The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Analyst role 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 Senior Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Job Titles advertised 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Analyst
Rank 120 81 75
Rank change year-on-year
-39 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 81 166 201
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.282% 2.126% 2.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.387% 2.322% 2.263%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 119 158
Average daily rate £475 £475 £531
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £337 £350 £332
10% offered a daily rate of more than £590 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £375 £355
% change year-on-year
+3.33% +5.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £42.46 - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.50 £23.43 £21.79
% change year-on-year
-42.38% +7.52%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5840 7150 8882
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.42% 91.56% 91.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4286 5125 6488
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £279 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 179 185
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £42.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Analyst
London

Senior Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Senior Analyst across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Senior Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Senior Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Senior Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Analyst across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

City of London Senior Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Senior Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Senior 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 Senior Analyst in their job title.

1 51 (30.00%) SQL
2 42 (24.71%) Finance
3 33 (19.41%) Banking
4 29 (17.06%) Business Analysis
5 26 (15.29%) Data Modelling
6 25 (14.71%) Microsoft
7 24 (14.12%) SQL Server
7 24 (14.12%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (13.53%) Agile Software Development
9 19 (11.18%) Front Office
10 18 (10.59%) User Acceptance Testing
11 17 (10.00%) Windows
11 17 (10.00%) SAS
11 17 (10.00%) Project Management
12 16 (9.412%) Degree
13 15 (8.824%) Derivative
13 15 (8.824%) MS Excel
13 15 (8.824%) Scrum
14 14 (8.235%) Asset Management
14 14 (8.235%) Investment Banking
14 14 (8.235%) ITIL
14 14 (8.235%) Investment Management
14 14 (8.235%) Analytics
15 13 (7.647%) VBA
16 12 (7.059%) Business Objects
16 12 (7.059%) Stakeholder Management
16 12 (7.059%) Fixed Income
16 12 (7.059%) Risk Management
17 11 (6.471%) MS Office
17 11 (6.471%) C#

Senior Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Senior 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 Senior Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (5.294%) XML
2 7 (4.118%) .NET
2 7 (4.118%) Web Services
3 5 (2.941%) HTML
4 4 (2.353%) JSON
5 3 (1.765%) ASP
6 2 (1.176%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.176%) COM+
6 2 (1.176%) CSS
6 2 (1.176%) SOAP
6 2 (1.176%) ADO.NET
6 2 (1.176%) Ajax
6 2 (1.176%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.176%) XSLT
6 2 (1.176%) MDX
6 2 (1.176%) WCF
6 2 (1.176%) jQuery
6 2 (1.176%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (1.176%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.588%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 17 (10.00%) SAS
2 3 (1.765%) WorkSite
2 3 (1.765%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (1.765%) MS Exchange
3 2 (1.176%) MSMQ
4 1 (0.588%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.588%) IIS
4 1 (0.588%) Lotus Domino
4 1 (0.588%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 15 (8.824%) MS Excel
2 11 (6.471%) MS Office
3 8 (4.706%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.765%) MS Project
4 3 (1.765%) MS PowerPoint
5 2 (1.176%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.176%) Office 365
5 2 (1.176%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.353%) Global One
1 4 (2.353%) LatentZero
2 3 (1.765%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.588%) SiteCatalyst
3 1 (0.588%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.588%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.588%) Murex MxG2000
3 1 (0.588%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.941%) HTTP
2 2 (1.176%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.176%) Firewall
3 1 (0.588%) Wireless
3 1 (0.588%) WiMAX
3 1 (0.588%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.588%) LTE
3 1 (0.588%) DNS
3 1 (0.588%) Internet
3 1 (0.588%) OSPF
3 1 (0.588%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.588%) LAN
3 1 (0.588%) UMTS
3 1 (0.588%) WAN
3 1 (0.588%) DHCP
3 1 (0.588%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.12%) SQL Server
1 24 (14.12%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (4.706%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (2.941%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (2.353%) Base SAS
4 4 (2.353%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (2.353%) QlikView
5 3 (1.765%) Big Data
5 3 (1.765%) OLAP
5 3 (1.765%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.176%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (1.176%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (1.176%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (1.176%) SQL Server 2000
6 2 (1.176%) MS Access
7 1 (0.588%) MySQL
7 1 (0.588%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.588%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.588%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.588%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (2.941%) Selenium
2 4 (2.353%) QuickTest Pro
2 4 (2.353%) JUnit
2 4 (2.353%) ProC
3 3 (1.765%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (1.765%) WebDriver
3 3 (1.765%) ERwin
4 2 (1.176%) Git (software)
4 2 (1.176%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.176%) Rhino Mocks
4 2 (1.176%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.176%) Visual Studio Team System
4 2 (1.176%) InstallShield
4 2 (1.176%) NUnit
4 2 (1.176%) Maven
4 2 (1.176%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.588%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.588%) WinRunner
5 1 (0.588%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.588%) Oracle APEX
General
1 42 (24.71%) Finance
2 33 (19.41%) Banking
3 19 (11.18%) Front Office
4 14 (8.235%) Investment Banking
5 10 (5.882%) Retail
5 10 (5.882%) Marketing
5 10 (5.882%) Back Office
6 7 (4.118%) Billing
7 6 (3.529%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.529%) Legal
8 5 (2.941%) Retail Banking
9 4 (2.353%) Games
10 2 (1.176%) Advertising
10 2 (1.176%) Law
10 2 (1.176%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.588%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.588%) French Language
11 1 (0.588%) Publishing
11 1 (0.588%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.824%) Derivative
2 12 (7.059%) Fixed Income
3 11 (6.471%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (4.118%) Economics
4 7 (4.118%) Mathematics
4 7 (4.118%) Credit Risk
5 6 (3.529%) Computer Science
5 6 (3.529%) Equities
5 6 (3.529%) Statistics
5 6 (3.529%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.941%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.765%) Online Games
7 3 (1.765%) NHS
8 2 (1.176%) W3C
8 2 (1.176%) Grid Computing
8 2 (1.176%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (1.176%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.176%) Informatics
8 2 (1.176%) Physics
8 2 (1.176%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.00%) Windows
2 9 (5.294%) UNIX
3 7 (4.118%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (2.941%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.176%) Linux
5 2 (1.176%) Windows 2000
5 2 (1.176%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.588%) Android
6 1 (0.588%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (17.06%) Business Analysis
2 26 (15.29%) Data Modelling
3 23 (13.53%) Agile Software Development
4 18 (10.59%) User Acceptance Testing
5 17 (10.00%) Project Management
6 15 (8.824%) Scrum
7 14 (8.235%) ITIL
7 14 (8.235%) Investment Management
7 14 (8.235%) Asset Management
7 14 (8.235%) Analytics
8 12 (7.059%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (7.059%) Risk Management
9 11 (6.471%) Kimball Methodology
9 11 (6.471%) Statistical Modelling
10 10 (5.882%) Change Management
10 10 (5.882%) CRM
10 10 (5.882%) Integration Testing
10 10 (5.882%) Fund Management
11 9 (5.294%) Data Analysis
11 9 (5.294%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 51 (30.00%) SQL
2 13 (7.647%) VBA
3 11 (6.471%) C#
4 7 (4.118%) Java
5 5 (2.941%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.941%) SAS Macro
6 4 (2.353%) VB
7 3 (1.765%) C
8 2 (1.176%) Python
8 2 (1.176%) VB6
8 2 (1.176%) Ruby
8 2 (1.176%) Perl
8 2 (1.176%) C++
8 2 (1.176%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.176%) VBScript
9 1 (0.588%) PHP
9 1 (0.588%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.588%) Jython
9 1 (0.588%) VC++
Qualifications
1 16 (9.412%) Degree
2 5 (2.941%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.353%) ISEB
4 3 (1.765%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.176%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.588%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.588%) HNC
6 1 (0.588%) MCSE
6 1 (0.588%) CISSP
6 1 (0.588%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.588%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.588%) ACCA
6 1 (0.588%) CIMA
6 1 (0.588%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.529%) Basel III
2 5 (2.941%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.941%) QA
3 4 (2.353%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.176%) Basel II
5 1 (0.588%) FATCA
5 1 (0.588%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (2.941%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.176%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (1.176%) XenApp
2 2 (1.176%) XenDesktop
3 1 (0.588%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (3.529%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.765%) SCCM
3 1 (0.588%) SCOM
3 1 (0.588%) TIBCO Hawk
3 1 (0.588%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.059%) Business Objects
3 6 (3.529%) Oracle
3 6 (3.529%) thinkFolio
4 5 (2.941%) Charles River
4 5 (2.941%) SAP
5 4 (2.353%) Cisco
5 4 (2.353%) VMware
6 3 (1.765%) Hummingbird
6 3 (1.765%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.765%) Calypso
6 3 (1.765%) Citrix
7 2 (1.176%) HP
7 2 (1.176%) IBM
7 2 (1.176%) Murex
7 2 (1.176%) Reuters
7 2 (1.176%) StatPro
8 1 (0.588%) Remedy
8 1 (0.588%) Thunderhead
8 1 (0.588%) Fidessa
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