The first table below looks at the demand for B2C skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited B2C over the 3 months to 17 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 Yorkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
Rank 89 92 72
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -20
Contract jobs citing B2C 2 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.158% 0.124% 0.178%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.220% 0.168% 0.271%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
Average daily rate £290 £350 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.14% -36.36%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £450
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -27.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.75 - £50.00
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
908 1190 737
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 71.55% 73.55% 65.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 686 351
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 28
Average hourly rate £24.00 £20.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.07% +17.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.68 £12.00 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
B2C
Yorkshire

B2C
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing B2C across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

West Yorkshire B2C Jobs Demand Trend

B2C
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing B2C across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire B2C Daily Rate Trend

B2C
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2C within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Leeds -8 2 £290 -17.14%
B2C
Yorkshire

B2C
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing B2C 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 B2C.

1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) XSLT
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) OO
1 5 (100.00%) Apache
1 5 (100.00%) XHTML
1 5 (100.00%) Internet
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (100.00%) Zend
1 5 (100.00%) RIA
1 5 (100.00%) Open Source
2 1 (20.00%) C

B2C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing B2C 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 B2C. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) XSLT
1 5 (100.00%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) RIA
1 5 (100.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) OO
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) C
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Zend