Birmingham Publishing Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Publishing' in contract IT jobs within the Birmingham region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Publishing over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Publishing
Location Aberdeen Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Bromley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Croydon Docklands, London Durham Ealing East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Hornchurch Hounslow Hull Kent Lancashire Leeds London Maidstone Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Scotland Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Stratford-upon-Avon Surrey Taunton UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	68
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	3	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	1.186 %	0.535 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£310	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£320	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£298	£294
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£70.00	-
Average hourly rate	£72.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£75.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.05	£23.50
% change on same period last year	+2.32 %
General Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	253	374
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.337 %	0.378 %
Daily rates quoted	67	97
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£333
Average daily rate	£344	£351
% change on same period last year	-2.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.87	£17.51
Average hourly rate	£30.93	£18.65
% change on same period last year	+65.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.99	£19.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.78	£27.25
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
Publishing 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.

Publishing
Demand Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Publishing 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 Publishing.

1 2 (66.67 %) PRINCE2 1 2 (66.67 %) NHS 1 2 (66.67 %) Health 2 1 (33.33 %) Change Management 2 1 (33.33 %) NetWeaver 2 1 (33.33 %) XML Schema 2 1 (33.33 %) SAP 2 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 2 1 (33.33 %) XML

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Publishing 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 Publishing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 1 1 (33.33 %) XML 1 1 (33.33 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) NetWeaver
General 1 2 (66.67 %) Health	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (66.67 %) NHS	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (33.33 %) Change Management
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) SAP