The first table below looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Degree over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Degree
Rank 32 33 34
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +1
Contract jobs citing Degree 15 21 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 3.112% 3.261% 2.132%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.23% 20.39% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 3
Average daily rate £250 £300 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £300 £174
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £325 £290
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £32.50 £13.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+150.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -14.28%
All Qualifications
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
78 103 86
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 16.18% 15.99% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 60 46
Average daily rate £350 £305 £235
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.75% +29.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £188 £140
10% offered a daily rate of more than £540 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 7
Average hourly rate £32.50 £17.50 £12.80
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+85.71% +36.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £15.70 £9.43
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £175.00 £19.50 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
Degree
West Midlands

Degree
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Degree Jobs Demand Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Degree Daily Rate Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Birmingham Degree Daily Rate Histogram

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Degree Hourly Rate Trend

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Degree 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 Degree.

1 7 (29.17%) PRINCE2
2 6 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.83%) C#
3 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
3 5 (20.83%) SQL
4 4 (16.67%) .NET
4 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 4 (16.67%) HTML
4 4 (16.67%) ITIL
4 4 (16.67%) NHS
4 4 (16.67%) Project Management
4 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 3 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 3 (12.50%) Web Development
5 3 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 3 (12.50%) Service Management
5 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 3 (12.50%) Windows
5 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
5 3 (12.50%) Information Governance
5 3 (12.50%) Migration
6 2 (8.333%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (8.333%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (8.333%) Master Data Management
6 2 (8.333%) Data Warehouse

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Degree 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 Degree. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (16.67%) .NET
1 4 (16.67%) HTML
2 2 (8.333%) XHTML
2 2 (8.333%) CSS
2 2 (8.333%) Web Services
2 2 (8.333%) XML
2 2 (8.333%) .NET Framework
2 2 (8.333%) CSS3
2 2 (8.333%) Razor View Engine
2 2 (8.333%) jQuery
3 1 (4.167%) Silverlight
3 1 (4.167%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.167%) COM
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.167%) CICS
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (8.333%) MS Visio
2 2 (8.333%) MS Project
3 1 (4.167%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (8.333%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.167%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.167%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (4.167%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (4.167%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Selenium
1 1 (4.167%) MSI
1 1 (4.167%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 2 (8.333%) Finance
2 1 (4.167%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.167%) Games
2 1 (4.167%) French Language
2 1 (4.167%) German Language
2 1 (4.167%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Developer
3 2 (8.333%) Senior Developer
3 2 (8.333%) Analyst Programmer
3 2 (8.333%) Programmer
3 2 (8.333%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.333%) Head of Service Delivery
3 2 (8.333%) IT Support
3 2 (8.333%) Senior Analyst Developer
3 2 (8.333%) Senior Programmer
3 2 (8.333%) Microsoft Developer
3 2 (8.333%) Administrator
3 2 (8.333%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (8.333%) Analyst Developer
3 2 (8.333%) Senior Analyst Programmer
4 1 (4.167%) Team Leader
4 1 (4.167%) Junior Developer
4 1 (4.167%) IT Administrator
4 1 (4.167%) Network Analyst
4 1 (4.167%) Games Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) NHS
2 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 2 (8.333%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.167%) Mobile Games
4 1 (4.167%) Physics
4 1 (4.167%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.167%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (4.167%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.167%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) PRINCE2
2 4 (16.67%) ITIL
2 4 (16.67%) Project Management
2 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 3 (12.50%) Web Development
3 3 (12.50%) Service Management
3 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 3 (12.50%) Information Governance
3 3 (12.50%) Migration
4 2 (8.333%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (8.333%) Master Data Management
4 2 (8.333%) Data Modelling
4 2 (8.333%) CRM
4 2 (8.333%) OOP
4 2 (8.333%) OO
4 2 (8.333%) Change Management
4 2 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (8.333%) PRINCE
4 2 (8.333%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) C#
1 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
1 5 (20.83%) SQL
2 2 (8.333%) T-SQL
2 2 (8.333%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.167%) Objective-C
3 1 (4.167%) JCL
3 1 (4.167%) COBOL
3 1 (4.167%) VBScript
3 1 (4.167%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (4.167%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (4.167%) APMP
2 1 (4.167%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.167%) CCNA
2 1 (4.167%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.333%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.167%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.167%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (4.167%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (4.167%) VMware ESX
1 1 (4.167%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.167%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (4.167%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (4.167%) Data Guard
1 1 (4.167%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.333%) IBM
3 1 (4.167%) VMware
3 1 (4.167%) Remedy
3 1 (4.167%) Sun
3 1 (4.167%) Citrix
3 1 (4.167%) Oracle
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