The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Open Text products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Open Text 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the Open Text Corporation.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Text
Rank - 111 -
Contract jobs citing Open Text 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire - 0.044% -
As % of the Vendors category - 0.096% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £343 £330
% change year-on-year
+38.68% +3.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
872 1044 732
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 45.94% 45.55% 40.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 517 303
Average daily rate £325 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £185 £193
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 68 74
Average hourly rate £13.71 £15.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.60% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.48 £10.30 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £35.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Open Text
England

Open Text
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Open Text Jobs Demand Trend

Open Text
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Open Text Daily Rate Trend

Open Text
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) CMS
2 3 (75.00%) EPiServer
3 2 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) RedDot
3 2 (50.00%) Subversion
3 2 (50.00%) WCAG
3 2 (50.00%) WAI
3 2 (50.00%) jQuery
3 2 (50.00%) Umbraco
3 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (50.00%) HTML5
3 2 (50.00%) Social Media
3 2 (50.00%) CSS3
3 2 (50.00%) Semantic HTML
3 2 (50.00%) MVC
3 2 (50.00%) SEO
3 2 (50.00%) FTP
3 2 (50.00%) Adobe
3 2 (50.00%) W3C
3 2 (50.00%) Fireworks
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) XHTML
3 2 (50.00%) Photoshop
3 2 (50.00%) IIS
3 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio

Open Text
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) XHTML
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) CSS3
2 2 (50.00%) Semantic HTML
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) CMS
2 2 (50.00%) Umbraco
2 2 (50.00%) IIS
3 1 (25.00%) EPiServer CMS
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (50.00%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) FTP
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (50.00%) Subversion
1 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Front-End Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Front-End Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) CMS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) W3C
1 2 (50.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
1 2 (50.00%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) WCAG
1 2 (50.00%) WAI
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) EPiServer
2 2 (50.00%) Adobe
2 2 (50.00%) RedDot