Midlands Internet Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Internet skills within the Midlands region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Internet over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kegworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Moreton-in-Marsh Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wareham Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	64	57
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	13	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	9.559 %	7.749 %
Daily rates quoted	2	6
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£372
Average daily rate	£324	£382
% change on same period last year	-15.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£339
% change on same period last year	+2.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.89	£22.00
Average hourly rate	£30.94	£23.00
% change on same period last year	+34.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.99	£24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.57	£25.37
% change on same period last year	-11.05 %
Communications & Networking Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	136	271
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.179 %	0.283 %
Daily rates quoted	22	48
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£346
Average daily rate	£338	£371
% change on same period last year	-8.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£356	£395
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	27
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.06	£31.14
Average hourly rate	£33.53	£34.21
% change on same period last year	-1.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£37.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.60	£28.49
% change on same period last year	-10.13 %
Internet 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Internet across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing Internet 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 Internet.

1 12 (37.50 %) Intranet 2 9 (28.13 %) .NET 2 9 (28.13 %) SQL Server 3 8 (25.00 %) VB.NET 4 7 (21.88 %) Configuration Management 4 7 (21.88 %) SQL Server 2005 5 6 (18.75 %) EDRMS 5 6 (18.75 %) Construction 5 6 (18.75 %) SQL 6 5 (15.63 %) VB 6 5 (15.63 %) OLTP 6 5 (15.63 %) SQL Server 2000 6 5 (15.63 %) VB6 6 5 (15.63 %) .NET Framework 6 5 (15.63 %) SharePoint Server 2007

7 4 (12.50 %) SharePoint 7 4 (12.50 %) J2EE 8 3 (9.375 %) WebLogic 8 3 (9.375 %) MS Office 8 3 (9.375 %) JavaScript 8 3 (9.375 %) Tuxedo 8 3 (9.375 %) Windows 8 3 (9.375 %) Microsoft 8 3 (9.375 %) Active Directory 8 3 (9.375 %) NHS 8 3 (9.375 %) Firewall 8 3 (9.375 %) Workflow 8 3 (9.375 %) Windows SharePoint Services 8 3 (9.375 %) Office Project Server 8 3 (9.375 %) Network Security

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing Internet 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 Internet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 9 (28.13 %) .NET 2 5 (15.63 %) .NET Framework 3 4 (12.50 %) J2EE 4 3 (9.375 %) Windows SharePoint Services 5 2 (6.250 %) JSP 5 2 (6.250 %) Servlets 5 2 (6.250 %) HTML 5 2 (6.250 %) ASP 6 1 (3.125 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (3.125 %) JDBC 6 1 (3.125 %) JavaBeans 6 1 (3.125 %) Struts 6 1 (3.125 %) XML 6 1 (3.125 %) MVC 6 1 (3.125 %) Java EE 6 1 (3.125 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 5 (15.63 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 4 (12.50 %) SharePoint 3 3 (9.375 %) WebLogic 3 3 (9.375 %) Tuxedo 3 3 (9.375 %) Office Project Server 4 1 (3.125 %) Apache
Applications 1 3 (9.375 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 12 (37.50 %) Intranet 2 3 (9.375 %) Firewall 2 3 (9.375 %) Network Security 3 2 (6.250 %) VLAN 3 2 (6.250 %) MPLS 3 2 (6.250 %) HTTP 4 1 (3.125 %) VPN 4 1 (3.125 %) SSL 4 1 (3.125 %) Extranet 4 1 (3.125 %) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (28.13 %) SQL Server 2 7 (21.88 %) SQL Server 2005 3 6 (18.75 %) EDRMS 4 5 (15.63 %) OLTP 4 5 (15.63 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 1 (3.125 %) Ant 1 1 (3.125 %) ClearCase 1 1 (3.125 %) Subversion
General 1 6 (18.75 %) Construction 2 2 (6.250 %) Online Banking 2 2 (6.250 %) Graphic Design 2 2 (6.250 %) Finance 2 2 (6.250 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 17 (53.13 %) Developer 2 10 (31.25 %) Analyst 3 8 (25.00 %) Web Developer 4 6 (18.75 %) IT Business Analyst 4 6 (18.75 %) Business Analyst 5 5 (15.63 %) Software Developer 6 4 (12.50 %) SharePoint Developer 7 3 (9.375 %) J2EE Developer 7 3 (9.375 %) WebLogic Developer 8 2 (6.250 %) Security Specialist 8 2 (6.250 %) Test Analyst 9 1 (3.125 %) Data Analyst 9 1 (3.125 %) Java Developer 9 1 (3.125 %) ASP Developer 9 1 (3.125 %) Consultant 9 1 (3.125 %) Applications Developer 9 1 (3.125 %) Support Analyst 9 1 (3.125 %) Security Consultant 9 1 (3.125 %) Configuration Manager 9 1 (3.125 %) Environment Manager
Miscellaneous 1 3 (9.375 %) NHS 2 1 (3.125 %) N-Tier 2 1 (3.125 %) PKI	Operating Systems 1 3 (9.375 %) Windows 2 1 (3.125 %) Windows NT 2 1 (3.125 %) HPUX 2 1 (3.125 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (21.88 %) Configuration Management 2 3 (9.375 %) Workflow 3 2 (6.250 %) Risk Assessment 4 1 (3.125 %) OO 4 1 (3.125 %) Migration 4 1 (3.125 %) Security Management 4 1 (3.125 %) Web Testing 4 1 (3.125 %) Test Scripting	Programming Languages 1 8 (25.00 %) VB.NET 2 6 (18.75 %) SQL 3 5 (15.63 %) VB 3 5 (15.63 %) VB6 4 3 (9.375 %) JavaScript 5 2 (6.250 %) Java 6 1 (3.125 %) C# 6 1 (3.125 %) DHTML 6 1 (3.125 %) PL/SQL
System Software 1 3 (9.375 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 3 (9.375 %) Microsoft 2 2 (6.250 %) CheckPoint 2 2 (6.250 %) Cisco 3 1 (3.125 %) Oracle 3 1 (3.125 %) Sybase 3 1 (3.125 %) Nortel 3 1 (3.125 %) Blue Coat