The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Computer Science 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 Computer Science 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Computer Science (Computing Science)
Rank 75 83 71
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -12
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 13 8 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 1.036% 0.511% 0.711%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.138% 3.587% 3.493%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 2
Average daily rate £300 £355 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.49% +5.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £242 £275 £328
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £374 £348
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £31.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year
+3.22% -13.88%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
253 223 229
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 20.16% 14.25% 20.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 114 100
Average daily rate £300 £338 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £212 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £458
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 17
Average hourly rate £12.50 £16.00 £14.83
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.87% +7.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.83 £11.00 £7.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.75 £27.25 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Computer Science
Yorkshire

Computer Science
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Computer Science across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

West Yorkshire Computer Science Jobs Demand Trend

Computer Science
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Computer Science Daily Rate Trend

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Computer Science across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Yorkshire Computer Science Daily Rate Histogram

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Computer Science across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Computer Science Hourly Rate Trend

Computer Science
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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 -4 11 £300 -15.49%
Computer Science
Yorkshire

Computer Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Computer Science 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 Computer Science.

1 14 (87.50%) Degree
2 8 (50.00%) .NET
3 5 (31.25%) C#
3 5 (31.25%) Web Services
3 5 (31.25%) XML
4 4 (25.00%) Oracle
4 4 (25.00%) Visual Studio
4 4 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 4 (25.00%) STB
4 4 (25.00%) RESTful
4 4 (25.00%) REST
5 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (18.75%) Open Source
5 3 (18.75%) TDD
5 3 (18.75%) IPTV
5 3 (18.75%) Mathematics
5 3 (18.75%) MS Project
5 3 (18.75%) MS Office
5 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
5 3 (18.75%) C++
5 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
5 3 (18.75%) CSS
5 3 (18.75%) SOAP
5 3 (18.75%) HND
5 3 (18.75%) MVC
5 3 (18.75%) Scrum
5 3 (18.75%) MPEG
5 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
6 2 (12.50%) OpenView

Computer Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Computer Science 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 Computer Science. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (50.00%) .NET
2 5 (31.25%) Web Services
2 5 (31.25%) XML
3 4 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 4 (25.00%) RESTful
3 4 (25.00%) REST
4 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
4 3 (18.75%) CSS
4 3 (18.75%) SOAP
5 2 (12.50%) Middleware
5 2 (12.50%) JMS
5 2 (12.50%) LAMP
5 2 (12.50%) XHTML
5 2 (12.50%) Java EE
5 2 (12.50%) LINQ
5 2 (12.50%) Lucene
5 2 (12.50%) Ajax
5 2 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (12.50%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Apache
1 2 (12.50%) ESB
1 2 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (12.50%) Apache Solr
2 1 (6.250%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (6.250%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) MS Project
1 3 (18.75%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.250%) JDE OneWorld
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (6.250%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (12.50%) RavenDB
3 1 (6.250%) Redis
3 1 (6.250%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.250%) CouchDB
3 1 (6.250%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (6.250%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.250%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (6.250%) MySQL
3 1 (6.250%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.250%) MOLAP
3 1 (6.250%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.250%) ROLAP
3 1 (6.250%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (12.50%) Git (software)
3 1 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (6.250%) JIRA
3 1 (6.250%) Selenium
General
1 2 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (6.250%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Test Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Agile .NET Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Designer
5 1 (6.250%) OBIEE Architect
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Software Test Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Process Improvement Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Software Test Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Graduate
5 1 (6.250%) Applications Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Process Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) STB
2 3 (18.75%) Open Source
2 3 (18.75%) IPTV
2 3 (18.75%) Mathematics
2 3 (18.75%) MPEG
3 2 (12.50%) NHS
3 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) UNIX
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) TDD
1 3 (18.75%) MVC
1 3 (18.75%) Scrum
2 2 (12.50%) SOA
2 2 (12.50%) Unified Process
2 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2
2 2 (12.50%) UML
2 2 (12.50%) ITIL
2 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 1 (6.250%) Analytics
3 1 (6.250%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (6.250%) Data Migration
3 1 (6.250%) Data Validation
3 1 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (6.250%) Test Management
3 1 (6.250%) Project Planning
3 1 (6.250%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) C#
2 3 (18.75%) C++
2 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) Tcl
3 2 (12.50%) PHP
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) Ruby
4 1 (6.250%) Bash shell
4 1 (6.250%) Erlang
4 1 (6.250%) C
4 1 (6.250%) COBOL
4 1 (6.250%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Server
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) OpenView
1 2 (12.50%) CA Wily
2 1 (6.250%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) HP
3 2 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (6.250%) JD Edwards
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