Midlands Hummingbird Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Hummingbird products and/or services in IT contracts within the Midlands region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Hummingbird over the 3 months to 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Cheshire Chester City of London Devon East Midlands East of England England Exeter Hertfordshire Leeds London Midlands North West South East South West Stevenage UK West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	48	69
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching contract IT job ads	3	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.962 %	0.153 %
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	-	£351
% 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	£24.17	£16.50
% change on same period last year	+46.46 %
Vendors Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	312	654
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.625 %	0.818 %
Daily rates quoted	25	111
Average minimum daily rate	£393	£339
Average daily rate	£432	£354
% change on same period last year	+22.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£471	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.74	£28.44
Average hourly rate	£26.26	£30.01
% change on same period last year	-12.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.78	£31.59
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£23.32
% change on same period last year	+1.85 %
Hummingbird 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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Hummingbird Ltd.

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Demand Trend

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

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Top 3 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing Hummingbird 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 Hummingbird.

1 3 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 3 (100.00 %) Business Intelligence 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing Hummingbird 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 Hummingbird. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Analyst 1 2 (66.67 %) MI Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (100.00 %) Business Intelligence