 (37.50%) Data Management
2 3 (37.50%) UML
2 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
2 3 (37.50%) PLM
2 3 (37.50%) PDM
2 3 (37.50%) CAD
2 3 (37.50%) SysML
2 3 (37.50%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Network Management
3 1 (12.50%) MVC
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (37.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Degree
2 4 (50.00%) MCP
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (37.50%) HND
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Riverbed
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
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