The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Web 2.0 in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web 2.0 over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web 2.0
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Web 2.0 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £300 £375
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
- +42.85%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
89 86 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 20.09% 13.61% 16.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 38 41
Average daily rate £335 £310 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.97% +3.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £175 £155
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £518 £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 £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Web 2.0
West Midlands

Web 2.0
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Web 2.0 across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Birmingham Web 2.0 Jobs Demand Trend

Web 2.0
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Web 2.0 across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Web 2.0 Daily Rate Trend

Web 2.0
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Web 2.0 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 Web 2.0.

1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (100.00%) OmniGraffle
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3

Web 2.0
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Web 2.0 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 Web 2.0. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (100.00%) OmniGraffle
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (100.00%) UI Developer
1 1 (100.00%) UI Programmer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle