The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Marketing in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Marketing over the 3 months to 17 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 terms in our General category 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Marketing
Rank 41 38 38
Rank change year-on-year
-3 0
Contract jobs citing Marketing 2 15 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.457% 2.447% 1.400%
As % of the General category 1.379% 7.500% 3.743%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 2
Average daily rate £294 £338 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.96% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £279 £173 £344
10% offered a daily rate of more than £309 £450 £376
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £338 £339
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -0.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £17.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £16.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+15.15% -17.50%
All of the General Category
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
145 200 187
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 33.11% 32.63% 37.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 119 118
Average daily rate £351 £360 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% +2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £238 £161
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 3
Average hourly rate £37.00 £18.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% +42.30%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Marketing
West Midlands

Marketing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Marketing Jobs Demand Trend

Marketing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Marketing Daily Rate Trend

Marketing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Marketing Hourly Rate Trend

Marketing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Marketing 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 Marketing.

1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) jQuery
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 2 (22.22%) SEO
3 2 (22.22%) BT
3 2 (22.22%) Electronics
3 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (22.22%) TestDirector
3 2 (22.22%) NHS
3 2 (22.22%) DTV
3 2 (22.22%) SAP
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
3 2 (22.22%) SSADM
3 2 (22.22%) MS Visio
3 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
3 2 (22.22%) Programme Management
3 2 (22.22%) TDD
3 2 (22.22%) Subversion
3 2 (22.22%) Ajax
3 2 (22.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (22.22%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (22.22%) Git (software)
3 2 (22.22%) Social Media
3 2 (22.22%) BDD
3 2 (22.22%) Node.js
3 2 (22.22%) Social Media Marketing

Marketing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Marketing 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 Marketing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (33.33%) jQuery
2 2 (22.22%) Node.js
2 2 (22.22%) Ajax
3 1 (11.11%) CSS3
3 1 (11.11%) HTML5
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) XHTML
3 1 (11.11%) WAP
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) CMS
1 1 (11.11%) Joomla!
1 1 (11.11%) WordPress
1 1 (11.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Visio
2 1 (11.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Bluetooth
1 1 (11.11%) VoIP
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
1 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (22.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) TestDirector
1 2 (22.22%) Subversion
1 2 (22.22%) Git (software)
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 2 (22.22%) Electronics
3 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) IT Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript Developer
2 2 (22.22%) NHS Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Web Marketing Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) NHS Information Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Information Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) NHS
1 2 (22.22%) DTV
1 2 (22.22%) Social Media
2 1 (11.11%) Client/Server
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) ITIL
1 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
1 2 (22.22%) SSADM
1 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (22.22%) SEO
1 2 (22.22%) Programme Management
1 2 (22.22%) TDD
1 2 (22.22%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (22.22%) BDD
1 2 (22.22%) Social Media Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Online Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Web Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Web Development
2 1 (11.11%) Internet Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) B2B
2 1 (11.11%) B2C
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile Commerce
2 1 (11.11%) CRM
2 1 (11.11%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) SAP
1 2 (22.22%) BT
1 2 (22.22%) Facebook
2 1 (11.11%) Twitter
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Sitecore
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