The first table below looks at the demand for the Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Guildford 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Analyst
Rank 7 1 1
Rank change year-on-year
-6 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 32 31 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 14.68% 26.96% 25.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.69% 29.81% 28.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 20 13
Average daily rate £320 £350 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% +32.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £274 £318 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £378 £416
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £20.88 - £11.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -
All Job Titles
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
204 104 113
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 93.58% 90.43% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 46 44
Average daily rate £328 £350 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.42% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £300 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 9
Average hourly rate £37.50 £38.75 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.22% +19.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £17.65 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £56.50 £47.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Analyst
Surrey

Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Guildford Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analyst across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Guildford Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Guildford Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford region that cited 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 Analyst in their job title.

1 16 (33.33%) Finance
2 13 (27.08%) Microsoft
3 12 (25.00%) SQL
3 12 (25.00%) MS Excel
4 10 (20.83%) Use Case
5 9 (18.75%) Active Directory
5 9 (18.75%) MS Exchange
6 8 (16.67%) Security Cleared
6 8 (16.67%) Hyper-V
7 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
7 7 (14.58%) Migration
7 7 (14.58%) Web Development
7 7 (14.58%) Oracle
7 7 (14.58%) MS Office
8 6 (12.50%) Windows
8 6 (12.50%) Degree
8 6 (12.50%) MS PowerPoint
8 6 (12.50%) Change Management
8 6 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
8 6 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
9 5 (10.42%) Business Analysis
9 5 (10.42%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (10.42%) ITIL
9 5 (10.42%) MS Access
9 5 (10.42%) Citrix
10 4 (8.333%) SharePoint
10 4 (8.333%) PL/SQL
10 4 (8.333%) SQL Server
10 4 (8.333%) VBA
10 4 (8.333%) Java

Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford region that cited 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 Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (6.250%) HTML
2 2 (4.167%) ASP
2 2 (4.167%) XML
2 2 (4.167%) Ajax
2 2 (4.167%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.083%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (2.083%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.083%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 9 (18.75%) MS Exchange
2 6 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
2 6 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (8.333%) SharePoint
4 2 (4.167%) SAS
4 2 (4.167%) WebLogic
4 2 (4.167%) Apache
4 2 (4.167%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.083%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 12 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 7 (14.58%) MS Office
3 6 (12.50%) MS PowerPoint
4 4 (8.333%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (4.167%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.167%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (2.083%) Agresso
2 1 (2.083%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.167%) DNS
1 2 (4.167%) Intranet
1 2 (4.167%) Internet
1 2 (4.167%) DHCP
2 1 (2.083%) VPN
2 1 (2.083%) LAN
2 1 (2.083%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) MS Access
2 4 (8.333%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.167%) DB2
3 2 (4.167%) Oracle 9i
3 2 (4.167%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.167%) TOAD
4 1 (2.083%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.083%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.083%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (2.083%) MySQL
4 1 (2.083%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (4.167%) ClearCase
1 2 (4.167%) InterDev
1 2 (4.167%) Mercurial
General
1 16 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (2.083%) Retail
2 1 (2.083%) Back Office
2 1 (2.083%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.333%) Clustering
1 4 (8.333%) Mathematics
1 4 (8.333%) Computer Science
2 2 (4.167%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.083%) PMI
3 1 (2.083%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.083%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.083%) Smart Meter
3 1 (2.083%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.50%) Windows
2 3 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.083%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.83%) Use Case
2 7 (14.58%) Web Development
2 7 (14.58%) Migration
3 6 (12.50%) Change Management
4 5 (10.42%) ITIL
4 5 (10.42%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (10.42%) Business Analysis
5 4 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (8.333%) Analytics
5 4 (8.333%) User Stories
6 3 (6.250%) Requirements Management
6 3 (6.250%) Project Management
6 3 (6.250%) Service Delivery
6 3 (6.250%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (6.250%) UML
6 3 (6.250%) ERP
6 3 (6.250%) Data Modelling
6 3 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (4.167%) B2C
7 2 (4.167%) OO
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.00%) SQL
2 4 (8.333%) VBA
2 4 (8.333%) Java
2 4 (8.333%) PL/SQL
3 3 (6.250%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.167%) VB6
4 2 (4.167%) R
4 2 (4.167%) VB
5 1 (2.083%) VB.NET
5 1 (2.083%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (2.083%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.083%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.083%) SLA
1 1 (2.083%) QA
1 1 (2.083%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 8 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 4 (8.333%) DFS Replication
4 3 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.333%) SCCM
1 4 (8.333%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (27.08%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.58%) Oracle
3 5 (10.42%) Citrix
4 3 (6.250%) VMware
5 2 (4.167%) Perforce
5 2 (4.167%) SAP
5 2 (4.167%) JBoss
5 2 (4.167%) Cognos
6 1 (2.083%) IBM
6 1 (2.083%) Primavera
6 1 (2.083%) BT
6 1 (2.083%) Twitter