The first table below looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Degree 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 Qualifications for the 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
Degree
Rank 66 61 64
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +3
Contract jobs citing Degree 47 52 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 2.476% 2.269% 2.036%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.77% 15.29% 14.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 26 15
Average daily rate £295 £365 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.06% +16.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £143
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £495 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 7
Average hourly rate £12.00 £30.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-60.00% +81.81%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £33.75
% change year-on-year
-30.00% -11.11%
All Qualifications
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
298 340 254
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 15.70% 14.83% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 185 93
Average daily rate £315 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £185 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 25
Average hourly rate £12.75 £21.00 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.28% -4.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £11.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £175.00 £32.50 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
Degree
England

Degree
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Degree Jobs Demand Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Degree Daily Rate Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Yorkshire Degree Daily Rate Histogram

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Degree Hourly Rate Trend

Degree
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the 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
West Yorkshire +5 36 £290 -22.45%
South Yorkshire -6 5 £475 +90.00%
East Yorkshire - 3 - -
North Yorkshire -5 2 - -
Degree
England

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 35 (33.02%) .NET
1 35 (33.02%) Microsoft
2 30 (28.30%) Computer Science
3 26 (24.53%) MS Office
4 24 (22.64%) ASP.NET
4 24 (22.64%) SQL
5 23 (21.70%) C#
6 21 (19.81%) Oracle
7 17 (16.04%) Project Management
7 17 (16.04%) Web Services
8 14 (13.21%) Visual Studio
8 14 (13.21%) SQL Server
8 14 (13.21%) Windows
8 14 (13.21%) Telecoms
9 12 (11.32%) .NET Framework
9 12 (11.32%) MS Excel
9 12 (11.32%) XML
9 12 (11.32%) ITIL
9 12 (11.32%) PRINCE2
10 11 (10.38%) SharePoint
10 11 (10.38%) Finance
10 11 (10.38%) Scrum
11 10 (9.434%) Change Management
11 10 (9.434%) MS Project
12 9 (8.491%) JavaScript
12 9 (8.491%) MPEG
12 9 (8.491%) Service Management
12 9 (8.491%) STB
12 9 (8.491%) IPTV
12 9 (8.491%) Agile Software Development

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 35 (33.02%) .NET
2 24 (22.64%) ASP.NET
3 17 (16.04%) Web Services
4 12 (11.32%) XML
4 12 (11.32%) .NET Framework
5 9 (8.491%) ASP.NET MVC
6 7 (6.604%) Middleware
6 7 (6.604%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 6 (5.660%) Ajax
8 5 (4.717%) CSS
9 4 (3.774%) XSL
9 4 (3.774%) HTML
9 4 (3.774%) RESTful
9 4 (3.774%) WPF
10 3 (2.830%) LINQ
10 3 (2.830%) jQuery
10 3 (2.830%) WCF
10 3 (2.830%) SOAP
10 3 (2.830%) LAMP
10 3 (2.830%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 11 (10.38%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.774%) Apache
2 4 (3.774%) CMS
3 3 (2.830%) SAS
4 2 (1.887%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (1.887%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.887%) Route 53
4 2 (1.887%) ESB
4 2 (1.887%) nginx
4 2 (1.887%) Liferay
4 2 (1.887%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.887%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (1.887%) Amazon S3
4 2 (1.887%) Amazon AWS
5 1 (0.943%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.943%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.943%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.943%) DotNetNuke
5 1 (0.943%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.943%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 26 (24.53%) MS Office
2 12 (11.32%) MS Excel
3 10 (9.434%) MS Project
4 2 (1.887%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.887%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.717%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.830%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (1.887%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.887%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.887%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.887%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.943%) Oracle ASCP
4 1 (0.943%) JDE OneWorld
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.774%) HTTP
2 3 (2.830%) GSM
2 3 (2.830%) UMTS
2 3 (2.830%) 3G
2 3 (2.830%) 2G
3 2 (1.887%) SAN
3 2 (1.887%) Internet
3 2 (1.887%) DVB
3 2 (1.887%) WAN
3 2 (1.887%) LAN
3 2 (1.887%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.943%) NAS
4 1 (0.943%) PBX
4 1 (0.943%) DHCP
4 1 (0.943%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.943%) VPN
4 1 (0.943%) DNS
4 1 (0.943%) SSL
4 1 (0.943%) Firewall
4 1 (0.943%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.21%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.604%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (5.660%) RDBMS
4 5 (4.717%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.717%) Oracle 11g
4 5 (4.717%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (3.774%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (3.774%) SQL Server 2012
6 3 (2.830%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.830%) Redis
6 3 (2.830%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 3 (2.830%) MySQL
7 2 (1.887%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.887%) SQL Server 2000
7 2 (1.887%) SimpleDB
7 2 (1.887%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.887%) RavenDB
7 2 (1.887%) Oracle BI EE
7 2 (1.887%) Couchbase
7 2 (1.887%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 14 (13.21%) Visual Studio
2 3 (2.830%) Selenium
3 2 (1.887%) Visual Studio Team System
3 2 (1.887%) Git (software)
3 2 (1.887%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.887%) JDeveloper
4 1 (0.943%) JIRA
4 1 (0.943%) SpecFlow
General
1 14 (13.21%) Telecoms
2 11 (10.38%) Finance
3 7 (6.604%) Games
4 5 (4.717%) Retail
5 1 (0.943%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 32 (30.19%) Developer
2 20 (18.87%) Analyst
3 13 (12.26%) .NET Developer
4 9 (8.491%) C# Developer
4 9 (8.491%) ASP.NET Developer
5 8 (7.547%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 8 (7.547%) C# .NET Developer
6 7 (6.604%) Release Analyst
6 7 (6.604%) Architect
7 6 (5.660%) Project Manager
7 6 (5.660%) Business Analyst
7 6 (5.660%) Desktop Support
7 6 (5.660%) Web Developer
8 5 (4.717%) Consultant
8 5 (4.717%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.717%) Software Developer
8 5 (4.717%) Test Engineer
8 5 (4.717%) C# Web Developer
8 5 (4.717%) .NET Web Developer
9 4 (3.774%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 30 (28.30%) Computer Science
2 9 (8.491%) STB
2 9 (8.491%) IPTV
2 9 (8.491%) MPEG
3 8 (7.547%) NHS
4 4 (3.774%) Mathematics
4 4 (3.774%) Open Source
4 4 (3.774%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.830%) Visualisation
5 3 (2.830%) Data Integration
5 3 (2.830%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.887%) Handset
6 2 (1.887%) PMI
6 2 (1.887%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.887%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.887%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.887%) Informatics
7 1 (0.943%) Beowulf
7 1 (0.943%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.943%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.21%) Windows
2 7 (6.604%) Linux
3 5 (4.717%) Windows 7
4 4 (3.774%) UNIX
5 3 (2.830%) Solaris
6 2 (1.887%) Windows XP
6 2 (1.887%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (1.887%) SUSE
6 2 (1.887%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.943%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.943%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.943%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.943%) Fedora
7 1 (0.943%) VMS
7 1 (0.943%) AIX
7 1 (0.943%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (16.04%) Project Management
2 12 (11.32%) ITIL
2 12 (11.32%) PRINCE2
3 11 (10.38%) Scrum
4 10 (9.434%) Change Management
5 9 (8.491%) Service Management
5 9 (8.491%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (7.547%) Software Engineering
7 7 (6.604%) Kanban
7 7 (6.604%) MVC
8 6 (5.660%) TDD
8 6 (5.660%) SOA
8 6 (5.660%) Web Development
9 5 (4.717%) OO
10 4 (3.774%) CRM
10 4 (3.774%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (3.774%) Programme Management
10 4 (3.774%) Validation
10 4 (3.774%) Migration
10 4 (3.774%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 24 (22.64%) SQL
2 23 (21.70%) C#
3 9 (8.491%) JavaScript
4 8 (7.547%) Python
5 7 (6.604%) T-SQL
6 6 (5.660%) Bash shell
6 6 (5.660%) Tcl
6 6 (5.660%) C++
6 6 (5.660%) Java
7 5 (4.717%) VB.NET
8 4 (3.774%) Ruby
8 4 (3.774%) PHP
9 3 (2.830%) Perl
10 2 (1.887%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.887%) C
11 1 (0.943%) COBOL
11 1 (0.943%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 8 (7.547%) HND
2 6 (5.660%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (4.717%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 5 (4.717%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.774%) MCP
4 4 (3.774%) ISEB
5 3 (2.830%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 3 (2.830%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.887%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.887%) CISA
6 2 (1.887%) CISSP
7 1 (0.943%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.943%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.943%) MCSA
7 1 (0.943%) CCNP
7 1 (0.943%) CCNA
7 1 (0.943%) MCTS
7 1 (0.943%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.830%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.830%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.887%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.887%) VMware Server
3 1 (0.943%) VMware ESX
3 1 (0.943%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.943%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (0.943%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 2 (1.887%) OpenView
1 2 (1.887%) CA Wily
1 2 (1.887%) Puppet
2 1 (0.943%) ZENworks
2 1 (0.943%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (0.943%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 35 (33.02%) Microsoft
2 21 (19.81%) Oracle
3 4 (3.774%) Business Objects
3 4 (3.774%) HP
4 3 (2.830%) VMware
5 2 (1.887%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.887%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.943%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.943%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.943%) Aruba
6 1 (0.943%) Apple
6 1 (0.943%) JD Edwards
6 1 (0.943%) Amdocs
6 1 (0.943%) Omniture
6 1 (0.943%) Veritas
6 1 (0.943%) Sun
6 1 (0.943%) Cisco
6 1 (0.943%) IBM
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