Birmingham Electronics Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Electronics' in contract IT jobs within the Birmingham region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Electronics over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Avon Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Ceredigion Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Cornwall Coventry Devon Dorset East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gloucestershire Gwent Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Kent Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Livingston London Maidenhead Manchester Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Quay Newquay Norfolk North East North West Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Prestwick Reading Scotland Sevenoaks Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley UK Wales West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	65
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.337 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£207
Average daily rate	-	£223
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£240
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£298
% change on same period last year	+8.09 %
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	£30.73	£31.36
% change on same period last year	-2.01 %
General Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	253	374
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.337 %	0.378 %
Daily rates quoted	67	97
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£333
Average daily rate	£344	£351
% change on same period last year	-2.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.87	£17.51
Average hourly rate	£30.93	£18.65
% change on same period last year	+65.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.99	£19.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.78	£27.25
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
Electronics 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 Electronics across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the General 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 Electronics 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 Electronics across the Birmingham region.

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Top 11 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (66.67 %) Telecoms 1 2 (66.67 %) Spreadsheet 2 1 (33.33 %) Device Driver 2 1 (33.33 %) Multimedia 2 1 (33.33 %) Embedded Linux 2 1 (33.33 %) JTAG 2 1 (33.33 %) C 2 1 (33.33 %) C++ 2 1 (33.33 %) Linux 2 1 (33.33 %) Embedded C 2 1 (33.33 %) Embedded C++

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

Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) Spreadsheet	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Telecoms 2 1 (33.33 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Software Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Device Driver
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux 1 1 (33.33 %) Embedded Linux	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) C 1 1 (33.33 %) C++ 1 1 (33.33 %) Embedded C 1 1 (33.33 %) Embedded C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) JTAG