West Midlands Junior Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Junior role in IT contracts within the West Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Junior in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aldershot Amersham Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Bolton Bournemouth Braintree Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Croydon Darlington Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Godalming Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isleworth Kent Leeds Lewes Liverpool Livingston London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southsea Staffordshire Stirling Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Wakefield Wales Walsall Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	95	103
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	21	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	0.814 %	0.707 %
Daily rates quoted	8	8
Average minimum daily rate	£153	£216
Average daily rate	£168	£235
% change on same period last year	-28.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£183	£253
UK excluding London average daily rate	£201	£231
% change on same period last year	-13.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£15.33
Average hourly rate	£17.00	£16.50
% change on same period last year	+3.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.00	£17.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£13.09	£17.17
% change on same period last year	-23.77 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	2580	3397
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.064 %	3.640 %
Daily rates quoted	685	735
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£321
Average daily rate	£345	£342
% change on same period last year	+0.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	364	588
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.26	£20.27
Average hourly rate	£22.55	£21.96
% change on same period last year	+2.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.84	£23.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Junior 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 Junior across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Junior 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 Junior across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 November 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 Junior across the West Midlands region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Junior within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Warwickshire	+19	4	£100	-
Walsall	-	3	-	-
Coventry	+5	2	£350	-
Herefordshire	+10	2	£160	-8.57 %
Staffordshire	-	1	-	-
Shropshire	+2	1	£163	+32.65 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Junior in their job title 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 with Junior in their job title.

1 10 (23.81 %) .NET 2 9 (21.43 %) ASP.NET 3 8 (19.05 %) SQL Server 4 6 (14.29 %) C# 4 6 (14.29 %) HTML 4 6 (14.29 %) MS Project 4 6 (14.29 %) Finance 5 5 (11.90 %) Project Management 5 5 (11.90 %) PRINCE2 5 5 (11.90 %) VB.NET 5 5 (11.90 %) Insurance 6 4 (9.524 %) Pensions 6 4 (9.524 %) JavaScript 7 3 (7.143 %) Microsoft 7 3 (7.143 %) PHP

7 3 (7.143 %) CSS 8 2 (4.762 %) Business Analysis 8 2 (4.762 %) SQL Server 2005 8 2 (4.762 %) AJAX 8 2 (4.762 %) Security Cleared 8 2 (4.762 %) Visual Studio 8 2 (4.762 %) Windows 8 2 (4.762 %) Flash 8 2 (4.762 %) MS Excel 8 2 (4.762 %) Java 8 2 (4.762 %) C 8 2 (4.762 %) MySQL 8 2 (4.762 %) Oracle 8 2 (4.762 %) NHS 8 2 (4.762 %) E-Commerce

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Junior in their job title 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 with Junior in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 10 (23.81 %) .NET 2 9 (21.43 %) ASP.NET 3 6 (14.29 %) HTML 4 3 (7.143 %) CSS 5 2 (4.762 %) AJAX 6 1 (2.381 %) NHibernate 6 1 (2.381 %) WebSphere 6 1 (2.381 %) J2EE 6 1 (2.381 %) ASP 6 1 (2.381 %) JSP 6 1 (2.381 %) XML 6 1 (2.381 %) XHTML 6 1 (2.381 %) MVC 6 1 (2.381 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.381 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 1 (2.381 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 6 (14.29 %) MS Project 2 2 (4.762 %) MS Excel 3 1 (2.381 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (2.381 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (2.381 %) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.381 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (19.05 %) SQL Server 2 2 (4.762 %) SQL Server 2005 2 2 (4.762 %) MySQL 3 1 (2.381 %) SQL Server 2008 3 1 (2.381 %) MS Access 3 1 (2.381 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 2 (4.762 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (4.762 %) Flash	General 1 6 (14.29 %) Finance 2 5 (11.90 %) Insurance 3 4 (9.524 %) Pensions 4 1 (2.381 %) Marketing 4 1 (2.381 %) Graphic Design 4 1 (2.381 %) Automotive 4 1 (2.381 %) Law 4 1 (2.381 %) Multimedia
Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.762 %) NHS 2 1 (2.381 %) Streaming Video 2 1 (2.381 %) E-Learning 2 1 (2.381 %) Statistics 2 1 (2.381 %) Mathematics 2 1 (2.381 %) Computer Science 2 1 (2.381 %) PMI	Operating Systems 1 2 (4.762 %) Windows 2 1 (2.381 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (11.90 %) PRINCE2 1 5 (11.90 %) Project Management 2 2 (4.762 %) E-Commerce 2 2 (4.762 %) Business Analysis 2 2 (4.762 %) Web Design 2 2 (4.762 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (2.381 %) Document Management 3 1 (2.381 %) Data Analysis 3 1 (2.381 %) Pay per click 3 1 (2.381 %) Web Development 3 1 (2.381 %) Internet Marketing 3 1 (2.381 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 1 (2.381 %) Data Migration 3 1 (2.381 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (2.381 %) SEO 3 1 (2.381 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 6 (14.29 %) C# 2 5 (11.90 %) VB.NET 3 4 (9.524 %) JavaScript 4 3 (7.143 %) PHP 5 2 (4.762 %) C 5 2 (4.762 %) Java 6 1 (2.381 %) C++ 6 1 (2.381 %) SQL 6 1 (2.381 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (2.381 %) Python
Qualifications 1 1 (2.381 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (2.381 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 1 (2.381 %) ECDL 1 1 (2.381 %) Degree	System Software 1 1 (2.381 %) Active Directory 1 1 (2.381 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 1 1 (2.381 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 1 (2.381 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 3 (7.143 %) Microsoft 2 2 (4.762 %) Oracle 3 1 (2.381 %) SAP 3 1 (2.381 %) Lotus 3 1 (2.381 %) Primavera 3 1 (2.381 %) VMware