The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Client/Server over the 3 months to 24 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 Miscellaneous 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Client Server
Rank 40 51 44
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -7
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 3 5 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.683% 0.805% 0.975%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.371% 5.882% 5.747%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
Average daily rate £363 - £320
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 - £291
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 - £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £333 £350
% change year-on-year
-17.29% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £35.75 £29.75
% change year-on-year
-18.88% +20.16%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
89 85 87
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 20.27% 13.69% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 38 43
Average daily rate £340 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.23% +0.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £158 £159
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £518 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 7
Average hourly rate £24.75 £15.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+65.00% +15.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £12.62 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £78.40 £20.80 £61.51
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Client/Server
West Midlands

Client/Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Client/Server Jobs Demand Trend

Client/Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Client/Server Daily Rate Trend

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Client/Server across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Birmingham Client/Server Daily Rate Histogram

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Client/Server Hourly Rate Trend

Client/Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Client/Server 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 Client/Server.

1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) WCF
2 4 (50.00%) Silverlight
2 4 (50.00%) RIA
2 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 4 (50.00%) MSTest
2 4 (50.00%) Moq
2 4 (50.00%) UML
2 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (50.00%) IIS
2 4 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (50.00%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) Web Services
2 4 (50.00%) ESRI
2 4 (50.00%) ArcGIS
2 4 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 4 (50.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
3 2 (25.00%) .NET
3 2 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) Marketing
4 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (12.50%) Augmented Reality

Client/Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Client/Server 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 Client/Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (50.00%) WCF
1 4 (50.00%) Silverlight
1 4 (50.00%) Web Services
1 4 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 4 (50.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) COM
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) WAP
3 1 (12.50%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (12.50%) WebGL
Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) IIS
1 4 (50.00%) ArcGIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Wireless
1 1 (12.50%) Bluetooth
1 1 (12.50%) VoIP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) MSTest
1 4 (50.00%) Moq
1 4 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
1 1 (12.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Software Programmer
2 4 (50.00%) C# Programmer
2 4 (50.00%) Programmer
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Software Developer
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Silverlight Developer
3 2 (25.00%) C# Software Developer
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Programmer
3 2 (25.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Server Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
4 1 (12.50%) UI Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (12.50%) UI Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) RIA
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
2 1 (12.50%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (50.00%) UML
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) MVC
2 1 (12.50%) CRM
2 1 (12.50%) ERP
2 1 (12.50%) B2B
2 1 (12.50%) B2C
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) ESRI
2 1 (12.50%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) NetApp