Cheshire Business Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Business Analyst role in IT contracts within the Cheshire 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Analyst
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Forres Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hungerford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kidlington King's Lynn Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Moray Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stirling Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tiverton Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	34
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching contract IT job ads	37	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	3.653 %	3.121 %
Daily rates quoted	8	8
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£361
Average daily rate	£337	£381
% change on same period last year	-11.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£387	£373
% change on same period last year	+3.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£45.00	£38.00
Average hourly rate	£45.00	£40.50
% change on same period last year	+11.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£43.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.74	£30.96
% change on same period last year	-10.41 %
Job Titles Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1013	769
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.300 %	0.864 %
Daily rates quoted	309	207
Average minimum daily rate	£316	£330
Average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£363	£353
% change on same period last year	+2.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	95	72
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.51	£22.50
Average hourly rate	£29.17	£23.80
% change on same period last year	+22.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.83	£25.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.48	£25.12
% change on same period last year	-6.53 %
Business Analyst North West

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Business Analyst across the Cheshire 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Business Analyst across the Cheshire region.

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analyst across the Cheshire region over the past 3 months.

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analyst across the Cheshire region over the past 3 months.

Business Analyst
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analyst within the Cheshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Chester	+3	25	£345	-4.82 %
2	Alderley Edge	-	1	£170	-

Business Analyst North West

Business Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Business Analyst also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Business Analyst.

1 40 (54.79 %) Finance 2 18 (24.66 %) Business Analysis 3 13 (17.81 %) UML 3 13 (17.81 %) Datawarehouse 3 13 (17.81 %) Data Modelling 4 12 (16.44 %) Banking 5 11 (15.07 %) Data Analysis 5 11 (15.07 %) Business Intelligence 5 11 (15.07 %) BusinessObjects 5 11 (15.07 %) DataStage 5 11 (15.07 %) Oracle 5 11 (15.07 %) Business Objects 6 9 (12.33 %) ETL 6 9 (12.33 %) Dimensional Modelling 7 8 (10.96 %) CRM

7 8 (10.96 %) Identity Management 8 7 (9.589 %) Stakeholder Management 9 6 (8.219 %) Government 9 6 (8.219 %) ERwin 9 6 (8.219 %) MS Visio 9 6 (8.219 %) Information Management 9 6 (8.219 %) Management Information System 9 6 (8.219 %) Use Case 10 5 (6.849 %) Local Government 10 5 (6.849 %) International Banking 10 5 (6.849 %) Data Mining 10 5 (6.849 %) RUP 10 5 (6.849 %) SQL 11 4 (5.479 %) VB 11 4 (5.479 %) MS Office

Business Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Business Analyst also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Business Analyst. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (2.740 %) .NET 2 1 (1.370 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 2 (2.740 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (1.370 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (1.370 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 6 (8.219 %) MS Visio 2 4 (5.479 %) MS Office 3 3 (4.110 %) MS Excel 4 2 (2.740 %) InfoPath 5 1 (1.370 %) CA Clarity 5 1 (1.370 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (1.370 %) VisionPLUS
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.370 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (17.81 %) Datawarehouse 2 11 (15.07 %) BusinessObjects 2 11 (15.07 %) DataStage 3 9 (12.33 %) ETL 4 5 (6.849 %) Data Mining 5 2 (2.740 %) Oracle 9i 5 2 (2.740 %) Data Cleansing
Development Applications 1 6 (8.219 %) ERwin	General 1 40 (54.79 %) Finance 2 12 (16.44 %) Banking 3 6 (8.219 %) Government 4 5 (6.849 %) Local Government 4 5 (6.849 %) International Banking 5 3 (4.110 %) Financial Institution 6 2 (2.740 %) Retail 7 1 (1.370 %) Insurance 7 1 (1.370 %) Online Banking 7 1 (1.370 %) Pharmaceutical 7 1 (1.370 %) Education
Miscellaneous 1 6 (8.219 %) Management Information System 2 4 (5.479 %) Mainframe 3 3 (4.110 %) IBM Mainframe 4 1 (1.370 %) Tandem	Operating Systems 1 3 (4.110 %) Unix 2 1 (1.370 %) Windows 2 1 (1.370 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (24.66 %) Business Analysis 2 13 (17.81 %) UML 2 13 (17.81 %) Data Modelling 3 11 (15.07 %) Business Intelligence 3 11 (15.07 %) Data Analysis 4 9 (12.33 %) Dimensional Modelling 5 8 (10.96 %) CRM 5 8 (10.96 %) Identity Management 6 7 (9.589 %) Stakeholder Management 7 6 (8.219 %) Information Management 7 6 (8.219 %) Use Case 8 5 (6.849 %) RUP 9 4 (5.479 %) E-Commerce 10 3 (4.110 %) GAP Analysis 10 3 (4.110 %) Requirements Analysis 11 2 (2.740 %) Business Development 11 2 (2.740 %) Project Management 11 2 (2.740 %) Service Delivery 11 2 (2.740 %) ITIL 11 2 (2.740 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 5 (6.849 %) SQL 2 4 (5.479 %) VB
Qualifications 1 1 (1.370 %) ISEB 1 1 (1.370 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.370 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors 1 11 (15.07 %) Oracle 1 11 (15.07 %) Business Objects 2 3 (4.110 %) SAP 2 3 (4.110 %) IBM 2 3 (4.110 %) Microsoft 3 1 (1.370 %) Hyperion 3 1 (1.370 %) PeopleSoft