The first table below looks at the demand for COOL:Gen skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COOL:Gen over the 3 months to 20 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 of the Development Applications 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COOL:Gen
Rank - 46 53
Contract jobs citing COOL:Gen 0 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales - 0.537% 0.778%
As % of the Development Applications category - 6.250% 8.772%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate - £388 £278
% change year-on-year
- +39.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £29.50
All Development Applications
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
47 48 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 11.41% 8.587% 8.865%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 24 22
Average daily rate £325 £390 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +21.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £314 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £440 £394
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £16.00 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -56.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
COOL:Gen
UK

COOL:Gen
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing COOL:Gen across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Wales COOL:Gen Jobs Demand Trend

COOL:Gen
Daily Rate Trend

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

Wales COOL:Gen Daily Rate Trend

COOL:Gen
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing COOL:Gen 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 COOL:Gen.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) CA
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared

COOL:Gen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing COOL:Gen 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 COOL:Gen. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CA