West Midlands Management Information System Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Management Information Systems skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Management Information System over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Management Information Systems
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cornwall Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Gloucester Gloucestershire Guernsey Guildford Hackney Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hertfordshire Huntingdon Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Stafford Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	91	101
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	25	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	4.401 %	5.689 %
Daily rates quoted	8	4
Average minimum daily rate	£364	£440
Average daily rate	£395	£465
% change on same period last year	-15.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£426	£490
UK excluding London average daily rate	£415	£395
% change on same period last year	+5.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.00	£15.18
Average hourly rate	£15.00	£15.73
% change on same period last year	-4.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.00	£16.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.49	£22.77
% change on same period last year	-18.78 %
Miscellaneous West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	568	457
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.895 %	0.490 %
Daily rates quoted	167	80
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£288
Average daily rate	£339	£319
% change on same period last year	+6.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£353	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£343
% change on same period last year	+0.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	99	99
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.57	£21.02
Average hourly rate	£27.13	£23.06
% change on same period last year	+17.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.70	£25.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.46	£25.58
% change on same period last year	-0.46 %
Management Information System 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.

Management Information System
Demand Trend

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

Management Information System
Daily Rate Trend

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

Management Information System
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Management Information System across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

Management Information System
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Management Information System
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Management Information System across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

Management Information System
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Management Information System 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
Staffordshire	-4	6	£367	-
Birmingham	+15	5	-	-
Coventry	-1	3	£360	-20.00 %
Shropshire	+6	2	-	-
Warwickshire	+17	1	-	-

Management Information System England

Management Information System
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Management Information System 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 Management Information System.

1 16 (35.56 %) Information Security 2 12 (26.67 %) Information Management 3 10 (22.22 %) Finance 4 8 (17.78 %) Education 4 8 (17.78 %) Project Management 4 8 (17.78 %) .NET 4 8 (17.78 %) Government 5 6 (13.33 %) Agile Software Development 5 6 (13.33 %) Data Management 5 6 (13.33 %) Data Protection 5 6 (13.33 %) Data Modelling 6 5 (11.11 %) CISSP 7 4 (8.889 %) PRINCE2 7 4 (8.889 %) Oracle 7 4 (8.889 %) SQL Server

7 4 (8.889 %) HTML 7 4 (8.889 %) Java 7 4 (8.889 %) Disaster Recovery 7 4 (8.889 %) Freedom of Information 7 4 (8.889 %) PKI 7 4 (8.889 %) Legal 7 4 (8.889 %) Business Continuity 7 4 (8.889 %) Programme Management 8 3 (6.667 %) Risk Assessment 8 3 (6.667 %) VLE 8 3 (6.667 %) Health 8 3 (6.667 %) Content Management 8 3 (6.667 %) Datawarehouse 8 3 (6.667 %) Intranet 8 3 (6.667 %) SQL

Management Information System
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Management Information System 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 Management Information System. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (17.78 %) .NET 2 4 (8.889 %) HTML 3 2 (4.444 %) ASP 3 2 (4.444 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (2.222 %) CSS 4 1 (2.222 %) XML 4 1 (2.222 %) ODBC 4 1 (2.222 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 2 (4.444 %) ColdFusion 1 2 (4.444 %) CMS 1 2 (4.444 %) LiveLink 2 1 (2.222 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 3 (6.667 %) MS Excel 2 2 (4.444 %) MS Project 3 1 (2.222 %) MS Office 3 1 (2.222 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 3 (6.667 %) Intranet 2 1 (2.222 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (8.889 %) SQL Server 2 3 (6.667 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (2.222 %) Data Mining 3 1 (2.222 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (2.222 %) BusinessObjects 3 1 (2.222 %) Oracle OWB 3 1 (2.222 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 1 (2.222 %) Oracle 11g 3 1 (2.222 %) Oracle Reports 3 1 (2.222 %) MS Access 3 1 (2.222 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 3 (6.667 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (2.222 %) Flash
General 1 10 (22.22 %) Finance 2 8 (17.78 %) Education 2 8 (17.78 %) Government 3 4 (8.889 %) Legal 4 3 (6.667 %) Health 5 2 (4.444 %) Electric 6 1 (2.222 %) Retail 6 1 (2.222 %) Marketing 6 1 (2.222 %) Auditing	Job Titles 1 10 (22.22 %) Consultant 2 7 (15.56 %) Information Manager 3 6 (13.33 %) Analyst 3 6 (13.33 %) Security Consultant 4 4 (8.889 %) Business Analyst 4 4 (8.889 %) CLAS Consultant 5 3 (6.667 %) Developer 5 3 (6.667 %) Project Manager 5 3 (6.667 %) Project Leader 6 2 (4.444 %) Business Systems Analyst 6 2 (4.444 %) Systems Analyst 6 2 (4.444 %) Programmer 6 2 (4.444 %) Analyst Programmer 7 1 (2.222 %) Systems Support 7 1 (2.222 %) Applications Developer 7 1 (2.222 %) Senior Developer 7 1 (2.222 %) Information Security Consultant 7 1 (2.222 %) Senior Applications Developer 7 1 (2.222 %) Project Officer 7 1 (2.222 %) Database Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 4 (8.889 %) Freedom of Information 1 4 (8.889 %) PKI 2 3 (6.667 %) VLE 3 2 (4.444 %) NHS 4 1 (2.222 %) Statistics 4 1 (2.222 %) Data Protection Act	Operating Systems 1 3 (6.667 %) UNIX 1 3 (6.667 %) Windows 2 1 (2.222 %) Linux 2 1 (2.222 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (35.56 %) Information Security 2 12 (26.67 %) Information Management 3 8 (17.78 %) Project Management 4 6 (13.33 %) Data Modelling 4 6 (13.33 %) Agile Software Development 4 6 (13.33 %) Data Management 4 6 (13.33 %) Data Protection 5 4 (8.889 %) Programme Management 5 4 (8.889 %) Business Continuity 5 4 (8.889 %) PRINCE2 5 4 (8.889 %) Disaster Recovery 6 3 (6.667 %) Risk Assessment 6 3 (6.667 %) Content Management 7 2 (4.444 %) Data Analysis 7 2 (4.444 %) Systems Analysis 7 2 (4.444 %) Business Analysis 7 2 (4.444 %) Identity Management 7 2 (4.444 %) Data Security 7 2 (4.444 %) Asset Management 8 1 (2.222 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 4 (8.889 %) Java 2 3 (6.667 %) SQL 3 1 (2.222 %) VB
Qualifications 1 5 (11.11 %) CISSP 2 2 (4.444 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (4.444 %) A+ Certification 2 2 (4.444 %) MCSA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.444 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 2 (4.444 %) PCI DSS 2 1 (2.222 %) QA
Vendors 1 4 (8.889 %) Oracle 2 3 (6.667 %) Microsoft 3 1 (2.222 %) Novell 3 1 (2.222 %) Red Hat 3 1 (2.222 %) Open Text 3 1 (2.222 %) RedDot 3 1 (2.222 %) Business Objects