The first table below looks at the demand for User Experience 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 User Experience Design 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Experience Design
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing User Experience 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 £325 £375 £325
% change year-on-year
-13.33% +15.38%
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
1085 1431 1197
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 66.44% 63.83% 63.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 675 550
Average daily rate £350 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £235 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £527 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 73 75
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 £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
User Experience Design
England

User Experience Design
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands User Experience Design Jobs Demand Trend

User Experience Design
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing User Experience Design across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands User Experience Design Daily Rate Trend

User Experience Design
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing User Experience Design across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands User Experience Design Hourly Rate Trend

User Experience Design
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing User Experience 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 User Experience Design.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
1 1 (100.00%) Intranet
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
1 1 (100.00%) Joomla!
1 1 (100.00%) PHP5
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3

User Experience Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing User Experience 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 User Experience Design. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Joomla!
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) PHP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe