The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Augmented Reality 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 Augmented Reality over the 3 months to 22 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category 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.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Augmented Reality
Rank 98 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Augmented Reality 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.060% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.345% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £200 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £42.50 -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
290 376 299
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 17.29% 16.46% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 169 118
Average daily rate £325 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £216 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 34 40
Average hourly rate £28.50 £16.63 £21.79
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+71.42% -23.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.85 £11.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.80 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Augmented Reality
England

Augmented Reality
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Augmented Reality within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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
Birmingham - 1 £200 -
Augmented Reality
England

Augmented Reality
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Augmented Reality 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 Augmented Reality.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Games
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) WebGL
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5 Canvas

Augmented Reality
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Augmented Reality 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 Augmented Reality. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) WebGL
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5 Canvas
General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 1 (100.00%) UI Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Developer
1 1 (100.00%) UI Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript