Edinburgh Business Analysis Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Analysis skills within the Edinburgh 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Andover Aylesbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clevedon Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hove Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Market Drayton Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Stevenage 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 Wetherby Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	40
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	51	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.068 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	11.33 %	4.690 %
Daily rates quoted	22	10
Average minimum daily rate	£197	£314
Average daily rate	£222	£337
% change on same period last year	-34.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£246	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£27.50
Average hourly rate	£22.50	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-18.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.39	£29.92
% change on same period last year	+1.55 %
Processes & Methodologies Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	450	661
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.600 %	0.659 %
Daily rates quoted	133	166
Average minimum daily rate	£272	£339
Average daily rate	£295	£357
% change on same period last year	-17.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.52	£34.76
Average hourly rate	£30.34	£36.92
% change on same period last year	-17.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.17	£39.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Business Analysis Scotland

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 Business Analysis across the Edinburgh 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 Business Analysis across the Edinburgh region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analysis across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Business Analysis across the Edinburgh region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 54 (70.13 %) Finance 2 18 (23.38 %) Stakeholder Management 3 16 (20.78 %) Change Management 3 16 (20.78 %) Pensions 4 12 (15.58 %) GAP Analysis 5 9 (11.69 %) Banking 6 8 (10.39 %) Security Management 7 7 (9.091 %) Data Management 8 6 (7.792 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 6 (7.792 %) Financial Institution 9 5 (6.494 %) PRINCE2 9 5 (6.494 %) Six Sigma 9 5 (6.494 %) CRM 10 4 (5.195 %) SharePoint 10 4 (5.195 %) MS Visio

10 4 (5.195 %) Microsoft 10 4 (5.195 %) Retail 11 3 (3.896 %) Requirements Analysis 11 3 (3.896 %) Systems Analysis 11 3 (3.896 %) System Testing 11 3 (3.896 %) RDF 11 3 (3.896 %) Java 11 3 (3.896 %) XML 11 3 (3.896 %) Mainframe 12 2 (2.597 %) Project Management 12 2 (2.597 %) VB 12 2 (2.597 %) MS Office 12 2 (2.597 %) Oracle 12 2 (2.597 %) Data Modelling 12 2 (2.597 %) SSADM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (3.896 %) XML 2 1 (1.299 %) XSLT 2 1 (1.299 %) AJAX 2 1 (1.299 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 2 1 (1.299 %) CAML 2 1 (1.299 %) .NET 2 1 (1.299 %) J2EE 2 1 (1.299 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 4 (5.195 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 4 (5.195 %) MS Visio 2 2 (2.597 %) MS PowerPoint 2 2 (2.597 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.299 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.299 %) MS Project 3 1 (1.299 %) InfoPath 3 1 (1.299 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 1 (1.299 %) Oracle Financials 1 1 (1.299 %) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.299 %) SQL Server 1 1 (1.299 %) MS Access 1 1 (1.299 %) Datawarehouse 1 1 (1.299 %) ETL 1 1 (1.299 %) BusinessObjects 1 1 (1.299 %) GIS 1 1 (1.299 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 1 1 (1.299 %) SQL Server Integration Services	Development Applications 1 1 (1.299 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (1.299 %) QuickTest Pro
General 1 54 (70.13 %) Finance 2 16 (20.78 %) Pensions 3 9 (11.69 %) Banking 4 6 (7.792 %) Financial Institution 5 4 (5.195 %) Retail 6 2 (2.597 %) Retail Banking 6 2 (2.597 %) Insurance 7 1 (1.299 %) General Ledger 7 1 (1.299 %) Electronics 7 1 (1.299 %) Telecoms 7 1 (1.299 %) Education	Job Titles 1 65 (84.42 %) Analyst 2 58 (75.32 %) Business Analyst 3 3 (3.896 %) Developer 3 3 (3.896 %) Project Manager 4 2 (2.597 %) Consultant 4 2 (2.597 %) Process Analyst 5 1 (1.299 %) Security Analyst 5 1 (1.299 %) Oracle Developer 5 1 (1.299 %) Business Consultant 5 1 (1.299 %) Project Analyst 5 1 (1.299 %) Change Analyst 5 1 (1.299 %) Change Consultant 5 1 (1.299 %) SharePoint Consultant 5 1 (1.299 %) PeopleSoft Analyst 5 1 (1.299 %) Lead Business Analyst 5 1 (1.299 %) Business Process Analyst 5 1 (1.299 %) Service Analyst 5 1 (1.299 %) Test Analyst 5 1 (1.299 %) Architect
Miscellaneous 1 3 (3.896 %) Mainframe 2 1 (1.299 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 1 (1.299 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (23.38 %) Stakeholder Management 2 16 (20.78 %) Change Management 3 12 (15.58 %) GAP Analysis 4 8 (10.39 %) Security Management 5 7 (9.091 %) Data Management 6 6 (7.792 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 5 (6.494 %) Six Sigma 7 5 (6.494 %) PRINCE2 7 5 (6.494 %) CRM 8 3 (3.896 %) RDF 8 3 (3.896 %) Requirements Analysis 8 3 (3.896 %) System Testing 8 3 (3.896 %) Systems Analysis 9 2 (2.597 %) Content Management 9 2 (2.597 %) Validation 9 2 (2.597 %) Data Modelling 9 2 (2.597 %) SSADM 9 2 (2.597 %) Project Management 10 1 (1.299 %) Process Management 10 1 (1.299 %) BPR	Programming Languages 1 3 (3.896 %) Java 2 2 (2.597 %) VB 3 1 (1.299 %) SQL 3 1 (1.299 %) C 3 1 (1.299 %) C#
Vendors 1 4 (5.195 %) Microsoft 2 2 (2.597 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.299 %) Business Objects 3 1 (1.299 %) PeopleSoft 3 1 (1.299 %) ESRI