Birmingham Data Migration Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Data Migration skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Migration over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Argyll and Bute Atherstone Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Haywards Heath Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Redhill Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stirling Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	55
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	23	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	5.502 %	2.924 %
Daily rates quoted	7	3
Average minimum daily rate	£407	£349
Average daily rate	£454	£366
% change on same period last year	+23.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£383
UK excluding London average daily rate	£426	£400
% change on same period last year	+6.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£12.00
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£12.00
% change on same period last year	+150.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.84	£24.64
% change on same period last year	+12.99 %
Processes & Methodologies Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	418	513
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.557 %	0.519 %
Daily rates quoted	101	122
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£352
Average daily rate	£335	£369
% change on same period last year	-9.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£385
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	48
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.17	£16.71
Average hourly rate	£29.12	£18.34
% change on same period last year	+58.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.06	£19.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Data Migration West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Data Migration across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Migration across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Data Migration 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 Data Migration.

1 44 (100.00 %) Migration 2 17 (38.64 %) SQL 3 13 (29.55 %) Pensions 4 10 (22.73 %) SQL Server 5 9 (20.45 %) Datawarehouse 6 8 (18.18 %) Crystal Reports 6 8 (18.18 %) Business Objects 6 8 (18.18 %) BusinessObjects 7 7 (15.91 %) PL/SQL 7 7 (15.91 %) Oracle 8 6 (13.64 %) CA 8 6 (13.64 %) PRINCE 8 6 (13.64 %) ERwin 8 6 (13.64 %) Data Mapping 8 6 (13.64 %) Data Integration

9 5 (11.36 %) System Testing 9 5 (11.36 %) Data Cleansing 9 5 (11.36 %) SAP 10 4 (9.091 %) Data Extraction 11 3 (6.818 %) VMware Infrastructure 11 3 (6.818 %) VMware 11 3 (6.818 %) Government 11 3 (6.818 %) Active Directory 11 3 (6.818 %) Microsoft 12 2 (4.545 %) Project Management 12 2 (4.545 %) SAP MM 12 2 (4.545 %) MS Excel 12 2 (4.545 %) MS Project 12 2 (4.545 %) Service Delivery 12 2 (4.545 %) Agile Software Development

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Data Migration 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 Data Migration. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (2.273 %) .NET 1 1 (2.273 %) ASP 1 1 (2.273 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.273 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 2 (4.545 %) MS Project 1 2 (4.545 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.273 %) MS Visio 2 1 (2.273 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 2 (4.545 %) SAP MM 2 1 (2.273 %) SAP FI/CO 2 1 (2.273 %) SAP CO 2 1 (2.273 %) SAP FI
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.273 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (22.73 %) SQL Server 2 9 (20.45 %) Datawarehouse 3 8 (18.18 %) Crystal Reports 3 8 (18.18 %) BusinessObjects 4 5 (11.36 %) Data Cleansing 5 1 (2.273 %) DataStage 5 1 (2.273 %) SAP BI 5 1 (2.273 %) BODI 5 1 (2.273 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (2.273 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 1 (2.273 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 1 (2.273 %) ETL 5 1 (2.273 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 6 (13.64 %) ERwin	General 1 13 (29.55 %) Pensions 2 3 (6.818 %) Government 3 1 (2.273 %) Finance 3 1 (2.273 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 12 (27.27 %) Analyst 2 8 (18.18 %) Developer 3 6 (13.64 %) Business Analyst 3 6 (13.64 %) Data Analyst 3 6 (13.64 %) Data Migration Analyst 4 4 (9.091 %) Tester 4 4 (9.091 %) Project Manager 4 4 (9.091 %) Consultant 4 4 (9.091 %) Analyst Programmer 4 4 (9.091 %) Programmer 4 4 (9.091 %) Data Programmer 5 3 (6.818 %) Data Manager 5 3 (6.818 %) SQL Developer 5 3 (6.818 %) Migration Engineer 5 3 (6.818 %) Systems Tester 5 3 (6.818 %) Data Migration Engineer 6 2 (4.545 %) Data Migration Specialist 6 2 (4.545 %) Senior Developer 6 2 (4.545 %) Junior 6 2 (4.545 %) SAP Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 6 (13.64 %) Data Integration 2 4 (9.091 %) Data Extraction 3 2 (4.545 %) SCADA 4 1 (2.273 %) NHS
Processes & Methodologies 1 44 (100.00 %) Migration 2 6 (13.64 %) Data Mapping 2 6 (13.64 %) PRINCE 3 5 (11.36 %) System Testing 4 2 (4.545 %) Agile Software Development 4 2 (4.545 %) Project Management 4 2 (4.545 %) Service Delivery 4 2 (4.545 %) Logistics 5 1 (2.273 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (2.273 %) Supplier Management 5 1 (2.273 %) Software Testing 5 1 (2.273 %) Internet Marketing 5 1 (2.273 %) CRM 5 1 (2.273 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (2.273 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (2.273 %) Data Management 5 1 (2.273 %) Dimensional Modelling	Programming Languages 1 17 (38.64 %) SQL 2 7 (15.91 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (2.273 %) Transact-SQL
System Software 1 3 (6.818 %) Active Directory 1 3 (6.818 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 2 (4.545 %) Microsoft Virtual Server	Vendors 1 8 (18.18 %) Business Objects 2 7 (15.91 %) Oracle 3 6 (13.64 %) CA 4 5 (11.36 %) SAP 5 3 (6.818 %) Microsoft 5 3 (6.818 %) VMware 6 1 (2.273 %) Informatica