The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Systems 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 Glasgow 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
System Analyst
Rank 52 32 53
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Analyst 28 29 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 2.926% 3.752% 0.877%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.087% 3.940% 0.922%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 5
Average daily rate £319 £304 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.02% -5.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £291 £190 £298
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £320 £354
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £365
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -9.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £24.00 £22.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +4.65%
All Job Titles
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
907 736 651
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 94.78% 95.21% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 350 379
Average daily rate £338 £319 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.79% -8.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £210 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 37 20
Average hourly rate £14.00 £20.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% +14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Systems Analyst
Scotland

Systems Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Systems Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Systems Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Systems Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Systems Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Systems 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 Systems Analyst in their job title.

1 26 (52.00%) Systems Analysis
2 18 (36.00%) Finance
3 11 (22.00%) Oracle
4 10 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 9 (18.00%) Business Analysis
6 8 (16.00%) Data Modelling
6 8 (16.00%) SQL
7 7 (14.00%) Java
7 7 (14.00%) Waterfall
8 6 (12.00%) UML
8 6 (12.00%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (10.00%) Project Management
9 5 (10.00%) BPMN
10 4 (8.000%) Retail
10 4 (8.000%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (8.000%) RDBMS
11 3 (6.000%) RAD
11 3 (6.000%) Banking
11 3 (6.000%) Validation
11 3 (6.000%) Stakeholder Management
11 3 (6.000%) Scrum
12 2 (4.000%) Use Case
12 2 (4.000%) Requirements Analysis
12 2 (4.000%) Retail Banking
12 2 (4.000%) ERD
12 2 (4.000%) Unified Process
12 2 (4.000%) Telecoms
12 2 (4.000%) OOA/OOD
12 2 (4.000%) OO
12 2 (4.000%) HTML

Systems Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (4.000%) HTML
1 2 (4.000%) CSS
2 1 (2.000%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.000%) Documentum
1 1 (2.000%) FileNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.000%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.000%) EDMS
2 1 (2.000%) Data Warehouse
General
1 18 (36.00%) Finance
2 4 (8.000%) Retail
3 3 (6.000%) Banking
4 2 (4.000%) Retail Banking
4 2 (4.000%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.000%) Back Office
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (52.00%) Systems Analysis
2 10 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 9 (18.00%) Business Analysis
4 8 (16.00%) Data Modelling
5 7 (14.00%) Waterfall
6 6 (12.00%) UML
6 6 (12.00%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (10.00%) Project Management
7 5 (10.00%) BPMN
8 4 (8.000%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (6.000%) RAD
9 3 (6.000%) Validation
9 3 (6.000%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (6.000%) Scrum
10 2 (4.000%) Use Case
10 2 (4.000%) Requirements Analysis
10 2 (4.000%) ERD
10 2 (4.000%) Unified Process
10 2 (4.000%) OOA/OOD
10 2 (4.000%) OO
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.00%) SQL
2 7 (14.00%) Java
Vendors
1 11 (22.00%) Oracle
2 2 (4.000%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.000%) IBM
3 1 (2.000%) Kofax
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