East Midlands Business Analysis Contracts

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

Business Analysis
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Andover Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Clevedon Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staines Stevenage Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	57
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	39	39
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.052 %	0.039 %
As % of the category below	4.286 %	4.180 %
Daily rates quoted	22	11
Average minimum daily rate	£435	£330
Average daily rate	£462	£361
% change on same period last year	+27.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£489	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£369
% change on same period last year	+4.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£32.50
% change on same period last year	-7.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.45	£29.85
% change on same period last year	-1.33 %
Processes & Methodologies East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	910	933
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.213 %	0.944 %
Daily rates quoted	300	241
Average minimum daily rate	£382	£354
Average daily rate	£404	£373
% change on same period last year	+8.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£391
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	51	96
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.76	£25.68
Average hourly rate	£25.07	£26.97
% change on same period last year	-7.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.38	£28.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Business Analysis England

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 Analysis
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Analysis across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Business Analysis across the East Midlands region.

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analysis across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Business Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Business Analysis across the East Midlands region.

Business Analysis
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analysis within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Northamptonshire	+8	21	£483	+28.74 %
Nottinghamshire	-12	7	£388	+18.02 %
Leicestershire	+9	6	£463	+24.43 %
Derbyshire	+10	1	-	-

Business Analysis England

Business Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 53 (58.89 %) Finance 2 30 (33.33 %) Banking 3 16 (17.78 %) Project Management 4 15 (16.67 %) Data Modelling 4 15 (16.67 %) Change Management 5 14 (15.56 %) GAP Analysis 5 14 (15.56 %) Requirements Analysis 5 14 (15.56 %) CA Clarity 5 14 (15.56 %) UML 6 13 (14.44 %) SSADM 6 13 (14.44 %) Retail 7 12 (13.33 %) Migration 8 11 (12.22 %) Retail Banking 8 11 (12.22 %) DSDM 9 10 (11.11 %) Datawarehouse

10 9 (10.00 %) Stakeholder Management 10 9 (10.00 %) Data Migration 11 8 (8.889 %) Data Analysis 12 7 (7.778 %) SAS 13 6 (6.667 %) ERwin 14 5 (5.556 %) BPR 14 5 (5.556 %) PRINCE2 14 5 (5.556 %) Systems Analysis 15 4 (4.444 %) Data Mart 15 4 (4.444 %) Back Office 15 4 (4.444 %) Manufacturing 15 4 (4.444 %) APACS 15 4 (4.444 %) Citrix Certification 15 4 (4.444 %) Use Case 16 3 (3.333 %) MS Visio

Business Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 2 (2.222 %) ISPF 2 1 (1.111 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 7 (7.778 %) SAS 2 2 (2.222 %) NetWeaver 3 1 (1.111 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 14 (15.56 %) CA Clarity 2 3 (3.333 %) MS Visio 3 2 (2.222 %) MS Office 3 2 (2.222 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (1.111 %) Spreadsheet 4 1 (1.111 %) MS Project 4 1 (1.111 %) Casewise Corporate Modeler Suite	Business Applications 1 2 (2.222 %) Summit 2 1 (1.111 %) JDE OneWorld 2 1 (1.111 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.111 %) SAN 1 1 (1.111 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (11.11 %) Datawarehouse 2 4 (4.444 %) Data Mart 3 3 (3.333 %) DB2 3 3 (3.333 %) Cognos Impromptu 4 2 (2.222 %) Cognos Powerplay 4 2 (2.222 %) SAP BW 4 2 (2.222 %) SAP BI 5 1 (1.111 %) EDRMS 5 1 (1.111 %) GIS 5 1 (1.111 %) Hyperion Essbase 5 1 (1.111 %) SQL Server 5 1 (1.111 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (1.111 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 6 (6.667 %) ERwin 2 1 (1.111 %) Rational Rose	General 1 53 (58.89 %) Finance 2 30 (33.33 %) Banking 3 13 (14.44 %) Retail 4 11 (12.22 %) Retail Banking 5 4 (4.444 %) Back Office 5 4 (4.444 %) Manufacturing 6 3 (3.333 %) Pensions 6 3 (3.333 %) Financial Institution 6 3 (3.333 %) Marketing 6 3 (3.333 %) Insurance 7 2 (2.222 %) Automotive 8 1 (1.111 %) Education 8 1 (1.111 %) Electric 8 1 (1.111 %) Government 8 1 (1.111 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 74 (82.22 %) Analyst 2 66 (73.33 %) Business Analyst 3 9 (10.00 %) Project Manager 4 8 (8.889 %) Banking Business Analyst 5 5 (5.556 %) Architect 5 5 (5.556 %) Business Systems Analyst 5 5 (5.556 %) Systems Analyst 6 4 (4.444 %) Senior Business Analyst 6 4 (4.444 %) Financial Business Analyst 6 4 (4.444 %) Senior Analyst 6 4 (4.444 %) Workstream Manager 7 3 (3.333 %) Financial Services Business Analyst 7 3 (3.333 %) Data Analyst 7 3 (3.333 %) Data Manager 7 3 (3.333 %) Solutions Architect 7 3 (3.333 %) Senior Manager 8 2 (2.222 %) Consultant 8 2 (2.222 %) Developer 8 2 (2.222 %) SAS Analyst 8 2 (2.222 %) Business Manager	Miscellaneous 1 4 (4.444 %) APACS 2 3 (3.333 %) Mainframe 3 2 (2.222 %) Management Information System 4 1 (1.111 %) Informatics 4 1 (1.111 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 1 (1.111 %) UNIX 1 1 (1.111 %) Windows 1 1 (1.111 %) HPUX 1 1 (1.111 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (17.78 %) Project Management 2 15 (16.67 %) Change Management 2 15 (16.67 %) Data Modelling 3 14 (15.56 %) GAP Analysis 3 14 (15.56 %) UML 3 14 (15.56 %) Requirements Analysis 4 13 (14.44 %) SSADM 5 12 (13.33 %) Migration 6 11 (12.22 %) DSDM 7 9 (10.00 %) Stakeholder Management 7 9 (10.00 %) Data Migration 8 8 (8.889 %) Data Analysis 9 5 (5.556 %) Systems Analysis 9 5 (5.556 %) PRINCE2 9 5 (5.556 %) BPR 10 4 (4.444 %) Use Case 11 3 (3.333 %) Business Intelligence 12 2 (2.222 %) Six Sigma 12 2 (2.222 %) ITIL 12 2 (2.222 %) RUP
Programming Languages 1 2 (2.222 %) SQL 1 2 (2.222 %) PL/1 1 2 (2.222 %) JCL 2 1 (1.111 %) VB 2 1 (1.111 %) Java	Qualifications 1 4 (4.444 %) Citrix Certification 2 2 (2.222 %) SAP Certification 2 2 (2.222 %) ISEB 2 2 (2.222 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (1.111 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (1.111 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.111 %) PCI DSS	Vendors 1 3 (3.333 %) Cognos 1 3 (3.333 %) Chordiant 1 3 (3.333 %) JD Edwards 2 2 (2.222 %) Oracle 2 2 (2.222 %) IBM 2 2 (2.222 %) SAP 3 1 (1.111 %) Sun 3 1 (1.111 %) HP 3 1 (1.111 %) Hyperion 3 1 (1.111 %) NetApp 3 1 (1.111 %) Business Objects 3 1 (1.111 %) Casewise 3 1 (1.111 %) Brocade