West Midlands XSI Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Softimage|XSI skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XSI over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Softimage|XSI
Location England London UK West Midlands	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
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Applications West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	502	416
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.662 %	0.414 %
Daily rates quoted	123	92
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£249
Average daily rate	£307	£261
% change on same period last year	+17.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£272
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£284
% change on same period last year	+4.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	93	120
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.56	£14.69
Average hourly rate	£15.95	£15.79
% change on same period last year	+1.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.34	£16.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.61	£19.30
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
XSI 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.

XSI
Demand Trend

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

XSI
Top 3 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing XSI 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 XSI.

1 1 (100.00 %) C++ 1 1 (100.00 %) OpenGL 1 1 (100.00 %) DirectX

XSI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 1 (100.00 %) OpenGL 1 1 (100.00 %) DirectX	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Software Engineer
Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) C++