The first table below looks at the demand for Business Analysis skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Business Analysis over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Analysis
Rank 23 21 18
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -3
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 365 484 877
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 5.746% 6.148% 8.795%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.836% 8.579% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 384 713
Average daily rate £488 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £580 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
Average hourly rate £135.00 £17.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+671.42% -56.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £25.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-12.00% +4.16%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4658 5642 7164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.33% 71.67% 71.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3513 4087 5301
Average daily rate £450 £460 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 94 100
Average hourly rate £41.50 £22.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+84.44% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.90 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Business Analysis
London

Business Analysis
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Business Analysis across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London Business Analysis Jobs Demand Trend

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Business Analysis across the City of London region.

City of London Business Analysis Daily Rate Trend

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analysis across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Business Analysis Daily Rate Histogram

Business Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Business Analysis across the City of London region.

City of London Business Analysis Hourly Rate Trend

Business Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

1 257 (37.79%) Finance
2 229 (33.68%) Banking
3 134 (19.71%) SQL
4 117 (17.21%) Project Management
5 111 (16.32%) Investment Banking
6 91 (13.38%) UML
7 88 (12.94%) Data Modelling
8 83 (12.21%) Use Case
9 78 (11.47%) Front Office
10 77 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
11 73 (10.74%) Data Analysis
12 67 (9.853%) Degree
13 62 (9.118%) User Acceptance Testing
14 60 (8.824%) Retail
15 54 (7.941%) PRINCE2
15 54 (7.941%) Agile Software Development
16 52 (7.647%) Data Warehouse
17 51 (7.500%) Derivative
18 50 (7.353%) ITIL
19 45 (6.618%) Asset Management
20 44 (6.471%) E-Commerce
20 44 (6.471%) Migration
20 44 (6.471%) Waterfall
21 42 (6.176%) MS Office
22 40 (5.882%) Scrum
22 40 (5.882%) Workflow
22 40 (5.882%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
23 37 (5.441%) Management Information System
24 36 (5.294%) Fixed Income
24 36 (5.294%) Change Management

Business Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

Application Development
1 28 (4.118%) XML
2 23 (3.382%) .NET
3 19 (2.794%) HTML
4 8 (1.176%) Mason
4 8 (1.176%) MapReduce
5 7 (1.029%) Web Services
6 6 (0.882%) ASP.NET
7 4 (0.588%) Middleware
7 4 (0.588%) Visualforce
8 3 (0.441%) Ajax
8 3 (0.441%) CSS
8 3 (0.441%) ASP
8 3 (0.441%) FpML
9 2 (0.294%) Oracle ADF
9 2 (0.294%) COM
9 2 (0.294%) J2EE
9 2 (0.294%) jQuery
9 2 (0.294%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (0.294%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.294%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 17 (2.500%) MS Exchange
2 15 (2.206%) Exchange Server 2007
3 8 (1.176%) Apache Pig
4 7 (1.029%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.882%) CMS
6 5 (0.735%) SAS
7 4 (0.588%) Force.com
8 3 (0.441%) Lync
8 3 (0.441%) Confluence
8 3 (0.441%) ESB
9 2 (0.294%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.147%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.147%) Drupal
10 1 (0.147%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.147%) TeamSite
10 1 (0.147%) LiveLink
Applications
1 42 (6.176%) MS Office
2 36 (5.294%) MS Visio
3 34 (5.000%) MS Excel
4 21 (3.088%) MS PowerPoint
5 17 (2.500%) MS Project
6 3 (0.441%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.294%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.147%) FastStats
Business Applications
1 5 (0.735%) Summit
2 4 (0.588%) Oracle Financials
2 4 (0.588%) Loan IQ
2 4 (0.588%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.441%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 3 (0.441%) Google Analytics
3 3 (0.441%) ION MarketView
3 3 (0.441%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.294%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.294%) SAP APO
4 2 (0.294%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.294%) LatentZero
4 2 (0.294%) Tesseract
4 2 (0.294%) Minerva
4 2 (0.294%) Sentinel
5 1 (0.147%) SiteCatalyst
5 1 (0.147%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.147%) Taleo
5 1 (0.147%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.147%) Adaptiv
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.971%) Intranet
2 23 (3.382%) Internet
3 18 (2.647%) LAN
3 18 (2.647%) WAN
4 15 (2.206%) Cisco ASA
5 9 (1.324%) HTTP
6 5 (0.735%) Extranet
7 3 (0.441%) SAN
8 2 (0.294%) VoIP
9 1 (0.147%) MPLS
9 1 (0.147%) FTP
9 1 (0.147%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (7.647%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (4.559%) SQL Server
3 17 (2.500%) Data Mining
4 14 (2.059%) RDBMS
4 14 (2.059%) SQL Server 2008
4 14 (2.059%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (1.765%) SQL Server 2005
6 10 (1.471%) Big Data
7 8 (1.176%) OLAP
7 8 (1.176%) Apache Hive
7 8 (1.176%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.176%) Apache Cassandra
7 8 (1.176%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.176%) Hadoop
7 8 (1.176%) HBase
7 8 (1.176%) Mahout
8 7 (1.029%) MS Access
9 3 (0.441%) Data Mart
9 3 (0.441%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (0.441%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 10 (1.471%) ERwin
2 9 (1.324%) JIRA
3 7 (1.029%) Axure RP
3 7 (1.029%) ClearCase
4 3 (0.441%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.294%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
5 2 (0.294%) Visual Studio Team System
5 2 (0.294%) NUnit
5 2 (0.294%) MSTest
5 2 (0.294%) Rhino Mocks
6 1 (0.147%) Balsamiq Mockups
6 1 (0.147%) JBehave
6 1 (0.147%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.147%) Ant
6 1 (0.147%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.147%) ClearQuest
6 1 (0.147%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.147%) JDeveloper
General
1 257 (37.79%) Finance
2 229 (33.68%) Banking
3 111 (16.32%) Investment Banking
4 78 (11.47%) Front Office
5 60 (8.824%) Retail
6 27 (3.971%) Back Office
7 18 (2.647%) Marketing
8 16 (2.353%) Billing
9 14 (2.059%) Retail Banking
10 11 (1.618%) Legal
11 10 (1.471%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.324%) Advertising
13 8 (1.176%) Games
14 7 (1.029%) Corporate Banking
15 6 (0.882%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.735%) International Banking
16 5 (0.735%) Law
17 4 (0.588%) General Ledger
18 2 (0.294%) Private Banking
18 2 (0.294%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 475 (69.85%) Analyst
2 424 (62.35%) Business Analyst
3 60 (8.824%) Project Manager
4 48 (7.059%) Banking Business Analyst
5 41 (6.029%) Architect
6 40 (5.882%) Data Analyst
7 32 (4.706%) Developer
8 29 (4.265%) Senior Analyst
9 26 (3.824%) Data Modeller
9 26 (3.824%) Senior Business Analyst
10 21 (3.088%) Technical Analyst
11 20 (2.941%) Solutions Architect
12 19 (2.794%) Technical Business Analyst
12 19 (2.794%) Consultant
13 18 (2.647%) Insurance Business Analyst
13 18 (2.647%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
14 14 (2.059%) Agile Business Analyst
14 14 (2.059%) Credit Risk Analyst
14 14 (2.059%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
15 13 (1.912%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.500%) Derivative
2 40 (5.882%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 37 (5.441%) Management Information System
4 36 (5.294%) Fixed Income
5 27 (3.971%) Credit Risk
6 22 (3.235%) Market Risk
7 15 (2.206%) Blackberry
8 14 (2.059%) Equities
9 11 (1.618%) Reference Data
10 10 (1.471%) Mathematics
10 10 (1.471%) Computer Science
11 9 (1.324%) Social Network
11 9 (1.324%) Data Integration
12 8 (1.176%) Physics
12 8 (1.176%) Equity Derivative
12 8 (1.176%) Machine Learning
13 7 (1.029%) IIBA
13 7 (1.029%) EPoS
14 6 (0.882%) Client/Server
14 6 (0.882%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.853%) Windows
2 26 (3.824%) Windows 7
3 15 (2.206%) Windows Server 2008
3 15 (2.206%) Windows XP
3 15 (2.206%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (1.029%) UNIX
5 2 (0.294%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (17.21%) Project Management
2 91 (13.38%) UML
3 88 (12.94%) Data Modelling
4 83 (12.21%) Use Case
5 77 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
6 73 (10.74%) Data Analysis
7 62 (9.118%) User Acceptance Testing
8 54 (7.941%) PRINCE2
8 54 (7.941%) Agile Software Development
9 50 (7.353%) ITIL
10 45 (6.618%) Asset Management
11 44 (6.471%) E-Commerce
11 44 (6.471%) Migration
11 44 (6.471%) Waterfall
12 40 (5.882%) Scrum
12 40 (5.882%) Workflow
13 36 (5.294%) Change Management
14 33 (4.853%) GAP Analysis
14 33 (4.853%) User Stories
15 30 (4.412%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 134 (19.71%) SQL
2 31 (4.559%) VBA
3 21 (3.088%) Java
4 11 (1.618%) T-SQL
5 10 (1.471%) C#
6 8 (1.176%) Python
7 7 (1.029%) Perl
8 6 (0.882%) C++
8 6 (0.882%) VBScript
9 5 (0.735%) VB.NET
10 4 (0.588%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.441%) C
12 2 (0.294%) XAML
12 2 (0.294%) VB
13 1 (0.147%) Scala
13 1 (0.147%) Ruby
13 1 (0.147%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.147%) Jython
Qualifications
1 67 (9.853%) Degree
2 34 (5.000%) ISEB
3 27 (3.971%) Security Cleared
4 17 (2.500%) CCNA
4 17 (2.500%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (2.206%) SC Cleared
5 15 (2.206%) MCSE
5 15 (2.206%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.588%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 3 (0.441%) ISEB Practitioner
7 3 (0.441%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.441%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.441%) ACCA
8 2 (0.294%) CIMA
8 2 (0.294%) PMP
9 1 (0.147%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.147%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.147%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.147%) CISSP
9 1 (0.147%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.941%) SLA
1 20 (2.941%) QA
2 9 (1.324%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.324%) Basel II
3 6 (0.882%) ISO 9001
3 6 (0.882%) Basel III
4 5 (0.735%) FATCA
5 4 (0.588%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.441%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.294%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.147%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.147%) MiFID
8 1 (0.147%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 18 (2.647%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.441%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.147%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 8 (1.176%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 34 (5.000%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.529%) Oracle
3 20 (2.941%) Cisco
4 17 (2.500%) Citrix
5 14 (2.059%) Teradata
5 14 (2.059%) Bloomberg
6 12 (1.765%) Informatica
6 12 (1.765%) Business Objects
7 10 (1.471%) Murex
7 10 (1.471%) Calypso
7 10 (1.471%) IBM
8 9 (1.324%) HP
8 9 (1.324%) Salesforce.com
8 9 (1.324%) Cognos
8 9 (1.324%) Ab Initio
9 8 (1.176%) DataFlux
10 7 (1.029%) thinkFolio
10 7 (1.029%) SAP
11 6 (0.882%) SunGard
12 5 (0.735%) Sybase
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Rate: £450 - £550 per day
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Rate: £450 - £550 per day
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City of London
You will be required to have the following skills and experience in order to be successful for this long term and immediate start position.
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Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 10 May 2013
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