The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of ESRI products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ESRI 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ESRI
Rank 42 54 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing ESRI 1 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.228% 0.322% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.465% 0.667% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £525 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+61.53% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £358 £400
% change year-on-year
+11.88% -10.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £14.00 -
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -
All Vendors
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
215 300 243
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 48.97% 48.31% 47.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 135 119
Average daily rate £340 £325 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% +1.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £211 £163 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £485 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 22
Average hourly rate £20.00 £15.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.76 £10.30 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £38.80 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
ESRI
West Midlands

ESRI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham ESRI Jobs Demand Trend

ESRI
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham ESRI Daily Rate Trend

ESRI
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham ESRI Hourly Rate Trend

ESRI
Top 25 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) IIS
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) UML
1 4 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 4 (100.00%) ArcGIS
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 4 (100.00%) RIA
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) MSTest
1 4 (100.00%) Moq
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 4 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 4 (100.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
2 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework

ESRI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 4 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 4 (100.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) IIS
1 4 (100.00%) ArcGIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) MSTest
1 4 (100.00%) Moq
2 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Programmer
1 4 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Software Programmer
1 4 (100.00%) C# Programmer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Software Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Silverlight Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# Software Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Programmer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 4 (100.00%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) UML
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared