Birmingham pSOS Contracts

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

Wind River pSOS
Location Birmingham England London South West Swindon UK Wiltshire	3 months to 21 Nov 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	£325	-
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-
Operating Systems Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	86	254
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.135 %	0.272 %
Daily rates quoted	16	39
Average minimum daily rate	£264	£383
Average daily rate	£306	£400
% change on same period last year	-23.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£418
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£321
% change on same period last year	-1.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	98
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.96	£18.05
Average hourly rate	£23.05	£19.26
% change on same period last year	+19.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.15	£20.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.36	£22.18
% change on same period last year	+0.80 %
pSOS 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.

pSOS
Demand Trend

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