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

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within BT Group plc.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
BT
Rank 42 51 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing BT 1 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.228% 0.326% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.459% 0.680% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £365 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £313 £365
% change year-on-year
-12.00% -14.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £78.75 £22.32
% change year-on-year
-75.87% +252.90%
All Vendors
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
218 294 231
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 49.77% 47.96% 46.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 135 112
Average daily rate £325 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £194 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £525 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 25
Average hourly rate £18.46 £14.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.15% -1.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.26 £10.15 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £78.40 £32.70 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
BT
West Midlands

BT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham BT Jobs Demand Trend

BT
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham BT Daily Rate Trend

BT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham BT Hourly Rate Trend

BT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (40.00%) Broadband
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (40.00%) TDD
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
1 2 (40.00%) Ajax
1 2 (40.00%) jQuery
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (40.00%) Social Media
1 2 (40.00%) BDD
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) Social Media Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Redis
2 1 (20.00%) xDSL
2 1 (20.00%) Softswitch
2 1 (20.00%) LLU
2 1 (20.00%) QMS
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Cramer
2 1 (20.00%) HNC
2 1 (20.00%) HND
2 1 (20.00%) UNIX
2 1 (20.00%) ADSL
2 1 (20.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (20.00%) Process Management
2 1 (20.00%) ISO 14001
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery

BT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) Ajax
1 2 (40.00%) jQuery
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Broadband
2 1 (20.00%) ISDN
2 1 (20.00%) PSTN
2 1 (20.00%) VoIP
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) Internet
2 1 (20.00%) DSLAM
2 1 (20.00%) DSL
2 1 (20.00%) LLU
2 1 (20.00%) xDSL
2 1 (20.00%) Softswitch
2 1 (20.00%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
1 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Quality Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Services Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Provisioning Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) TDD
1 2 (40.00%) BDD
1 2 (40.00%) Social Media Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) QMS
2 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma
2 1 (20.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (20.00%) Process Management
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) TQM
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) HNC
1 1 (20.00%) HND
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 9001
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 14001
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Ericsson
1 1 (20.00%) Remedy
1 1 (20.00%) Cramer