Chester Business Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Business Analyst role in IT contracts within the Chester 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 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Analyst
Location Aberdeen Ballymena Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bognor Regis Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Darlington 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 Gwynedd Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kirkcaldy Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales 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 Southwark 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 Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	16
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	11	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	5.473 %	7.609 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£388
Average daily rate	£321	£388
% change on same period last year	-17.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£388
UK excluding London average daily rate	£374	£377
% change on same period last year	-0.86 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-18.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.48	£26.83
% change on same period last year	+9.86 %
Job Titles Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	201	184
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.326 %	0.201 %
Daily rates quoted	27	24
Average minimum daily rate	£266	£273
Average daily rate	£269	£281
% change on same period last year	-4.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£272	£288
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	56	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.35	£26.61
Average hourly rate	£23.83	£26.82
% change on same period last year	-11.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.30	£27.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.15	£23.97
% change on same period last year	-3.43 %
Business Analyst 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.

Business Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Analyst across the Chester 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 Chester region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analyst across the Chester region over the 3 months to 4 December 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 Chester region.

Business Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 7 (43.75 %) Finance 2 6 (37.50 %) Business Analysis 3 4 (25.00 %) Six Sigma 4 3 (18.75 %) Banking 5 2 (12.50 %) Information Management 5 2 (12.50 %) Critical Path Analysis 5 2 (12.50 %) Extreme Programming 5 2 (12.50 %) Risk Assessment 5 2 (12.50 %) Project Management 5 2 (12.50 %) Data Modelling 5 2 (12.50 %) Change Management 5 2 (12.50 %) GAP Analysis 5 2 (12.50 %) C 5 2 (12.50 %) C# 5 2 (12.50 %) C++

5 2 (12.50 %) COBOL 5 2 (12.50 %) Java 5 2 (12.50 %) UML 5 2 (12.50 %) SSADM 5 2 (12.50 %) ISO9000 5 2 (12.50 %) QMS 5 2 (12.50 %) Project Planning 6 1 (6.250 %) Risk Analysis 6 1 (6.250 %) Use Case 6 1 (6.250 %) Requirements Management 6 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft 6 1 (6.250 %) Avaya 6 1 (6.250 %) BMC 6 1 (6.250 %) NHS 6 1 (6.250 %) ProC

Business Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 1 (6.250 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 1 (6.250 %) IP Telephony	Development Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) ProC
General 1 7 (43.75 %) Finance 2 3 (18.75 %) Banking	Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.250 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 1 (6.250 %) UNIX 1 1 (6.250 %) Windows 1 1 (6.250 %) VMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (37.50 %) Business Analysis 2 4 (25.00 %) Six Sigma 3 2 (12.50 %) Project Management 3 2 (12.50 %) Change Management 3 2 (12.50 %) GAP Analysis 3 2 (12.50 %) Extreme Programming 3 2 (12.50 %) Risk Assessment 3 2 (12.50 %) Project Planning 3 2 (12.50 %) UML 3 2 (12.50 %) SSADM 3 2 (12.50 %) Information Management 3 2 (12.50 %) Critical Path Analysis 3 2 (12.50 %) Data Modelling 3 2 (12.50 %) QMS 4 1 (6.250 %) CRM 4 1 (6.250 %) Risk Analysis 4 1 (6.250 %) Use Case 4 1 (6.250 %) Requirements Management 4 1 (6.250 %) Agile Software Development 4 1 (6.250 %) Data Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (12.50 %) C 1 2 (12.50 %) C# 1 2 (12.50 %) C++ 1 2 (12.50 %) COBOL 1 2 (12.50 %) Java 2 1 (6.250 %) Perl 2 1 (6.250 %) SQL	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (12.50 %) ISO9000
Vendors 1 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 1 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft 1 1 (6.250 %) Avaya 1 1 (6.250 %) BMC 1 1 (6.250 %) Perforce