Birmingham Business Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Business Analyst role in IT contracts within the Birmingham region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Analyst
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clevedon Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grimsby Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Jersey Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	17
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	35	67
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.046 %	0.067 %
As % of the category below	5.368 %	6.893 %
Daily rates quoted	9	22
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£355
Average daily rate	£348	£372
% change on same period last year	-6.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£373	£381
% change on same period last year	-2.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.25	£26.25
Average hourly rate	£38.50	£26.25
% change on same period last year	+46.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.75	£26.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.95	£33.14
% change on same period last year	-3.56 %
Job Titles Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	652	972
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.860 %	0.968 %
Daily rates quoted	161	236
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£329
Average daily rate	£323	£357
% change on same period last year	-9.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	61	148
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.50	£15.86
Average hourly rate	£22.09	£16.85
% change on same period last year	+31.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.68	£17.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Business Analyst 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Analyst across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Business Analyst across the Birmingham region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analyst across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analyst across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Business Analyst in their job title 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 with Business Analyst in their job title.

1 23 (22.55 %) Business Analysis 2 19 (18.63 %) Government 3 11 (10.78 %) IBM 4 9 (8.824 %) Use Case 5 7 (6.863 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 7 (6.863 %) Data Modelling 5 7 (6.863 %) Security Cleared 6 6 (5.882 %) Datawarehouse 6 6 (5.882 %) Project Management 6 6 (5.882 %) EDRMS 6 6 (5.882 %) Data Migration 6 6 (5.882 %) GAP Analysis 6 6 (5.882 %) Migration 6 6 (5.882 %) Retail 7 5 (4.902 %) Banking

7 5 (4.902 %) General Ledger 7 5 (4.902 %) Finance 7 5 (4.902 %) Pensions 7 5 (4.902 %) Agresso 7 5 (4.902 %) BPR 7 5 (4.902 %) ClearCase 7 5 (4.902 %) MS Office 7 5 (4.902 %) UML 8 4 (3.922 %) SAP 8 4 (3.922 %) Oracle 8 4 (3.922 %) MS Excel 8 4 (3.922 %) SSADM 8 4 (3.922 %) Change Management 8 4 (3.922 %) MS Visio 8 4 (3.922 %) PRINCE

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Business Analyst in their job title 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 with Business Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (0.980 %) WebSphere 1 1 (0.980 %) ASP 1 1 (0.980 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 1 (0.980 %) SharePoint Server 2007 1 1 (0.980 %) SharePoint Portal Server 1 1 (0.980 %) Apache 1 1 (0.980 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 5 (4.902 %) MS Office 2 4 (3.922 %) MS Excel 2 4 (3.922 %) MS Visio 3 1 (0.980 %) CA Clarity 3 1 (0.980 %) InfoPath 3 1 (0.980 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 2 (1.961 %) SAP SD 2 1 (0.980 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (0.980 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 2 (1.961 %) Intranet 2 1 (0.980 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (5.882 %) Datawarehouse 1 6 (5.882 %) EDRMS 2 3 (2.941 %) BusinessObjects 2 3 (2.941 %) SQL Server 2 3 (2.941 %) Crystal Reports 3 2 (1.961 %) Data Mining 4 1 (0.980 %) SAP BW
Development Applications 1 5 (4.902 %) ClearCase 2 3 (2.941 %) ERwin 2 3 (2.941 %) RequisitePro	General 1 19 (18.63 %) Government 2 6 (5.882 %) Retail 3 5 (4.902 %) Banking 3 5 (4.902 %) General Ledger 3 5 (4.902 %) Finance 3 5 (4.902 %) Pensions 4 4 (3.922 %) Construction 5 3 (2.941 %) Insurance 5 3 (2.941 %) Manufacturing 5 3 (2.941 %) International Banking 6 1 (0.980 %) Telecoms 6 1 (0.980 %) Automotive 6 1 (0.980 %) Health
Miscellaneous 1 4 (3.922 %) Data Integration 2 2 (1.961 %) EPoS 2 2 (1.961 %) NHS 2 2 (1.961 %) Management Information System 3 1 (0.980 %) PACS 3 1 (0.980 %) AS400 3 1 (0.980 %) Equities 3 1 (0.980 %) PMI 3 1 (0.980 %) NPfIT	Operating Systems 1 1 (0.980 %) VMS 1 1 (0.980 %) OpenVMS 1 1 (0.980 %) UNIX 1 1 (0.980 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (22.55 %) Business Analysis 2 9 (8.824 %) Use Case 3 7 (6.863 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 7 (6.863 %) Data Modelling 3 7 (6.863 %) Security Cleared 4 6 (5.882 %) Project Management 4 6 (5.882 %) Data Migration 4 6 (5.882 %) GAP Analysis 4 6 (5.882 %) Migration 5 5 (4.902 %) BPR 5 5 (4.902 %) UML 6 4 (3.922 %) SSADM 6 4 (3.922 %) Change Management 6 4 (3.922 %) PRINCE 6 4 (3.922 %) Logistics 6 4 (3.922 %) Software Engineering 6 4 (3.922 %) Data Mapping 7 3 (2.941 %) Systems Analysis 7 3 (2.941 %) CRM 8 2 (1.961 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 2 (1.961 %) Java 1 2 (1.961 %) SQL 2 1 (0.980 %) DCL 2 1 (0.980 %) PowerHouse 2 1 (0.980 %) VB 2 1 (0.980 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 1 (0.980 %) Degree 1 1 (0.980 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.980 %) QA
Vendors 1 11 (10.78 %) IBM 2 5 (4.902 %) Agresso 3 4 (3.922 %) SAP 3 4 (3.922 %) Oracle 4 3 (2.941 %) CA 4 3 (2.941 %) Business Objects 5 2 (1.961 %) Microsoft 6 1 (0.980 %) Lotus 6 1 (0.980 %) Siebel