Cheshire Systems Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Systems 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 Systems Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 18 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

System Analyst
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Cumbria Derbyshire Docklands, London Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Haywards Heath Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	47	62
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	12	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	1.657 %	0.477 %
Daily rates quoted	7	1
Average minimum daily rate	£181	£500
Average daily rate	£188	£500
% change on same period last year	-62.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£195	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£334
% change on same period last year	+0.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	-
Average hourly rate	£25.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.80	£30.44
% change on same period last year	-25.10 %
Job Titles Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	724	839
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.146 %	0.899 %
Daily rates quoted	182	174
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£304
Average daily rate	£310	£313
% change on same period last year	-0.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£322
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£350
% change on same period last year	+0.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	106	68
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.18	£18.76
Average hourly rate	£23.22	£19.98
% change on same period last year	+16.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.26	£21.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.33	£24.40
% change on same period last year	-4.41 %
Systems 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Analyst across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Analyst within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 November 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
Macclesfield	+1	5	£153	-69.44 %
Chester	+5	4	-	-
Warrington	-	1	-	-

Systems Analyst North West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Systems 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 Systems Analyst in their job title.

1 6 (25.00 %) Windows 2 5 (20.83 %) AIX 2 5 (20.83 %) Windows 2000 2 5 (20.83 %) UNIX 2 5 (20.83 %) Windows NT 2 5 (20.83 %) SQL 2 5 (20.83 %) Oracle 2 5 (20.83 %) Government 2 5 (20.83 %) Oracle EBS 2 5 (20.83 %) Pharmaceutical 2 5 (20.83 %) Project Management 2 5 (20.83 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 3 (12.50 %) TOAD 3 3 (12.50 %) Finance 3 3 (12.50 %) Service Management

3 3 (12.50 %) Local Government 3 3 (12.50 %) Requirements Analysis 3 3 (12.50 %) Health 3 3 (12.50 %) PL/SQL 3 3 (12.50 %) ITIL 3 3 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 3 3 (12.50 %) CRM 3 3 (12.50 %) MCSE 4 2 (8.333 %) Oracle 11i 4 2 (8.333 %) Solaris 4 2 (8.333 %) Great Plains 4 2 (8.333 %) ERP 4 2 (8.333 %) VMS 4 2 (8.333 %) XML 4 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Systems 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 Systems Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (8.333 %) XML 1 2 (8.333 %) WebSphere 2 1 (4.167 %) WAMP 2 1 (4.167 %) HTML 2 1 (4.167 %) ASP 2 1 (4.167 %) CSS 2 1 (4.167 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 2 (8.333 %) Oracle Workflow
Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 5 (20.83 %) Oracle EBS 2 2 (8.333 %) Oracle 11i 2 2 (8.333 %) Great Plains 2 2 (8.333 %) Oracle Applications 2 2 (8.333 %) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.167 %) SSH	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (12.50 %) TOAD 2 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server
General 1 5 (20.83 %) Government 1 5 (20.83 %) Pharmaceutical 2 3 (12.50 %) Finance 2 3 (12.50 %) Local Government 2 3 (12.50 %) Health 3 2 (8.333 %) Marketing	Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) Clustering 2 1 (4.167 %) Mainframe 2 1 (4.167 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 6 (25.00 %) Windows 2 5 (20.83 %) AIX 2 5 (20.83 %) Windows 2000 2 5 (20.83 %) UNIX 2 5 (20.83 %) Windows NT 2 5 (20.83 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 2 (8.333 %) Solaris 3 2 (8.333 %) VMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (20.83 %) Project Management 2 3 (12.50 %) Service Management 2 3 (12.50 %) Requirements Analysis 2 3 (12.50 %) ITIL 2 3 (12.50 %) CRM 3 2 (8.333 %) ERP 3 2 (8.333 %) Workflow 4 1 (4.167 %) Web Design 4 1 (4.167 %) OO
Programming Languages 1 5 (20.83 %) SQL 2 3 (12.50 %) PL/SQL 3 2 (8.333 %) VB 4 1 (4.167 %) VB6 4 1 (4.167 %) VBA 4 1 (4.167 %) VBScript 4 1 (4.167 %) C 4 1 (4.167 %) C++ 4 1 (4.167 %) Java 4 1 (4.167 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 3 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 1 3 (12.50 %) MCSE 2 1 (4.167 %) Degree
Vendors 1 5 (20.83 %) Oracle 2 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft 3 1 (4.167 %) Cognos 3 1 (4.167 %) VERITAS 3 1 (4.167 %) iSOFT