The first table below looks at the demand for the Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Cheltenham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Cheltenham 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Analyst
Rank 7 13 21
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +8
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 8 13 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham 9.877% 10.48% 3.636%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.96% 11.82% 3.846%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 3
Average daily rate £359 £425 £238
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.58% +78.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £269 £400 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £394 £425 £448
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £11.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -
All Job Titles
Cheltenham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
73 110 104
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham 90.12% 88.71% 94.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 76 48
Average daily rate £350 £400 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +19.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £713 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 24
Average hourly rate £14.00 £37.00 £36.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-62.16% +2.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.53 £20.50 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £38.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Analyst
Gloucestershire

Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Analyst across the Cheltenham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Cheltenham Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheltenham Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analyst across the Cheltenham region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cheltenham Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheltenham Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham region that cited 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 Analyst in their job title.

1 6 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (16.67%) .NET
3 3 (16.67%) Oracle
3 3 (16.67%) XML
3 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 3 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 3 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Degree
4 2 (11.11%) Test Scripting
4 2 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
4 2 (11.11%) HP
4 2 (11.11%) MS Office
4 2 (11.11%) C#
4 2 (11.11%) Java
4 2 (11.11%) ITIL
4 2 (11.11%) OO
4 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
4 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
4 2 (11.11%) Business Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 1 (5.556%) General Ledger
5 1 (5.556%) Automated Testing
5 1 (5.556%) Systems Analysis
5 1 (5.556%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (5.556%) MS PowerPoint

Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham region that cited 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 Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (16.67%) .NET
1 3 (16.67%) XML
2 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.556%) XSD
3 1 (5.556%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Office
1 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.556%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.556%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.556%) Data Mining
2 1 (5.556%) TOAD
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Visual Studio
1 1 (5.556%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (5.556%) JIRA
General
1 1 (5.556%) General Ledger
1 1 (5.556%) Retail
1 1 (5.556%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.556%) Windows
1 1 (5.556%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 3 (16.67%) Unit Testing
2 3 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (11.11%) Test Scripting
3 2 (11.11%) ITIL
3 2 (11.11%) OO
3 2 (11.11%) Business Analysis
3 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
4 1 (5.556%) Automated Testing
4 1 (5.556%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (5.556%) TDD
4 1 (5.556%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (5.556%) Migration
4 1 (5.556%) Scrum
4 1 (5.556%) Programme Management
4 1 (5.556%) SSADM
4 1 (5.556%) DSDM
4 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) C#
2 2 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (5.556%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.556%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.556%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.556%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) SLA
1 1 (5.556%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.556%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.556%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) HP
3 1 (5.556%) Adobe
3 1 (5.556%) VMware
3 1 (5.556%) Dell
3 1 (5.556%) Apple