Midlands XBRL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) 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 XBRL over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)
Location England Liverpool Merseyside Midlands North West Shropshire Telford UK West Midlands	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	57	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.087 %	0.000 %
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	£520	-
% 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	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Application Development Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	184	350
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.260 %	0.354 %
Daily rates quoted	30	39
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£350
Average daily rate	£341	£365
% change on same period last year	-6.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.67	£24.68
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£25.46
% change on same period last year	+17.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.33	£26.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.93	£31.98
% change on same period last year	-3.29 %
XBRL 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 XBRL across the Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development 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 XBRL across the Midlands region.

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Top 11 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00 %) XML 1 3 (100.00 %) Adobe 1 3 (100.00 %) Government 2 2 (66.67 %) Requirements Analysis 3 1 (33.33 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (33.33 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (33.33 %) Java 3 1 (33.33 %) WebLogic 3 1 (33.33 %) SOAP 3 1 (33.33 %) WebLogic Portal

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 3 (100.00 %) XML 2 1 (33.33 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) WebLogic 1 1 (33.33 %) WebLogic Portal
General 1 3 (100.00 %) Government	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Architect 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Consultant 1 1 (33.33 %) Web Consultant
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Requirements Analysis 2 1 (33.33 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) Business Analysis	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) Java
Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Adobe