Glasgow Business Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Business Analyst role in IT contracts within the Glasgow region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Business Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Analyst
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clevedon Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grimsby Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Staines Stevenage Stirling Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	19
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	93	67
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.123 %	0.071 %
As % of the category below	11.51 %	6.505 %
Daily rates quoted	30	23
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£325
Average daily rate	£316	£351
% change on same period last year	-10.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£336	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£374
% change on same period last year	+1.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£28.50	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-5.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.79	£33.85
% change on same period last year	-14.96 %
Job Titles Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	808	1030
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.065 %	1.093 %
Daily rates quoted	203	295
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£299
Average daily rate	£319	£315
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	46	100
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.77	£17.15
Average hourly rate	£19.74	£18.43
% change on same period last year	+7.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.71	£19.72
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Business Analyst 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 Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Analyst across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analyst across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Business Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited 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 Business Analyst in their job title.

1 64 (42.38 %) Finance 2 43 (28.48 %) Business Analysis 3 27 (17.88 %) Stakeholder Management 4 24 (15.89 %) CRM 5 22 (14.57 %) GAP Analysis 6 20 (13.25 %) Banking 6 20 (13.25 %) Data Modelling 7 18 (11.92 %) SQL 8 17 (11.26 %) UML 9 15 (9.934 %) MS Visio 10 14 (9.272 %) Systems Analysis 11 13 (8.609 %) Lagan 12 10 (6.623 %) PRINCE2 12 10 (6.623 %) MS Project 13 9 (5.960 %) Project Management

13 9 (5.960 %) BPEL 14 8 (5.298 %) Derivative 14 8 (5.298 %) User Acceptance Testing 14 8 (5.298 %) Oracle 14 8 (5.298 %) Java 14 8 (5.298 %) Identity Management 15 7 (4.636 %) MS Office 15 7 (4.636 %) Pensions 15 7 (4.636 %) Data Analysis 16 6 (3.974 %) Use Case 16 6 (3.974 %) Risk Management 17 5 (3.311 %) Health 17 5 (3.311 %) Six Sigma 17 5 (3.311 %) ERP 17 5 (3.311 %) BPMN

Business Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited 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 Business Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (1.325 %) SAS	Applications 1 15 (9.934 %) MS Visio 2 10 (6.623 %) MS Project 3 7 (4.636 %) MS Office 4 4 (2.649 %) MS Excel 4 4 (2.649 %) MS PowerPoint 5 1 (0.662 %) Casewise Corporate Modeler Suite
Communications & Networking 1 2 (1.325 %) WINS 1 2 (1.325 %) Internet 2 1 (0.662 %) Firewall 2 1 (0.662 %) VPN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (2.649 %) RDBMS 1 4 (2.649 %) BusinessObjects 1 4 (2.649 %) Datawarehouse 2 2 (1.325 %) TOAD 2 2 (1.325 %) Crystal Reports 2 2 (1.325 %) Data Cleansing 2 2 (1.325 %) Reference Data
General 1 64 (42.38 %) Finance 2 20 (13.25 %) Banking 3 7 (4.636 %) Pensions 4 5 (3.311 %) Health 5 3 (1.987 %) Financial Institution 5 3 (1.987 %) Retail 6 2 (1.325 %) Investment Banking 6 2 (1.325 %) Government 6 2 (1.325 %) Online Banking 7 1 (0.662 %) Private Banking 7 1 (0.662 %) Insurance	Miscellaneous 1 8 (5.298 %) Derivative 2 3 (1.987 %) Management Information System 3 2 (1.325 %) Equities 3 2 (1.325 %) Asset Management 3 2 (1.325 %) Credit Derivative 3 2 (1.325 %) Statistics 4 1 (0.662 %) Fund Management
Operating Systems 1 3 (1.987 %) Unix 2 1 (0.662 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 43 (28.48 %) Business Analysis 2 27 (17.88 %) Stakeholder Management 3 24 (15.89 %) CRM 4 22 (14.57 %) GAP Analysis 5 20 (13.25 %) Data Modelling 6 17 (11.26 %) UML 7 14 (9.272 %) Systems Analysis 8 10 (6.623 %) PRINCE2 9 9 (5.960 %) Project Management 9 9 (5.960 %) BPEL 10 8 (5.298 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 8 (5.298 %) Identity Management 11 7 (4.636 %) Data Analysis 12 6 (3.974 %) Use Case 12 6 (3.974 %) Risk Management 13 5 (3.311 %) Six Sigma 13 5 (3.311 %) ERP 13 5 (3.311 %) Wealth Management 13 5 (3.311 %) BPMN 14 4 (2.649 %) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages 1 18 (11.92 %) SQL 2 8 (5.298 %) Java 3 1 (0.662 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (0.662 %) VB 3 1 (0.662 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 3 (1.987 %) Degree 2 1 (0.662 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (2.649 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (0.662 %) ISO27001 2 1 (0.662 %) QA	Vendors 1 13 (8.609 %) Lagan 2 8 (5.298 %) Oracle 3 4 (2.649 %) Business Objects 4 3 (1.987 %) Casewise 5 1 (0.662 %) SAP 5 1 (0.662 %) Microsoft 5 1 (0.662 %) ICL