The first table below looks at the demand for the Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Designer
Rank 105 91 52
Rank change year-on-year
-14 -39
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 12 25 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.610% 1.050% 2.759%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.646% 1.108% 2.943%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 18
Average daily rate £250 £290 £366
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.79% -20.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £231 £165 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £350 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £388 £400
% change year-on-year
-9.67% -3.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £19.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -15.55%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £20.00 £23.25
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -13.97%
All Job Titles
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1857 2257 1767
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 94.46% 94.75% 93.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 1200 870
Average daily rate £315 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £183 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £450 £462
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 130 122
Average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.30 £8.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.60 £32.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Designer
England

Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Designer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Designer Daily Rate Trend

Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Designer Hourly Rate Trend

Designer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Designer within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
West Yorkshire -8 10 £244 -15.94% 6
South Yorkshire +1 1 £250 - 5
North Yorkshire - - - - 1
East Yorkshire - - - - 1
Designer
England

Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited Designer in their job title 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 with Designer in their job title.

1 14 (33.33%) Oracle
2 12 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (26.19%) CSS
3 11 (26.19%) HTML
4 10 (23.81%) ETL
5 9 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (21.43%) Data Modelling
6 7 (16.67%) Informatica
6 7 (16.67%) Adobe
6 7 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
7 6 (14.29%) Oracle BI EE
7 6 (14.29%) Cisco
7 6 (14.29%) CCNA
7 6 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
8 5 (11.90%) WAN
8 5 (11.90%) MS Visio
9 4 (9.524%) Finance
9 4 (9.524%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (9.524%) Oracle OWB
9 4 (9.524%) Data Integration
9 4 (9.524%) Java
9 4 (9.524%) Web Services
9 4 (9.524%) Oracle 10g
9 4 (9.524%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (7.143%) Analytics
10 3 (7.143%) Data Architecture
10 3 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (7.143%) Data Governance
10 3 (7.143%) HTML5

Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited Designer in their job title 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 with Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (26.19%) HTML
1 11 (26.19%) CSS
2 4 (9.524%) Web Services
3 3 (7.143%) HTML5
4 2 (4.762%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
4 2 (4.762%) CSS3
4 2 (4.762%) XSL
4 2 (4.762%) Flash
5 1 (2.381%) Middleware
5 1 (2.381%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.381%) JSON
5 1 (2.381%) WPF
5 1 (2.381%) Silverlight
5 1 (2.381%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (2.381%) XML
5 1 (2.381%) SOAP
5 1 (2.381%) Struts
5 1 (2.381%) .NET
5 1 (2.381%) J2EE
5 1 (2.381%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (7.143%) Apache
1 3 (7.143%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.381%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 5 (11.90%) MS Visio
2 3 (7.143%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (7.143%) Photoshop
3 2 (4.762%) InDesign
4 1 (2.381%) OmniGraffle
4 1 (2.381%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.762%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.381%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) WAN
2 3 (7.143%) Firewall
3 1 (2.381%) NAS
3 1 (2.381%) SAN
3 1 (2.381%) Internet
3 1 (2.381%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
3 6 (14.29%) Oracle BI EE
4 4 (9.524%) Oracle ODI
4 4 (9.524%) Oracle 10g
4 4 (9.524%) Oracle OWB
5 3 (7.143%) Data Mart
5 3 (7.143%) PowerCenter
5 3 (7.143%) MySQL
5 3 (7.143%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.762%) RDBMS
6 2 (4.762%) Star Schema
7 1 (2.381%) ROLAP
7 1 (2.381%) MOLAP
7 1 (2.381%) OLTP
7 1 (2.381%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (2.381%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (2.381%) DataStage
7 1 (2.381%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications
1 2 (4.762%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (2.381%) Axure RP
General
1 4 (9.524%) Finance
2 3 (7.143%) Interactive Media
3 2 (4.762%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.381%) Electronics
4 1 (2.381%) Legal
4 1 (2.381%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.381%) Banking
4 1 (2.381%) Retail
4 1 (2.381%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (9.524%) Data Integration
3 2 (4.762%) W3C
4 1 (2.381%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.381%) DTV
4 1 (2.381%) Symmetrix
4 1 (2.381%) Graphic Design
4 1 (2.381%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.381%) Copywriting
4 1 (2.381%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.381%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.143%) UNIX
1 3 (7.143%) AIX
1 3 (7.143%) HPUX
1 3 (7.143%) Solaris
1 3 (7.143%) Linux
1 3 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (23.81%) ETL
3 9 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 4 (9.524%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (7.143%) Content Management
5 3 (7.143%) SEO
5 3 (7.143%) Performance Testing
5 3 (7.143%) Data Architecture
5 3 (7.143%) Data Governance
5 3 (7.143%) Analytics
6 2 (4.762%) Dimensional Modelling
6 2 (4.762%) Load Balancing
6 2 (4.762%) Validation
6 2 (4.762%) E-Commerce
6 2 (4.762%) Scrum
7 1 (2.381%) Business Continuity
7 1 (2.381%) Web Design
7 1 (2.381%) Programme Management
7 1 (2.381%) Information Management
7 1 (2.381%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.524%) Java
2 3 (7.143%) JavaScript
2 3 (7.143%) PHP
3 2 (4.762%) PL/SQL
3 2 (4.762%) SQL
4 1 (2.381%) LINC
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) CCNA
1 6 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.381%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (2.381%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.762%) QA
2 1 (2.381%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.762%) VMware ESX
1 2 (4.762%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (4.762%) Tivoli Directory Server
2 1 (2.381%) XenApp
2 1 (2.381%) XenServer
2 1 (2.381%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (4.762%) Tivoli
1 2 (4.762%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 14 (33.33%) Oracle
2 7 (16.67%) Adobe
2 7 (16.67%) Informatica
3 6 (14.29%) Cisco
4 3 (7.143%) Red Hat
4 3 (7.143%) JBoss
5 2 (4.762%) Siebel
5 2 (4.762%) VMware
6 1 (2.381%) AppSense
6 1 (2.381%) Brocade
6 1 (2.381%) Twitter
6 1 (2.381%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.381%) FatWire
6 1 (2.381%) NetApp
6 1 (2.381%) Unisys
6 1 (2.381%) Business Objects
6 1 (2.381%) SAP
6 1 (2.381%) HP
6 1 (2.381%) EMC
6 1 (2.381%) Citrix
West Yorkshire
A fantastic contract opportunity has arisen at a games company whom create web and mobile games for some of the biggest brands... Experience designing casual games, mobile games,...
Real Staffing
Rate: £250 - £330 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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Rate: £250 - £330 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
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