Birmingham Systems Analysis Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Systems 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 Systems Analysis over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Systems Analysis
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chatham Cheshire City of London Coventry Darlington Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Havant Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Knutsford Leamington Spa Leeds Liverpool Livingston London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	50	66
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	2	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.478 %	0.780 %
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	£364	£349
% change on same period last year	+4.41 %
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	£31.19	£30.72
% change on same period last year	+1.52 %
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 %
Systems 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 21 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (42.86 %) Finance 1 3 (42.86 %) Business Analysis 1 3 (42.86 %) ASP 2 2 (28.57 %) SQL 2 2 (28.57 %) Equities 2 2 (28.57 %) Retail 3 1 (14.29 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (14.29 %) Degree 3 1 (14.29 %) WFM 3 1 (14.29 %) Use Case 3 1 (14.29 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (14.29 %) Change Management 3 1 (14.29 %) AS400 3 1 (14.29 %) .NET 3 1 (14.29 %) Crystal Reports

3 1 (14.29 %) SAP 3 1 (14.29 %) ITIL 3 1 (14.29 %) BPR 3 1 (14.29 %) C# 3 1 (14.29 %) C++ 3 1 (14.29 %) RPG

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 3 (42.86 %) ASP 2 1 (14.29 %) .NET	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (14.29 %) Crystal Reports
General 1 3 (42.86 %) Finance 2 2 (28.57 %) Retail 3 1 (14.29 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 6 (85.71 %) Analyst 2 4 (57.14 %) Business Analyst 3 2 (28.57 %) Programmer 3 2 (28.57 %) Systems Analyst 4 1 (14.29 %) Business Process Analyst 4 1 (14.29 %) Analyst Programmer 4 1 (14.29 %) Process Analyst 4 1 (14.29 %) RPG Programmer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (28.57 %) Equities 2 1 (14.29 %) AS400	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (42.86 %) Business Analysis 2 1 (14.29 %) WFM 2 1 (14.29 %) Use Case 2 1 (14.29 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (14.29 %) ITIL 2 1 (14.29 %) BPR 2 1 (14.29 %) Change Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (28.57 %) SQL 2 1 (14.29 %) C# 2 1 (14.29 %) C++ 2 1 (14.29 %) RPG	Qualifications 1 1 (14.29 %) Degree
Vendors 1 1 (14.29 %) SAP