Birmingham Technical Writer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Technical Writer role in IT contracts within the Birmingham region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Technical Writer in their job title over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Writer
Location Berkshire Birmingham City of London East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Leeds London Newbury North West Reading Scotland South East UK Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	41	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.224 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£150	-
Average daily rate	£160	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£170	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	-
% 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	£15.00	£26.60
% change on same period last year	-43.60 %
Job Titles Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	447	814
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.892 %	1.019 %
Daily rates quoted	143	189
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£347
Average daily rate	£358	£375
% change on same period last year	-4.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£357
% change on same period last year	-2.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	52	166
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.18	£17.52
Average hourly rate	£21.47	£18.73
% change on same period last year	+14.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.75	£19.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.14	£23.50
% change on same period last year	-1.52 %
Technical Writer 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 Technical Writer across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Technical Writer 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 Technical Writer across the Birmingham region.

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Top 2 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Technical Writer in their job title 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 with Technical Writer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00 %) MS Office 1 1 (100.00 %) Government

Technical Writer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Technical Writer in their job title 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 with Technical Writer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Office

General 1 1 (100.00 %) Government