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This section looks at the demand for the Systems Analyst role in IT contracts within the City of London 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 Systems Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 System Analyst
Location
3 months to
21 Aug 2008
Same period last year
Rank131115
Rank change on same period last yearDown-16
Matching contract IT job ads10091
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.132 %0.091 %
As % of the category below1.217 %1.364 %
Daily rates quoted5542
Average minimum daily rate£385£439
Average daily rate£422£472
% change on same period last year-10.70 %
Average maximum daily rate£459£506
UK excluding London average daily rate£351£343
% change on same period last year+2.32 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.49£29.30
% change on same period last year+4.09 %
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
City of London
Matching contract IT job ads82206670
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled10.85 %6.643 %
Daily rates quoted44872711
Average minimum daily rate£419£442
Average daily rate£457£474
% change on same period last year-3.66 %
Average maximum daily rate£495£506
UK excluding London average daily rate£355£354
% change on same period last year+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted348219
Average minimum hourly rate£23.35£21.88
Average hourly rate£25.10£23.16
% change on same period last year+8.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate£26.85£24.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.60£25.69
% change on same period last year-8.13 %
Systems Analyst LondonSystems Analyst
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.

Systems Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Systems Analyst across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Systems Analyst Demand Trend

Systems Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Systems Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Systems Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Analyst across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

City of London Systems Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Systems Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Systems Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Systems 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 Systems Analyst in their job title.

178 (48.75 %)Finance
250 (31.25 %)Banking
344 (27.50 %)UML
435 (21.88 %)SQL
534 (21.25 %)Credit Risk
629 (18.13 %)Investment Banking
629 (18.13 %)Oracle
719 (11.88 %)Front Office
818 (11.25 %)Windows Server 2003
818 (11.25 %)Windows
916 (10.00 %)MS Office
916 (10.00 %)UNIX
1015 (9.375 %)SQL Server
1015 (9.375 %)Business Analysis
1015 (9.375 %)Insurance
1114 (8.750 %)Systems Analysis
1114 (8.750 %).NET
1213 (8.125 %)User Acceptance Testing
1312 (7.500 %)Data Analysis
1312 (7.500 %)Fixed Income
1312 (7.500 %)Risk Management
1312 (7.500 %)C#
1312 (7.500 %)MS Visio
1312 (7.500 %)Microsoft
1411 (6.875 %)IIS
1411 (6.875 %)Migration
1411 (6.875 %)Use Case
1510 (6.250 %)OO
1510 (6.250 %)RUP
169 (5.625 %)Windows 2000 Server

Systems Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Systems 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 Systems Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
114 (8.750 %).NET
24 (2.500 %)ASP
24 (2.500 %)ASP.NET
24 (2.500 %)WebServices
32 (1.250 %).NET Framework
32 (1.250 %)XML
32 (1.250 %)XSD
32 (1.250 %)XSLT
41 (0.625 %)XHTML
41 (0.625 %)J2EE
41 (0.625 %)Middleware
41 (0.625 %)AJAX
41 (0.625 %)WebSphere
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
111 (6.875 %)IIS
26 (3.750 %)SharePoint
35 (3.125 %)CMS
44 (2.500 %)LiveLink
52 (1.250 %)SharePoint Portal Server
52 (1.250 %)Lotus Notes
61 (0.625 %)Documentum
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
116 (10.00 %)MS Office
212 (7.500 %)MS Visio
38 (5.000 %)MS Excel
41 (0.625 %)MS PowerPoint
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
15 (3.125 %)Great Plains
22 (1.250 %)Misys Midas
22 (1.250 %)Minerva
31 (0.625 %)SAP HR
31 (0.625 %)Academy Housing
31 (0.625 %)arcHouse
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
14 (2.500 %)SSH
14 (2.500 %)FTP
23 (1.875 %)Firewall
32 (1.250 %)Internet
41 (0.625 %)TCP/IP
41 (0.625 %)DNS
41 (0.625 %)DHCP
41 (0.625 %)Extranet
41 (0.625 %)Intranet
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
115 (9.375 %)SQL Server
28 (5.000 %)SQL Server 2000
35 (3.125 %)Datawarehouse
35 (3.125 %)RDBMS
35 (3.125 %)SQL Server 2005
44 (2.500 %)EDRMS
44 (2.500 %)Ingres
53 (1.875 %)BusinessObjects
53 (1.875 %)Oracle 8/8i
62 (1.250 %)Crystal Reports
62 (1.250 %)MS Access
62 (1.250 %)ETL
71 (0.625 %)PowerCenter
71 (0.625 %)Reference Data
71 (0.625 %)NonStop SQL
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
16 (3.750 %)Rational Rose
24 (2.500 %)ERwin
24 (2.500 %)RequisitePro
33 (1.875 %)ClearCase
41 (0.625 %)Oracle Forms
41 (0.625 %)ClearQuest
41 (0.625 %)WinRunner
41 (0.625 %)QuickTest Pro
41 (0.625 %)LoadRunner
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
178 (48.75 %)Finance
250 (31.25 %)Banking
329 (18.13 %)Investment Banking
419 (11.88 %)Front Office
515 (9.375 %)Insurance
68 (5.000 %)Retail
68 (5.000 %)Law
77 (4.375 %)Education
84 (2.500 %)Financial Institution
92 (1.250 %)Health
92 (1.250 %)Legal
101 (0.625 %)Back Office
101 (0.625 %)Telecoms
101 (0.625 %)Billing
101 (0.625 %)Publishing
101 (0.625 %)Government
101 (0.625 %)Police
101 (0.625 %)Home Office
101 (0.625 %)Online Banking
101 (0.625 %)Music
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
134 (21.25 %)Credit Risk
212 (7.500 %)Fixed Income
38 (5.000 %)Derivative
47 (4.375 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
56 (3.750 %)Spanish Language
62 (1.250 %)Market Risk
62 (1.250 %)Equities
62 (1.250 %)Blackberry
71 (0.625 %)Management Information System
71 (0.625 %)EPoS
71 (0.625 %)Tandem
71 (0.625 %)Credit Derivative
71 (0.625 %)Clustering
71 (0.625 %)Statistics
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
118 (11.25 %)Windows Server 2003
118 (11.25 %)Windows
216 (10.00 %)UNIX
39 (5.625 %)Windows 2000 Server
44 (2.500 %)Windows XP
44 (2.500 %)VMS
52 (1.250 %)Mac OS X
52 (1.250 %)Windows 2000
61 (0.625 %)Windows NT
61 (0.625 %)Solaris
61 (0.625 %)Linux
61 (0.625 %)Red Hat Linux
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
144 (27.50 %)UML
215 (9.375 %)Business Analysis
314 (8.750 %)Systems Analysis
413 (8.125 %)User Acceptance Testing
512 (7.500 %)Data Analysis
512 (7.500 %)Risk Management
611 (6.875 %)Migration
611 (6.875 %)Use Case
710 (6.250 %)OO
710 (6.250 %)RUP
88 (5.000 %)DSDM
88 (5.000 %)CRM
88 (5.000 %)Workflow
88 (5.000 %)Project Management
97 (4.375 %)Document Management
106 (3.750 %)Service Management
114 (2.500 %)Test Scripting
114 (2.500 %)Agile Software Development
114 (2.500 %)Practice Management
114 (2.500 %)PRINCE2
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
135 (21.88 %)SQL
212 (7.500 %)C#
35 (3.125 %)C
44 (2.500 %)VB.NET
53 (1.875 %)VB
53 (1.875 %)JavaScript
53 (1.875 %)VB6
62 (1.250 %)C++
62 (1.250 %)PL/SQL
62 (1.250 %)Transact-SQL
71 (0.625 %)Java
71 (0.625 %)Perl
71 (0.625 %)Shell Script
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
13 (1.875 %)Microsoft Certification
22 (1.250 %)Degree
22 (1.250 %)MCSD
31 (0.625 %)Cisco Certification
31 (0.625 %)MCSE
31 (0.625 %)ACCA
31 (0.625 %)CIMA
31 (0.625 %)PRINCE2 Certification
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
14 (2.500 %)PCI DSS
21 (0.625 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
21 (0.625 %)QA
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
15 (3.125 %)Active Directory
21 (0.625 %)MetaFrame
21 (0.625 %)VMware ESX
21 (0.625 %)VMware Infrastructure
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
11 (0.625 %)MOM
11 (0.625 %)BMC PATROL
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
129 (18.13 %)Oracle
212 (7.500 %)Microsoft
34 (2.500 %)Open Text
34 (2.500 %)Bloomberg
43 (1.875 %)HP
43 (1.875 %)Citrix
43 (1.875 %)Business Objects
52 (1.250 %)Singularity
52 (1.250 %)thinkFolio
52 (1.250 %)VMware
52 (1.250 %)LatentZero
52 (1.250 %)Novell
52 (1.250 %)Apple
52 (1.250 %)Lotus
52 (1.250 %)Reuters
52 (1.250 %)Remedy
52 (1.250 %)Siebel
61 (0.625 %)Dell
61 (0.625 %)EMC
61 (0.625 %)Cognos