Birmingham Business Analysis Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Analysis skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Analysis over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Analysis
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Andover Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Clevedon Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staines Stevenage Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	53
Rank change on same period last year	+24
Matching contract IT job ads	23	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	5.502 %	3.314 %
Daily rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£365
Average daily rate	£388	£380
% change on same period last year	+1.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£395
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£369
% change on same period last year	+4.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£24.50
Average hourly rate	-	£24.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£24.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.45	£29.85
% change on same period last year	-1.33 %
Processes & Methodologies Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	418	513
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.557 %	0.519 %
Daily rates quoted	101	122
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£352
Average daily rate	£335	£369
% change on same period last year	-9.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£385
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	48
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.17	£16.71
Average hourly rate	£29.12	£18.34
% change on same period last year	+58.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.06	£19.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Business Analysis West Midlands

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.

Business Analysis
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Analysis across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Business Analysis across the Birmingham region.

Business Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Business Analysis across the Birmingham region.

Business Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Business Analysis 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 Business Analysis.

1 12 (24.49 %) Government 2 9 (18.37 %) Project Management 3 8 (16.33 %) Data Modelling 3 8 (16.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 5 (10.20 %) Finance 4 5 (10.20 %) Retail 4 5 (10.20 %) UML 4 5 (10.20 %) Crystal Reports 4 5 (10.20 %) Pensions 4 5 (10.20 %) Use Case 5 4 (8.163 %) VB6 5 4 (8.163 %) IBM 5 4 (8.163 %) SQL 5 4 (8.163 %) VB 5 4 (8.163 %) SAP

5 4 (8.163 %) SQL Server 5 4 (8.163 %) SSADM 5 4 (8.163 %) Datawarehouse 6 3 (6.122 %) Manufacturing 6 3 (6.122 %) PRINCE2 6 3 (6.122 %) BPR 6 3 (6.122 %) Systems Analysis 6 3 (6.122 %) Integration Testing 6 3 (6.122 %) Test Scripting 7 2 (4.082 %) Dimensional Modelling 7 2 (4.082 %) Document Management 7 2 (4.082 %) General Ledger 7 2 (4.082 %) e-GIF 7 2 (4.082 %) Navision 7 2 (4.082 %) EDRMS

Business Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Business Analysis 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 Business Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (4.082 %) ASP	Applications 1 1 (2.041 %) MS Visio
Business Applications 1 2 (4.082 %) Navision 2 1 (2.041 %) SAP FI 2 1 (2.041 %) SAP FI/CO 2 1 (2.041 %) SAP CO	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (10.20 %) Crystal Reports 2 4 (8.163 %) Datawarehouse 2 4 (8.163 %) SQL Server 3 2 (4.082 %) EDRMS 3 2 (4.082 %) Oracle OWB 4 1 (2.041 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (2.041 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 2 (4.082 %) ClearCase	General 1 12 (24.49 %) Government 2 5 (10.20 %) Finance 2 5 (10.20 %) Retail 2 5 (10.20 %) Pensions 3 3 (6.122 %) Manufacturing 4 2 (4.082 %) Construction 4 2 (4.082 %) General Ledger 5 1 (2.041 %) Insurance 5 1 (2.041 %) Local Government 5 1 (2.041 %) Billing 5 1 (2.041 %) Telecoms 5 1 (2.041 %) Health 5 1 (2.041 %) Law 5 1 (2.041 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 40 (81.63 %) Analyst 2 30 (61.22 %) Business Analyst 3 6 (12.24 %) Consultant 4 5 (10.20 %) Systems Analyst 5 4 (8.163 %) Developer 5 4 (8.163 %) Analyst Programmer 5 4 (8.163 %) Programmer 5 4 (8.163 %) VB Developer 5 4 (8.163 %) Analyst Developer 5 4 (8.163 %) SQL Developer 5 4 (8.163 %) IT Business Analyst 5 4 (8.163 %) VB6 Developer 5 4 (8.163 %) VB Analyst Programmer 5 4 (8.163 %) VB6 Analyst Programmer 6 3 (6.122 %) Junior Analyst 6 3 (6.122 %) Junior Business Analyst 6 3 (6.122 %) Junior 6 3 (6.122 %) Business Systems Analyst 7 2 (4.082 %) Business Process Analyst 7 2 (4.082 %) Process Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.082 %) Equities
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (18.37 %) Project Management 2 8 (16.33 %) Data Modelling 2 8 (16.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 5 (10.20 %) Use Case 3 5 (10.20 %) UML 4 4 (8.163 %) SSADM 5 3 (6.122 %) PRINCE2 5 3 (6.122 %) BPR 5 3 (6.122 %) Systems Analysis 5 3 (6.122 %) Integration Testing 5 3 (6.122 %) Test Scripting 6 2 (4.082 %) Dimensional Modelling 6 2 (4.082 %) Document Management 6 2 (4.082 %) GAP Analysis 6 2 (4.082 %) ERP 6 2 (4.082 %) Business Intelligence 6 2 (4.082 %) e-GIF 7 1 (2.041 %) Six Sigma 7 1 (2.041 %) CRM 7 1 (2.041 %) Workflow	Programming Languages 1 4 (8.163 %) SQL 1 4 (8.163 %) VB 1 4 (8.163 %) VB6
Vendors 1 4 (8.163 %) SAP 1 4 (8.163 %) IBM 2 2 (4.082 %) Oracle 3 1 (2.041 %) Business Objects 3 1 (2.041 %) Siebel