Birmingham VME Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for ICL VME 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 VME over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

ICL VME
Location Basingstoke Birmingham England Hampshire Newport Shropshire South East South Wales Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Telford UK Wales West Midlands	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	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	£363	-
% 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	£21.25	-
% change on same period last year	-
Operating Systems Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	79	204
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.158 %	0.255 %
Daily rates quoted	20	23
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£296
Average daily rate	£344	£327
% change on same period last year	+5.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£309	£322
% change on same period last year	-3.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	84
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.62	£21.83
Average hourly rate	£13.87	£23.06
% change on same period last year	-39.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.11	£24.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.59	£21.59
% change on same period last year	-
VME 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.

VME
Demand Trend

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

VME
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing VME 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 VME.

1 3 (100.00 %) COBOL 1 3 (100.00 %) Mainframe 1 3 (100.00 %) ICL 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) Migration 3 1 (33.33 %) Perl 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) IDMS 3 1 (33.33 %) TPMS

VME
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing VME 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 VME. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) TPMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) IDMS
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Consultant 2 1 (33.33 %) Analyst Programmer 2 1 (33.33 %) Programmer 2 1 (33.33 %) COBOL Analyst Programmer 2 1 (33.33 %) COBOL Programmer 2 1 (33.33 %) COBOL Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 3 (100.00 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) COBOL 2 1 (33.33 %) Perl 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL	Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) ICL