West Midlands Finance Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Finance' in contract IT jobs within the West Midlands region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Barking Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clydebank Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Denbigh Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guernsey Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Heanor Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Johnstone Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Louth Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rhyl Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stirling Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wembley West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	8	5
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	292	372
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.389 %	0.376 %
As % of the category below	24.09 %	31.16 %
Daily rates quoted	108	116
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£342
Average daily rate	£325	£364
% change on same period last year	-10.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£385	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.55	£21.00
Average hourly rate	£21.68	£22.50
% change on same period last year	-3.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.82	£24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.12	£26.40
% change on same period last year	-4.84 %
General West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1212	1194
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.616 %	1.208 %
Daily rates quoted	323	296
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£338
Average daily rate	£358	£361
% change on same period last year	-0.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£384
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	83	88
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.74	£22.68
Average hourly rate	£26.68	£24.34
% change on same period last year	+9.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.62	£26.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.78	£27.25
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
Finance 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Finance across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Finance across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance 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
Birmingham	-1	68	£337	+0.98 %
Warwickshire	0	39	£321	+7.88 %
Coventry	-2	37	£250	-23.15 %
Shropshire	+7	36	£340	-3.44 %
Staffordshire	-16	11	£275	-32.49 %
Solihull	+4	9	-	-
Worcestershire	+4	7	£275	-
Herefordshire	-1	7	£230	-30.42 %
Wolverhampton	-3	6	£233	-
Dudley	-	2	-	-
Walsall	+10	2	£340	-

Finance England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 116 (19.17 %) Pensions 2 68 (11.24 %) SQL 3 60 (9.917 %) SAP 4 59 (9.752 %) Project Management 5 54 (8.926 %) PRINCE2 5 54 (8.926 %) Insurance 6 50 (8.264 %) Oracle 7 41 (6.777 %) Microsoft 8 38 (6.281 %) Business Analysis 9 36 (5.950 %) SQL Server 9 36 (5.950 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 34 (5.620 %) .NET 10 34 (5.620 %) UML 10 34 (5.620 %) ISEB 11 33 (5.455 %) Government

11 33 (5.455 %) Migration 12 32 (5.289 %) MS Project 13 31 (5.124 %) Banking 14 30 (4.959 %) XML 15 29 (4.793 %) MS Excel 15 29 (4.793 %) Test Scripting 16 28 (4.628 %) Financial Institution 17 27 (4.463 %) ASP.NET 18 26 (4.298 %) E-Commerce 19 25 (4.132 %) RAD 19 25 (4.132 %) QA 20 24 (3.967 %) MS Office 20 24 (3.967 %) Education 21 23 (3.802 %) Stakeholder Management 21 23 (3.802 %) VB

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 34 (5.620 %) .NET 2 30 (4.959 %) XML 3 27 (4.463 %) ASP.NET 4 20 (3.306 %) EDI 5 19 (3.140 %) WebServices 6 10 (1.653 %) ASP 7 8 (1.322 %) HTML 7 8 (1.322 %) J2EE 7 8 (1.322 %) AJAX 8 6 (0.992 %) SAP Basis 9 5 (0.826 %) XSLT 10 4 (0.661 %) JSP 11 3 (0.496 %) XHTML 11 3 (0.496 %) XSL 11 3 (0.496 %) XML Schema 12 2 (0.331 %) Middleware 12 2 (0.331 %) SAP XI 12 2 (0.331 %) WebSphere 12 2 (0.331 %) WCF 12 2 (0.331 %) WPF	Application Platforms 1 6 (0.992 %) CMS 2 4 (0.661 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 4 (0.661 %) SAS 3 3 (0.496 %) Lotus Notes 3 3 (0.496 %) Lotus Domino 3 3 (0.496 %) NetWeaver 4 2 (0.331 %) MS Exchange 4 2 (0.331 %) Oracle Workflow 4 2 (0.331 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 1 (0.165 %) Papyrus 5 1 (0.165 %) WPS 5 1 (0.165 %) ESB 5 1 (0.165 %) MQSeries 5 1 (0.165 %) SharePoint 5 1 (0.165 %) CICS 5 1 (0.165 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 1 (0.165 %) WebLogic 5 1 (0.165 %) IIS
Applications 1 32 (5.289 %) MS Project 2 29 (4.793 %) MS Excel 3 24 (3.967 %) MS Office 4 17 (2.810 %) MS Visio 5 12 (1.983 %) MS PowerPoint 6 11 (1.818 %) CA Clarity 7 4 (0.661 %) Spreadsheet 8 3 (0.496 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 12 (1.983 %) SAP FI 2 11 (1.818 %) Oracle Financials 2 11 (1.818 %) SAP FI/CO 2 11 (1.818 %) SAP CO 3 7 (1.157 %) Nortel Periphonics 4 3 (0.496 %) Navision 5 2 (0.331 %) Oracle 11i 5 2 (0.331 %) BASE24 5 2 (0.331 %) Applix TM1 5 2 (0.331 %) Oracle EBS 5 2 (0.331 %) Dynamics AX 6 1 (0.165 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 6 1 (0.165 %) SAP ERP 6 1 (0.165 %) Dynamics NAV 6 1 (0.165 %) Dynamics CRM 6 1 (0.165 %) Movex 6 1 (0.165 %) SAP CRM 6 1 (0.165 %) MFGPRO 6 1 (0.165 %) SAP PM 6 1 (0.165 %) PeopleSoft Financials
Communications & Networking 1 15 (2.479 %) Internet 2 10 (1.653 %) Intranet 3 7 (1.157 %) Symposium 3 7 (1.157 %) IP Telephony 3 7 (1.157 %) Nortel Meridian 3 7 (1.157 %) NGN 4 5 (0.826 %) TCP/IP 4 5 (0.826 %) LAN 5 4 (0.661 %) WAN 5 4 (0.661 %) MPLS 6 3 (0.496 %) DSL 6 3 (0.496 %) Firewall 6 3 (0.496 %) DNS 6 3 (0.496 %) PSTN 6 3 (0.496 %) ISDN 6 3 (0.496 %) CTI 7 2 (0.331 %) LDAP 7 2 (0.331 %) SAN 8 1 (0.165 %) VPN 8 1 (0.165 %) Frame Relay	Database & Business Intelligence 1 36 (5.950 %) SQL Server 2 18 (2.975 %) SQL Server 2005 3 15 (2.479 %) Crystal Reports 4 12 (1.983 %) Oracle 10g 5 11 (1.818 %) BusinessObjects 6 10 (1.653 %) SQL Server 2000 6 10 (1.653 %) Oracle Reports 6 10 (1.653 %) Oracle 9i 7 9 (1.488 %) MS Access 8 8 (1.322 %) Datawarehouse 9 7 (1.157 %) RDBMS 10 5 (0.826 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 5 (0.826 %) SQLPlus 11 3 (0.496 %) SAP BI 11 3 (0.496 %) GIS 11 3 (0.496 %) Oracle OWB 11 3 (0.496 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 11 3 (0.496 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 11 3 (0.496 %) ETL 12 2 (0.331 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 11 (1.818 %) Visual Studio 2 7 (1.157 %) TestDirector 2 7 (1.157 %) LoadRunner 3 6 (0.992 %) QuickTest Pro 4 5 (0.826 %) WinRunner 5 4 (0.661 %) Flash 6 3 (0.496 %) ClearCase 6 3 (0.496 %) Dreamweaver 6 3 (0.496 %) Oracle Forms 6 3 (0.496 %) ClearQuest 7 2 (0.331 %) NUnit 7 2 (0.331 %) ProC 7 2 (0.331 %) Oracle APEX 8 1 (0.165 %) LSMW 8 1 (0.165 %) Synon	General 1 116 (19.17 %) Pensions 2 54 (8.926 %) Insurance 3 33 (5.455 %) Government 4 31 (5.124 %) Banking 5 28 (4.628 %) Financial Institution 6 24 (3.967 %) Education 7 19 (3.140 %) Retail 8 14 (2.314 %) Health 9 10 (1.653 %) Law 9 10 (1.653 %) Legal 9 10 (1.653 %) Manufacturing 10 9 (1.488 %) Telecoms 10 9 (1.488 %) Marketing 10 9 (1.488 %) Games 11 7 (1.157 %) Automotive 12 5 (0.826 %) Electric 13 4 (0.661 %) Billing 14 3 (0.496 %) General Ledger 14 3 (0.496 %) Construction 14 3 (0.496 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 209 (34.55 %) Analyst 2 97 (16.03 %) Business Analyst 3 78 (12.89 %) Project Manager 4 72 (11.90 %) Developer 5 68 (11.24 %) Consultant 6 39 (6.446 %) Test Analyst 7 25 (4.132 %) Tester 8 20 (3.306 %) Support Analyst 9 18 (2.975 %) Programme Manager 10 16 (2.645 %) Programmer 10 16 (2.645 %) .NET Developer 11 15 (2.479 %) SAP Consultant 12 13 (2.149 %) Analyst Programmer 13 12 (1.983 %) Administrator 13 12 (1.983 %) Lead Test Analyst 14 11 (1.818 %) Data Analyst 14 11 (1.818 %) Coordinator 14 11 (1.818 %) Systems Analyst 15 10 (1.653 %) Financial Business Analyst 15 10 (1.653 %) PMO Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 15 (2.479 %) NHS 2 11 (1.818 %) Management Information System 3 9 (1.488 %) Client/Server 4 5 (0.826 %) NPfIT 5 4 (0.661 %) AS400 5 4 (0.661 %) Computer Science 5 4 (0.661 %) Data Conversion 6 3 (0.496 %) Mathematics 6 3 (0.496 %) IVR 6 3 (0.496 %) PMI 7 2 (0.331 %) W3C 7 2 (0.331 %) Equities 7 2 (0.331 %) Spanish Language 8 1 (0.165 %) VSAM 8 1 (0.165 %) Data Extraction 8 1 (0.165 %) Replication 8 1 (0.165 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 15 (2.479 %) Windows 2 10 (1.653 %) UNIX 3 6 (0.992 %) Solaris 4 4 (0.661 %) Windows XP 5 3 (0.496 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (0.331 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (0.165 %) VMS 7 1 (0.165 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 59 (9.752 %) Project Management 2 54 (8.926 %) PRINCE2 3 38 (6.281 %) Business Analysis 4 36 (5.950 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 34 (5.620 %) UML 6 33 (5.455 %) Migration 7 29 (4.793 %) Test Scripting 8 26 (4.298 %) E-Commerce 9 25 (4.132 %) RAD 10 23 (3.802 %) Stakeholder Management 11 22 (3.636 %) ITIL 11 22 (3.636 %) Systems Analysis 12 19 (3.140 %) ERP 13 18 (2.975 %) Data Migration 14 17 (2.810 %) Project Planning 15 16 (2.645 %) SSADM 15 16 (2.645 %) Change Management 16 15 (2.479 %) Business Intelligence 16 15 (2.479 %) CRM 17 14 (2.314 %) System Testing
Programming Languages 1 68 (11.24 %) SQL 2 23 (3.802 %) VB 3 17 (2.810 %) VB.NET 4 16 (2.645 %) C# 4 16 (2.645 %) PL/SQL 5 14 (2.314 %) C 6 13 (2.149 %) Java 7 12 (1.983 %) JavaScript 8 7 (1.157 %) VBA 9 6 (0.992 %) COBOL 9 6 (0.992 %) VB6 10 5 (0.826 %) ABAP 11 3 (0.496 %) RPG 12 2 (0.331 %) C++ 12 2 (0.331 %) Python 12 2 (0.331 %) XPath 12 2 (0.331 %) VBScript 12 2 (0.331 %) Jython 13 1 (0.165 %) LotusScript 13 1 (0.165 %) MUMPS	Qualifications 1 34 (5.620 %) ISEB 2 15 (2.479 %) Degree 3 10 (1.653 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 9 (1.488 %) CISSP 4 9 (1.488 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 5 (0.826 %) CIMA 5 5 (0.826 %) ACCA 6 4 (0.661 %) Citrix Certification 7 3 (0.496 %) Microsoft Certification 8 2 (0.331 %) MCSE 8 2 (0.331 %) MCSA 8 2 (0.331 %) PMI Certification 8 2 (0.331 %) CIPFA 9 1 (0.165 %) MCP 9 1 (0.165 %) CISA 9 1 (0.165 %) CCAB 9 1 (0.165 %) MBA 9 1 (0.165 %) ITIL Certification 9 1 (0.165 %) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 25 (4.132 %) QA 2 13 (2.149 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 9 (1.488 %) PCI DSS 4 6 (0.992 %) SLA 5 3 (0.496 %) Basel II 6 1 (0.165 %) COBIT	System Software 1 10 (1.653 %) Active Directory 2 3 (0.496 %) Terminal Server 3 2 (0.331 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 1 (0.165 %) AllFusion Endevor	Vendors 1 60 (9.917 %) SAP 2 50 (8.264 %) Oracle 3 41 (6.777 %) Microsoft 4 15 (2.479 %) Cognos 5 11 (1.818 %) Business Objects 6 10 (1.653 %) Sun 7 8 (1.322 %) Nortel 8 6 (0.992 %) Northgate 9 5 (0.826 %) Hyperion 9 5 (0.826 %) Citrix 9 5 (0.826 %) Adobe 10 4 (0.661 %) Dell 10 4 (0.661 %) Agresso 10 4 (0.661 %) Civica 10 4 (0.661 %) Capita 10 4 (0.661 %) Anite 11 3 (0.496 %) Teradata 11 3 (0.496 %) Lotus 11 3 (0.496 %) Intel 11 3 (0.496 %) HP