West Midlands B2B Contracts

This section looks at the demand for B2B (Business-to-Business) skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited B2B over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

B2B (Business-to-Business)
Location Aylesbury Basingstoke Berkshire Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bromley Buckinghamshire Cheshire City of London Coventry Derby Derbyshire Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Midlands Newbury North West Northamptonshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Slough South East South Wales South West Staines Stockport Surrey Sussex Swindon UK Wales Warrington West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	121	121
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	1	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	0.056 %	0.532 %
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	£367	£484
% change on same period last year	-24.30 %
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	£9.50	£37.50
% change on same period last year	-74.66 %
Processes & Methodologies West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1787	1691
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.382 %	1.711 %
Daily rates quoted	447	401
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£345
Average daily rate	£360	£364
% change on same period last year	-1.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£384
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	95	195
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.17	£25.72
Average hourly rate	£27.72	£28.13
% change on same period last year	-1.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.27	£30.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
B2B 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.

B2B
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing B2B across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

B2B
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing B2B across the West Midlands region.

B2B
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing B2B across the West Midlands region.

B2B
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2B within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Coventry	-	1	-	-

B2B England

B2B
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing B2B 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 B2B.

1 4 (50.00 %) WebSphere 1 4 (50.00 %) Unit Testing 2 3 (37.50 %) AOP 2 3 (37.50 %) Java 2 3 (37.50 %) J2EE 2 3 (37.50 %) EJB 2 3 (37.50 %) XML 2 3 (37.50 %) HTTP 3 2 (25.00 %) B2C 3 2 (25.00 %) WebLogic 3 2 (25.00 %) Spring 3 2 (25.00 %) Red Hat 3 2 (25.00 %) UNIX 3 2 (25.00 %) Linux 3 2 (25.00 %) CRM

3 2 (25.00 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (25.00 %) Technical Architecture 4 1 (12.50 %) Degree 4 1 (12.50 %) QA 4 1 (12.50 %) Search Engine Marketing 4 1 (12.50 %) Email Marketing 4 1 (12.50 %) Internet Marketing 4 1 (12.50 %) Google 4 1 (12.50 %) WBIMB 4 1 (12.50 %) Telemarketing 4 1 (12.50 %) Marketing 4 1 (12.50 %) Spreadsheet 4 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) FTP 4 1 (12.50 %) UML

B2B
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing B2B 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 B2B. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (50.00 %) WebSphere 2 3 (37.50 %) XML 2 3 (37.50 %) J2EE 2 3 (37.50 %) EJB 3 2 (25.00 %) Spring 4 1 (12.50 %) WBIMB 4 1 (12.50 %) Servlets 4 1 (12.50 %) SOAP 4 1 (12.50 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 2 (25.00 %) WebLogic 2 1 (12.50 %) MQSeries 2 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Office 1 1 (12.50 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 3 (37.50 %) HTTP 2 1 (12.50 %) Internet 2 1 (12.50 %) FTP
Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Ant 1 1 (12.50 %) PVCS 1 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Finance 1 1 (12.50 %) Construction 1 1 (12.50 %) Legal 1 1 (12.50 %) Retail 1 1 (12.50 %) Insurance 1 1 (12.50 %) Telemarketing 1 1 (12.50 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 2 (25.00 %) Technical Lead 2 1 (12.50 %) Systems Integrator 2 1 (12.50 %) Senior Systems Integrator 2 1 (12.50 %) IT Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Consultant 2 1 (12.50 %) Team Leader 2 1 (12.50 %) Technical Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Java Team Leader 2 1 (12.50 %) E-Commerce Manager	Operating Systems 1 2 (25.00 %) UNIX 1 2 (25.00 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (50.00 %) Unit Testing 2 3 (37.50 %) AOP 3 2 (25.00 %) Technical Architecture 3 2 (25.00 %) CRM 3 2 (25.00 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (25.00 %) B2C 4 1 (12.50 %) E-business 4 1 (12.50 %) Logistics 4 1 (12.50 %) Search Engine Marketing 4 1 (12.50 %) Email Marketing 4 1 (12.50 %) Internet Marketing 4 1 (12.50 %) UML	Programming Languages 1 3 (37.50 %) Java 2 1 (12.50 %) C
Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) QA
Vendors 1 2 (25.00 %) Red Hat 2 1 (12.50 %) Google 2 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft