The first table below looks at the demand for Data Analysis skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Analysis over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Cambridge region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Analysis
Rank 35 47 33
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -14
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 1 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.304% 0.236% 0.391%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.549% 0.448% 0.699%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £435 - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £21.75 £21.79
% change year-on-year
-12.64% -0.18%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
182 223 143
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 55.32% 52.59% 55.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 110 89
Average daily rate £350 £350 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 20 18
Average hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +34.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £33.25 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.85 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Data Analysis
Cambridgeshire

Data Analysis
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Analysis across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Cambridge Data Analysis Jobs Demand Trend

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Analysis across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge Data Analysis Daily Rate Trend

Data Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Data Analysis across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge Data Analysis Hourly Rate Trend

Data Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 8 (100.00%) SAP
1 8 (100.00%) Migration
2 7 (87.50%) ERP
2 7 (87.50%) SQL
3 6 (75.00%) T-SQL
3 6 (75.00%) Oracle
3 6 (75.00%) ITIL
3 6 (75.00%) Linux
3 6 (75.00%) Apache
3 6 (75.00%) DHCP
3 6 (75.00%) DNS
3 6 (75.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (75.00%) EMC
3 6 (75.00%) OCP
3 6 (75.00%) Oracle Certification
3 6 (75.00%) RHCE
3 6 (75.00%) Red Hat
3 6 (75.00%) VMware
3 6 (75.00%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (75.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 6 (75.00%) Perl
3 6 (75.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (50.00%) vSphere
4 4 (50.00%) PKI
4 4 (50.00%) VMware ESX
4 4 (50.00%) HPUX
5 2 (25.00%) Finance

Data Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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.

Application Platforms
1 6 (75.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) DHCP
1 6 (75.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Systems Administrator
1 6 (75.00%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Project Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Project Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
1 6 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (50.00%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Migration
2 7 (87.50%) ERP
3 6 (75.00%) ITIL
4 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (12.50%) SAP Implementation
5 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) T-SQL
2 6 (75.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) OCP
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle Certification
1 6 (75.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GAMP
1 2 (25.00%) GxP
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (50.00%) vSphere
2 4 (50.00%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 6 (75.00%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) SAP
2 6 (75.00%) Oracle
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (75.00%) EMC
2 6 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (75.00%) VMware