The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term WURFL in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WURFL over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the West Midlands region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless Universal Resource File (WURFL)
Rank 92 98 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs citing WURFL 3 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.184% 0.223% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.056% 1.370% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 0
Average daily rate £330 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 -
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
284 365 308
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 17.39% 16.28% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 168 124
Average daily rate £325 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 33 41
Average hourly rate £28.50 £16.63 £21.79
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+71.42% -23.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.80 £10.82 £10.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.80 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
WURFL
England

WURFL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WURFL across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

West Midlands WURFL Jobs Demand Trend

WURFL
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands WURFL Daily Rate Trend

WURFL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WURFL within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Staffordshire +13 3 £330 +1.53%
WURFL
England

WURFL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing WURFL 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 WURFL.

1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XSLT
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) XHTML
1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 3 (100.00%) SEO
1 3 (100.00%) Games
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Document Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) AccuRev
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS

WURFL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing WURFL 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 WURFL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XSLT
1 3 (100.00%) XHTML
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
1 3 (100.00%) CSS3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Web Developer
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Web Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (100.00%) BlackBerry OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
1 3 (100.00%) SEO
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Document Management
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) AccuRev