Birmingham Release Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Release Management skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Release Management over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Fareham Gatwick Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Kent Leeds London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	64
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	2	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.517 %	0.601 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£340	-
Average daily rate	£340	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£340	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£415	£373
% change on same period last year	+11.13 %
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	£23.19	£36.00
% change on same period last year	-35.57 %
Processes & Methodologies Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	387	499
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.511 %	0.497 %
Daily rates quoted	100	139
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£348
Average daily rate	£338	£370
% change on same period last year	-8.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	51
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.77	£16.38
Average hourly rate	£32.91	£17.89
% change on same period last year	+83.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.05	£19.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
Release Management 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Release Management across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies 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 Release Management across the Birmingham region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Release Management across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Release Management 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 Release Management.

1 9 (100.00 %) ITIL 2 3 (33.33 %) Scrum 2 3 (33.33 %) PRINCE 2 3 (33.33 %) DSDM 3 2 (22.22 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 2 (22.22 %) ITIL Certification 3 2 (22.22 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (22.22 %) Configuration Management 3 2 (22.22 %) Service Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Release Management 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 Release Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Job Titles 1 7 (77.78 %) Applications Support 1 7 (77.78 %) Support Manager 1 7 (77.78 %) Applications Manager 2 3 (33.33 %) Applications Support Manager	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (100.00 %) ITIL 2 3 (33.33 %) Scrum 2 3 (33.33 %) PRINCE 2 3 (33.33 %) DSDM 3 2 (22.22 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (22.22 %) Configuration Management 3 2 (22.22 %) Service Management
Qualifications 1 2 (22.22 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 2 (22.22 %) ITIL Certification