The first table below looks at the demand for Industrial Design skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Industrial Design 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the West Midlands 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
Industrial Design
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Industrial Design 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1087 1429 1208
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 66.65% 63.54% 63.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 674 553
Average daily rate £340 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.03% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £233 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £523 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 72 76
Average hourly rate £37.80 £20.26 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+86.62% -18.98%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Industrial Design
England

Industrial Design
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Industrial Design across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

West Midlands Industrial Design Jobs Demand Trend

Industrial Design
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Industrial Design 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 Industrial Design.

1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) Dreamweaver
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (100.00%) Web 2.0
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) OmniGraffle
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Media

Industrial Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Industrial Design 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 Industrial Design. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (100.00%) OmniGraffle
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Dreamweaver
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (100.00%) UI Developer
1 1 (100.00%) UI Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Web 2.0
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle