Berkshire Business Intelligence Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Intelligence (BI) skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Intelligence over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Intelligence (BI)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Gatwick Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Inverness Ipswich Jersey Johnstone Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Strathclyde Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wiltshire Windsor Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	93
Rank change on same period last year	+52
Matching contract IT job ads	109	72
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.145 %	0.073 %
As % of the category below	5.581 %	2.802 %
Daily rates quoted	21	21
Average minimum daily rate	£431	£442
Average daily rate	£454	£451
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£476	£461
UK excluding London average daily rate	£414	£405
% change on same period last year	+2.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.00	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£20.20	£41.00
% change on same period last year	-50.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.40	£42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.11	£39.27
% change on same period last year	-25.86 %
Processes & Methodologies Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1953	2570
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.603 %	2.600 %
Daily rates quoted	515	896
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£357
Average daily rate	£378	£378
% change on same period last year	-0.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£399
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	87	150
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.32	£31.30
Average hourly rate	£26.03	£33.05
% change on same period last year	-21.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.74	£34.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Business Intelligence 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 Intelligence
Demand Trend

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

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend

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

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Intelligence across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Intelligence across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Business Intelligence
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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	0	21	£377	-9.40 %
Maidenhead	+35	20	£475	-
Slough	+3	10	£438	-
Bracknell	+26	5	£540	-
Newbury	+17	4	£495	-
Windsor	-	1	-	-

Business Intelligence South East

Business Intelligence
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Business Intelligence 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 Business Intelligence.

1 129 (61.43 %) Datawarehouse 2 97 (46.19 %) Telecoms 3 71 (33.81 %) Data Modelling 4 44 (20.95 %) Data Architecture 5 36 (17.14 %) MS Visio 5 36 (17.14 %) Risk Assessment 6 32 (15.24 %) Oracle 7 30 (14.29 %) Enterprise Architecture 8 25 (11.90 %) BusinessObjects 8 25 (11.90 %) Business Objects 9 21 (10.00 %) SQL 9 21 (10.00 %) Knowledge Management 10 18 (8.571 %) SAP 10 18 (8.571 %) ETL 11 17 (8.095 %) MicroStrategy

12 16 (7.619 %) CRM 12 16 (7.619 %) Finance 13 14 (6.667 %) Marketing 13 14 (6.667 %) Microsoft 13 14 (6.667 %) SQL Server 14 13 (6.190 %) UNIX 14 13 (6.190 %) Oracle 10g 14 13 (6.190 %) SAS 15 12 (5.714 %) Oracle 9i 15 12 (5.714 %) ERwin 16 9 (4.286 %) Migration 16 9 (4.286 %) Data Analysis 16 9 (4.286 %) Project Management 16 9 (4.286 %) DataStage 16 9 (4.286 %) Cognos

Business Intelligence
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Business Intelligence 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 Business Intelligence. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (3.810 %) XML 2 5 (2.381 %) SAP XI 3 4 (1.905 %) WebSphere 3 4 (1.905 %) .NET 4 2 (0.952 %) ASP.NET 4 2 (0.952 %) CSS 4 2 (0.952 %) SOAP 4 2 (0.952 %) XHTML 4 2 (0.952 %) SAX 4 2 (0.952 %) SAML 4 2 (0.952 %) JSR 168 4 2 (0.952 %) JSR 170 5 1 (0.476 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 1 (0.476 %) HTML 5 1 (0.476 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 13 (6.190 %) SAS 2 5 (2.381 %) NetWeaver 2 5 (2.381 %) MS Exchange 3 4 (1.905 %) IIS 4 3 (1.429 %) WPS 5 2 (0.952 %) SharePoint 6 1 (0.476 %) Apache 6 1 (0.476 %) LiveLink
Applications 1 36 (17.14 %) MS Visio 2 4 (1.905 %) MS Excel 3 3 (1.429 %) MS Office 4 2 (0.952 %) SPSS 5 1 (0.476 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 3 (1.429 %) SAP R/3 1 3 (1.429 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 2 2 (0.952 %) SAP PM 3 1 (0.476 %) SAP MM 3 1 (0.476 %) BPCS 3 1 (0.476 %) WebTrends 3 1 (0.476 %) Singl.eView
Communications & Networking 1 6 (2.857 %) Internet 2 4 (1.905 %) Intranet 3 3 (1.429 %) LDAP 4 2 (0.952 %) LAN 4 2 (0.952 %) HTTP 4 2 (0.952 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (0.952 %) VPN 4 2 (0.952 %) DNS 4 2 (0.952 %) 3G 4 2 (0.952 %) Firewall 5 1 (0.476 %) BSS 5 1 (0.476 %) Extranet 5 1 (0.476 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 129 (61.43 %) Datawarehouse 2 25 (11.90 %) BusinessObjects 3 18 (8.571 %) ETL 4 14 (6.667 %) SQL Server 5 13 (6.190 %) Oracle 10g 6 12 (5.714 %) Oracle 9i 7 9 (4.286 %) DataStage 8 8 (3.810 %) SAP BI 8 8 (3.810 %) DB2 8 8 (3.810 %) OLAP 9 7 (3.333 %) SQL Server 2005 9 7 (3.333 %) BusinessObjects XI 10 6 (2.857 %) SAP BW 11 5 (2.381 %) Data Mart 11 5 (2.381 %) SQL Server Integration Services 11 5 (2.381 %) Cognos Powerplay 12 4 (1.905 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 12 4 (1.905 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 13 3 (1.429 %) ReportNet 14 2 (0.952 %) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 12 (5.714 %) ERwin 2 2 (0.952 %) ProC 3 1 (0.476 %) Oracle APEX 3 1 (0.476 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (0.476 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 (0.476 %) TestDirector 3 1 (0.476 %) LoadRunner	General 1 97 (46.19 %) Telecoms 2 16 (7.619 %) Finance 3 14 (6.667 %) Marketing 4 6 (2.857 %) Billing 5 3 (1.429 %) Insurance 6 2 (0.952 %) Banking 6 2 (0.952 %) Retail 6 2 (0.952 %) Manufacturing 7 1 (0.476 %) Advertising 7 1 (0.476 %) Government 7 1 (0.476 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 40 (19.05 %) Analyst 2 35 (16.67 %) Technical Lead 3 28 (13.33 %) Project Manager 4 22 (10.48 %) Consultant 5 17 (8.095 %) Architect 5 17 (8.095 %) Developer 6 13 (6.190 %) Data Modeller 7 12 (5.714 %) DBA 8 10 (4.762 %) Business Analyst 8 10 (4.762 %) Oracle DBA 9 9 (4.286 %) Programme Manager 9 9 (4.286 %) Data Architect 10 8 (3.810 %) Report Analyst 11 7 (3.333 %) Business Consultant 11 7 (3.333 %) Data Analyst 11 7 (3.333 %) Data Manager 11 7 (3.333 %) BI Manager 12 6 (2.857 %) Administrator 12 6 (2.857 %) Datawarehouse Consultant 12 6 (2.857 %) Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 4 (1.905 %) Replication 1 4 (1.905 %) Italian Language 1 4 (1.905 %) Data Integration 2 3 (1.429 %) Client/Server 3 2 (0.952 %) Management Information System 4 1 (0.476 %) PMI 4 1 (0.476 %) Data Extraction 4 1 (0.476 %) Clustering 4 1 (0.476 %) Economics 4 1 (0.476 %) French Language
Operating Systems 1 13 (6.190 %) UNIX 2 9 (4.286 %) Windows 3 4 (1.905 %) Solaris 4 2 (0.952 %) Linux 4 2 (0.952 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (0.952 %) FreeBSD 4 2 (0.952 %) Windows NT 4 2 (0.952 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (0.952 %) OpenBSD 5 1 (0.476 %) AIX 5 1 (0.476 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 71 (33.81 %) Data Modelling 2 44 (20.95 %) Data Architecture 3 36 (17.14 %) Risk Assessment 4 30 (14.29 %) Enterprise Architecture 5 21 (10.00 %) Knowledge Management 6 16 (7.619 %) CRM 7 9 (4.286 %) Project Management 7 9 (4.286 %) Migration 7 9 (4.286 %) Data Analysis 8 6 (2.857 %) PRINCE2 9 5 (2.381 %) Disaster Recovery 9 5 (2.381 %) Technical Architecture 10 4 (1.905 %) Test Scripting 11 3 (1.429 %) Data Protection 11 3 (1.429 %) GAP Analysis 11 3 (1.429 %) Business Analysis 12 2 (0.952 %) Supplier Management 12 2 (0.952 %) Load Balancing 12 2 (0.952 %) Multivariate Analysis 12 2 (0.952 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 21 (10.00 %) SQL 2 7 (3.333 %) PL/SQL 3 3 (1.429 %) Java 4 2 (0.952 %) C 5 1 (0.476 %) C# 5 1 (0.476 %) Perl 5 1 (0.476 %) VBScript 5 1 (0.476 %) VB.NET 5 1 (0.476 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 4 (1.905 %) Degree 2 2 (0.952 %) PMP 2 2 (0.952 %) PMI Certification 3 1 (0.476 %) MAPM 3 1 (0.476 %) MCSE 3 1 (0.476 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (0.476 %) SAP Certification 3 1 (0.476 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (1.429 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 8 (3.810 %) Oracle RAC 2 7 (3.333 %) Oracle RMAN 3 2 (0.952 %) MetaFrame 3 2 (0.952 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 2 (0.952 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 2 1 (0.476 %) Tivoli 2 1 (0.476 %) CA SiteMinder 2 1 (0.476 %) ServiceCenter	Vendors 1 32 (15.24 %) Oracle 2 25 (11.90 %) Business Objects 3 18 (8.571 %) SAP 4 17 (8.095 %) MicroStrategy 5 14 (6.667 %) Microsoft 6 9 (4.286 %) Cognos 7 8 (3.810 %) Ab Initio 8 6 (2.857 %) Informatica 9 4 (1.905 %) IBM 10 3 (1.429 %) HP 10 3 (1.429 %) Citrix 11 2 (0.952 %) Epiphany 12 1 (0.476 %) Teradata 12 1 (0.476 %) Netezza 12 1 (0.476 %) JD Edwards 12 1 (0.476 %) Intec 12 1 (0.476 %) BT 12 1 (0.476 %) FatWire 12 1 (0.476 %) Ericsson 12 1 (0.476 %) Hyperion