Berkshire Business Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Business Analyst role in IT contracts within the Berkshire 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 Business Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Analyst
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clevedon Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grimsby Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Market Drayton Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	48
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching contract IT job ads	207	143
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.276 %	0.143 %
As % of the category below	6.546 %	3.204 %
Daily rates quoted	60	63
Average minimum daily rate	£357	£340
Average daily rate	£378	£354
% change on same period last year	+6.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£398	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£374	£383
% change on same period last year	-2.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£43.50	-
Average hourly rate	£44.25	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.21	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-5.64 %
Job Titles Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	3162	4463
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.215 %	4.452 %
Daily rates quoted	801	1426
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£352
Average daily rate	£366	£369
% change on same period last year	-0.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£387
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	228	443
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.03	£28.20
Average hourly rate	£24.65	£29.62
% change on same period last year	-16.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.27	£31.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
Business Analyst South East

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.

Business Analyst
Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analyst across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Business Analyst across the Berkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analyst across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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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 Business Analyst within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 29 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
Reading	+4	70	£373	+5.45 %
Windsor	-	7	£358	-
Newbury	+14	4	£301	-6.09 %
Bracknell	+18	4	£361	-9.68 %
Slough	-8	3	£340	-9.33 %
Maidenhead	+14	2	£350	-30.00 %
Wokingham	-	1	£350	-

Business Analyst South East

Business Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 112 (31.82 %) Finance 2 62 (17.61 %) Business Analysis 3 57 (16.19 %) SAP 4 51 (14.49 %) Pensions 5 46 (13.07 %) SAP HR 6 45 (12.78 %) Telecoms 7 27 (7.670 %) Oracle 8 26 (7.386 %) MS Visio 9 25 (7.102 %) Government 9 25 (7.102 %) Migration 10 24 (6.818 %) MS Office 10 24 (6.818 %) PRINCE2 11 21 (5.966 %) UML 12 19 (5.398 %) Service Management 13 18 (5.114 %) Retail

14 17 (4.830 %) Data Analysis 14 17 (4.830 %) Use Case 14 17 (4.830 %) OO 14 17 (4.830 %) ITIL 14 17 (4.830 %) Microsoft 15 16 (4.545 %) Requirements Analysis 16 15 (4.261 %) Billing 16 15 (4.261 %) MS Excel 17 14 (3.977 %) Project Management 17 14 (3.977 %) MS PowerPoint 18 13 (3.693 %) Basel II 19 12 (3.409 %) GIS 19 12 (3.409 %) MS Project 19 12 (3.409 %) ERP 20 11 (3.125 %) BSS

Business Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 8 (2.273 %) .NET 2 4 (1.136 %) WebSphere 3 2 (0.568 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (0.284 %) CSS 4 1 (0.284 %) SOAP 4 1 (0.284 %) XML 4 1 (0.284 %) XHTML 4 1 (0.284 %) SAX 4 1 (0.284 %) SAML 4 1 (0.284 %) JSR 168 4 1 (0.284 %) JSR 170	Application Platforms 1 5 (1.420 %) Lotus Notes 2 3 (0.852 %) ArcGIS 3 2 (0.568 %) ArcIMS 3 2 (0.568 %) SharePoint Portal Server 4 1 (0.284 %) Oracle Spatial
Applications 1 26 (7.386 %) MS Visio 2 24 (6.818 %) MS Office 3 15 (4.261 %) MS Excel 4 14 (3.977 %) MS PowerPoint 5 12 (3.409 %) MS Project 6 3 (0.852 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 46 (13.07 %) SAP HR 2 9 (2.557 %) Oracle ERP 3 5 (1.420 %) SAP Payroll 4 4 (1.136 %) SAP APO 5 3 (0.852 %) Singl.eView 6 2 (0.568 %) BPCS 7 1 (0.284 %) SAP HCM 7 1 (0.284 %) SAP PP 7 1 (0.284 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 11 (3.125 %) BSS 2 3 (0.852 %) 3G 3 2 (0.568 %) Internet 4 1 (0.284 %) Extranet 4 1 (0.284 %) LDAP 4 1 (0.284 %) Broadband 4 1 (0.284 %) GPRS 4 1 (0.284 %) UMTS 4 1 (0.284 %) WLAN 4 1 (0.284 %) Ethernet 4 1 (0.284 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (3.409 %) GIS 2 7 (1.989 %) SQL Server 3 6 (1.705 %) Datawarehouse 4 5 (1.420 %) Data Mining 4 5 (1.420 %) Data Cleansing 5 4 (1.136 %) SAP BW 6 2 (0.568 %) Star Schema 6 2 (0.568 %) ETL 7 1 (0.284 %) TOAD 7 1 (0.284 %) RDBMS 7 1 (0.284 %) DB2 7 1 (0.284 %) OLAP 7 1 (0.284 %) MS Access 7 1 (0.284 %) Cognos Powerplay 7 1 (0.284 %) Cognos Impromptu 7 1 (0.284 %) IDOL 7 1 (0.284 %) Siebel EIM 7 1 (0.284 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 1 (0.284 %) Rational Rose	General 1 112 (31.82 %) Finance 2 51 (14.49 %) Pensions 3 45 (12.78 %) Telecoms 4 25 (7.102 %) Government 5 18 (5.114 %) Retail 6 15 (4.261 %) Billing 7 11 (3.125 %) Financial Institution 8 10 (2.841 %) Banking 9 8 (2.273 %) Health 10 6 (1.705 %) Pharmaceutical 11 5 (1.420 %) FMCG 12 4 (1.136 %) Insurance 12 4 (1.136 %) Automotive 13 3 (0.852 %) Publishing 14 2 (0.568 %) Front Office 14 2 (0.568 %) Back Office 14 2 (0.568 %) Marketing 14 2 (0.568 %) Retail Banking 15 1 (0.284 %) International Banking 15 1 (0.284 %) General Ledger
Miscellaneous 1 7 (1.989 %) Management Information System 2 5 (1.420 %) Handset 3 4 (1.136 %) NHS 4 3 (0.852 %) Client/Server 4 3 (0.852 %) EPoS 4 3 (0.852 %) AS400 4 3 (0.852 %) Credit Risk 5 2 (0.568 %) Mainframe 6 1 (0.284 %) E-Learning 6 1 (0.284 %) Web 2.0 6 1 (0.284 %) Photography	Operating Systems 1 8 (2.273 %) UNIX 2 5 (1.420 %) Windows 3 4 (1.136 %) Windows 2000 3 4 (1.136 %) Windows XP 3 4 (1.136 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 62 (17.61 %) Business Analysis 2 25 (7.102 %) Migration 3 24 (6.818 %) PRINCE2 4 21 (5.966 %) UML 5 19 (5.398 %) Service Management 6 17 (4.830 %) ITIL 6 17 (4.830 %) OO 6 17 (4.830 %) Data Analysis 6 17 (4.830 %) Use Case 7 16 (4.545 %) Requirements Analysis 8 14 (3.977 %) Project Management 9 12 (3.409 %) ERP 10 11 (3.125 %) Data Modelling 10 11 (3.125 %) User Acceptance Testing 11 10 (2.841 %) CRM 11 10 (2.841 %) Change Management 12 9 (2.557 %) Data Migration 13 8 (2.273 %) Security Cleared 13 8 (2.273 %) SSADM 13 8 (2.273 %) Workflow	Programming Languages 1 10 (2.841 %) Java 1 10 (2.841 %) SQL 2 4 (1.136 %) C 3 3 (0.852 %) C#
Qualifications 1 11 (3.125 %) Degree 2 6 (1.705 %) ISEB 3 4 (1.136 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 2 (0.568 %) Microsoft Certification 5 1 (0.284 %) PhD	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 13 (3.693 %) Basel II 2 3 (0.852 %) QA 3 2 (0.568 %) EFQM 3 2 (0.568 %) SLA 4 1 (0.284 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors 1 57 (16.19 %) SAP 2 27 (7.670 %) Oracle 3 17 (4.830 %) Microsoft 4 10 (2.841 %) Siebel 5 7 (1.989 %) Cognos 6 5 (1.420 %) Lotus 7 3 (0.852 %) Brio 7 3 (0.852 %) Hyperion 8 2 (0.568 %) Informatica 8 2 (0.568 %) Epiphany 8 2 (0.568 %) Charles River 8 2 (0.568 %) ESRI 9 1 (0.284 %) Intec 9 1 (0.284 %) JD Edwards 9 1 (0.284 %) Retalix 9 1 (0.284 %) MicroStrategy 9 1 (0.284 %) Retek 9 1 (0.284 %) PeopleSoft