The first table below looks at the demand for PowerHouse 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 PowerHouse 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 of the Programming Languages 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
IBM Cognos PowerHouse
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing PowerHouse 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - - -
As % of the Programming Languages category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £395 £500
% change year-on-year
+7.59% -21.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £32.50 -
All Programming Languages
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
137 241 145
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 31.28% 39.31% 29.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 137 89
Average daily rate £325 £320 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 2
Average hourly rate £37.00 £31.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.35% +121.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PowerHouse
West Midlands

PowerHouse
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham PowerHouse Jobs Demand Trend

PowerHouse
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham PowerHouse Hourly Rate Trend

PowerHouse
Top 12 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX
1 1 (100.00%) OpenVMS
1 1 (100.00%) Pascal
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing

PowerHouse
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX
1 1 (100.00%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Pascal