The first table below looks at the demand for RSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warwickshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RSS over the 3 months to 21 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 Application Development category for the Warwickshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing RSS 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Warwickshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
45 52 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 21.43% 20.97% 21.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 32 27
Average daily rate £300 £313 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.00% -34.21%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
Average hourly rate £21.00 £16.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.27% -8.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
RSS
West Midlands

RSS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing RSS across the Warwickshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Warwickshire RSS Jobs Demand Trend

RSS
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire region citing RSS 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 RSS.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Dreamweaver
1 1 (100.00%) Fireworks
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) Pay per click
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Online Marketing

RSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire region citing RSS 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 RSS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) Fireworks
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Dreamweaver
General
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Web Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Designer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) Pay per click
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Online Marketing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript