Birmingham VMS Contracts

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

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Location Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Cheshire Chester City of London Croydon Docklands, London East of England England Essex Feltham Glasgow Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London Merseyside Middlesex North West Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Slough South East South Yorkshire Staines Surrey UK West Yorkshire Yorkshire	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	£320	£319
% change on same period last year	+0.26 %
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	£29.25	£29.38
% change on same period last year	-0.42 %
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	-
VMS 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 VMS across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 11 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (66.67 %) SAP 2 1 (33.33 %) DCL 2 1 (33.33 %) Automotive 2 1 (33.33 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (33.33 %) PHP 2 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 2 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (33.33 %) Linux 2 1 (33.33 %) Apache 2 1 (33.33 %) OpenVMS 2 1 (33.33 %) PowerHouse

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) Apache	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Automotive 1 1 (33.33 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Consultant 1 2 (66.67 %) SAP Consultant 2 1 (33.33 %) Business Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Systems Analyst	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux 1 1 (33.33 %) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 1 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) PHP 1 1 (33.33 %) PowerHouse 1 1 (33.33 %) DCL
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) SAP