North West BREW Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited BREW over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW)
Location Berkshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London East Anglia East of England Edinburgh England London North West Scotland South East UK	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
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Rank change on same period last year	-
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 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
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Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
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Application Development North West
Matching contract IT job ads	794	950
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.276 %	1.020 %
Daily rates quoted	124	129
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£306
Average daily rate	£303	£322
% change on same period last year	-5.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£323	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£334
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	100	83
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.29	£24.58
Average hourly rate	£24.89	£27.20
% change on same period last year	-8.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.49	£29.82
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.57	£31.61
% change on same period last year	-9.61 %
BREW 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.

BREW
Demand Trend

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

BREW
Hourly Rate Trend

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