The first table below looks at the demand for the Functional Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Functional Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 England 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Functional Analyst
Rank 446 485 515
Rank change year-on-year
+39 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Analyst 67 74 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.161% 0.139% 0.100%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.174% 0.150% 0.108%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 41 25
Average daily rate £400 £369 £402
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.54% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £175 £198
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £438 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £372 £338
% change year-on-year
-9.27% +10.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £35.44 £30.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.13% -33.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year
- -33.33%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1983 2412 2765
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Functional Analyst
UK

Functional Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Functional Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Functional Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Functional Analyst across the England region.

England Functional Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Functional Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Functional Analyst across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Functional Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Functional Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Functional Analyst across the England region.

England Functional Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Functional Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Analyst within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +37 46 £425 +16.43%
North West +19 7 £338 -1.45%
South East +14 6 £350 -7.77%
South West +27 2 £413 -2.94%
East of England +13 2 £230 -
Yorkshire 0 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 £225 -
Functional Analyst
UK

Functional Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Functional 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 Functional Analyst in their job title.

1 40 (36.36%) SAP
2 31 (28.18%) Finance
3 29 (26.36%) Oracle
4 23 (20.91%) Test Scripting
5 20 (18.18%) CRM
6 16 (14.55%) Banking
6 16 (14.55%) SQL
6 16 (14.55%) Oracle EBS
7 14 (12.73%) Migration
8 13 (11.82%) Siebel
9 12 (10.91%) User Acceptance Testing
10 11 (10.00%) Oracle EBS R12
11 10 (9.091%) Data Migration
11 10 (9.091%) FMCG
11 10 (9.091%) Retail
11 10 (9.091%) Validation
12 9 (8.182%) SAP CRM
12 9 (8.182%) HP Quality Center
13 8 (7.273%) Security Cleared
13 8 (7.273%) Oracle BI EE
13 8 (7.273%) Business Analysis
13 8 (7.273%) Business Intelligence
14 7 (6.364%) Back Office
14 7 (6.364%) Functional Testing
15 6 (5.455%) SAP Implementation
15 6 (5.455%) Investment Banking
15 6 (5.455%) SAP Oil and Gas
15 6 (5.455%) SAP EHS
15 6 (5.455%) ERP
15 6 (5.455%) Java

Functional Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Functional 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 Functional Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (4.545%) .NET
1 5 (4.545%) XML
2 3 (2.727%) XML Messaging
3 2 (1.818%) HTML
3 2 (1.818%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.909%) XSLT
4 1 (0.909%) CSS
4 1 (0.909%) JSP
4 1 (0.909%) J2EE
4 1 (0.909%) EDI
4 1 (0.909%) Web Dynpro
4 1 (0.909%) Murex MxML
Application Platforms
1 2 (1.818%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.909%) Apache
2 1 (0.909%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.909%) TeamSite
2 1 (0.909%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.909%) CMS
2 1 (0.909%) LiveSite
Applications
1 1 (0.909%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 16 (14.55%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (10.00%) Oracle EBS R12
3 9 (8.182%) SAP CRM
4 6 (5.455%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 6 (5.455%) SAP EHS
5 5 (4.545%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (3.636%) Oracle Retail
6 4 (3.636%) Oracle ASCP
6 4 (3.636%) SAP FI
7 3 (2.727%) Oracle 11i
7 3 (2.727%) SAP MM
7 3 (2.727%) SAP SD
7 3 (2.727%) SAP CO
8 2 (1.818%) JDE World
8 2 (1.818%) Oracle iProcurement
8 2 (1.818%) SAP SCM
8 2 (1.818%) Misys Equation
8 2 (1.818%) SAP WM
8 2 (1.818%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (1.818%) Oracle Payroll
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.636%) CTI
2 2 (1.818%) HTTP
3 1 (0.909%) LDAP
3 1 (0.909%) Internet
3 1 (0.909%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.909%) SSL
3 1 (0.909%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.909%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.273%) Oracle BI EE
2 4 (3.636%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (2.727%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (2.727%) Oracle Discoverer
3 3 (2.727%) SQLPlus
3 3 (2.727%) SAP BI
4 2 (1.818%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (1.818%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.818%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (1.818%) MySQL
5 1 (0.909%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (0.909%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.909%) IDOL
5 1 (0.909%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.909%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 5 (4.545%) JIRA
2 2 (1.818%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.909%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.909%) OpenDeploy
3 1 (0.909%) ClearQuest
3 1 (0.909%) Selenium
3 1 (0.909%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 31 (28.18%) Finance
2 16 (14.55%) Banking
3 10 (9.091%) Retail
4 7 (6.364%) Back Office
5 6 (5.455%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.545%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.545%) Marketing
7 3 (2.727%) General Ledger
7 3 (2.727%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.818%) Private Banking
8 2 (1.818%) Front Office
8 2 (1.818%) Legal
9 1 (0.909%) Publishing
9 1 (0.909%) Law
9 1 (0.909%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.909%) French Language
9 1 (0.909%) Spanish Language
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.091%) FMCG
2 3 (2.727%) Client/Server
2 3 (2.727%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.818%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.818%) Freedom of Information Act
3 2 (1.818%) Derivative
3 2 (1.818%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (1.818%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.909%) NHS
4 1 (0.909%) AS400
4 1 (0.909%) Online Banking
4 1 (0.909%) iSeries
4 1 (0.909%) Reference Data
4 1 (0.909%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.636%) UNIX
2 1 (0.909%) Windows
2 1 (0.909%) Linux
2 1 (0.909%) Windows 2000
2 1 (0.909%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (0.909%) Windows XP
2 1 (0.909%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (20.91%) Test Scripting
2 20 (18.18%) CRM
3 14 (12.73%) Migration
4 12 (10.91%) User Acceptance Testing
5 10 (9.091%) Data Migration
5 10 (9.091%) Validation
6 8 (7.273%) Business Analysis
6 8 (7.273%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (6.364%) Functional Testing
8 6 (5.455%) SAP Implementation
8 6 (5.455%) ERP
9 5 (4.545%) B2B
9 5 (4.545%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (4.545%) BPR
9 5 (4.545%) GAP Analysis
9 5 (4.545%) Service Delivery
9 5 (4.545%) Data Analysis
9 5 (4.545%) Supply Chain Management
9 5 (4.545%) Analytics
10 4 (3.636%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (14.55%) SQL
2 6 (5.455%) Java
3 5 (4.545%) PL/SQL
4 3 (2.727%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.818%) C#
6 1 (0.909%) C
6 1 (0.909%) RPG
6 1 (0.909%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (7.273%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.545%) ISEB
2 5 (4.545%) ISTQB
3 4 (3.636%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.636%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.818%) Degree
5 1 (0.909%) CCAB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.727%) QA
2 1 (0.909%) SLA
2 1 (0.909%) GAAP
System Software
1 1 (0.909%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 9 (8.182%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.909%) Nessus
Vendors
1 40 (36.36%) SAP
2 29 (26.36%) Oracle
3 13 (11.82%) Siebel
4 4 (3.636%) Remedy
4 4 (3.636%) HP
4 4 (3.636%) JD Edwards
5 3 (2.727%) Business Objects
6 2 (1.818%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.818%) Murex
6 2 (1.818%) Misys
6 2 (1.818%) Sybase
7 1 (0.909%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (0.909%) Interwoven
7 1 (0.909%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.909%) Cognos
7 1 (0.909%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.909%) ArcSight
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