The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of ESRI 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 ESRI over the 3 months to 20 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 Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ESRI
Rank 94 97 90
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -7
Contract jobs citing ESRI 1 6 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.060% 0.267% 0.107%
As % of the Vendors category 0.117% 0.543% 0.247%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £525 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+61.53% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
+19.40% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.37 £19.50 -
% change year-on-year
-26.29% -
All Vendors
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
854 1105 809
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 51.38% 49.09% 43.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 457 324
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 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £498
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 99 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 £11.00 £10.97
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £33.60 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
ESRI
England

ESRI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands ESRI Jobs Demand Trend

ESRI
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands ESRI Daily Rate Trend

ESRI
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands ESRI Hourly Rate Trend

ESRI
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ESRI within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 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 +7 1 £525 +61.53%
ESRI
England

ESRI
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing ESRI 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 ESRI.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) IIS
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) UML
1 4 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 4 (100.00%) ArcGIS
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 4 (100.00%) RIA
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) MSTest
1 4 (100.00%) Moq
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 4 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 4 (100.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
2 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework

ESRI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 4 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 4 (100.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) IIS
1 4 (100.00%) ArcGIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) MSTest
1 4 (100.00%) Moq
2 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Programmer
1 4 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Software Programmer
1 4 (100.00%) C# Programmer
2 2 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Software Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# Software Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Silverlight Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Programmer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 4 (100.00%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) UML
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared