The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Alterian products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Alterian over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the West Midlands region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Alterian.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Alterian
Rank 92 - 93
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Alterian 3 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.182% - 0.053%
As % of the Vendors category 0.354% - 0.122%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £275 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £315
% change year-on-year
- -12.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
847 1094 819
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 51.30% 49.04% 43.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 451 328
Average daily rate £325 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.51% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £225 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £494
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 98 92
Average hourly rate £19.50 £17.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.42% +20.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £10.95 £10.97
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £34.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Alterian
England

Alterian
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Alterian across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

West Midlands Alterian Jobs Demand Trend

Alterian
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands Alterian Daily Rate Trend

Alterian
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Alterian within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Wolverhampton - 2 £275 -
Alterian
England

Alterian
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Alterian 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 Alterian.

1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) CMS
1 6 (100.00%) jQuery
2 5 (83.33%) Spring
2 5 (83.33%) JSP
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (83.33%) Adobe CQ
3 4 (66.67%) HTML5
3 4 (66.67%) J2EE
4 3 (50.00%) MVC
4 3 (50.00%) Spring MVC
4 3 (50.00%) CSS3
5 2 (33.33%) Content Management
5 2 (33.33%) TDD
5 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
5 2 (33.33%) Adobe
5 2 (33.33%) Umbraco
5 2 (33.33%) .NET
5 2 (33.33%) Web Services
6 1 (16.67%) XML
6 1 (16.67%) XSLT
6 1 (16.67%) UNIX
6 1 (16.67%) Linux
6 1 (16.67%) OO
6 1 (16.67%) Apache
6 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
6 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
6 1 (16.67%) Eclipse

Alterian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Alterian 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 Alterian. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) jQuery
2 5 (83.33%) Spring
2 5 (83.33%) JSP
3 4 (66.67%) J2EE
3 4 (66.67%) HTML5
4 3 (50.00%) Spring MVC
4 3 (50.00%) CSS3
5 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
5 2 (33.33%) .NET
5 2 (33.33%) Web Services
6 1 (16.67%) XML
6 1 (16.67%) XSLT
6 1 (16.67%) Struts
6 1 (16.67%) REST
6 1 (16.67%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) CMS
2 5 (83.33%) Adobe CQ
3 2 (33.33%) Umbraco
4 1 (16.67%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (16.67%) Apache
4 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Ant
1 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Web Developer
3 3 (50.00%) J2EE Developer
4 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
5 1 (16.67%) Java Web Developer
5 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) UNIX
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) Content Management
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (16.67%) FatWire
2 1 (16.67%) Sitecore