City of London Systems Analysis Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Systems Analysis skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Systems Analysis over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chatham Cheshire City of London Coventry Darlington Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Havant Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Knutsford Leamington Spa Leeds Liverpool Livingston London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	162	174
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	53	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.071 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	1.090 %	0.602 %
Daily rates quoted	19	17
Average minimum daily rate	£372	£529
Average daily rate	£411	£549
% change on same period last year	-25.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£568
UK excluding London average daily rate	£364	£349
% change on same period last year	+4.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£75.00	-
Average hourly rate	£85.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£95.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.19	£30.72
% change on same period last year	+1.52 %
Processes & Methodologies City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	4862	3489
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	6.481 %	3.530 %
Daily rates quoted	2731	1590
Average minimum daily rate	£426	£449
Average daily rate	£468	£485
% change on same period last year	-3.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£509	£521
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	103	76
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.96	£25.60
Average hourly rate	£29.14	£27.96
% change on same period last year	+4.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.32	£30.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Systems Analysis London

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 Analysis across the City of London 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 Systems Analysis across the City of London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Analysis across the City of London region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Analysis across the City of London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Systems 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 Systems Analysis.

1 40 (42.11 %) Finance 2 32 (33.68 %) Banking 3 30 (31.58 %) SQL 4 25 (26.32 %) UML 5 22 (23.16 %) Front Office 6 21 (22.11 %) Business Analysis 7 16 (16.84 %) OO 8 15 (15.79 %) RUP 9 14 (14.74 %) Project Management 10 11 (11.58 %) Microsoft 10 11 (11.58 %) Data Modelling 11 10 (10.53 %) VB 11 10 (10.53 %) UNIX 11 10 (10.53 %) Derivative 12 9 (9.474 %) Asset Management

12 9 (9.474 %) Oracle 13 8 (8.421 %) .NET 13 8 (8.421 %) Back Office 13 8 (8.421 %) Investment Management 14 7 (7.368 %) Investment Banking 14 7 (7.368 %) Project Planning 14 7 (7.368 %) Fixed Income 14 7 (7.368 %) Java 14 7 (7.368 %) Windows 2000 15 6 (6.316 %) Apache 15 6 (6.316 %) MS Excel 15 6 (6.316 %) Linux 15 6 (6.316 %) MS Office 15 6 (6.316 %) Workflow 15 6 (6.316 %) City Networks

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Systems 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 Systems Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (8.421 %) .NET 2 6 (6.316 %) Middleware 3 3 (3.158 %) COM 3 3 (3.158 %) WebServices 4 2 (2.105 %) JSP 5 1 (1.053 %) XML 5 1 (1.053 %) J2EE 5 1 (1.053 %) ADO.NET 5 1 (1.053 %) ASP.NET 5 1 (1.053 %) WinForms 5 1 (1.053 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 6 (6.316 %) Apache 1 6 (6.316 %) TIBCO EMS 2 3 (3.158 %) CMS 2 3 (3.158 %) SharePoint 3 1 (1.053 %) Documentum 3 1 (1.053 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 6 (6.316 %) MS Office 1 6 (6.316 %) MS Excel 2 4 (4.211 %) MS Visio 3 2 (2.105 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 6 (6.316 %) BusinessWorks 2 2 (2.105 %) SAP FI 2 2 (2.105 %) SAP FI/CO 2 2 (2.105 %) SAP CO 2 2 (2.105 %) SAP Bank Analyzer 2 2 (2.105 %) TIBCO iProcess 3 1 (1.053 %) Misys Midas 3 1 (1.053 %) PeopleSoft Financials 3 1 (1.053 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 3 1 (1.053 %) MAXIMO 3 1 (1.053 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 6 (6.316 %) TCP/IP 2 4 (4.211 %) LDAP 3 1 (1.053 %) GPRS 3 1 (1.053 %) Internet 3 1 (1.053 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (4.211 %) Ingres 2 3 (3.158 %) Data Mining 2 3 (3.158 %) Datawarehouse 2 3 (3.158 %) Reference Data 2 3 (3.158 %) SQL Server 2 3 (3.158 %) BusinessObjects 3 2 (2.105 %) DataStage 3 2 (2.105 %) DB2 3 2 (2.105 %) Oracle Reports 4 1 (1.053 %) MySQL 4 1 (1.053 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (1.053 %) ETL 4 1 (1.053 %) SQL Server 7 4 1 (1.053 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (1.053 %) EDRMS 4 1 (1.053 %) GIS 4 1 (1.053 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 4 1 (1.053 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 3 (3.158 %) ClearCase 1 3 (3.158 %) Rational Rose 1 3 (3.158 %) RequisitePro 2 1 (1.053 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (1.053 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 40 (42.11 %) Finance 2 32 (33.68 %) Banking 3 22 (23.16 %) Front Office 4 8 (8.421 %) Back Office 5 7 (7.368 %) Investment Banking 6 4 (4.211 %) Insurance 7 3 (3.158 %) Retail 7 3 (3.158 %) Billing 8 2 (2.105 %) Private Banking 8 2 (2.105 %) Online Banking 8 2 (2.105 %) Pensions 8 2 (2.105 %) Education 8 2 (2.105 %) Government 8 2 (2.105 %) Publishing 9 1 (1.053 %) Electric 9 1 (1.053 %) Construction 9 1 (1.053 %) Music 9 1 (1.053 %) Music Industry 9 1 (1.053 %) Retail Banking 9 1 (1.053 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 73 (76.84 %) Analyst 2 48 (50.53 %) Business Analyst 3 13 (13.68 %) Systems Analyst 4 12 (12.63 %) Support Analyst 5 11 (11.58 %) Developer 6 10 (10.53 %) Project Manager 7 7 (7.368 %) Business Systems Analyst 8 6 (6.316 %) Senior Analyst 8 6 (6.316 %) Analyst Developer 8 6 (6.316 %) Project Analyst 9 4 (4.211 %) UML Business Analyst 9 4 (4.211 %) Banking Business Analyst 10 3 (3.158 %) TIBCO Analyst 10 3 (3.158 %) TIBCO Support 10 3 (3.158 %) Investment Banking Business Analyst 10 3 (3.158 %) Architect 11 2 (2.105 %) Applications Support 11 2 (2.105 %) Senior Business Analyst 11 2 (2.105 %) Consultant 11 2 (2.105 %) Systems Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 10 (10.53 %) Derivative 2 7 (7.368 %) Fixed Income 3 5 (5.263 %) Equities 4 3 (3.158 %) Management Information System 4 3 (3.158 %) Credit Risk 5 2 (2.105 %) Equity Derivative 5 2 (2.105 %) W3C 5 2 (2.105 %) Mainframe 6 1 (1.053 %) Client/Server 6 1 (1.053 %) NHS 6 1 (1.053 %) VAX
Operating Systems 1 10 (10.53 %) UNIX 2 7 (7.368 %) Windows 2000 3 6 (6.316 %) Linux 4 4 (4.211 %) VMS 5 2 (2.105 %) Windows XP 5 2 (2.105 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (26.32 %) UML 2 21 (22.11 %) Business Analysis 3 16 (16.84 %) OO 4 15 (15.79 %) RUP 5 14 (14.74 %) Project Management 6 11 (11.58 %) Data Modelling 7 9 (9.474 %) Asset Management 8 8 (8.421 %) Investment Management 9 7 (7.368 %) Project Planning 10 6 (6.316 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 6 (6.316 %) Workflow 11 5 (5.263 %) Risk Management 11 5 (5.263 %) PRINCE2 11 5 (5.263 %) Fund Management 11 5 (5.263 %) Data Analysis 12 4 (4.211 %) Wealth Management 12 4 (4.211 %) Requirements Analysis 12 4 (4.211 %) E-Commerce 12 4 (4.211 %) Business Intelligence 13 3 (3.158 %) DSDM
Programming Languages 1 30 (31.58 %) SQL 2 10 (10.53 %) VB 3 7 (7.368 %) Java 4 6 (6.316 %) VB6 5 4 (4.211 %) C# 6 3 (3.158 %) C 6 3 (3.158 %) PL/SQL 7 2 (2.105 %) Transact-SQL 7 2 (2.105 %) VBA 8 1 (1.053 %) Euclid 8 1 (1.053 %) VB.NET 8 1 (1.053 %) COBOL 8 1 (1.053 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 4 (4.211 %) Degree 2 2 (2.105 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (4.211 %) QA 2 3 (3.158 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	Vendors 1 11 (11.58 %) Microsoft 2 9 (9.474 %) Oracle 3 6 (6.316 %) TIBCO 3 6 (6.316 %) City Networks 4 3 (3.158 %) iSOFT 4 3 (3.158 %) Business Objects 5 2 (2.105 %) PeopleSoft 5 2 (2.105 %) SAP 5 2 (2.105 %) Cognos 5 2 (2.105 %) HP 6 1 (1.053 %) Informatica 6 1 (1.053 %) MicroStrategy 6 1 (1.053 %) Sun 6 1 (1.053 %) IBM 6 1 (1.053 %) FileNet 6 1 (1.053 %) Teradata 6 1 (1.053 %) Infor