West Midlands Multimedia Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Multimedia' 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 Multimedia over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Avon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brentford Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Crawley Docklands, London Dorset Durham East of England Egham England Essex Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Lancashire London Manchester Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Reading Runcorn South Coast South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall West Midlands West Sussex Wiltshire Wokingham	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	111	130
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	6	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.551 %	0.181 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£450	-
Average daily rate	£450	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£450	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£234
% change on same period last year	+42.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£8.33	-
Average hourly rate	£8.33	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£8.33	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.86	£35.73
% change on same period last year	-27.62 %
General West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1088	1106
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.532 %	1.118 %
Daily rates quoted	343	284
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£340
Average daily rate	£371	£365
% change on same period last year	+1.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£395	£391
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	93	117
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.01	£23.19
Average hourly rate	£25.57	£24.88
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.12	£26.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.08	£26.78
% change on same period last year	+4.82 %
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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 Multimedia 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 Multimedia across the West Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Multimedia 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 Multimedia across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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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 Multimedia within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Herefordshire	-	2	-	-
Birmingham	+19	2	£450	-
Staffordshire	-	1	-	-
Walsall	-	1	-	-

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Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Multimedia 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 Multimedia.

1 3 (37.50 %) Flash 2 2 (25.00 %) JavaScript 2 2 (25.00 %) ActionScript 2 2 (25.00 %) Photoshop 2 2 (25.00 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (12.50 %) Fireworks 3 1 (12.50 %) C 3 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 3 1 (12.50 %) Automotive 3 1 (12.50 %) Health 3 1 (12.50 %) InfoPath 3 1 (12.50 %) Graphic Design 3 1 (12.50 %) Adobe Flex 3 1 (12.50 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (12.50 %) IIS

3 1 (12.50 %) ASP 3 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (12.50 %) CSS 3 1 (12.50 %) OOP 3 1 (12.50 %) OO 3 1 (12.50 %) Apache 3 1 (12.50 %) .NET 3 1 (12.50 %) MySQL 3 1 (12.50 %) PHP 3 1 (12.50 %) XHTML 3 1 (12.50 %) SharePoint 3 1 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (12.50 %) ISO9001

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Multimedia 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 Multimedia. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (12.50 %) .NET 1 1 (12.50 %) ASP 1 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (12.50 %) CSS 1 1 (12.50 %) XHTML 1 1 (12.50 %) Adobe Flex	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) IIS 1 1 (12.50 %) Apache 1 1 (12.50 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 2 (25.00 %) Photoshop 2 1 (12.50 %) Fireworks 2 1 (12.50 %) InfoPath	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) Flash 2 2 (25.00 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 1 1 (12.50 %) Automotive 1 1 (12.50 %) Health 1 1 (12.50 %) Graphic Design
Job Titles 1 2 (25.00 %) Developer 1 2 (25.00 %) 1st Line Support 2 1 (12.50 %) Web Designer 2 1 (12.50 %) Flash Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Helpdesk Advisor 2 1 (12.50 %) Junior Web Designer 2 1 (12.50 %) 1st Line Support Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Web Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Junior	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) OOP 1 1 (12.50 %) OO 1 1 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 1 1 (12.50 %) Test Scripting
Programming Languages 1 2 (25.00 %) JavaScript 1 2 (25.00 %) ActionScript 2 1 (12.50 %) C 2 1 (12.50 %) PHP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) ISO9001