Birmingham Junior Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Junior role in IT contracts within the Birmingham region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Junior in their job title over the 3 months to 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aldershot Amersham Bath Bedfordshire Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Braintree Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Calderdale Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Cheshunt Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huntingdon Isleworth Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stafford Staffordshire Stirling Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Walsall Waltham Abbey Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Woking Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	40	55
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	2	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	0.449 %	0.737 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£140	£250
Average daily rate	£143	£250
% change on same period last year	-43.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£145	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£191	£232
% change on same period last year	-17.41 %
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	£13.91	£18.72
% change on same period last year	-25.73 %
Job Titles Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	445	814
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.892 %	1.018 %
Daily rates quoted	144	189
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£347
Average daily rate	£357	£375
% change on same period last year	-4.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£357
% change on same period last year	-2.03 %
Hourly rates quoted	52	166
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.18	£17.52
Average hourly rate	£21.47	£18.73
% change on same period last year	+14.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.75	£19.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.16	£23.50
% change on same period last year	-1.47 %
Junior 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 Junior across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Junior 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 Junior across the Birmingham region.

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Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Junior in their job title 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 with Junior in their job title.

1 1 (33.33 %) Multimedia 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 1 1 (33.33 %) Government 1 1 (33.33 %) Games 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Project 1 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 Certification

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Junior in their job title 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 with Junior in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Project	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Government 1 1 (33.33 %) Games 1 1 (33.33 %) Multimedia
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared