The first table below looks at the demand for Analytics skills in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Analytics over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Halifax 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Analytics
Rank 19 30 22
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -8
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 1.724% 0.435% 0.847%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.247% 0.526% 1.220%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £138 £310 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-55.48% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
-13.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.25 £16.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+89.39% -26.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
89 190 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 76.72% 82.61% 69.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 162 52
Average daily rate £375 £390 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -0.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £265 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Average hourly rate - £15.00 £7.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +114.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Analytics
West Yorkshire

Analytics
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Analytics across the Halifax region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Halifax Analytics Jobs Demand Trend

Analytics
Daily Rate Trend

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

Halifax Analytics Daily Rate Trend

Analytics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax region citing Analytics 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 Analytics.

1 2 (66.67%) NFS
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) EMC
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) NetApp
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (66.67%) ARCserve
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
1 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
1 2 (66.67%) Backup Exec
1 2 (66.67%) Xen
1 2 (66.67%) Time Management
1 2 (66.67%) iSCSI
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (66.67%) NAS
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
1 2 (66.67%) Back Office
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) SAS
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking

Analytics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax region citing Analytics 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 Analytics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) iSCSI
1 2 (66.67%) NAS
1 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
General
1 2 (66.67%) Back Office
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) MI Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Time Management
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) NFS
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
1 2 (66.67%) Xen
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) ARCserve
1 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
1 2 (66.67%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) EMC
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
1 2 (66.67%) NetApp
1 2 (66.67%) VMware