Birmingham Great Plains Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Great Plains skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Business Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Great Plains over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Great Plains
Location Aberdeen Birmingham Cannock Cheshire City of London England Glasgow London Midlands North West Oxfordshire Scotland South East Staffordshire UK Warrington West Midlands	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	66
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	5.263 %	1.010 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£231	£320
% change on same period last year	-27.65 %
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	-	£24.13
% change on same period last year	-
Business Applications Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	38	99
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.050 %	0.099 %
Daily rates quoted	7	34
Average minimum daily rate	£364	£362
Average daily rate	£394	£412
% change on same period last year	-4.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£461
UK excluding London average daily rate	£443	£421
% change on same period last year	+5.05 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£9.00	-
Average hourly rate	£9.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£9.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.59	£24.63
% change on same period last year	+12.02 %
Great Plains 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 Great Plains across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

Great Plains
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Top 3 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Great Plains 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 Great Plains.

1 2 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 2 (100.00 %) Service Management 1 2 (100.00 %) Dynamics GP

Great Plains
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Great Plains 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 Great Plains. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications 1 2 (100.00 %) Dynamics GP	Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Analyst 1 2 (100.00 %) Systems Analyst 1 2 (100.00 %) Technical Analyst
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) Service Management	Vendors 1 2 (100.00 %) Microsoft