The first table below looks at the demand for the Investment Banking Business 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 Investment Banking Business Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Investment Bank Business Analyst
Rank 307 294 202
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -92
Contract jobs requiring an Investment Banking Business Analyst 210 305 483
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.496% 0.570% 0.872%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.537% 0.616% 0.940%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 277 411
Average daily rate £550 £550 £550
90% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £488 £475
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £650 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 - £358
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £24.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
39141 49545 51375
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.52% 92.60% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 22991 28027 28527
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 2036 2429 2720
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 £11.17 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Investment Banking Business Analyst
UK

Investment Banking Business Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Investment Banking Business Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Investment Banking Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Investment Banking Business Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Investment Banking Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Investment Banking Business Analyst across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England Investment Banking Business Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Investment Banking Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Investment Banking Business Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Investment Banking Business Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Banking Business Analyst within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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 -30 206 £550 -
South East - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £463 -
Investment Banking Business Analyst
UK

Investment Banking Business Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Investment Banking Business 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 Investment Banking Business Analyst in their job title.

1 248 (67.21%) Banking
2 238 (64.50%) Investment Banking
3 165 (44.72%) Business Analysis
4 133 (36.04%) Finance
5 120 (32.52%) Front Office
6 114 (30.89%) SQL
7 106 (28.73%) Derivative
8 76 (20.60%) Back Office
9 58 (15.72%) Fixed Income
10 56 (15.18%) User Acceptance Testing
11 55 (14.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 50 (13.55%) Market Risk
13 49 (13.28%) Data Analysis
14 48 (13.01%) Data Modelling
15 46 (12.47%) Credit Derivative
15 46 (12.47%) Credit Risk
16 45 (12.20%) Risk Management
17 42 (11.38%) UML
18 36 (9.756%) Workflow
19 34 (9.214%) Equities
20 31 (8.401%) Use Case
21 28 (7.588%) Project Management
21 28 (7.588%) Basel III
22 27 (7.317%) Monte Carlo Method
23 26 (7.046%) Interest Rate Derivative
23 26 (7.046%) MS Visio
24 25 (6.775%) Java
24 25 (6.775%) Oracle
25 24 (6.504%) Tradeweb
25 24 (6.504%) Validation

Investment Banking Business Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Investment Banking Business 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 Investment Banking Business Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (4.336%) XML
2 14 (3.794%) FpML
3 8 (2.168%) Web Services
4 7 (1.897%) Middleware
5 6 (1.626%) JDBC
6 3 (0.813%) .NET
7 2 (0.542%) Apache Flex
7 2 (0.542%) ODBC
7 2 (0.542%) ADO
8 1 (0.271%) HTML
8 1 (0.271%) XML Schema
8 1 (0.271%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.271%) FIX Protocol
Application Platforms
1 8 (2.168%) Confluence
2 2 (0.542%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.271%) SAS
3 1 (0.271%) SharePoint
Applications
1 26 (7.046%) MS Visio
2 21 (5.691%) MS Excel
3 19 (5.149%) MS Project
3 19 (5.149%) MS PowerPoint
4 10 (2.710%) MS Office
5 1 (0.271%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.271%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.897%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (1.897%) Algo Collateral
2 3 (0.813%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.813%) Summit
3 2 (0.542%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (0.542%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.542%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.542%) SunGard Stream Ubix
3 2 (0.542%) SunGard Stream Clearvision
4 1 (0.271%) Loanet
4 1 (0.271%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.271%) Global One
4 1 (0.271%) Adaptiv
4 1 (0.271%) Kondor+
4 1 (0.271%) LatentZero
4 1 (0.271%) Minerva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.542%) Internet
2 1 (0.271%) Intranet
2 1 (0.271%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.439%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.897%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.626%) TOAD
3 6 (1.626%) Data Mining
3 6 (1.626%) Big Data
4 4 (1.084%) Oracle 8/8i
5 3 (0.813%) SQLPlus
5 3 (0.813%) DB2
5 3 (0.813%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.542%) Oracle 11g
6 2 (0.542%) QlikView
6 2 (0.542%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 2 (0.542%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (0.271%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.271%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.271%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 12 (3.252%) JIRA
2 5 (1.355%) ClearCase
3 3 (0.813%) Rational Rose
4 2 (0.542%) JDeveloper
4 2 (0.542%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.271%) ClearQuest
5 1 (0.271%) Expression Blend
General
1 248 (67.21%) Banking
2 238 (64.50%) Investment Banking
3 133 (36.04%) Finance
4 120 (32.52%) Front Office
5 76 (20.60%) Back Office
6 12 (3.252%) Billing
7 11 (2.981%) French Language
8 10 (2.710%) Legal
9 9 (2.439%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.355%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.542%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.542%) International Banking
11 2 (0.542%) Retail
12 1 (0.271%) Advertising
12 1 (0.271%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.271%) Spanish Language
Miscellaneous
1 106 (28.73%) Derivative
2 58 (15.72%) Fixed Income
3 55 (14.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 50 (13.55%) Market Risk
5 46 (12.47%) Credit Derivative
5 46 (12.47%) Credit Risk
6 34 (9.214%) Equities
7 26 (7.046%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 10 (2.710%) Equity Derivative
9 9 (2.439%) Management Information System
10 8 (2.168%) Wiki
10 8 (2.168%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.355%) Hedge funds
11 5 (1.355%) IIBA
12 1 (0.271%) Kindle
12 1 (0.271%) SWIFT
12 1 (0.271%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.271%) Swaptions
12 1 (0.271%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.084%) UNIX
2 2 (0.542%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (44.72%) Business Analysis
2 56 (15.18%) User Acceptance Testing
3 49 (13.28%) Data Analysis
4 48 (13.01%) Data Modelling
5 45 (12.20%) Risk Management
6 42 (11.38%) UML
7 36 (9.756%) Workflow
8 31 (8.401%) Use Case
9 28 (7.588%) Project Management
10 27 (7.317%) Monte Carlo Method
11 24 (6.504%) Validation
12 23 (6.233%) Analytics
13 20 (5.420%) Agile Software Development
13 20 (5.420%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (5.149%) Data Architecture
15 18 (4.878%) TDD
15 18 (4.878%) CRM
16 16 (4.336%) Asset Management
16 16 (4.336%) Greeks
16 16 (4.336%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 114 (30.89%) SQL
2 25 (6.775%) Java
3 23 (6.233%) VBA
4 18 (4.878%) Python
5 14 (3.794%) Jython
6 10 (2.710%) C#
7 7 (1.897%) C++
8 3 (0.813%) Perl
9 2 (0.542%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.542%) VBScript
9 2 (0.542%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.271%) XAML
10 1 (0.271%) VB
10 1 (0.271%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (2.439%) ISEB
2 8 (2.168%) Degree
3 5 (1.355%) CBAP
3 5 (1.355%) MBA
4 4 (1.084%) CFA
5 2 (0.542%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (0.271%) CIMA
6 1 (0.271%) PMP
6 1 (0.271%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.588%) Basel III
2 20 (5.420%) Basel II
3 8 (2.168%) QA
4 6 (1.626%) MiFID
5 1 (0.271%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.271%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.271%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.271%) SLA
Systems Management
1 19 (5.149%) HP Quality Center
2 6 (1.626%) MOM
Vendors
1 25 (6.775%) Oracle
2 24 (6.504%) Tradeweb
3 20 (5.420%) Bloomberg
4 14 (3.794%) HP
4 14 (3.794%) Reuters
5 11 (2.981%) Calypso
6 10 (2.710%) Pega
7 9 (2.439%) Microsoft
8 7 (1.897%) Fidessa
9 6 (1.626%) Informatica
9 6 (1.626%) Business Objects
10 5 (1.355%) Cognos
11 3 (0.813%) Charles River
11 3 (0.813%) Sybase
11 3 (0.813%) Murex
12 2 (0.542%) SunGard
12 2 (0.542%) Teradata
13 1 (0.271%) OpenLink
13 1 (0.271%) SAP
13 1 (0.271%) Misys
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