Cheshire Business Intelligence Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Intelligence (BI) skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Intelligence over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Intelligence (BI)
Location Aberdeen Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Johnstone Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Potters Bar Preston Queensferry Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Strathclyde Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	23
Rank change on same period last year	-26
Matching contract IT job ads	15	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.043 %
As % of the category below	3.119 %	9.492 %
Daily rates quoted	2	13
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£407
Average daily rate	£350	£412
% change on same period last year	-15.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£417
UK excluding London average daily rate	£396	£429
% change on same period last year	-7.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£50.00
Average hourly rate	£25.31	£50.00
% change on same period last year	-49.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.63	£50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.05	£38.96
% change on same period last year	-15.18 %
Processes & Methodologies Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	481	453
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.641 %	0.452 %
Daily rates quoted	146	137
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£303
Average daily rate	£359	£319
% change on same period last year	+12.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	55	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.59	£22.37
Average hourly rate	£25.18	£23.78
% change on same period last year	+5.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.77	£25.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Business Intelligence 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 Intelligence
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Intelligence across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend

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

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Intelligence across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Business Intelligence
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Chester	-16	2	-	-
Nantwich	-	2	-	-
Warrington	-	2	-	-
Knutsford	-	1	-	-

Business Intelligence North West

Business Intelligence
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Business Intelligence 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 Business Intelligence.

1 9 (34.62 %) SQL 2 8 (30.77 %) SQL Server 2 8 (30.77 %) Business Objects 2 8 (30.77 %) SAP 2 8 (30.77 %) BusinessObjects 3 6 (23.08 %) BusinessObjects XI 4 5 (19.23 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4 5 (19.23 %) Business Analysis 4 5 (19.23 %) Finance 4 5 (19.23 %) Data Modelling 4 5 (19.23 %) Microsoft 4 5 (19.23 %) Crystal Reports 5 4 (15.38 %) Oracle 5 4 (15.38 %) Oracle 9i 5 4 (15.38 %) SAP BW

5 4 (15.38 %) SAP BI 5 4 (15.38 %) EAM 5 4 (15.38 %) Government 5 4 (15.38 %) Local Government 6 3 (11.54 %) Cognos 6 3 (11.54 %) Datawarehouse 7 2 (7.692 %) MS Excel 7 2 (7.692 %) CRM 7 2 (7.692 %) XML 7 2 (7.692 %) UNIX 7 2 (7.692 %) Oracle Forms 7 2 (7.692 %) Oracle Reports 7 2 (7.692 %) OLAP 7 2 (7.692 %) HTML 7 2 (7.692 %) Java

Business Intelligence
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Business Intelligence 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 Business Intelligence. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (7.692 %) HTML 1 2 (7.692 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.846 %) NetWeaver 1 1 (3.846 %) Gentran
Applications 1 2 (7.692 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (3.846 %) SAP R/3 1 1 (3.846 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.846 %) CTI	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (30.77 %) SQL Server 1 8 (30.77 %) BusinessObjects 2 6 (23.08 %) BusinessObjects XI 3 5 (19.23 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 3 5 (19.23 %) Crystal Reports 4 4 (15.38 %) Oracle 9i 4 4 (15.38 %) SAP BW 4 4 (15.38 %) SAP BI 5 3 (11.54 %) Datawarehouse 6 2 (7.692 %) ETL 6 2 (7.692 %) Oracle 10g 6 2 (7.692 %) Oracle Reports 6 2 (7.692 %) OLAP 6 2 (7.692 %) DataStage 6 2 (7.692 %) SQL Server 2005 7 1 (3.846 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 1 (3.846 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 1 (3.846 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 1 (3.846 %) Data Mart
Development Applications 1 2 (7.692 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 5 (19.23 %) Finance 2 4 (15.38 %) Government 2 4 (15.38 %) Local Government 3 1 (3.846 %) Law
Job Titles 1 6 (23.08 %) Architect 1 6 (23.08 %) Business Architect 2 5 (19.23 %) Solutions Designer 2 5 (19.23 %) Solutions Architect 3 4 (15.38 %) Consultant 3 4 (15.38 %) Trainer 3 4 (15.38 %) SAP Trainer 4 3 (11.54 %) Analyst 5 2 (7.692 %) Business Analyst 5 2 (7.692 %) Developer 5 2 (7.692 %) Business Intelligence Consultant 5 2 (7.692 %) Oracle Developer 5 2 (7.692 %) SAP Consultant 5 2 (7.692 %) SAP BI Consultant 5 2 (7.692 %) Cognos Consultant 6 1 (3.846 %) Business Objects Analyst 6 1 (3.846 %) Business Intelligence Analyst 6 1 (3.846 %) SAP Manager 6 1 (3.846 %) SAP Test Manager 6 1 (3.846 %) Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.846 %) Dutch Language 1 1 (3.846 %) French Language 1 1 (3.846 %) Italian Language 1 1 (3.846 %) Spanish Language 1 1 (3.846 %) Data Integration
Operating Systems 1 2 (7.692 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (19.23 %) Data Modelling 1 5 (19.23 %) Business Analysis 2 4 (15.38 %) EAM 3 2 (7.692 %) CRM 4 1 (3.846 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (3.846 %) Requirements Analysis 4 1 (3.846 %) Dimensional Modelling 4 1 (3.846 %) Project Management 4 1 (3.846 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 9 (34.62 %) SQL 2 2 (7.692 %) Java 2 2 (7.692 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (3.846 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (3.846 %) ABAP	Vendors 1 8 (30.77 %) Business Objects 1 8 (30.77 %) SAP 2 5 (19.23 %) Microsoft 3 4 (15.38 %) Oracle 4 3 (11.54 %) Cognos