Midlands MIDP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) skills within the Midlands region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MIDP over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP)
Location East of England England Hampshire Hertfordshire London Manchester Midlands North West South East UK	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
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Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
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UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	-
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£38.88
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Application Development Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	299	371
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.399 %	0.375 %
Daily rates quoted	61	33
Average minimum daily rate	£355	£340
Average daily rate	£380	£365
% change on same period last year	+4.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£406	£391
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.14	£36.96
Average hourly rate	£27.36	£37.78
% change on same period last year	-27.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.57	£38.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
MIDP 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.

MIDP
Demand Trend

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

MIDP
Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing MIDP 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 MIDP.

1 1 (100.00 %) Java 1 1 (100.00 %) PHP 1 1 (100.00 %) MySQL 1 1 (100.00 %) J2ME

MIDP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing MIDP 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 MIDP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (100.00 %) J2ME	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (100.00 %) MySQL
Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Developer	Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) Java 1 1 (100.00 %) PHP