Shropshire Data Mining Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Data Mining skills within the Shropshire region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Mining over the 3 months to 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Data Mining
Location Basildon Bath Berkshire Birmingham Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Coventry Dundee East of England Enfield England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gwent Hampshire Lancashire Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Midlands North East North West Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Renfrewshire Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West Surrey Telford Twickenham UK Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	4	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	14.81 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£425	-
Average daily rate	£463	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£500	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£395
% change on same period last year	-9.66 %
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	£27.09	£36.17
% change on same period last year	-25.09 %
Database & Business Intelligence Shropshire
Matching contract IT job ads	27	34
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.043 %	0.036 %
Daily rates quoted	9	13
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£235
Average daily rate	£350	£247
% change on same period last year	+41.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£260
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£347
% change on same period last year	-3.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£16.44
Average hourly rate	-	£18.44
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£20.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.92	£31.75
% change on same period last year	-15.19 %
Data Mining West Midlands

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.

Data Mining
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Data Mining across the Shropshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Data Mining
Daily Rate Trend

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

Data Mining
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Mining across the Shropshire region over the 3 months to 1 December 2008.

Data Mining
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Mining within the Shropshire region over the 3 months to 1 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Telford	-	2	£463	-

Data Mining West Midlands

Data Mining
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Shropshire region citing Data Mining 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 Data Mining.

1 4 (66.67 %) Oracle 1 4 (66.67 %) SQL 2 3 (50.00 %) VBA 2 3 (50.00 %) COBOL 2 3 (50.00 %) MS Access 2 3 (50.00 %) Data Modelling 2 3 (50.00 %) Pensions 2 3 (50.00 %) Finance 3 2 (33.33 %) RUP 3 2 (33.33 %) UNIX 4 1 (16.67 %) Windows 4 1 (16.67 %) HPUX 4 1 (16.67 %) E-business 4 1 (16.67 %) Shell Script 4 1 (16.67 %) Migration

4 1 (16.67 %) VMware 4 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 4 1 (16.67 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (16.67 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (16.67 %) VMware Infrastructure

Data Mining
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Shropshire region citing Data Mining 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 Data Mining. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (50.00 %) MS Access	General 1 3 (50.00 %) Finance 1 3 (50.00 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 3 (50.00 %) Analyst 1 3 (50.00 %) Data Analyst 2 2 (33.33 %) Lead Developer 2 2 (33.33 %) Lead Designer 2 2 (33.33 %) Developer 3 1 (16.67 %) Architect 3 1 (16.67 %) Solutions Architect	Operating Systems 1 2 (33.33 %) UNIX 2 1 (16.67 %) Windows 2 1 (16.67 %) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (50.00 %) Data Modelling 2 2 (33.33 %) RUP 3 1 (16.67 %) E-business 3 1 (16.67 %) Migration 3 1 (16.67 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (16.67 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 4 (66.67 %) SQL 2 3 (50.00 %) VBA 2 3 (50.00 %) COBOL 3 1 (16.67 %) Shell Script
System Software 1 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 1 1 (16.67 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 4 (66.67 %) Oracle 2 1 (16.67 %) VMware