Cheltenham Business Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Business Analyst role in IT contracts within the Cheltenham 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 Business Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Analyst
Location Aberdeen Ballymena Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cleveland Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Fleetwood Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grays Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kirkcaldy Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Market Drayton Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stirling Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	19
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	13	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	5.306 %	4.598 %
Daily rates quoted	9	4
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£325
Average daily rate	£361	£334
% change on same period last year	+7.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£344
UK excluding London average daily rate	£376	£378
% change on same period last year	-0.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.77	£27.00
% change on same period last year	+6.57 %
Job Titles Cheltenham
Matching contract IT job ads	245	174
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.386 %	0.186 %
Daily rates quoted	81	56
Average minimum daily rate	£376	£378
Average daily rate	£384	£419
% change on same period last year	-8.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£460
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.51	£31.74
Average hourly rate	£19.57	£33.10
% change on same period last year	-40.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.62	£34.47
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Business Analyst Gloucestershire

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 Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Analyst across the Cheltenham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analyst across the Cheltenham region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Business Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham region that cited Business 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 Business Analyst in their job title.

1 19 (79.17 %) Pensions 2 8 (33.33 %) Data Migration 2 8 (33.33 %) Migration 3 7 (29.17 %) Finance 4 5 (20.83 %) Data Analysis 4 5 (20.83 %) QA 5 4 (16.67 %) Data Mapping 6 3 (12.50 %) Business Analysis 6 3 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 3 (12.50 %) Banking 6 3 (12.50 %) CIMA 6 3 (12.50 %) SQL 6 3 (12.50 %) ACCA 7 2 (8.333 %) ISEB 7 2 (8.333 %) MS Office

7 2 (8.333 %) Insurance 7 2 (8.333 %) Data Conversion 8 1 (4.167 %) System Testing 8 1 (4.167 %) Project Planning 8 1 (4.167 %) Degree 8 1 (4.167 %) ISTQB 8 1 (4.167 %) Requirements Management 8 1 (4.167 %) Retail 8 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 8 1 (4.167 %) MS Excel 8 1 (4.167 %) E-Commerce 8 1 (4.167 %) ETL 8 1 (4.167 %) Informatica 8 1 (4.167 %) Project Management 8 1 (4.167 %) C

Business Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham region that cited Business 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 Business Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) MS Office 2 1 (4.167 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.167 %) ETL
General 1 19 (79.17 %) Pensions 2 7 (29.17 %) Finance 3 3 (12.50 %) Banking 4 2 (8.333 %) Insurance 5 1 (4.167 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (4.167 %) Retail	Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) Data Conversion
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (33.33 %) Migration 1 8 (33.33 %) Data Migration 2 5 (20.83 %) Data Analysis 3 4 (16.67 %) Data Mapping 4 3 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 3 (12.50 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (4.167 %) Requirements Management 5 1 (4.167 %) Project Planning 5 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (4.167 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (4.167 %) Project Management 5 1 (4.167 %) Change Management 5 1 (4.167 %) Workflow 5 1 (4.167 %) System Testing 5 1 (4.167 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 3 (12.50 %) SQL 2 1 (4.167 %) C
Qualifications 1 3 (12.50 %) ACCA 1 3 (12.50 %) CIMA 2 2 (8.333 %) ISEB 3 1 (4.167 %) ISTQB 3 1 (4.167 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (20.83 %) QA
Vendors 1 1 (4.167 %) Informatica