The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Billing in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Billing 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 terms in our General category for the Birmingham 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
Billing
Rank 42 52 44
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -8
Contract jobs citing Billing 1 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.228% 0.163% 0.200%
As % of the General category 0.690% 0.500% 0.535%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £425 £335
% change year-on-year
-17.64% +26.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £17.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-11.77% -2.85%
All of the General Category
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
145 200 187
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 33.11% 32.63% 37.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 119 118
Average daily rate £351 £360 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% +2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £238 £161
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 5 7 3
Average hourly rate £37.00 £18.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% +42.30%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Billing
West Midlands

Billing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Billing Jobs Demand Trend

Billing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Billing Daily Rate Trend

Billing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Billing Hourly Rate Trend

Billing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) soapUI
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 8
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) CRM

Billing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) WCF
1 1 (50.00%) soapUI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Tester
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 8
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Supplier Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner