Birmingham FreeHand Contracts

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

Macromedia FreeHand
Location Birmingham Cheshire East of England England Hampshire Hertfordshire London North West South East Southampton St Albans Thames Valley UK	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 %	4.348 %
Daily rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum daily rate	-	£150
Average daily rate	-	£164
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£178
UK excluding London average daily rate	-	£163
% change on same period last year	-
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	£9.44	£12.02
% change on same period last year	-21.42 %
Applications Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	126	115
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.168 %	0.116 %
Daily rates quoted	27	20
Average minimum daily rate	£254	£266
Average daily rate	£274	£289
% change on same period last year	-4.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£295	£312
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£285
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.03	£11.73
Average hourly rate	£12.00	£12.93
% change on same period last year	-7.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.96	£14.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.01	£18.99
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
FreeHand 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 FreeHand across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications 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 FreeHand across the Birmingham region.

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Top 3 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00 %) E-Commerce 1 1 (100.00 %) Adobe 1 1 (100.00 %) Adobe Illustrator

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

Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) Adobe Illustrator	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) E-Commerce
Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Adobe