Birmingham Functional Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Functional 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 Functional Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Functional Analyst
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Docklands, London Dunfermline England Fife Hampshire London Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Reading Scotland Solihull South East South West Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex Wiltshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	50	65
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	1	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.155 %	0.209 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£367
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£45.00	£29.17
% change on same period last year	+54.28 %
Job Titles Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	645	957
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.860 %	0.955 %
Daily rates quoted	160	236
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£331
Average daily rate	£329	£362
% change on same period last year	-9.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£392
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	68	141
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.69	£15.68
Average hourly rate	£23.17	£16.64
% change on same period last year	+39.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.66	£17.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
Functional 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.

Functional Analyst
Demand Trend

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

Functional Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Functional Analyst
Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Functional 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 Functional Analyst in their job title.

1 2 (66.67 %) Java 1 2 (66.67 %) UML 1 2 (66.67 %) Use Case 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle

Functional Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Functional 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 Functional Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) UML 1 2 (66.67 %) Use Case	Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) Java
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle