Birmingham MTS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) 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 MTS over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS)
Location Birmingham City of London England Halifax Hampshire London North East Oxford Oxfordshire South East Southampton UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
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	£250	-
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.50	£50.00
% change on same period last year	-35.00 %
Application Platforms Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	88	163
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.116 %	0.162 %
Daily rates quoted	12	23
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£329
Average daily rate	£345	£353
% change on same period last year	-2.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£347
% change on same period last year	+1.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	55
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.59	£16.96
Average hourly rate	£29.68	£17.63
% change on same period last year	+68.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.77	£18.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.10	£24.95
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
MTS 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.

MTS
Demand Trend

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