The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Statistics in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Statistics over the 3 months to 23 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Statistics
Rank 43 54 48
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -6
Contract jobs citing Statistics 1 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.229% 0.319% 0.193%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.136% 2.381% 1.136%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £250 - £340
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £288 £280
% change year-on-year
+12.17% +2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £16.00 £13.64
% change year-on-year
-9.37% +17.30%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
88 84 88
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 20.14% 13.42% 17.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 36 43
Average daily rate £340 £310 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% +3.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £175 £159
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £523 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 7
Average hourly rate £32.50 £14.25 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+128.07% +9.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £11.15 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £92.20 £19.15 £61.51
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Statistics
West Midlands

Statistics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Statistics Jobs Demand Trend

Statistics
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Statistics across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Statistics Daily Rate Trend

Statistics
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Statistics Hourly Rate Trend

Statistics
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Statistics 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 Statistics.

1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (50.00%) MS PowerPoint
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (50.00%) QA
1 2 (50.00%) Time Management
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (50.00%) Information Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) PowerPivot
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (25.00%) MS Access
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) NHS
2 1 (25.00%) Intranet

Statistics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Statistics 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 Statistics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (25.00%) PowerPivot
2 1 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) MS Access
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Report Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Information Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Time Management
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) Information Governance
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft