Buckinghamshire Systems Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Systems Analyst role in IT contracts within the Buckinghamshire 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 Systems Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

System Analyst
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Brentford Brentwood Bridgwater Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	53
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	77	44
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.103 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	5.733 %	2.795 %
Daily rates quoted	20	9
Average minimum daily rate	£316	£191
Average daily rate	£325	£193
% change on same period last year	+68.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£196
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£337
% change on same period last year	+4.08 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.50	£31.50
Average hourly rate	£15.75	£32.38
% change on same period last year	-51.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.00	£33.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.92	£27.53
% change on same period last year	+8.69 %
Job Titles Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1343	1574
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.790 %	1.592 %
Daily rates quoted	384	342
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£307
Average daily rate	£349	£323
% change on same period last year	+7.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	208	185
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.77	£26.38
Average hourly rate	£19.78	£27.36
% change on same period last year	-27.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.78	£28.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Systems 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Systems Analyst across the Buckinghamshire 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 Systems Analyst across the Buckinghamshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Analyst across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Systems Analyst across the Buckinghamshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Analyst across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Systems Analyst within the Buckinghamshire 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
Milton Keynes	+12	64	£324	+82.98 %
Aylesbury	-	1	-	-

Systems Analyst South East

Systems Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited Systems 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 Systems Analyst in their job title.

1 79 (64.23 %) Finance 2 48 (39.02 %) Banking 3 45 (36.59 %) Systems Analysis 4 29 (23.58 %) DB2 5 23 (18.70 %) IBM 6 19 (15.45 %) COBOL 7 17 (13.82 %) UNIX 8 14 (11.38 %) Back Office 9 13 (10.57 %) BPR 9 13 (10.57 %) Data Modelling 10 12 (9.756 %) PowerCenter 10 12 (9.756 %) Oracle 11 11 (8.943 %) Windows 11 11 (8.943 %) Mainframe 11 11 (8.943 %) IBM Mainframe

12 10 (8.130 %) BMC 13 9 (7.317 %) JCL 13 9 (7.317 %) Business Objects 13 9 (7.317 %) BusinessObjects 13 9 (7.317 %) Rational Rose 14 8 (6.504 %) SQL 14 8 (6.504 %) Financial Institution 14 8 (6.504 %) Retail 14 8 (6.504 %) Retail Banking 14 8 (6.504 %) BMC Performance Manager 15 7 (5.691 %) Migration 15 7 (5.691 %) CICS 15 7 (5.691 %) UML 15 7 (5.691 %) CRM 16 6 (4.878 %) Cognos

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited Systems 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 Systems Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (1.626 %) HTML 1 2 (1.626 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 7 (5.691 %) CICS 2 2 (1.626 %) Lotus Notes 2 2 (1.626 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (0.813 %) SAS
Applications 1 2 (1.626 %) MS Project 1 2 (1.626 %) MS Visio 2 1 (0.813 %) Spreadsheet 2 1 (0.813 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 6 (4.878 %) ResourceLink 2 2 (1.626 %) VisionPLUS
Communications & Networking 1 2 (1.626 %) Internet 2 1 (0.813 %) Firewall 2 1 (0.813 %) LAN 2 1 (0.813 %) VoIP 2 1 (0.813 %) WAN 2 1 (0.813 %) VPN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 29 (23.58 %) DB2 2 12 (9.756 %) PowerCenter 3 9 (7.317 %) BusinessObjects 4 4 (3.252 %) ETL 5 3 (2.439 %) SQL Server 5 3 (2.439 %) DB2 UDB 6 1 (0.813 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 9 (7.317 %) Rational Rose	General 1 79 (64.23 %) Finance 2 48 (39.02 %) Banking 3 14 (11.38 %) Back Office 4 8 (6.504 %) Financial Institution 4 8 (6.504 %) Retail 4 8 (6.504 %) Retail Banking 5 4 (3.252 %) Corporate Banking 5 4 (3.252 %) Construction 6 2 (1.626 %) Investment Banking 6 2 (1.626 %) Pensions 7 1 (0.813 %) Online Banking 7 1 (0.813 %) Marketing 7 1 (0.813 %) Insurance
Miscellaneous 1 11 (8.943 %) Mainframe 1 11 (8.943 %) IBM Mainframe 2 5 (4.065 %) Credit Risk 3 4 (3.252 %) Management Information System 4 2 (1.626 %) Spanish Language 4 2 (1.626 %) Data Conversion	Operating Systems 1 17 (13.82 %) UNIX 2 11 (8.943 %) Windows 3 4 (3.252 %) Windows NT 4 2 (1.626 %) OS/2 5 1 (0.813 %) MVS
Processes & Methodologies 1 45 (36.59 %) Systems Analysis 2 13 (10.57 %) Data Modelling 2 13 (10.57 %) BPR 3 7 (5.691 %) UML 3 7 (5.691 %) CRM 3 7 (5.691 %) Migration 4 6 (4.878 %) GAP Analysis 4 6 (4.878 %) Data Migration 5 5 (4.065 %) Project Management 6 4 (3.252 %) ITIL 7 3 (2.439 %) PRINCE2 7 3 (2.439 %) PRINCE 7 3 (2.439 %) Requirements Analysis 7 3 (2.439 %) Use Case 8 2 (1.626 %) Service Management 8 2 (1.626 %) Business Analysis 8 2 (1.626 %) Stakeholder Management 9 1 (0.813 %) Risk Assessment 9 1 (0.813 %) Data Analysis 9 1 (0.813 %) RAD	Programming Languages 1 19 (15.45 %) COBOL 2 9 (7.317 %) JCL 3 8 (6.504 %) SQL 4 2 (1.626 %) Clipper 5 1 (0.813 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (1.626 %) Citrix Certification 2 1 (0.813 %) Degree	System Software 1 2 (1.626 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 8 (6.504 %) BMC Performance Manager 2 2 (1.626 %) BMC PATROL	Vendors 1 23 (18.70 %) IBM 2 12 (9.756 %) Oracle 3 10 (8.130 %) BMC 4 9 (7.317 %) Business Objects 5 6 (4.878 %) PeopleSoft 5 6 (4.878 %) Cognos 5 6 (4.878 %) Northgate 6 3 (2.439 %) Informatica 7 2 (1.626 %) Lotus 7 2 (1.626 %) Citrix