Birmingham Live Communications Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Live Communications Server over the 3 months to 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office Live Communications Server
Location Berkshire Birmingham City of London England London Reading South East UK	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	-	60
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.571 %
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	£288	£467
% change on same period last year	-38.39 %
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	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Application Platforms Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	82	175
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.164 %	0.219 %
Daily rates quoted	40	23
Average minimum daily rate	£357	£314
Average daily rate	£389	£338
% change on same period last year	+15.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£421	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£350
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.19	£18.04
Average hourly rate	£17.97	£19.02
% change on same period last year	-5.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.75	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.77	£23.00
% change on same period last year	-0.97 %
Live Communications Server 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.

Live Communications Server
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Live Communications Server across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.