Birmingham WLAN Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Wireless LAN (WLAN) skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WLAN over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
Location Birmingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Docklands, London East Midlands East of England England Farnborough Feltham Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Horsham London Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes North West Northampton Northamptonshire South East South West Stevenage Surrey UK Uxbridge West Sussex Westminster	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	-	60
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.075 %
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	£233	£365
% change on same period last year	-36.22 %
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	£22.34	£32.79
% change on same period last year	-31.84 %
Communications & Networking Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	73	93
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.146 %	0.116 %
Daily rates quoted	19	25
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£340
Average daily rate	£298	£395
% change on same period last year	-24.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£306	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£344
% change on same period last year	-2.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.15	£22.05
Average hourly rate	£29.96	£23.39
% change on same period last year	+28.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.78	£24.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.65	£26.99
% change on same period last year	-1.24 %
WLAN 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.

WLAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WLAN across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

WLAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

WLAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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