The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Publishing over the 3 months to 23 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 General category 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Publishing
Rank 107 107 97
Rank change year-on-year
0 -10
Contract jobs citing Publishing 5 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.269% 0.134% 0.323%
As % of the General category 0.885% 0.347% 0.839%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 5
Average daily rate £318 £381 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.72% +8.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £366 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £328 £396 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £365 £338
% change year-on-year
-8.21% +8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-6.06% -15.38%
All of the General Category
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
565 865 715
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 30.38% 38.50% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 528 369
Average daily rate £340 £380 £384
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.52% -0.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £265 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 22
Average hourly rate £16.25 £16.50 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.51% +6.45%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.75 £10.50 £10.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.50 £50.00 £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Publishing
England

Publishing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Publishing Jobs Demand Trend

Publishing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Publishing Daily Rate Trend

Publishing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Publishing Hourly Rate Trend

Publishing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Publishing within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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 +4 4 £318 -
North Yorkshire 0 1 - -
Publishing
England

Publishing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Publishing 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 Publishing.

1 5 (33.33%) Windows
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (26.67%) Windows 7
2 4 (26.67%) Asset Management
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Vista
2 4 (26.67%) WSUS
2 4 (26.67%) SCCM
2 4 (26.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 4 (26.67%) MSI
2 4 (26.67%) Windows XP
2 4 (26.67%) SLA
2 4 (26.67%) CSS
2 4 (26.67%) ITIL
3 3 (20.00%) Visual Studio
3 3 (20.00%) .NET
3 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (20.00%) Project Management
3 3 (20.00%) Supplier Management
3 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 3 (20.00%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (13.33%) Document Management
4 2 (13.33%) Remedy
4 2 (13.33%) MS Office
5 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
5 1 (6.667%) Business Objects
5 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.667%) SQL

Publishing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Publishing 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 Publishing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (26.67%) CSS
2 3 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (6.667%) jQuery
3 1 (6.667%) HTML5
3 1 (6.667%) CSS3
3 1 (6.667%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (6.667%) Ember.js
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (20.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (6.667%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS Office
2 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
2 1 (6.667%) Spreadsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.667%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) MSI
2 3 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (6.667%) Finance
1 1 (6.667%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Business Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) SharePoint Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Support
4 2 (13.33%) Support Specialist
5 1 (6.667%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (6.667%) Technical Support Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (6.667%) Technical Support Specialist
5 1 (6.667%) Business Objects Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Coordinator
5 1 (6.667%) Applications Packager
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Support Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Senior SharePoint Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Microsoft Specialist
5 1 (6.667%) SCCM Specialist
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
1 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (26.67%) Windows 7
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Vista
2 4 (26.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Asset Management
1 4 (26.67%) ITIL
2 3 (20.00%) Project Management
2 3 (20.00%) Supplier Management
2 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (13.33%) Document Management
4 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (6.667%) OO
4 1 (6.667%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.667%) SQL
2 1 (6.667%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) BC Cleared
1 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) WSUS
1 4 (26.67%) SCCM
1 4 (26.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (6.667%) Tivoli
2 1 (6.667%) Tivoli Endpoint Manager
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Remedy
3 1 (6.667%) Business Objects
3 1 (6.667%) Citrix
3 1 (6.667%) Lotus