Birmingham Migration Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Migration skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Migration over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Amersham Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bradford-on-Avon Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cobham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guernsey Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Larne Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidmouth Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Thetford Thirsk Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	27
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	34	47
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.054 %	0.050 %
As % of the category below	12.45 %	10.26 %
Daily rates quoted	7	17
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£433
Average daily rate	£349	£447
% change on same period last year	-22.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£461
UK excluding London average daily rate	£376	£362
% change on same period last year	+4.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.00	£52.00
Average hourly rate	£29.60	£53.83
% change on same period last year	-45.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.20	£55.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.48	£28.45
% change on same period last year	-13.95 %
Processes & Methodologies Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	273	458
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.430 %	0.491 %
Daily rates quoted	85	130
Average minimum daily rate	£371	£355
Average daily rate	£395	£387
% change on same period last year	+2.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£419	£420
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£370
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	51
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.88	£17.43
Average hourly rate	£21.85	£18.10
% change on same period last year	+20.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.83	£18.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.17	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Migration 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 Migration across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies 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 Migration across the Birmingham region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Migration across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Migration across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Migration 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 Migration.

1 24 (33.33 %) Data Migration 2 21 (29.17 %) SQL 3 15 (20.83 %) Active Directory 4 14 (19.44 %) SQL Server 5 12 (16.67 %) Windows 6 11 (15.28 %) Microsoft 7 10 (13.89 %) MS Excel 8 9 (12.50 %) Windows NT 9 8 (11.11 %) .NET 10 7 (9.722 %) VB 10 7 (9.722 %) PL/SQL 10 7 (9.722 %) Windows XP 10 7 (9.722 %) VMware 11 6 (8.333 %) Project Management 11 6 (8.333 %) Mainframe

11 6 (8.333 %) Finance 11 6 (8.333 %) NetWare 11 6 (8.333 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 11 6 (8.333 %) Windows 2000 12 5 (6.944 %) ITIL 12 5 (6.944 %) DB2 12 5 (6.944 %) Crystal Reports 12 5 (6.944 %) Datawarehouse 12 5 (6.944 %) Client/Server 12 5 (6.944 %) Clustering 12 5 (6.944 %) Data Mapping 12 5 (6.944 %) VMware Infrastructure 12 5 (6.944 %) Pensions 13 4 (5.556 %) Windows Vista 13 4 (5.556 %) SQL Server 2005

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 8 (11.11 %) .NET 2 2 (2.778 %) ASP 3 1 (1.389 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (1.389 %) XHTML 3 1 (1.389 %) Java RMI 3 1 (1.389 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 3 (4.167 %) SharePoint 1 3 (4.167 %) CMS 1 3 (4.167 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 2 (2.778 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (2.778 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (1.389 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 10 (13.89 %) MS Excel 2 4 (5.556 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (1.389 %) Oracle Financials 1 1 (1.389 %) SAP FI 1 1 (1.389 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 2 (2.778 %) VPN 2 1 (1.389 %) Intranet 2 1 (1.389 %) Internet 2 1 (1.389 %) LAN 2 1 (1.389 %) SDH 2 1 (1.389 %) WAN 2 1 (1.389 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (19.44 %) SQL Server 2 5 (6.944 %) DB2 2 5 (6.944 %) Crystal Reports 2 5 (6.944 %) Datawarehouse 3 4 (5.556 %) BusinessObjects 3 4 (5.556 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3 (4.167 %) Data Cleansing 5 2 (2.778 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 2 (2.778 %) MS Access 6 1 (1.389 %) Cognos Powerplay 6 1 (1.389 %) Cognos Impromptu 6 1 (1.389 %) Oracle Discoverer 6 1 (1.389 %) Oracle 10g 6 1 (1.389 %) Oracle Reports 6 1 (1.389 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 3 (4.167 %) ERwin 2 1 (1.389 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 6 (8.333 %) Finance 2 5 (6.944 %) Pensions 3 4 (5.556 %) Government 4 3 (4.167 %) Construction 5 2 (2.778 %) Banking 5 2 (2.778 %) Investment Banking 5 2 (2.778 %) Insurance 5 2 (2.778 %) Local Government 6 1 (1.389 %) Telecoms 6 1 (1.389 %) Retail 6 1 (1.389 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 13 (18.06 %) Developer 2 11 (15.28 %) Project Manager 3 10 (13.89 %) Analyst 4 6 (8.333 %) Consultant 4 6 (8.333 %) Applications Packager 4 6 (8.333 %) SQL Developer 5 5 (6.944 %) SQL DBA 5 5 (6.944 %) DBA 5 5 (6.944 %) Business Analyst 6 4 (5.556 %) Architect 7 3 (4.167 %) Migration Engineer 7 3 (4.167 %) Data Analyst 7 3 (4.167 %) VB Developer 7 3 (4.167 %) Access Developer 8 2 (2.778 %) SQL Server Developer 8 2 (2.778 %) Data Consultant 8 2 (2.778 %) Migration Project Manager 8 2 (2.778 %) Infrastructure Engineer 8 2 (2.778 %) Team Leader 8 2 (2.778 %) Infrastructure Manager	Miscellaneous 1 6 (8.333 %) Mainframe 2 5 (6.944 %) Client/Server 2 5 (6.944 %) Clustering 3 3 (4.167 %) Data Integration 4 1 (1.389 %) E-Learning 4 1 (1.389 %) SCADA 4 1 (1.389 %) NHS 4 1 (1.389 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 12 (16.67 %) Windows 2 9 (12.50 %) Windows NT 3 7 (9.722 %) Windows XP 4 6 (8.333 %) NetWare 4 6 (8.333 %) Windows 2000 5 4 (5.556 %) Windows Vista 6 3 (4.167 %) Windows Server 2003 7 2 (2.778 %) VME 8 1 (1.389 %) Red Hat Linux 8 1 (1.389 %) Linux 8 1 (1.389 %) Tru64	Processes & Methodologies 1 24 (33.33 %) Data Migration 2 6 (8.333 %) Project Management 3 5 (6.944 %) ITIL 3 5 (6.944 %) Data Mapping 4 4 (5.556 %) System Testing 4 4 (5.556 %) PRINCE2 5 3 (4.167 %) PRINCE 5 3 (4.167 %) Service Management 5 3 (4.167 %) Change Management 5 3 (4.167 %) Stakeholder Management 5 3 (4.167 %) Logistics 5 3 (4.167 %) Security Cleared 5 3 (4.167 %) Business Analysis 6 2 (2.778 %) Project Planning 6 2 (2.778 %) SC Cleared 6 2 (2.778 %) DV Cleared 6 2 (2.778 %) Agile Software Development 6 2 (2.778 %) Data Management 6 2 (2.778 %) Content Management 6 2 (2.778 %) Network Design
Programming Languages 1 21 (29.17 %) SQL 2 7 (9.722 %) VB 2 7 (9.722 %) PL/SQL 3 3 (4.167 %) VB6 4 2 (2.778 %) COBOL 4 2 (2.778 %) Delphi 4 2 (2.778 %) VB.NET 5 1 (1.389 %) FoxPro (VFP) 5 1 (1.389 %) Transact-SQL 5 1 (1.389 %) C	Qualifications 1 1 (1.389 %) ISEB 1 1 (1.389 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.389 %) WCAG	System Software 1 15 (20.83 %) Active Directory 2 5 (6.944 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (1.389 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (1.389 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 3 1 (1.389 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 6 (8.333 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 11 (15.28 %) Microsoft 2 7 (9.722 %) VMware 3 4 (5.556 %) Remedy 3 4 (5.556 %) Business Objects 4 3 (4.167 %) SAP 4 3 (4.167 %) Citrix 4 3 (4.167 %) CA 4 3 (4.167 %) Novell 4 3 (4.167 %) Oracle 5 2 (2.778 %) ICL 6 1 (1.389 %) BT 6 1 (1.389 %) Cramer 6 1 (1.389 %) FatWire 6 1 (1.389 %) Red Hat 6 1 (1.389 %) Cognos 6 1 (1.389 %) HP