Bedfordshire Data Analysis Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Data Analysis skills within the Bedfordshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Analysis over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Stirling Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	35
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching contract IT job ads	6	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	8.824 %	1.163 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£200
Average daily rate	-	£260
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£329
% change on same period last year	+12.53 %
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	£22.50	£23.14
% change on same period last year	-2.78 %
Processes & Methodologies Bedfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	68	172
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.090 %	0.171 %
Daily rates quoted	21	24
Average minimum daily rate	£354	£290
Average daily rate	£372	£307
% change on same period last year	+21.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£390	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£30.50
Average hourly rate	£23.17	£30.94
% change on same period last year	-25.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.33	£31.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.34	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
Data Analysis East of England

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.

Data Analysis
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Data Analysis across the Bedfordshire 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 Data Analysis across the Bedfordshire 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 Data Analysis across the Bedfordshire region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analysis within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Dunstable	-	2	-	-

Data Analysis East of England

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Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Data 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 Data Analysis.

1 7 (100.00 %) Data Modelling 2 6 (85.71 %) Oracle 2 6 (85.71 %) Data Management 2 6 (85.71 %) Release Management 2 6 (85.71 %) Reference Data 3 5 (71.43 %) Finance 4 2 (28.57 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (14.29 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 1 (14.29 %) Oracle 10g

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Data 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 Data Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (85.71 %) Reference Data 2 1 (14.29 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (14.29 %) Oracle 10g	General 1 5 (71.43 %) Finance 2 2 (28.57 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 6 (85.71 %) Analyst 1 6 (85.71 %) Data Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Data Architect 2 1 (14.29 %) Architect	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (100.00 %) Data Modelling 2 6 (85.71 %) Data Management 2 6 (85.71 %) Release Management
Vendors 1 6 (85.71 %) Oracle