The first table below looks at the demand for Data Analysis skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff 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 Cardiff 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 23 29 26
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 6 6 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 3.261% 2.667% 3.719%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.839% 4.000% 6.122%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 6
Average daily rate £400 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -3.70%
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
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
124 150 147
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 67.39% 66.67% 60.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 94 86
Average daily rate £370 £370 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +13.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £229 £275 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
Average hourly rate £11.60 £14.50 £100.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.03% -85.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.69 £12.10 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.75 £16.90 £106.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Data Analysis
South Wales

Data Analysis
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Data Analysis Hourly Rate Trend

Data Analysis
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (41.67%) BusinessObjects XI
3 5 (41.67%) BusinessObjects
3 5 (41.67%) SAP BW
3 5 (41.67%) Migration
3 5 (41.67%) Business Objects
3 5 (41.67%) SAP
3 5 (41.67%) Data Extraction
3 5 (41.67%) SAP Data Services
4 4 (33.33%) Data Migration
4 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Banking
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (25.00%) Data Mapping
6 2 (16.67%) ISEB
6 2 (16.67%) SQL
6 2 (16.67%) Retail
6 2 (16.67%) Retail Banking
7 1 (8.333%) Data Mart
7 1 (8.333%) Business Analysis
7 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (8.333%) T-SQL
7 1 (8.333%) ABAP
7 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
7 1 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (8.333%) Data Modelling
7 1 (8.333%) ETL
7 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008

Data Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) BusinessObjects XI
1 5 (41.67%) BusinessObjects
1 5 (41.67%) SAP BW
1 5 (41.67%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (8.333%) Data Mart
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Retail
3 2 (16.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Analyst
2 6 (50.00%) Developer
3 5 (41.67%) SAP Developer
3 5 (41.67%) SAP BW Developer
4 3 (25.00%) Data Analyst
4 3 (25.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (16.67%) Data Migration Analyst
6 1 (8.333%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (8.333%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (8.333%) Analyst Developer
6 1 (8.333%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (8.333%) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Data Extraction
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (41.67%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (25.00%) Data Mapping
5 1 (8.333%) Business Analysis
5 1 (8.333%) Data Modelling
5 1 (8.333%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.333%) T-SQL
2 1 (8.333%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) ISEB
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Business Objects
1 5 (41.67%) SAP