Chester Business Analysis Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Business Analysis skills within the Chester 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 Analysis over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bognor Regis Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Fleetwood Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Hertfordshire Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kent Kirkcaldy Lancashire Leeds Leek Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	20
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	3	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	2.098 %	9.434 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£330
Average daily rate	£318	£330
% change on same period last year	-3.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
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	£29.00	£28.78
% change on same period last year	+0.76 %
Processes & Methodologies Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	143	106
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.232 %	0.116 %
Daily rates quoted	17	15
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£268
Average daily rate	£306	£281
% change on same period last year	+9.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£294
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£373
% change on same period last year	+2.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	39	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.98	£31.21
Average hourly rate	£26.12	£31.21
% change on same period last year	-16.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.27	£31.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.22	£29.56
% change on same period last year	-4.53 %
Business Analysis Cheshire

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 Business Analysis across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies 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 Business Analysis across the Chester region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing Business Analysis 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 Analysis.

1 4 (50.00 %) Project Management 2 3 (37.50 %) Finance 3 2 (25.00 %) Critical Path Analysis 3 2 (25.00 %) Project Planning 3 2 (25.00 %) QMS 3 2 (25.00 %) Six Sigma 3 2 (25.00 %) ISO9000 3 2 (25.00 %) GAP Analysis 3 2 (25.00 %) Risk Assessment 4 1 (12.50 %) Information Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Risk Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 4 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 4 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2

4 1 (12.50 %) UML 4 1 (12.50 %) CRM 4 1 (12.50 %) ERP 4 1 (12.50 %) FMCG 4 1 (12.50 %) Risk Analysis 4 1 (12.50 %) Use Case 4 1 (12.50 %) Supplier Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Stakeholder Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing Business Analysis 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 Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 3 (37.50 %) Finance 2 1 (12.50 %) FMCG	Job Titles 1 6 (75.00 %) Business Analyst 1 6 (75.00 %) Analyst 2 2 (25.00 %) Project Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) IT Project Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Infrastructure Manager
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (50.00 %) Project Management 2 2 (25.00 %) GAP Analysis 2 2 (25.00 %) Risk Assessment 2 2 (25.00 %) Critical Path Analysis 2 2 (25.00 %) Project Planning 2 2 (25.00 %) Six Sigma 2 2 (25.00 %) QMS 3 1 (12.50 %) Risk Analysis 3 1 (12.50 %) Use Case 3 1 (12.50 %) Supplier Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Information Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Risk Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Stakeholder Management 3 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 3 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (12.50 %) UML 3 1 (12.50 %) CRM 3 1 (12.50 %) ERP	Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (25.00 %) ISO9000	Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft