Midlands Client/Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Client Server skills within the Midlands region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Client/Server over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Client Server
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fleetwood Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Scotland Sheffield South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Surbiton Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	58	68
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	1	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	0.398 %	4.433 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£220
Average daily rate	-	£220
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£220
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£311
% change on same period last year	+9.59 %
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	£24.91	£32.41
% change on same period last year	-23.12 %
Miscellaneous Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	251	203
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.355 %	0.205 %
Daily rates quoted	39	18
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£288
Average daily rate	£332	£306
% change on same period last year	+8.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£344
% change on same period last year	+1.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.42	£16.81
Average hourly rate	£20.79	£18.56
% change on same period last year	+12.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.17	£20.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.09	£26.20
% change on same period last year	-4.24 %
Client/Server England

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.

Client/Server
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Client/Server across the Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Client/Server
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Client/Server across the Midlands region.

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Client/Server across the Midlands region.

Client/Server
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing Client/Server 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 Client/Server.

1 11 (100.00 %) MS Excel 2 8 (72.73 %) SAP 2 8 (72.73 %) .NET 2 8 (72.73 %) Oracle 2 8 (72.73 %) SQL Server 2 8 (72.73 %) Mainframe 2 8 (72.73 %) Billing 2 8 (72.73 %) Business Analysis 2 8 (72.73 %) BizTalk Server 2 8 (72.73 %) IBM 2 8 (72.73 %) Microsoft 2 8 (72.73 %) IBM Mainframe 3 3 (27.27 %) CAE 3 3 (27.27 %) MS PowerPoint 3 3 (27.27 %) MS Office

3 3 (27.27 %) UNIX 3 3 (27.27 %) Windows 4 2 (18.18 %) Degree 4 2 (18.18 %) MATLAB 4 2 (18.18 %) Simulink 4 2 (18.18 %) Stateflow 4 2 (18.18 %) Project Management 5 1 (9.091 %) SAN 5 1 (9.091 %) Finite Element Analysis 5 1 (9.091 %) NFS

Client/Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing Client/Server 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 Client/Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (72.73 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 8 (72.73 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 11 (100.00 %) MS Excel 2 3 (27.27 %) MS Office 2 3 (27.27 %) MS PowerPoint 3 2 (18.18 %) MATLAB 3 2 (18.18 %) Simulink 3 2 (18.18 %) Stateflow	Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (72.73 %) SQL Server	General 1 8 (72.73 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 8 (72.73 %) Analyst 1 8 (72.73 %) Systems Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 8 (72.73 %) Mainframe 1 8 (72.73 %) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 3 (27.27 %) UNIX 1 3 (27.27 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (72.73 %) Business Analysis 2 3 (27.27 %) CAE 3 2 (18.18 %) Project Management 4 1 (9.091 %) Finite Element Analysis
Qualifications 1 2 (18.18 %) Degree	System Software 1 1 (9.091 %) NFS
Vendors 1 8 (72.73 %) Oracle 1 8 (72.73 %) SAP 1 8 (72.73 %) IBM 1 8 (72.73 %) Microsoft