Glasgow Business Analysis Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Analysis skills within the Glasgow region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Business Analysis over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Analysis
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Andover Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Clevedon Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon 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 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 Pudsey Reading Renfrewshire Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staines Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon 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 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	38
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	30	34
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.040 %	0.036 %
As % of the category below	8.287 %	7.328 %
Daily rates quoted	16	19
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£323
Average daily rate	£367	£332
% change on same period last year	+10.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£341
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£363
% change on same period last year	+6.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£27.50
Average hourly rate	-	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.02	£30.68
% change on same period last year	-5.41 %
Processes & Methodologies Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	362	464
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.477 %	0.492 %
Daily rates quoted	94	150
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£321
Average daily rate	£336	£335
% change on same period last year	+0.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.52	£23.70
Average hourly rate	£21.63	£25.18
% change on same period last year	-14.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.75	£26.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
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.

Business Analysis
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Analysis across the Glasgow 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 Glasgow 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 Glasgow region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 Glasgow region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 19 (35.19 %) Finance 2 11 (20.37 %) Stakeholder Management 2 11 (20.37 %) Data Modelling 3 10 (18.52 %) CRM 3 10 (18.52 %) Banking 4 9 (16.67 %) Project Management 5 8 (14.81 %) SQL 6 6 (11.11 %) Oracle 6 6 (11.11 %) UML 7 5 (9.259 %) Derivative 7 5 (9.259 %) MS Visio 8 4 (7.407 %) Datawarehouse 8 4 (7.407 %) Business Intelligence 8 4 (7.407 %) Six Sigma 8 4 (7.407 %) PRINCE2

8 4 (7.407 %) GAP Analysis 8 4 (7.407 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 3 (5.556 %) Casewise 9 3 (5.556 %) Health 9 3 (5.556 %) Risk Management 9 3 (5.556 %) BPEL 9 3 (5.556 %) SQL Server 9 3 (5.556 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 3 (5.556 %) Business Objects 9 3 (5.556 %) MS Project 9 3 (5.556 %) BusinessObjects 9 3 (5.556 %) ERP 10 2 (3.704 %) E-Commerce 10 2 (3.704 %) Microsoft 10 2 (3.704 %) TOAD

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 1 (1.852 %) .NET	Applications 1 5 (9.259 %) MS Visio 2 3 (5.556 %) MS Project 3 2 (3.704 %) MS Office 4 1 (1.852 %) Casewise Corporate Modeler Suite 4 1 (1.852 %) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.704 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (7.407 %) Datawarehouse 2 3 (5.556 %) SQL Server 2 3 (5.556 %) BusinessObjects 2 3 (5.556 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 2 (3.704 %) Reference Data 3 2 (3.704 %) SQL Server 7 3 2 (3.704 %) TOAD 4 1 (1.852 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (1.852 %) BusinessObjects XI
General 1 19 (35.19 %) Finance 2 10 (18.52 %) Banking 3 3 (5.556 %) Health 4 2 (3.704 %) Online Banking 4 2 (3.704 %) Retail 5 1 (1.852 %) Investment Banking 5 1 (1.852 %) Insurance 5 1 (1.852 %) Pensions 5 1 (1.852 %) Private Banking 5 1 (1.852 %) Government	Job Titles 1 46 (85.19 %) Analyst 2 43 (79.63 %) Business Analyst 3 6 (11.11 %) CRM Business Analyst 4 4 (7.407 %) Junior 5 3 (5.556 %) Project Manager 5 3 (5.556 %) Financial Business Analyst 5 3 (5.556 %) Financial Services Business Analyst 6 2 (3.704 %) Banking Business Analyst 6 2 (3.704 %) Junior Analyst 6 2 (3.704 %) Junior Business Analyst 6 2 (3.704 %) Consultant 7 1 (1.852 %) Report Analyst 7 1 (1.852 %) Datawarehouse Consultant 7 1 (1.852 %) Data Analyst 7 1 (1.852 %) Business Consultant 7 1 (1.852 %) Change Analyst 7 1 (1.852 %) SAP Business Analyst 7 1 (1.852 %) Business Intelligence Analyst 7 1 (1.852 %) Graduate 7 1 (1.852 %) Tester
Miscellaneous 1 5 (9.259 %) Derivative 2 2 (3.704 %) Management Information System 2 2 (3.704 %) Equities 3 1 (1.852 %) Data Integration	Operating Systems 1 1 (1.852 %) Unix 1 1 (1.852 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (20.37 %) Data Modelling 1 11 (20.37 %) Stakeholder Management 2 10 (18.52 %) CRM 3 9 (16.67 %) Project Management 4 6 (11.11 %) UML 5 4 (7.407 %) PRINCE2 5 4 (7.407 %) Business Intelligence 5 4 (7.407 %) Six Sigma 5 4 (7.407 %) GAP Analysis 5 4 (7.407 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 3 (5.556 %) BPEL 6 3 (5.556 %) ERP 6 3 (5.556 %) Risk Management 7 2 (3.704 %) Validation 7 2 (3.704 %) Migration 7 2 (3.704 %) E-Commerce 7 2 (3.704 %) ITIL 7 2 (3.704 %) BPMN 7 2 (3.704 %) Data Analysis 7 2 (3.704 %) Wealth Management	Programming Languages 1 8 (14.81 %) SQL 2 2 (3.704 %) VBA 3 1 (1.852 %) Java 3 1 (1.852 %) VB
Qualifications 1 1 (1.852 %) ISEB 1 1 (1.852 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.852 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors 1 6 (11.11 %) Oracle 2 3 (5.556 %) Business Objects 2 3 (5.556 %) Casewise 3 2 (3.704 %) Lagan 3 2 (3.704 %) SAP 3 2 (3.704 %) Microsoft