Birmingham Data Security Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Data Security 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 Security over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Data Security
Location Basildon Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Brentford Brighton Bristol Cheshire City of London East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Lancashire London Lytham St Annes Manchester North West Northampton Northamptonshire Reading Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South West Swindon Telford UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	9	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	2.153 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£240	-
Average daily rate	£240	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£240	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£475	£384
% change on same period last year	+23.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.00	£22.33
% change on same period last year	-10.44 %
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 Security 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 Security 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 Security across the Birmingham region.

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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 Security across the Birmingham region.

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Top 21 Related IT Skills

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

1 9 (81.82 %) CISSP 1 9 (81.82 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 9 (81.82 %) Financial Institution 1 9 (81.82 %) Finance 1 9 (81.82 %) Information Security 1 9 (81.82 %) PCI DSS 2 2 (18.18 %) MS Excel 3 1 (9.091 %) MS Access 3 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint 3 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft 3 1 (9.091 %) Lotus 3 1 (9.091 %) Intranet 3 1 (9.091 %) Internet 3 1 (9.091 %) Validation 3 1 (9.091 %) Migration

3 1 (9.091 %) MS Office 3 1 (9.091 %) PeopleSoft 3 1 (9.091 %) Statistics 3 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (9.091 %) Mathematics 3 1 (9.091 %) Data Protection

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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 Security 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 Security. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint 1 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint Server 2007	Applications 1 2 (18.18 %) MS Excel 2 1 (9.091 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) Intranet 1 1 (9.091 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Access
General 1 9 (81.82 %) Financial Institution 1 9 (81.82 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 9 (81.82 %) Consultant 1 9 (81.82 %) Security Consultant 2 1 (9.091 %) Data Analyst 2 1 (9.091 %) Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (9.091 %) Statistics 1 1 (9.091 %) Mathematics	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (81.82 %) Information Security 2 1 (9.091 %) Data Protection 2 1 (9.091 %) Validation 2 1 (9.091 %) Migration
Qualifications 1 9 (81.82 %) CISSP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (81.82 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 9 (81.82 %) PCI DSS
Vendors 1 1 (9.091 %) PeopleSoft 1 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft 1 1 (9.091 %) Lotus