The first table below looks at the demand for Mobile Commerce skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mobile Commerce over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Processes & Methodologies 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mobile Commerce (mCommerce)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Mobile Commerce 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £520 £438 £325
% change year-on-year
+18.85% +34.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
296 397 297
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 67.43% 63.93% 57.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 214 183
Average daily rate £358 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.14% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £525 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 20 10
Average hourly rate £34.75 £15.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+131.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.28 £12.00 £10.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.60 £39.00 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Mobile Commerce
West Midlands

Mobile Commerce
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Mobile Commerce 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 Mobile Commerce.

1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) WAP
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing

Mobile Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Mobile Commerce 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 Mobile Commerce. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) WAP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) B2C