Public Sector Relocation

Key Facts

• Birmingham has the most direct rail connections to any other city in the UK

  • Birmingham has the best access to London, only 80 minutes away by rail with trains every 20 minutes.*
  • Birmingham International Airport offers more than 60 direct destinations worldwide, and is also one of the UK's fastest growing airports, having handled over 9.6 million passengers in 2008.

• Birmingham has the largest Professional and Financial services sector outside London

  • There are 600 professional and financial services firms based in Birmingham, employing more than 100,000 people and generating £3.7bn a year
  • Access to a highly skilled workforce with 80,000 people with advanced IT skills, 57,000 with professional qualifications/degrees and 30,000 people with specialist accounting and other technical skills
  • One of the top three cities in the UK for both locating a business and ease of access to markets. Cushman and Wakefield UK City Monitor 2008
    
    

• Birmingham can cut your operating costs by nearly half   

  • Birmingham has an unrivalled portfolio of sustainable office space.
  • The average grade A workstation cost is over 40% cheaper in Birmingham compared with London
  • In addition to a comprehensive fibre optic network, Birmingham is at the forefront of the roll out of WiFi service.
  • The telecommunications network is entirely digital. The City is broadband enabled and other key network services such as MPLS, SDH and ATM Technology are widely available.  
    
                                                   

• Birmingham has a highly skilled workforce at 25% lower labour costs than London 

  • Birmingham has the largest workforce at 480,000 people.*
  • Nearly 19,000 students graduate each year from the City's three universities and over 46,000 studentsgraduate each year from the region's universities.
  • Over 63,000 students are enrolled within Birmingham's 3 universities.
  • More than 113,000 people in the city are qualified to degree level or higher.
  • 6.7 million people live withi n a 1 hour drive of the city centre.
  • Birmingham is Europe's youngest major city with 37% of the population under 25.
    
    

•  Birmingham's house prices are, on average, 40% lower than London

  • With house prices at an average of 40% lower than London you will have more time to spend on your favourite pastimes. Why not play golf at the Belfry, Ryder Cup Venue, watch test Cricket at Edgbaston, listen to the world class City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at the Symphony Hall or see the Birmingham Royal Ballet. 

To view the latest Next Stop Birmingham brochure click here.

* Compared to Manchester, Leeds and Bristol

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