Birmingham SAS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for SAS System skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SAS over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

SAS System
Location Alderley Edge Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Croydon Devon East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Exeter Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent Knutsford Leeds London Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	68
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching contract IT job ads	7	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	7.865 %	1.036 %
Daily rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum daily rate	£400	-
Average daily rate	£418	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£435	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.21 %
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	£21.86	£37.53
% change on same period last year	-41.76 %
Application Platforms Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	89	193
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.140 %	0.207 %
Daily rates quoted	35	34
Average minimum daily rate	£376	£338
Average daily rate	£403	£362
% change on same period last year	+11.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£430	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£340
% change on same period last year	+3.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	51
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.46	£17.60
Average hourly rate	£19.37	£18.66
% change on same period last year	+3.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.28	£19.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.01	£23.80
% change on same period last year	+0.89 %
SAS 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.

SAS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SAS across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

SAS
Daily Rate Trend

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

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram

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

SAS
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing SAS 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 SAS.

1 5 (62.50 %) Banking 2 4 (50.00 %) Finance 3 2 (25.00 %) Retail 3 2 (25.00 %) Data Analysis 3 2 (25.00 %) Insurance 3 2 (25.00 %) Credit Risk 3 2 (25.00 %) Retail Banking 3 2 (25.00 %) MS Excel 4 1 (12.50 %) MS Access 4 1 (12.50 %) Cognos 4 1 (12.50 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 4 1 (12.50 %) BusinessObjects 4 1 (12.50 %) RACF 4 1 (12.50 %) Project Management

4 1 (12.50 %) Mainframe 4 1 (12.50 %) AS400 4 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL 4 1 (12.50 %) VBA 4 1 (12.50 %) Business Objects 4 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 4 1 (12.50 %) Auditing 4 1 (12.50 %) Stress Testing 4 1 (12.50 %) Statistics 4 1 (12.50 %) Health

SAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing SAS 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 SAS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 2 (25.00 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Access 1 1 (12.50 %) BusinessObjects
General 1 5 (62.50 %) Banking 2 4 (50.00 %) Finance 3 2 (25.00 %) Retail 3 2 (25.00 %) Insurance 3 2 (25.00 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (12.50 %) Auditing 4 1 (12.50 %) Health 4 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 6 (75.00 %) Analyst 2 5 (62.50 %) Business Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Systems Support 3 1 (12.50 %) Technical Support 3 1 (12.50 %) Capacity Planner 3 1 (12.50 %) Information Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Credit Risk Business Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) SAS Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Financial Business Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Management Information Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Banking Business Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Credit Risk Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Financial Services Business Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 2 (25.00 %) Credit Risk 2 1 (12.50 %) Mainframe 2 1 (12.50 %) AS400 2 1 (12.50 %) Statistics	Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) Data Analysis 2 1 (12.50 %) Stress Testing 2 1 (12.50 %) Business Intelligence 2 1 (12.50 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL 1 1 (12.50 %) VBA
System Software 1 1 (12.50 %) RACF	Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Business Objects 1 1 (12.50 %) Cognos 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft