West Midlands Windows Mobile Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Mobile skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Mobile over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Mobile
Location Banbury Basingstoke Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Dorset East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Lancashire Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West Oxfordshire Poole Rotherham Scotland Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walton-on-Thames West Midlands West Yorkshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	117	128
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	5	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	1.114 %	0.279 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£250
Average daily rate	£370	£250
% change on same period last year	+48.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£390	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£243
% change on same period last year	+34.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.67	-
Average hourly rate	£14.17	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.67	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.56	£33.18
% change on same period last year	-29.01 %
Operating Systems West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	449	717
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.598 %	0.725 %
Daily rates quoted	68	117
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£266
Average daily rate	£312	£276
% change on same period last year	+12.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£287
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	109	189
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.97	£21.68
Average hourly rate	£17.91	£23.55
% change on same period last year	-23.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.84	£25.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Windows Mobile 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.

Windows Mobile
Demand Trend

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

Windows Mobile
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows Mobile
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows Mobile
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Windows Mobile
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Mobile 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
Staffordshire	-	4	£370	-

Windows Mobile England

Windows Mobile
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 10 (90.91 %) Windows 2 6 (54.55 %) .NET 3 5 (45.45 %) SQL 3 5 (45.45 %) PDA 4 4 (36.36 %) VB.NET 4 4 (36.36 %) MySQL 5 2 (18.18 %) Wireless 5 2 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (18.18 %) C# 5 2 (18.18 %) VB 5 2 (18.18 %) Bluetooth 6 1 (9.091 %) GPRS 6 1 (9.091 %) Symbian 6 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 1 (9.091 %) Windows CE

6 1 (9.091 %) Palm OS 6 1 (9.091 %) Oracle 6 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 6 1 (9.091 %) Visual Studio 6 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (9.091 %) XML 6 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (9.091 %) Internet 6 1 (9.091 %) 3G 6 1 (9.091 %) Blackberry 6 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (9.091 %) Telecoms 6 1 (9.091 %) Government 6 1 (9.091 %) TETRA 6 1 (9.091 %) Wi-Fi

Windows Mobile
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 6 (54.55 %) .NET 2 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (9.091 %) XML 2 1 (9.091 %) .NET Framework	Communications & Networking 1 2 (18.18 %) Bluetooth 1 2 (18.18 %) Wireless 2 1 (9.091 %) TETRA 2 1 (9.091 %) GPRS 2 1 (9.091 %) Internet 2 1 (9.091 %) 3G 2 1 (9.091 %) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (36.36 %) MySQL 2 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) Visual Studio
General 1 1 (9.091 %) Telecoms 1 1 (9.091 %) Government	Job Titles 1 6 (54.55 %) Developer 2 4 (36.36 %) .NET Developer 3 3 (27.27 %) Technical Support 3 3 (27.27 %) VB.NET Developer 4 2 (18.18 %) Technical Analyst 4 2 (18.18 %) Technical Support Analyst 4 2 (18.18 %) Analyst 4 2 (18.18 %) Support Analyst 5 1 (9.091 %) SQL Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) Implementation Manager 5 1 (9.091 %) Implementation Project Manager 5 1 (9.091 %) Technical Lead 5 1 (9.091 %) C# Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 5 (45.45 %) PDA 2 1 (9.091 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 10 (90.91 %) Windows 2 2 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (9.091 %) Windows CE 3 1 (9.091 %) Palm OS
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (9.091 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 5 (45.45 %) SQL 2 4 (36.36 %) VB.NET 3 2 (18.18 %) C# 3 2 (18.18 %) VB
Qualifications 1 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 1 (9.091 %) Degree	Vendors 1 1 (9.091 %) Oracle 1 1 (9.091 %) Symbian