Buckinghamshire Business Intelligence Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Business Intelligence (BI) skills within the Buckinghamshire 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Intelligence (BI)
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Andover Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chorley City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Docklands, London Dorset Dover East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Farnborough Fleetwood Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Ipswich Johnstone Kegworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Potters Bar Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Runcorn Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	66	50
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching contract IT job ads	13	38
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.041 %
As % of the category below	1.665 %	5.234 %
Daily rates quoted	7	4
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£363
Average daily rate	£337	£385
% change on same period last year	-12.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£408
UK excluding London average daily rate	£398	£406
% change on same period last year	-1.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	12
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£11.00
Average hourly rate	-	£11.17
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£11.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.21	£22.35
% change on same period last year	-22.96 %
Processes & Methodologies Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	781	726
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.230 %	0.778 %
Daily rates quoted	307	208
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£331
Average daily rate	£328	£351
% change on same period last year	-6.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£370
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	80	105
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.87	£24.48
Average hourly rate	£21.57	£25.31
% change on same period last year	-14.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.28	£26.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.17	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
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 Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Intelligence across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Business Intelligence
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Milton Keynes	-8	10	£337	-
High Wycombe	-16	1	-	-

Business Intelligence South East

Business Intelligence
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 23 (54.76 %) OLAP 2 21 (50.00 %) SQL 3 20 (47.62 %) SQL Server 4 19 (45.24 %) Transact-SQL 5 18 (42.86 %) DTS 6 17 (40.48 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 16 (38.10 %) SAN 7 16 (38.10 %) Clustering 8 13 (30.95 %) Microsoft Certification 8 13 (30.95 %) Security Cleared 9 12 (28.57 %) ITIL 9 12 (28.57 %) MCDBA 9 12 (28.57 %) ITSM 10 9 (21.43 %) German Language 11 8 (19.05 %) SC Cleared

11 8 (19.05 %) Datawarehouse 12 7 (16.67 %) Data Modelling 12 7 (16.67 %) OLTP 12 7 (16.67 %) Oracle 12 7 (16.67 %) Windows 12 7 (16.67 %) Data Architecture 12 7 (16.67 %) Dutch Language 13 6 (14.29 %) French Language 13 6 (14.29 %) Government 14 5 (11.90 %) Windows 2000 14 5 (11.90 %) Microsoft 15 4 (9.524 %) CNE 15 4 (9.524 %) Novell Certification 15 4 (9.524 %) SOA 15 4 (9.524 %) MCSE

Business Intelligence
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 3 (7.143 %) .NET 2 2 (4.762 %) XML	Applications 1 4 (9.524 %) MS Excel 1 4 (9.524 %) MS PowerPoint 2 2 (4.762 %) MS Visio 3 1 (2.381 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 1 (2.381 %) Oracle EBS	Communications & Networking 1 16 (38.10 %) SAN 2 1 (2.381 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 23 (54.76 %) OLAP 2 20 (47.62 %) SQL Server 3 18 (42.86 %) DTS 4 17 (40.48 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 8 (19.05 %) Datawarehouse 6 7 (16.67 %) OLTP 7 3 (7.143 %) Oracle BI EE 7 3 (7.143 %) Oracle OLAP 7 3 (7.143 %) ETL 8 2 (4.762 %) DB2 9 1 (2.381 %) Crystal Reports 9 1 (2.381 %) Oracle Reports 9 1 (2.381 %) Oracle Discoverer 9 1 (2.381 %) Oracle 10g 9 1 (2.381 %) BusinessObjects 9 1 (2.381 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 9 1 (2.381 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 1 (2.381 %) SQL Server Analysis Services	General 1 6 (14.29 %) Government 2 3 (7.143 %) Automotive 3 2 (4.762 %) Marketing 4 1 (2.381 %) Finance 4 1 (2.381 %) Health
Job Titles 1 8 (19.05 %) Developer 1 8 (19.05 %) Database Specialist 1 8 (19.05 %) Database Developer 1 8 (19.05 %) SQL Developer 1 8 (19.05 %) SQL Database Developer 2 6 (14.29 %) Architect 2 6 (14.29 %) Data Architect 3 5 (11.90 %) DBA 4 4 (9.524 %) Analyst 4 4 (9.524 %) SQL DBA 5 3 (7.143 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 3 (7.143 %) Helpdesk Support 6 2 (4.762 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 6 2 (4.762 %) Business Intelligence Specialist 6 2 (4.762 %) Helpdesk Engineer 6 2 (4.762 %) Technical Architect 6 2 (4.762 %) Support Analyst 7 1 (2.381 %) Database Designer 7 1 (2.381 %) Business Intelligence Analyst 7 1 (2.381 %) Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 16 (38.10 %) Clustering 2 9 (21.43 %) German Language 3 7 (16.67 %) Dutch Language 4 6 (14.29 %) French Language 5 1 (2.381 %) Cantonese Language 5 1 (2.381 %) Japanese Language 5 1 (2.381 %) Korean Language 5 1 (2.381 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 7 (16.67 %) Windows 2 5 (11.90 %) Windows 2000 3 4 (9.524 %) Windows XP 3 4 (9.524 %) Windows Vista 4 1 (2.381 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (30.95 %) Security Cleared 2 12 (28.57 %) ITIL 2 12 (28.57 %) ITSM 3 8 (19.05 %) SC Cleared 4 7 (16.67 %) Data Architecture 4 7 (16.67 %) Data Modelling 5 4 (9.524 %) SOA 5 4 (9.524 %) Technical Architecture 6 3 (7.143 %) BPMN 6 3 (7.143 %) UML 6 3 (7.143 %) Enterprise Architecture 7 2 (4.762 %) TOGAF 8 1 (2.381 %) Migration 8 1 (2.381 %) OO 8 1 (2.381 %) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages 1 21 (50.00 %) SQL 2 19 (45.24 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 13 (30.95 %) Microsoft Certification 2 12 (28.57 %) MCDBA 3 4 (9.524 %) MCSE 3 4 (9.524 %) CNE 3 4 (9.524 %) Novell Certification
System Software 1 1 (2.381 %) Oracle RAC	Vendors 1 7 (16.67 %) Oracle 2 5 (11.90 %) Microsoft 3 4 (9.524 %) Cisco 4 3 (7.143 %) Informatica 5 1 (2.381 %) JD Edwards 5 1 (2.381 %) VMware 5 1 (2.381 %) Citrix 5 1 (2.381 %) Business Objects 5 1 (2.381 %) Cognos